39 & 40 Geo: 3. c. 67. commons of Great Britain shall, together with the lords spiritual and temporal and commons so returned as aforesaid on the part of Ireland, constitute the two houses of the parliament of present session the united kingdom: any act of the in Ireland. If his majesty, Jan. 1, 1801, shall declare it that the present parlia on or before is expedient ment of Great bers of the re parliament of the part of lords and com Ireland may That if his majesty, on or before the first day of January one thousand eight hundred and one, on which day the union is to take place, shall declare, under the great seal of Great Britain, that it is expedient that the lords and commons of the present parliament of Great Britain Britain should should be the members of the respective houses be the memof the first parliament of the united kingdom on spective houses the part of Great Britain; then the said lords of the first and commons of the present parliament of Great the united Britain shall accordingly be the members of kingdom on the respective houses of the first parliament of Great Britain, the united kingdom on the part of Great Bri- they and the tain; and they, together with the lords spiritual mons returned and temporal, and commons, so summoned and on the part of returned as above on the part of Ireland, shall continue to sit be the lords spiritual and temporal, and com long as the mons of the first parliament of the united king- ment of Great dom; and such first parliament may (in that Britain may; case) if not sooner dissolved, continue to sit so act shall have long as the present parliament of Great Britain passed in the may now by law continue to sit, if not sooner ment, provid dissolved: provided always, that until an acting in what shall have passed in the parliament of the united holding offices kingdom, providing in what cases persons hold- the crown in ing offices or places of profit under the crown Ireland, shall in Ireland, shall be incapable of being members of sitting in of the house of commons of the parliament of the house of the united kingdom, no greater number of mem- the united bers than twenty, holding such offices or places kingdom, no as aforesaid, shall be capable of sitting in the twenty shall said house of commons of the parliament of the sit therein; so present parlia but until an united parlia cases persons of profit under be incapable commons of more than and if more 3. c. 67. than that number be seats or places such offices ed, so as to lords and com mons of the 39 & 40 Geo. united kingdom; and if such a number of members shall be returned to serve in the said house as to make the whole number of members of the said house holding such offices or places as returned, the aforesaid more than twenty, then and in such of such as shall case the seats or places of such members as shall have accepted have last accepted such offices or places shall be shall be vacat- vacated, at the option of such members, so as to reduce them to reduce the number of members holding such twenty. The offices or places to the number of twenty; and no person holding any such office or place shall be capable of being elected or of sitting in the said house, while there are twenty persons holding such offices or places sitting in the said house; and that every one of the lords of parliament of the united kingdom, and every member of the house of commons of the united kingdom, in the first and all succeeding parliaments, shall, until the parliament of the united kingdom shall otherwise provide, take the oaths, and make and subscribe the declaration, and take and subscribe the oath now by law enjoined to be taken, made, and subscribed by the lords and commons of the parliament of Great Britain: united parliathe oaths, &c. as enjoined to the lords and ment shall take be taken by commons of the British parliament. All laws in force at the union, and all courts of jurisdiction within the re ARTICLE EIGHTH. That it be the eighth article of union, that all laws in force at the time of the union, and all the courts of civil and ecclesiastical jurisdiction within the respective kingdoms, shall respective king- main as now by law established within the subject same, subject only to such alterations and to such alter- regulations from time to time as circumstances appear proper may appear to the parliament of the united to the united kingdom to require; provided that all writs of All appeals to error and appeals, depending at the time of the doms, shall re tion, as may parliament. c. 67. peers of the dom. land a court of union, or hereafter to be brought, and which 39 & 40 Geo. 3. might now be finally decided by the house of lords, of either kingdom, shall, from and after be finally dethe union, be finally decided by the house of cided by the lords, of the united kingdom; and provided, united kingthat from and after the union, there shall re- There shall remain in Ireland an instance court of admiralty, main in Irefor the determination of causes, civil and mari- admiralty, and time only, and that the appeal from sentences appeals thereof the said court shall be to his majesty's dele- to the delegates gates in his court of chancery in that part of in chancery the united kingdom called Ireland; and that laws contrary all laws at present in force in either kingdom, to the proviwhich shall be contrary to any of the provisions for carrying which may be enacted by any act for carrying these articles these articles into effect, be from and after the be repealed. union repealed. 66 from shall be there. All sions enacted "And whereas, the said articles having, by "address of the respective houses of parliament "in Great Britain and Ireland, been humbly "laid before his majesty, his majesty has been graciously pleased to approve the same; and to "recommend it to his two houses of parliament "in Great Britain and Ireland to consider of "such measures as may be necessary for giving "effect to the said articles;" in order, therefore, to give full effect and validity to the same, be it enacted, by the king's most excellent majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the lords spiritual and temporal, and commons, in this present parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, that the said fore- union, and be going recited articles, each and every one of in force for them, according to the true import and tenor Jan. 1, 1801; thereof, be ratified, confirmed, and approved, before that provided that and be, and they are hereby declared to be, period an act the articles of the union of Great Britain and shall have been His majesty having been pleased to approve of the foregoing ar enacted, that ticles, it is the articles of ever, from passed in Ire c. 67. 1 39 & 40 Geo. 3. Ireland, and the same shall be in force and have effect for ever, from the first day of Januland for carry- ary, which shall be in the year of our lord one ing them into thousand eight hundred and one; provided that before that period an act shall have been passed by the parliament of Ireland, for carrying into effect, in the like manner, the said foregoing recited articles. effect. Recital of an act of the par land, to regu late the mode liament of Ire by which the lords and the commons, to serve in the § 2. And whereas an act, intituled, An act to regulate the mode by which the lords spiritual and temporal, and the commons, to serve in the parliament of the united kingdom on the part of Ireland, shall be summoned and returned to the said parliament, has been passed by the parliament of Ireland; the tenor whereof is as follows: "An act to regulate the mode the part of Ire-by which the lords spiritual and temporal, 'and the commons, to serve in the parliament "of the united kingdom on the part of Ireland, "shall be summoned and returned to the said parliament of the united kingdom on land, shall be summoned and returned. "parliament. Whereas it is agreed by the "fourth article of union, that four lords spiri"tual of Ireland, by rotation of sessions, and "twenty-eight lords temporal of Ireland, elect"ed for life by the peers of Ireland, shall be "the number to sit and vote on the part of Ire"land in the house of lords of the parliament "of the united kingdom; and one hundred "commoners (two for each county of Ireland, two for the city of Dublin, two for the city "of Cork, one for. the college of the Holy Trinity of Dublin, and one for each of the "thirty-one most considerable cities, towns, "and boroughs) be the number to sit and vote "on the part of Ireland in the house of com"mons of the parliament of the united king"dom; be it enacted, by the king's most ex 46 66 66 c. 67. "cellent majesty, by and with the advice and 39 & 40 Geo. 3. "consent of the lords spiritual and temporal, "and commons, in this present parliament as"sembled, and by authority of the same, that "the said four lords spiritual shall be taken "from among the lords spiritual of Ireland in "the manner following; that is to say, that one "of the four archbishops of Ireland, and three "of the eighteen bishops of Ireland, shall sit "in the house of lords of the united parliament "in each session thereof, the said right of sitting being regulated as between the said archbishops respectively by a rotation among "the archiepiscopal sees from session to ses"sion, and in like manner that of the bishops "by a like rotation among the episcopal sees : "that the primate of all Ireland for the time "being shall sit in the first session of the par"liament of the united kingdom, the arch"bishop of Dublin for the time being in the "second, the archbishop of Cashel for the "time being in the third, the archbishop of "Tuam for the time being in the fourth, and "so by rotation of sessions for ever, such rota"tion to proceed regularly and without inter"ruption from session to session, notwithstand"ing any dissolution or expiration of parlia"ment: that three suffragan bishops shall in "like manner sit according to their rotation of "sees, from session to session, in the follow"ing order; the lord bishop of Meath, the "lord bishop of Kildare, the lord bishop of "Derry, in the first session of the parliament "of the united kingdom; the lord bishop of Raphoe, the lord bishop of Limerick, Ard"fert and Aghadoe, the lord bishop of Dro"more, in the second session of the parliament "of the united kingdom; the lord bishop of 66 |