80. Irish. "in the county of Londonderry, are comprised 40 Geo. 3. c. "or included in any barony or half-barony in "in the said county of Londonderry, or are "themselves respectively baronies or half-baronies, for the purpose of registering of free"holds within the provisions of the said recited "acts: and whereas doubts have likewise arisen, doubts as to "whether any freeholder, whose freehold is registry of "situate in the said city of Londonderry, and "in the said part of the liberties thereof, or in "the said town of Coleraine, and in the said σε part of the liberties thereof, and who has registered his freehold as being so situate, is "entitled by virtue of such registry, under the freeholds in said places; provisions of the said acts, to vote at any "election for a knight or knights of the shire "to serve in parliament for the said county "of Londonderry:" be it therefore 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 from and after the passing of this act the said city of Londonderry, and that part of the said liberties thereof situate and lying on the north-west side of the river Foyle, and the said places said town of Coleraine, and that part of the shall be consi said liberties thereof situate and lying on the rate half-baronorth-east side of the river Bann, shall be con- nies. sidered as separate and distinct half-baronies of the said county of Londonderry, for the purposes within the meaning of said acts, notwithstanding any law, custom, or usage to the contrary. dered as sepa and county of § 2. And be it further enacted, that the she- Sheriffs of city riffs of the said city and county of Londonderry, Londonderry when they have reason to apprehend a contest, apprehending a contest, or 40 Geo. 3. c. 80. Irish. being required by candidate, to cause two booths to be erected, or hire two buildings, one for derry, the other Coleraine, ex clusive of other booths required. or shall be required by any candidate at any election to be held by them, as in the said act is mentioned, shall cause to be erected two separate booths, or hire two separate buildings, one for the city of Londonderry, and said part of the said liberties thereof, and one for the town of Coleraine, and the said part of the said city of London- liberties thereof, exclusive of the several other for the town of booths or buildings required in and by the said acts to be erected or hired for the several baronies and half-baronies in and within said county; and in every other respect, with regard to the said city, and said part of said liberties and said town, and said part of said liberties respectively, shall pursue the same rules and regulations as are prescribed thereby for baronies or half-baronies, and shall appoint a clerk and deputy for said city, and the said part of the said liberties thereof, and for the said town and the said part of the said liberties thereof respectively, in the like manner as in and by said acts is directed, respecting the several baronies or half-barònies therein mentioned. (See 35 Geo. 3. c. 29. § 5. ante, ccxl.) and shall ap and deputy for point a clerk each. Freeholders of said places tive booths. § 3. And be it further enacted, that on every shall be polled election for a knight or knights of the shire for at their respec- the said county of Londonderry, every freeholder whose freehold shall be registered as situate in the said city of Londonderry, and the said part of the said liberties thereof, or in the said town of Coleraine, and the said part of the said liberties thereof, and offering to vote, shall be polled in the booth, building, or place respectively appropriated to said city and the said part of the liberties thereof, or for the said town and the said part of the said liberties thereof, as the case may be, as fully and effectually as if the same were baronies or half-baronies within the mean- 40 Geo. 3. c. ing of said act. 66 80. Irish. barony," &c. of freeholds in and words herein shall be inserted in their places; § 4. And be it further enacted, that in the Words “baroregistry of all freeholds situate in the said city ny or halfof Londonderry, or in the said part of the said may be omitliberties thereof, or in the said town of Cole- ted in registry raine, or said part of the said liberties thereof said places, respectively, the words "barony or half-barony, "baronies or half-baronies, town-land or town"lands, as directed in the said acts to be men"tioned in the oath or affirmation of the person "registering the same," shall be omitted therein, and the words "city of Londonderry, or "that part of the liberties thereof, situate and lying on the north-west side of the river Foyle, "or town of Coleraine, or that part of the li"berties thereof situate and lying on the north"east side of the river Bann, as the case may be, shall be respectively inserted in their place, and that such registry shall be to all intents good and effectual, any thing in said acts contained to the contrary notwithstanding; provided always, that that part of the liberties certain part of of the said city of Londonderry, situate and ly- Londonderry ing on the north-east side the river Foyle, shall to be registerbe deemed and taken as part of the half-barony the half-barony of Terkeerin, in the said county of Londonderry, of Terkeerin; and that all freeholds situate in said last-mentioned part of said liberties shall be henceforth registered, pursuant to the provisions of said acts, as being and lying in the said half-barony of Terkeerin; and also that that part of the liberties of Coleraine, situate on the north-west side of the river Bann, shall be deemed and taken as part of the half-barony of Coleraine; and that all freeholds situate in the said lastmentioned part of said liberties of Coleraine, the liberties of ed as part of part of liberties of Cole raine as part of the half-barony of Coleraine. 40 Geo. 3. c. 30. Irish, 500%. penalty on clerk of peace for neg try, or to file affidavits; shall be henceforth registered, pursuant to the provision of the said acts, as being and lying in the said half-barony of Coleraine. § 5. (Expired.) § 6. And be it further enacted, that if any clerk of the peace shall omit or neglect to keep lecting to keep any of the books or registry of freeholders, in books of regis- the manner and form prescribed by law, or to file any affidavit or affirmation delivered to him by the court to be filed, he shall, for every such offence, forfeit the sum of five hundred pounds, to be recovered against him by any freeholder who shall sue for the same by action, bill, plaint, or information, in any of his majesty's courts of record, in which no essoign, wager at law, nor clerks of peace more than one imparlance shall be allowed; and destroying, if any clerk of the peace shall destroy, or wilfully books of regis. or negligently permit to be destroyed, or shall altering, &c. try; or neglecting election with to attend at such books, maliciously, fraudulently, corruptly, or wilfully make or permit, or suffer to be made, any alteration, erasure, obliteration, or interlineation, in any such book of registry, or neglect to attend, by himself, or his sufficient deputy, at any election for a member or members, to serve in parliament for any county, town, or city, with all and singular the books of the registry of the freeholders therein, and the affidavits on which the same are formed, and to remain there during the whole continuance of such election, he shall, upon being duly convicted thereof, be adjudged guilty of a mis- guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be imprisoned demeanor, for three years, or suffer such other punishment years imprison- as the court shall think fit, and shall be for ever after incapable of holding the office of and incapaci- clerk of the peace. liable to three ment, or other punishment, tated from said The Stat. 41 Geo. 3. c. 52. U. K. An Act for declaring what Persons shall be disabled from sitting and voting in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland; and also for carrying into Effect, Part of the Fourth Article of the Union of Great Britain and Ireland, by providing in what Cases Persons holding Offices, or Places of Profit, under the Crown of Ireland, shall be incapable of being Members of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the said United Kingdom. 66 [June 20th, 1801.] 3. c. 67. stats. 19 & 20 "WHEREAS, by an act, made in the session of Preamble. "parliament held in the thirty-ninth and for"tieth years of the reign of his present majesty, " intituled, An act for the union of Great Bri- 39 & 40 Geo. "tain and Ireland, it was, amongst other things, "provided, that the said kingdoms of Great "Britain and Ireland, should, upon the first "day of January, in the year of our lord one "thousand eight hundred and one, and for ever after, be united into one kingdom, by the (See the Irish name of the united kingdom of Great Britain Geo. 3. c. 25. "and Ireland; and that the said united king-... "dom should be represented in one and the 61. ante, ccxv. same parliament, to be stiled, "The parliament 34. & 41. ante, "of the united kingdom of Great Britain and ccxxx & ccxxxi. “Ireland:' and whereas it is expedient fully 25. ante, "to declare in what cases persons are and shall cclxxxvii. "be disabled from, or incapable of, sitting and U. K. 47 Geo. "voting in the house of commons of the 3. sess. 2. c. 20. "said parliament of the said united king- Geo. 3. c. 140.) ante, 33 Geo. 3. c. 36 Geo. 3. c. and stats. of post, and 48 |