45 Geo. 3. c. 59. U. K. Such declara tions to be en tered in poll book.. Form of oath. Additional if required. vote; and the said declarations, in all such cases, shall be entered in the poll-book taken by the sheriffs, or their deputies, at such election; and he shall, if so required by any elector, before he be admitted to poll, take the following oath : "I, A. B. of "of "of in the county or of the town or city do swear [or, if a that I am a freeholder "quaker, do affirm] that I am "in the barony or baronies, half-barony or half- county [and if in a city or town, or county of "a city or town, naming the same, and the "street, square, row, alley, lane, or place]; "and that the said freehold does not arise from a rent-charge. "So help me God.” 5. Provided always, and be it further enform of oath, acted, that if any candidate or elector shall desire the words following to be added," and that "the same arises by virtue of a deed, lease, or "instrument [or otherwise, as the case may be], bearing date the in the year or lives of day of for the life ; and that the said one of the aforesaid lives, "is still alive, to the best of my knowledge and belief [unless he is himself one of the lives, " in which case he shall swear], ' that I am one "of the lives therein,' instead of the words, "that the said one of the "aforesaid lives, is still alive, to the best of registered the same], and [naming the date of the test of the writ for "holding this election], by residing thereon, or by tilling, and by grazing, or by both tilling "and grazing [as the case may be], to the "amount of at least forty shillings yearly va"lue thereof [as the case may be];" or the words following, "and that the said freehold is not set, "or agreed to be set, to the person or persons "who executed the said deed, lease, or instru"ment, or to the heirs or assigns of such per"son or persons, or to any one in trust for him or them; nor do I intend to set the same to "such person or persons, or any of them; and "that I have not set it, or agreed to set it, for "the term for which I hold it; and that I have "not been polled before at this election; and "that I am, to the best of my belief, of the age of twenty-one years;" the same shall, or so much thereof as shall be so desired, shall be added to the said oath or affirmation, before the person offering to vote shall be admitted to poll. 45 Geo. 3. c. 59. U. K. § 6. And be it further enacted, that the Oath at elecblanks in the said oath or affirmation shall be tion shall be in conformity filled up in conformity to the oath or affirma- with that on a a 2 registering. (See § 1.) 45 Geo. 3. c. 59. U. K. Provisions of former acts extended to this. Fraudulent grants of free valid against the grantor. tion which the person going to take the same shall have taken at the time of his registering such freehold. 7. And be it further enacted, that, from and after the commencement of this act, all the provisions, clauses, conditions, regulations, and penalties, of the said recited acts, or any acts amending the same, with respect to freeholds, under the yearly value of twenty pounds, and which are not hereby altered or repealed, shall be applied, construed, deemed, and taken to extend to freeholds under the value of twenty pounds, the registry whereof is by this act directed and required, as fully and effectually as if the same were hereby and herein specifically enacted and applied thereto. § 8. And be it enacted, that if any person holds shall be or persons shall fraudulently and knowingly grant any interest importing to be a freehold, which really is not so, with intent to enable any person to vote, such grant shall be good and valid against the grantor thereof, for every purpose but enabling the grantee to vote. 100%. penalty on fraudulent grantors. § 9. And be it further enacted, that if such grantor shall be possessed only of a term of years therein, and shall demise the same, or any part thereof, for a life or lives, with intent to induce the lessee therein to register such as a freehold, or to vote as a freeholder thereout, he shall forfeit the sum of one hundred pounds to any person who shall sue for the same by action, bill, plaint, or information, in any court of law. per 45 Geo. 3. c. 59. U.K. performance $10. "And, for the better securing the "formance of the duties hereby, and by the said "in part recited act, or by any other act or acts Oath of clerk "directed to be performed by the clerk of the of peace for peace, or his deputy, in respect to the registry of acts. of freeholds," be it further enacted, that the several clerks of the peace, or their deputies, of the several counties of Ireland, shall, at the general quarter sessions of the peace, or adjournment thereof, next after the passing of this act, or at the next general quarter sessions of the peace, or adjournment thereof, next after his appointment, take and subscribe an oath in the form following; and which oath the justices presiding at the said sessions are hereby directed and empowered to administer: "I, A. B. clerk, or deputy clerk of the peace "for the county of [as the case may be], do swear, that I will 'faithfully and honestly, and without favour " or affection, perform and discharge the seve "ral duties directed to be performed by the "clerks and deputy clerks of the peace, by an "act passed in the parliament of Ireland, in "the thirty-fifth year of the reign of his pre- (35 Geo. s. c. "sent majesty, intituled, 'An act for regulating 29. Irish.) "the election of members to serve in parlia ment, and for repealing the several acts "therein mentioned;' and by an act passed in "the forty-fifth year of his present majesty's 66 reign, intituled, [here set forth the title of "this act]; and that I will not demand or "receive any fee or fees for discharging the "said duties, which I am not entitled to by "law. "So help me God." And which oath the said clerks and deputy clerks of the peace are hereby required to deliver to the treasurer of the county, to preserve amongst his records of the county. § 11. And be it further enacted, that the said several and respective clerks, and deputy clerks of the peace, shall, from time to time, as directed by the said in part recited act of the thirty-fifth year of his present majesty's reign, give to every freeholder who shall require the same, a full, true, and correct return, of the names of all such persons as shall register their freeholds according to the directions of this act, and of the said act of the thirty-fifth year of his present majesty's reign, and shall certify at the foot thereof that the said return so made is true and correct, according to the schedule hereunto annexed. § 12. Provided always, and be it further enacted, that nothing in this act contained shall extend, or be construed to extend, to prevent any person who shall have registered his freehold before the first day of August next ensuing, pursuant to the laws in force for that purpose, from voting at any election for a member or members to serve in parliament, the test of the writ for holding which shall bear date before the twenty-ninth of September, one thousand eight hundred and nine; but every person who might by the law in force vote at any such election, shall and may vote thereat as fully and freely, to all intents and purposes, as if this act had not been made, subject to all and singular the clauses, conditions, oaths, and regulations, appointed and provided by the said in part re |