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Sheriff, &c. to

10 Ann. c. 28. and that the said sheriff, or returning officer, shall, within the space of twenty days next after such election, faithfully deliver ove upon oath, (which oath the two next justices of the peace, one of whom to be of the quorum, are hereby enabled and required to administer), unto the clerk of the peace for the same county, all the poll-books of such respective election, without any embezzlement or alteration, and in such counties where there are more than one clerk of the peace, then the original poll-books to one of such clerks of the peace, and attested copies thereof to the rest, to be carefully kept and preserved amongst the records of the sessions of the peace of and for the said county.

deliver pollbooks upon

oath, &c. to the

clerk of the peace, &c. within twenty days

after election,

to be kept among the

records of the

sessions.
How, where
more than one
clerk of the
peace.

§ 6. And be it further enacted, by the authority aforesaid, that the sheriff of the county of Sheriff of York York, for the time being, shall be, and is seven tables for hereby required to appoint seven convenient

to appoint

taking the poll, at the costs of the candidate. To continue till poll concluded.

Sheriff of

Cheshire to do the like.

tables, or places, for taking the poll of the said county, upon any new election of a knight, or knights of the shire, for the said county, at the proper costs and charges of the candidates for the same, to continue until the poll be conéluded.

§7. And be it further enacted, by the authority aforesaid, that the sheriff of the county palatine of Chester, for the time being, against every election of a knight, or knights of the shire to serve in parliament for the said county, shall and is hereby required to cause seven convenient tables or places, and no more, to be made at the costs and charges of the candidates, within the shire-hall of the said county, for taking the poll at such clections; that is to say,

two at the upper end, two at each side, and one 10 Ann. c. 23. at the lower end of the said hall; and shall at such place take the poll at such elections until the same be concluded.

Quakers, if required, declarthe oath on tion, as direct

ing the effect of

their affirma

3. c. 34, to be

admitted to

vote.

§ 8. Provided always, and be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, that if any person, being a quaker, during the continuance of an act, passed in the seventh year of his late majesty's reign, intituled, An act that the solemn affir- ed by 7 & 8 W. mation and declaration of the people, called quakers, shall be accepted instead of an oath, in the usual form, shall, upon such election as aforesaid, if required by the candidates, or any of them, declare the effect of the said oath upon his solemn affirmation, in such manner and form as is directed by the said act of parliament, made in the seventh year of the reign of his late majesty, king William the third, intituled, An act that the solemn affirmation and declaration of the people, called quakers, shall be accepted instead of an oath in the usual form (a); every such quaker shall be capable and admitted to give his vote for the election of any such member as aforesaid, to serve in the house of commons, within that part of Great Britain called England; and every sheriff by himself, or such his proper officer as aforesaid, is hereby authorized and required to accept such affirmation instead of the said oath, and shall also make or enter affirmat against the name of every such quaker; and in case any such quaker shall be convicted wilfully, falsely, and corruptly, to have affirmed or declared any matter or thing, which, if the same had been in the usual form, would have amounted to wilful and corrupt per

(4) See the act abstracted, 1 vol. 638, (n).

Quakers confirming falsely, to incur the perjury.

victed of af.

penalties of

10 Ann. c. 23. jury, every such quaker so offending, shall incur the same penalties and forfeitures as are hereinbefore enacted against persons convicted of wilful and corrupt perjury.-A. D. 1711.

10 Ann. c. 23.

The Stat. 12 Ann. Stat. 1. c. 5.

An Act to explain a Clause in an Act of the last Session of Parliament, intituled, An Act for the more effectual preventing fraudulent Conveyances, in order to multiply Votes for the electing Knights of Shires to serve in Parliament, as far as the same relates to the ascertaining the Value of Freeholds of 40s. per Annum.

"WHEREAS, by an act made in the last ses"sion of parliament, intituled, An act for the "more effectual preventing fraudulent con"veyances, in order to multiply cotes for "electing knights for shires to serve in par

liament, it is, amongst other things, enacted, "that from and after the first day of May, "which should be in the year of our lord one "thousand seven hundred and twelve, no person "shall vote for the electing of any knight of a

shire, within that part of Great Britain called "England, in respect or in right of any lands "or tenements, which have not been charged or assessed to the public taxes, church rates, "and parish duties, in such proportions as other

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annum, within the same parish or township "where the same shall lie or be, are usually "charged, under a penalty therein expressed; "and whereas some doubts have arisen, whether (§ 2.) parsons, vicars, and other persons, having "messuages, lands, rents, tithes, or other he"reditaments, are not thereby restrained from "voting at such elections, in regard that such messuages, lands, rents, tithes, or heredita"ments, have not been usually charged or as"sessed to the public taxes, church rates, and

parish duties, and to every of them. Now, "for as much as it was only intended thereby "to ascertain the value of lands or tenements,

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by making the proportion paid to the public "taxes, church rates, and parish duties, or "such of them to which the same were usually "charged or assessed, the measure of the value "thereof; and for the removing such doubts," be it enacted and declared by the queen'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 act, or any thing therein contained, shall not extend, or be construed to restrain any per- The act 10 son from voting in such election of any knight Ann. c. 25, not of a shire, within that part of Great Britain person from called England, in respect, or in right of any spect of any rents, tithes, or other incorporeal inheritances, rents, tithes, or any messuages or lands in extra parochial poreal herediplaces, or any chambers in the inns of court, or taments or inns of chancery, or any messuages or seats be- in extra longing to any offices, in regard or by reason chial places, or that the same have not usually been, or shall the inns of not be charged or assessed to all or any the court, &c. or

to restrain any

voting in re

or other incor

messuages, &c.

chambers in

messuages, &c. belonging to offices, in re

not being

charged to all,

tioned therein.

12 Ann. c. 5. public taxes, church rates, and parish duties, as mentioned in the above recited act, or in respect or in right of any other messuages or lands, not spect of their herein-before specified, in regard or by reason that the same have not been usually charged or or any public' assessed to all and every the public taxes, taxes, as men- church rates, and parish duties aforesaid. ProProvided, that vided, that such messuages or lands have usually they have been been charged or assessed to some one or more of the said public taxes, rates, or duties, in such proportion as other messuages or lands of forty shillings per annum, within the same parish or township where the same shall lie or be, are lings per annum usually charged to the same; any thing contained in the said recited act, to the contrary thereof in anywise notwithstanding (a).—A D.

assessed to

some, or one of the said public taxes,

&c. as other of forty

messuages, &c.

in the same

parish, are

usually

charged.

1713.

20 Ann. c. 23. $ 1, recited.

The Stat. 13 Geo. 2. c. 20.

An Act for the more effectually preventing fraudulent Qualifications of Persons to vote as Freeholders, in the Election of Members to serve in Parliament, for such Cities and Towns as are Counties of themselves, in that Part of Great Britain called England.

"WHEREAS, by an act made in the tenth year of the reign of queen Anne, intituled, "An act for the more effectual preventing fraudulent conveyances, in order to multiply "votes for electing knights of shires to serve "in parliament, it is enacted, that all estates

(a) See post, 18 Geo. 2. c. 18. § 2, 3.

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