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19 Geo. 2.c. 28. " lands, or tithes, then specifying in whose occupation the same are; and if rent, then specifying the names of the owners, or pos"sessors of the lands or tenements, out of "which such rent is issuing, or some or one "of them], lying or being in the city and county, or town and county [as the case may be] of of the clear yearly value of forty shillings, over and above all rents and charges payable out of, or in respect of the "same; and that you have been in the actual "possession or receipt of the rents and profits "thereof for your own use, above twelve calen"dar months; or that the same came to you "within the time aforesaid by descent, marriage, marriage settlement, devise, or promo"tion to a benefice in a church, or by promotion "to an office; and that such freehold estate has not been granted or made to you fraudulently, on purpose to qualify you to give your vote; "and that the place of your abode is at

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Which oath [or solemn affirmation] the sheriff or sheriffs, by him or themselves, or his or their under-sheriff or under-sheriffs, or such sworn clerk or clerks as shall be by him or them appointed for the taking of the poll, is and are hereby required to administer; and in case any freeholder or other person, taking the said oath or affirmation hereby appointed, shall thereby Persons taking commit wilful perjury, and be thereof convicted; the oath, &c. and if any person do unlawfully and corruptly wilful perjury, procure or suborn any freeholder or other person

committing

others, and incur the pains

c. 25.

to take the said oath or affirmation in order to 19 Geo. c. 28. be polled, whereby he shall commit such wilful and convicted, perjury and shall be thereof convicted, he and or suborning they for every such offence shall incur such pains convicted, to and penalties as are in and by two acts of par- and penalties liament, [the one made in the fifth year of the in 5 Eliz. c. 9, reign of the late queen Elizabeth, intituled, and 2 Geo. 2. An act for punishment of such persons as shall procure or commit wilful perjury; the other made in the second year of the reign of his present majesty, intituled, An act for the more effectual preventing and further punishment of forgery, perjury, subornation of perjury, and to make it felony to steal bonds, notes, and other securities for payment of money;] directed to be inflicted for offences committed contrary to the said acts.

§ 2. "And whereas, by an act made in the 10 Anne, c. 23, "tenth year of the reign of queen Anne, inti- recited. tuled, An act for the more effectual prevent

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ing fraudulent conveyances in order to mul

tiply votes for electing knights of shires to serve in parliament, it was enacted, That no (2.) person should vote for the electing a knight "of the shire within that part of Great Britain "called England, in respect or in right of any "lands or tenements which had not been "charged or assessed to the public taxes, "church rates, and parish duties, in such pro"portion as other lands or tenements of forty "shillings per annum, within the same parish "or township where the same should lie, or had "been usually charged: And whereas, by an "act of parliament made in the twelfth year of 13 Ann. st. 1. "the reign of her said late majesty queen Anne, "for explaining the said recited clause, it is en

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19 Geo.2.c. 28.❝acted, that the said act, or any thing therein "contained shall not extend, or be construed "to restrain any person from voting in such "election of any knight of a shire within that part of Great Britain called England, in respect or in right of any rents, tithes, or "other incorporeal inheritances, or any messuages or lands in extra-parochial places, or any chambers in the inns of court, or inns of "chancery, or any messuages or seats belonging

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to any offices, in regard or by reason that the "same have not been usually charged or as"sessed to all or any the public taxes, church "rates, and parish duties aforesaid, or in respect

or right of any other messuages or lands not "therein before specified, in regard or by reason "that the same have not been usually charged "or assessed to all and every the public taxes, "church rates, and parish duties aforesaid, pro"vided that such messuages or lands have "usually been charged or assessed to some one "or more of the said public taxes, rates, or du"ties, in such proportion as other messuages or "land of forty shillings per annum, in the same

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parish or township where the same shall lie or be, are usually charged to the same; which "said provisions are recited in an act of 13 Geo.2.c.20, "liament made in the thirteenth year of the reign of his present majesty, intituled, An act for the more effectually preventing fraudu"lent qualifications of persons to vote as free"holders 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; and are therein en"acted to extend, and to be construed to extend, "to such lands or tenements for or in respect of

which any person shall vote for the election 19 Geo. 2.c.28. "of any member to serve in parliament for any "such city or town as aforesaid, being a county

"of itself, in that part of Great Britain called

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England; and whereas, by an act passed in 18 Geo. 2. c.18, "the last session of this present parliament, it recited. "is enacted, that so much of the said recited "acts of the tenth and twelfth years of the "reign of the late queen Anne, as disables any person to vote for knights of shires in respect or in right of any lands or tenements which "have not been charged or assessed as therein mentioned, shall be and is repealed:" Be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, that sO So much of the much of the said recited act of the thirteenth pealed, as exyear of the reign of his present majesty as ex- tends recited tends the said provisions to such cities and provisions to cities and towns that are counties of themselves as afore- towns being said, shall also, from and after the said twentyfourth day of June, one thousand seven hundred and forty-six, be, and it is hereby repealed.

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3. Provided always, that from and after the Voters for said twenty-fourth day of June, one thousand cities or towns seven hundred and forty-six, no person shall being counties, vote for the electing a member or members to freeholds of serve in parliament for such city or town, being 40s. a year, a county of itself as aforesaid, within that part assessed to the of Great Britain called England, in respect or land tax 12 in right of any freehold, messuages, lands, or months before tenements, of the yearly value of forty shillings election. as aforesaid, which have not been charged or assessed towards some aid granted or hereafter to be granted to his majesty, his heirs or successors, by a land tax (a) in Great Britain, twelve

(a) See a provision for cases where land tax has been redeemed, 42 Geo. 3. c. 116, post.

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suages, or seats belonging to offices.

of the land tax

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peace, &c. to be kept among

19 Geo. 2.c.28. calendar months next before such election Exception for Provided, that nothing herein contained shall voting in right extend, or be construed to restrain any person of rents, mes from voting in any such election for cities and towns as are counties of themselves as aforesaid, in respect or in right of any rents, or any messuages or seats belonging to any offices in regard or by reason that the same have not been usually charged or assessed to the aid commonly called Commissioners the land tax; and the acting commissioners of to sign and seal the land tax for the time being, or any three or duplicates of more of them at their meetings, shall sign and ments to be de- seal one other duplicate of the copies of the assessment or assessments, to be delivered to them by the assessors after all appeals determined, and the same shall deliver, or cause to be delivered, to the persons officiating as clerks of the peace within the districts of the said cities and towns, being counties of themselves as aforesaid respectively, to be by them kept amongst the records of the sessions, to which all persons may resort at all seasonable times, and inspect the same, paying six-pence for such inspection; and the said persons officiating as clerks of the peace or their deputies, are hereby required forthwith to give copies of the said duplicates, or any part thereof, to any person or persons and paying for who shall require the same, paying after the rate of six-pence for every three hundred words, and so in proportion for any greater or less number.

the records of the sessions.

Such may be inspected;

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Voters at elec- $ 4. And be it further enacted, by the authobers for cities rity aforesaid, that from and after the said or towns being twenty-fourth day of June, one thousand seven where the right hundred and forty-six, no person shall vote in such election of a member or members to serve

counties,

is to vote in

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