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duties of ex

stamped vel

lum, &c. nor

commissioner,

dows and houses,

22Geo.3. c. 41. eighty-two, no commissioner, collector, super
ficer employed Visor, gauger, or other officer or person what-
in collecting or soever, concerned or employed in the charging,
collecting, levying, or managing the duties of
cise, customs, excise, or any branch or part thereof; nor any
commissioner, collector, comptroller, searcher,
any person ap- or other officer or person whatsoever, concerned
pointed by
Commissioners or employed in the charging, collecting, levy-
of stamps, nor ing, or managing the customs, or any branch or
officer, &c. em- part thereof; nor any commissioner, officer, or
ployed in col- other person concerned or employed in collect-
lecting, &c.
duties on salt, ing, receiving, or managing, any of the duties
duties on win on stamped vellum, parchment, and paper, nor
any person appointed by the commissioners for
distributing of stamps; nor any commissioner,
officer, or other person employed in collecting,
levying, or managing any of the duties on salt;
nor any surveyor, collector, comptroller, inspec-
tor, officer, or other person employed in collect-
ing, managing, or receiving, the duties on win-
nor postmaster, dows or houses; nor any postmaster, post-
&c. or officers masters general, or his or their deputy or depu-
ties, or any person employed by or under him
or them in receiving, collecting, or managing,
the revenue of the post-office, or any part
thereof; nor any captain, master, or mate of
any ship, packet, or other vessel employed by
or under the postmaster or postmasters general
in conveying the mail to and from foreign ports,
to be capable shall be capable of giving his vote for the elec-
tion of any knight of the shire, commissioner,
citizen, burgess, or baron to serve in parliament,
for any county, stewartry, city, borough, or
cinque port, or for choosing any delegate in
whom the right of electing members to serve
in parliament, for that part of Great Britain
called Scotland, is vested: And if any person,

of post office,

or of post-office

packets,

of voting at

any election of members of parliament.

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hereby made incapable of voting as aforesaid, 22 Geo.. e. 41. shall nevertheless presume to give his vote, Vate of such during the time he shall hold, or within twelve person void. calendar months after he shall cease to hold, or execute any of the offices aforesaid, contrary to the true intent and meaning of this act, such votes so given shall be held null and void to all intents and purposes whatsoever; and every Persons dis person so offending shall forfeit the sum of one qualified by act presuming hundred pounds; one moiety thereof to the to vote while informer, and the other moiety thereof to be im- in office or mediately paid into the hands of the treasurer of months afterthe county, riding, or division, within which wards to forfeit such offence shall have been committed, in that moiety to informer, the part of Great Britain called England; and other to the into the hands of the clerk of the justices of treasurer of the of the counties or stewartries, in that be applied as peace part of Great Britain called Scotland, to be herein. applied and disposed of to such purposes as the justices at the next general quarter session of the peace to be held for such county, stewartry, riding,

within six

100l. one

County, &c. to

or division, shall think fit; to be recovered by Penalty how to any person that shall sue for the same, by ac- be recovered. tion of debt, bill, plaint, or information, in any of his majesty's courts of record at Westminster, in which no essoin, protection, privilege, or wager of law, or more than one imparlance, shall be allowed, or by summary complaint before the court of session in Scotland; and Persons eonthe person convicted on any such suit shall victed to be thereby become disabled and incapable of ever office under the bearing or executing any office or place of trust crown. whatsoever under his majesty, his heirs and

successors.

disabled from

§ 2. Provided always, and be it enacted, that Not to extend nothing in this act contained shall extend, or be to commission

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ers of the land

tax, or persons acting under

them;

22 Geo.3.c.41. construed to extend, to any person or persons for or by reason of his or their being a commissioner or commissioners of the land-tax, or for or by reason of his or their acting by or under the appointment of such commissioners of the land-tax, for the purpose of assessing, levying, collecting, receiving, or managing, the land-tax, or any other rates or duties already granted or imposed, or which shall hereafter be granted or imposed by authority of parliament,

Nor to offices

§ 3. Provided also, and be it further enacted, held by letters that nothing, in this act contained shall extend, patent for any estate of inhe- or be construed to extend, to any office now ritance, or free held, or usually granted to be held, by letters patent for any estate of inheritance or freehold.

hold.

Nor to persons who shall re

fices before

§4. Provided always, and be it enacted by the sign their of authority aforesaid, that nothing herein contained shall extend to any person who shall resign his office or employment on or before the said first day of August, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-two.

Aug. 1, 1782.

Limitation of actions.

§ 5. Provided also, and be it enacted, that no person shall be liable to any forfeiture or penalty by this act laid or imposed, unless prosecution be commenced within twelve months after such penalty or forfeiture shall be incurred.-A.D. 1781.

The Stat. 18 Geo. 3. c. 59.

An Act to amend and render more effectual the
Laws relating to the raising and training
the Militia within that Part of Great Bri-
tain called England; and to establish cer-
tain Regulations with respect to Officers
serving in the Corps of Fencible Men di-
rected to be raised in that Part of Great
Britain called Scotland, and certain other
Corps therein mentioned.

$25. PROVIDED always, that any relief which
shall be given to the family of any militia man,
during the time of actual service, shall not de-
prive such militia man from voting for the elec-
tion of any member to serve in parliament (a).

(For the Statutes 32 Geo. 3. c. 52. § 14,
adopted by the 39 and 40 Geo. 3. c. 87. § 24,
and thereby disqualifying justices, receivers,
and constables, at the Thames police office, from
voting at elections for the counties of Middle-
sex and Surrey, and for the city and liberty of
Westminster, and borough of Southwark, see
1 vol. 297, 298, 299.)

(a) This contemplates parish relief. See § 24 of the act.

(For the stat. 42 Geo. 3. c. 76. § 15, having a corresponding enactment with respect to officers at the other seven police offices, see 1 vol. 300.)

22 Geo. 3. c.41, recited.

The Stat. 51 Geo. 3. c. 84.

An Act to explain an Act passed in the twentysecond Year of His Majesty, for the better securing the Freedom of Election of Members to serve in Parliament, by disabling certain Officers employed in the Collection or Management of His Majesty's Revenues from giving their Votes at such Elections, so far as relates to Coal Meters and Corn Meters of the City of London.

"WHEREAS, by an act passed in the twenty"second year of his majesty's reign, intituled, "An act for better securing the freedom of "election of members to serve in parliament, "by disabling certain officers employed in the collection or management of his majesty's revenue from giving their votes at such elections, officers and persons employed in charging, collecting, levying, or managing the customs, are rendered incapable of voting for "members to serve in parliament: And where"as doubts have arisen as to the right to vote "for members to serve in parliament, of the "fiiteen coal meters, and ten corn meters of

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