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that the said Freehold is not set, or agreed to be set, to the ‹ Person or Persons who executed the said Deed, Lease or Instrument, or to the Heirs or Assigns of such Person 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 lesired, shall be added to the said Oath or Affirmation, before the Person offering to vote shall be admitted to poll.

VI. And be it further enacted, That the Blanks in the said Oath or Affirmation shall be filled up in Conformity to the Oath or Affirmation which the Person going to take the same ahall have taken at the Time of his registering such Freehold.

Oath in Conformity with

that on Registry.

Former Acts

this.

VII. And be it further enacted, That, from and after the commencement of this Act, all the Provisions, Clauses, Conditions, extended to 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the same, with respect to Freeholds, under the yearly Value of Twenty Pounds, and which are not hereby altered or repealed, shall be applied, construed, deemed and taken to extend to Freeholds under the Value of Twenty Pounds, the Registry whereof is by this Act directed and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.

dulent Freeholds valid

VIII. And be it enacted, That if any Person or Fersons shall Grants of fraufraudulently 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 Grantor. thereof for every Purpose but enabling the Grantee to vote.

against

IX. And be it further enacted, That if such Grantor shall be Fraudulent possessed only of a Term of Years therein, and shall demise the Grantors. 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 Penalty 1001. Pounds to any Person who shall sue for the same by Action, Bill, Plaint or Information in any Court of Law.

'X. And, for the better securing the Performance of the Duties hereby and by the said in Part recited Act, or by any other Act or Acts directed to be performed by the Clerk of the Peace or his Deputy, in respect to the Registry 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 Session are hereby directed and empowered to administer:

1, 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 several Duties directed to be performed

Oath of Clerk

of Peace for Performance

of Acts. 'by

35 G.3. c.29.

Copies of Registers shall be given by Clerk of Peace. (See Schedule.)

Adjournments and Lapse of Sessions.

Perjury and
Subornation.

Penalty.

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 present Majesty, intituled An Act for regulating the Election of Members to serve in Parliament, and for repealing the several • Acts therein mentioned; and by an Act passed in the Forty fifth Year of His present Majesty's Reign, intituled [here set forth the Title of this Act]; and that I will not demand or receive any Fee or Fees, for discharging any of 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.

XI. 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.

"Persons having registered Freeholds before 1st August 1805, "under existing Acts, may vote at any Election previous to "29th September 1809, on producing their Deed. § 12. [Exp.]

‹ XIII. And, for the greater Convenience of registering Freeholds;' Be it enacted, That every Adjournment of a Sessions of the Peace, and every Adjournment of an Adjournment, shall be deemed a Sessions of the Peace within the Meaning of the said Act and this present Act; and in case there shall have been no Adjournment of such Sessions, or no Adjournment of an Adjournment of such Sessions, and that such Sessions shall in that case lapse, a Sessions shall be holden at which the Clerk of the Peace or his Deputy shall and is hereby required to attend, for the Purpose of registering of Freeholders, the First Monday in the next Month, at the Place where the last General Sessions of the Peace shall have been held for the Purpose of registering Freeholders; and every Adjournment of every such Sessions to any City or Market Town within the County shall be deemed and taken to be a Sessions within the Meaning of the said Act or this present Act.

XIV. And be it further enacted, That if any Person, in taking any Oath or Affirmation hereinbefore appointed or authorized to be taken at any Registry, or before any Returning Officer or Officers, shall thereby commit wilful Perjury, and be thereof convicted, or if any Person shall unlawfully and corruptly procure or suborn any other Person to take any such Oath or Affirmation, whereby he or such Person or Persons shall commit such wilful Perjury, and shall be thereof convicted, he or such Person or Persons so offending shall incur such Pains and Penalties as are inflicted by any Act or Acts for the more effectual preventing and further Punishment of Perjury and Subornation of Perjury.

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SCHE

An Act for making Allowances in certain Cases to Subaltern Officers of the Militia in Great Britain, while disembodied. [27th June 1805.]

[Continuance of Act, 25th March 1805. § 10.]

CAP. LXI.

An Act to revive and further continue, until the Twenty fifth
Day of March One thousand eight hundred and six, and
amend so much of an Act, made in the Thirty ninth and
Fortieth Years of His present Majesty, as grants certain
Allowances to Adjutants and Serjeant Majors of the Militia
of England, disembodied under an Act of the same Session
of Parliament.
[27th June 1805.]

[39 & 40 G. 3. c.44.]

EXP.

EXP.

CA P. LXII.

An Act for defraying the Charge of the

Pay and Clothing of

EXP.

[27th June 1805.]

the Militia in Great Britain for the Year One thousand eight hundred and five.

CA P. LXIII.

An Act for defraying, until the 25th Day of March One thou-
sand eight hundred and six, the Charge of the Pay and
Clothing of the Militia of Ireland; for holding Courts
Martial on Serjeant Majors, Serjeants, Corporals and
Drummers, for Offences committed during the Time such
Militia shall not be embodied; and for making Allowances
in certain Cases to Subaltern Officers of the said Militia
during Peace.
[27th June 1805.]

EXP.

41 G.3. (U.K.)

c. 99.

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CA P. LXIV.

An Act to amend an Act made in the Forty first Year of His
present Majesty, for granting Bounties for taking and
bringing Fish to the Cities of London and Westminster, and
other Places in the United Kingdom. [27th June 1805.]
WH
HEREAS by an Act, made in the Parliament of the
United Kingdom in the Forty first Year of His present
Majesty's Reign, intituled An Act for granting Bounties for
taking and bringing Fish to the Cities of London and Westmin-
ster, and other Places in the United Kingdom, the Lords Com-
'missioners of His Majesty's Treasury were empowered, for the
Purpose of encouraging and promoting a Supply of fresh Fish,
to give and grant certain Premiums, Sums of Money and Boun-
ties, to Persons taking and bringing Fish to the Markets of any
City, Town or Port in the United Kingdom, and to apply any
such Sum or Sums of Money they should think necessary, in
'the Payment of any Expences incurred in the promoting and
encouraging an Increase of the Supply of Fish; provided that
such Bounties, Premiums and other Sums of Money should not
' in the Whole exceed the Sum of Thirty thousand Pounds: And
Whereas, in pursuance of the said Act, the Sum of Six thousand
'Pounds has been paid into the Receipt of the Exchequer of Ire-
land for the Purposes of the said Act, but the greater Part there-
of has not yet been applied to the said Purposes; and it is
expedient that the Lord Lieutenant, or other Chief Governor or
• Governors of Ireland for the time being, should be enabled and
empowered to direct the Disposal of so much of the said Sum
of Six thousand Pounds as remains unapplied, for the Encourage-
<ment of the Fisheries and Navigation on the Coasts of Ireland
' in Manner hereinafter mentioned;' 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 it shall and may be lawful for the Lord Lieutenant, or
other Chief Governor or Governors of Ireland for the time being,
to give and grant the said Sum, or any Part thereof, for the Pur-
pose of assisting any Person or Persons in enlarging, improving
or rendering more secure any Harbour or Harbours on the said
Coasts, fit and proper for the Reception of Fishing Vessels or
other Vessels arriving on the said Coasts, for the Purpose of pur-
chasing Fish caught or cured upon the said Coasts, as the said
Lord Lieutenant shall in his Discretion see fit, and in Manner
hereinafter directed, and to and for no other Use or Purpose what-

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soever.

II. And be it further enacted, That whenever the Lord Lieutenant, or other Chief Governor or Governors of Ireland for the time being, shall, on any Application made for that Purpose, be of Opinion that it is fit and proper that any Harbour or Harbours should be so enlarged or improved on any Part of the said Coast, and any Person or Persons shall be desirous of making, enlarging or improving the same, with the Assistance of such Sums of Money as may be given or granted as aforesaid, a Plan and Survey of such Harbour shall be laid before the said Lord Lieutenant, or other

other Chief Governor or Governors of Ireland for the time being, Security for orhis or their Chief Secretary, and also an Estimate of the Ex- Payment of the pence of making, enlarging or improving the same, which Survey other Moiety by the Applicant; and Estimate shall be verified by the Oath of the Party making the same; and if such Lord Lieutenant, or other Chief Governor or Governors of Ireland for the time being, shall approve of the said Plan or Survey and Estimate; and if and so soon as a Sum equal to One Moiety of the Expence so estimated for making, enlarging or improving any such Harbour, shall be paid or secured to be paid to the Satisfaction of the said Lord Lieutenant, or other Chief Governor or Governors of Ireland for the time being, or his or their Chief Secretary, and also Security given to the Satisfaction of the said Lord Lieutenant, or other Chief Governor or Governors of Ireland for the time being, or his or their Chief Secretary, that the Person or Persons paying the said Sum, or securing the same to be paid, will further bear and defray all such further and for PayExpences beyond such estimated Expence as shall be necessary ment of Exto complete the enlarging or improving of the said Harbour, ac- pences beyond cording to such Plan and Estimate, it shall and may be lawful for estimated Expence. the said Lord Lieutenant, or other Chief Governor or Governors of Ireland for the time being, to order and direct the Commissioners for executing the Office of Lord High Treasurer of Ireland, to issue and pay a Sum of Money equal to One Moiety of the Expence so estimated, to be paid and applied for the Purpose of making, enlarging or improving such Harbour, in such Sums, and at such Times, and in such Manner and Proportions, and under such Rules, Regulations, Terms and Conditions, and to annex any such Forfeitures for Breach of such Rules, Regulations, Terms and Conditions, as such Lord Lieutenant, or other Chief Governor or Governors of Ireland for the time being, shall seem best suited to the promoting the beneficial Purposes of this Act; and the enlarging and improving such Harbours shall be forthwith proceeded on and completed agreeably to such Plan and Survey, or to such other Plan as may, upon subsequent Consideration, be approved of by the said Lord Lieutenant, or other Chief Governor or Governors of Ireland for the time being, so that the Execution thereof shall not exceed the said estimated Expence.

III. Provided always, and be it enacted, That if the actual Expence of enlarging or improving any such Harbour shall exceed the estimated Expence, all such Excess of Expence shall be defrayed by the Person or Persons who shall have given the Security herein directed.

CA P. LXV.

An Act to continue until the Twenty ninth Day of September One thousand eight hundred and six, and from thence until the End of the then next Session of Parliament, an Act made in the last Session of Parliament, for appointing Commissioners to enquire into the Fees, Gratuities, Perquisites and Emoluments, which are or have been lately received in the several public Offices in Ireland, therein mentioned; to examine into any Abuses which may exist

Expence exceeding Estimate, paid by

Parties