$ 78. Provided always, that every action, information, indictment, or prosecution, grounded upon this act, be commenced within one year after the offence shall be committed. 35 Geo. 3. c. 29 Irish. Action, &c. to be commencel within one year after offence take effect. § 79. Provided always, and be it enacted, that When at to nothing in this act contained shall extend, or be construed to extend, to prevent any person from voting at any election for a member or members to serve in parliament, the test for holding which shall bear date before the first day of January, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-seven, but every person who might, by the laws in force before the passing of this act, 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, prescribed in the said laws; and every returning officer and deputy shall have the like powers with respect to any such person polling, as if this act had not been made. oath by former holder, not be tions before § 80. Provided always, that at every such Addition to election the words following shall be added to acts to be the oath required by the laws in force, to be taken by freetaken before the passing of this act, by any re- ing an annuigistered freeholder not being an annuitant, be- tant, at elecfore he shall be admitted to vote, either, "that act takes "the said freehold is of the yearly value of effect. "twenty pounds, above all charges payable out "of the same," or that, "I have been in the "actual occupation of the said freehold for six "successive months at the least, between the 'day on which I registered the same, and the "day of [naming the day of the "test of the writ for holding the election] by 35 Geo. 3. e. 29. Insh. Persons under pmalty on sich persous stting, &c. "residing thereon, or by tilling or grazing to "the amount of forty shillings yearly value "thereof," or the words which are allowed to be substituted in their place by the provisions of this act, in the oath herein prescribed, as the case may be, if any elector shall desire that one or other of the said form of words shall be added. § 81. And be it further enacted, that no person hereafter shall be capable of being elected a member to serve in this, or any future parliament, who is not of the age of one and twenty years; and if any such minor hereafter chosen, shall presume to sit or vote in parliament, he shall incur penalties and forfeitures as if he had presumed to sit and vote in parliament, without being chosen or returned. The Irish Stat. 36 Geo. 3. c. 25. 1796. An Act for the better and more convenient Administration of Justice, and for the Recovery of small Debts in a summary Way, at the Sessions of the Peace of the several Counties at large within this Kingdom, except the County of Dublin, and for continuing and amending an Act entitled, " An Act "for the better Execution of the Law, and "Preservation of the Peace within Counties "at large*." as assistants to (§ 2. Empowers the lord-lieutenant, or other Barristers to chief governor or governors of this kingdom be appointed for the time being, from time to time to nomi- justices at sesnate and appoint a practising barrister at law, sions. of six years standing at the least (with the restrictions therein), to act as a constant assistant to the justices at every sessions of the peace, except for the county of Dublin.) § 3. And be it enacted, that the assistant barristers so to be appointed, and such as have been already appointed, shall be severally and respectively paid out of the consolidated fund, such salaries as the lord-lieutenant, or other chief governor or governors of this kingdom for the time being shall by warrant direct, not exceeding such yearly sum, as with the fees payable to such assistant barristers, on civil bill decrees, renewals, and dismisses, as herein directed, as * The act alluded to in the title is the 27 Geo. 3. c. 40. 15. which was enacted for three years. The § 16 of that 4001. a year for each barrister; 36 Geo. 3. c. will amount to the clear net sum of four hun25. Irish. dred pounds a year to any of the said assistant barristers, provided that no member of the house of commons in the present or any future parlia ment, shall, during the time of his being a memparliament to ber of the house of commons, be capable of holding the said office of such assistant barrister. no members of be assistant barristers. 20 Geo. 3. c. 29. Irish. 23 & 24 The Irish Stat. 36 Geo. 3. c. 48. 1796. (See stats. 19 An Act to explain and amend an Act, entitled, "An Act for naturalizing such Foreign "Merchants, Traders, Artificers, Artizans, "Manufacturers, Workmen, Seamen, Farm"ers, and others, who shall settle in this "Kingdom." Geo. 3. c. 38. Irish. 42 Geo. 3. c. 61. U. K. unte ccxi. and post.) Persons naturalized under this act not to be eligible to parliament. §3. PROVIDED always, that nothing herein contained, shall be construed to extend to qualify any such person to be a member of his majesty's most honorable privy council, or to sit or vote in either house of parliament, or to hold any office or place of trust under his majesty, his heirs or successors. The Irish Stat. 37 Geo. 3. c. 47. 1797. An Act for the further Regulation of the ment. "WHEREAS an act passed in the thirty-fifth year of his present majesty's reign, entitled, "An act for regulating the elections of mem- Recital of "bers to serve in parliament, and for repeal. 35 Geo. 3. ing the several acts therein mentioned; and c. 29. "it is necessary to explain and amend the "same;" be it 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 when any 50l. or 201. person seised of a freehold, not consisting of a freeholder, but rent-charge, shall desire to register it, as being charger, desir of the value of fifty pounds, or twenty pounds, ing to register, the following oath may be taken by him, instead in recited act, of the oath (a) prescribed by the said act; that to take the is to say, not a rent instead of oath following "I, "of 66 , in the county or of the town or city of [as the case may be], do swear "[or, if a quaker, do affirm], that I am a free"holder of and that I have a freehold therein, arising from a house "or houses, and land, or both, or other he"reditaments [as the case may be], of the clear yearly value of twenty pounds, or fifty pounds [as the case may be], above all charges pay (a) 35 Geo. 3. c. 29. § 31. 36. t Oath. |