by the said lord high treasurer or commissioners of the treasury, for the purposes of the said recited act, in manner and under the regulations mentioned and contained in the said recited act. ty-one days the bishop a may appoint levy the VI. And be it further enacted, that in case default shall be made On failure of in the raising or payment of the said instalments, or sum or sums instalments, payment of of money, or any of them, by the said parish or place, or by the said within twenchurchwardens, to the said trustees and commissioners of first fruits, of 21st of and any such instalment or sum or sums of money shall be behind July yearly, and unpaid, and not duly raised, paid, and satisfied to the said trustees and commissioners, before the expiration of twenty-one days after the first day of July, in any year wherein the same ought to be so paid as aforesaid; it shall and may be lawful for the bishop of the diocese in which such parish or place shall be situate, and he is hereby authorized and required to nominate and appoint some fit and proper person or persons to levy such instalment or sum or sums of money as shall be so due and unpaid, together with interest for the same, at and after the rate of six pounds per centum per annum, from the day on which the same ought to have been paid, until the same shall be actually paid, and a further sum after the rate of ten pounds per centum on the amount of such instalment, or sum of money so payable, which said sum after the rate of ten pounds per centum, shall and may be received and retained by such person or persons so to be nominated and appointed, for his or their pains and trouble, in levying and recovering of the said instalment, and all and every person or persons who shall be so nominated and appointed for the purpose aforesaid, shall have, use, and exercise, all such powers and authorities, for the levying and raising such instalment, and sum and sums of money, as the churchwardens of such parish or place, or any other person or persons lawfully might or could have, use, and exercise, for the levying and raising such instalment, or any parish rate or assessment under this act, or any other act or acts, and such person or persons shall pay over and account for all such instalments, and all sum and sums of money received by them on account of the same, or of the interest of the same as aforesaid, to the said commissioners and trustees, within twenty-one days after the receipt of the same, by such person or persons as aforesaid. Persons having given bond for any money advanced by trustees before the passing of this act, may be discharged on application to the churchwardens, and a rate being made according to this act. Sec. 7. lieutenant may direct to borrow to be paid to VIII. And be it further enacted, that it shall and may be lawful The lord for the lord lieutenant, or other chief governor or governors of Ireland, from time to time to direct the commissioners for executing the the treasurer office of lord high treasurer of Ireland, to raise and borrow by trea- £50,000 by sury bills, at an interest of five pounds per centum, any sum or sums treasury bills of money, not exceeding in the whole the sum of fifty thousand board of first pounds, to be paid to the said commissioners and trustees of first fruits for building and fruits to be by them applied in loans towards the building or re- rebuilding building of churches and chapels in Ireland, in such manner as should be directed by parliament, and the said sum of fifty thousand pounds shall be and the same is hereby granted to and vested in his majesty, to be applied from time to time to the purposes of the said churches,&c. recited act of the forty-eighth year aforesaid, and this act; and that, for the raising of the said sum of fifty thousand pounds, it shall and may be lawful for the commissioners for executing the office of lord high treasurer of Ireland for the time being, in consequence of any such direction from the lord lieutenant or other chief governor or governors of Ireland, to raise and borrow such part of the said sum of fifty thousand pounds as shall or may be necessary from time to time by the issue of treasury bills for that purpose, bearing interest at a rate not exceeding five pounds per centum per annum, and that the said sum of fifty thousand pounds, or so much thereof as shall from time to time be raised and borrowed as aforesaid, shall be applied to the purposes of the said recited act and this act, and shall and may be issued and paid by the said commissioners for executing the office of lord high treasurer of Ireland, to the said trustees and commissioners of first fruits, to be by them applied in loans towards the building and rebuilding of churches and chapels in Ireland, according to the rules, directions, provisions, regulations, and restrictions contained in the said recited act of the forty-eighth year aforesaid, and this act. 5 GEORGE 4, CAP. 91.—An act to consolidate and amend the laws for enforcing the residence of spiritual persons on their benefices; to restrain spiritual persons from carrying on trade or merchandize; and for the support and maintenance of stipendiary curates, in Ireland.— See Title " CURATES, STIPENDIARY, IRELAND,” vol. ii. p. 455. SPACE LEFT, FOR REFERENCE, IF NECESSARY, TO ACTS OF PARLIAMENT PASSED SUBSEQUENT TO A. D. 1845. ROMAN CATHOLIC RELIEF. 10 GEORGE 4, CAP. 7.-An act for the relief of his majesty's Roman catholic subjects.-Whereas by various acts of parliament certain restraints and disabilities are imposed on the Roman catholic subjects of his majesty, to which other subjects of his majesty are not liable: and whereas it is expedient that such restraints and disabilities shall be from henceforth discontinued: and whereas by various acts certain oaths and certain declarations, commonly called the declaration against transubstantiation, and the declaration against transubstantiation and the invocation of saints and the sacrifice of the mass, as practised in the church of Rome, are or may be required to be taken, made, and subscribed by the subjects of his majesty, as qualifications for sitting and voting in parliament, and for the enjoyment of certain offices, franchises, and civil rights: 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 Acts relating from and after the commencement of this act all such parts of the to declarations against said acts as require the said declarations, or either of them, to be transubstanmade or subscribed by any of his majesty's subjects, as a qualifica- repealed. tion for sitting and voting in parliament, or for the exercise or enjoyment of any office, franchise, or civil right, be and the same are (save as hereinafter provided and excepted) hereby repealed. tiation tholics may ment, on II. And be it enacted, that from and after the commencement of Roman cathis act it shall be lawful for any person professing the Roman sit and vote catholic religion, being a peer, or who shall after the commencein parliament of this act be returned as a member of the house of commons, taking the to sit and vote in either house of parliament respectively, being in following all other respects duly qualified to sit and vote therein, upon taking and subscribing the following oath, instead of the oaths of allegiance, supremacy, and abjuration: 4. B. do sincerely promise and swear, that I will be faithful and bear true allegiance to his majesty king George the fourth, and will defend him to the utmost of my power against all conspiracies and attempts whatever, which shall be made against his person, crown, or dignity; and I will do my utmost endeavour to disclose and make known to his majesty, his heirs and successors, all treasons and traitorous conspiracies which may be formed against him or them and I do faithfully promise to maintain, support, and defend, to the utmost of my power, the succession of the crown, which succession, by an act, intituled an act for the further limitation of the crown, and better securing the rights and liberties of the subject, is and stands limited to the princess Sophia, electoress of Hanover, and the heirs of her body, being protestants; hereby utterly renouncing and abjuring any obedience or allegiance unto any other person claiming or pretending a right to the crown of this realm: and I do further declare, that it is not an article of my faith, and that I do oath. renounce, reject, and abjure the opinion, that princes excommunicated or deprived by the pope, or any other authority of the see of Rome, may be deposed or murdered by their subjects, or by any person whatsoever: and I do declare, that I do not believe that the pope of Rome, or any other foreign prince, prelate, person, state, or potentate, hath or ought to have any temporal or civil jurisdiction, power, superiority, or pre-eminence, directly or indirectly, within this realm. I do swear, that I will defend to the utmost of my power the settlement of property within this realm, as established by the laws and I do hereby disclaim, disavow, and solemnly abjure any intention to subvert the present church establishment, as settled by law within this realm: and I do solemnly swear, that I never will exercise any privilege to which I am or may become entitled, to disturb or weaken the protestant religion or protestant government in the united kingdom: and I do solemnly, in the presence of God, profess, testify, and declare, that I do make this declaration, and every part thereof, in the plain and ordinary sense of the words of this oath, without any evasion, equivocation, or mental reservation whatsoever. So help me God. III. And be it further enacted, that wherever, in the oath hereby for the time appointed and set forth, the name of his present majesty is expressed or referred to, the name of the sovereign of this kingdom for the time being, by virtue of the act for the further limitation of the crown and better securing the rights and liberties of the subject, shall be substituted from time to time, with proper words of reference thereto. The name of the sovereign being to be used in the oath. No Roman catholic ca pable of sitting or the oath. IV. Provided always, and be it further enacted, that no peer professing the Roman catholic religion, and no person professing the Roman catholic religion, who shall be returned a member of voting until he has taken the house of commons after the commencement of this act, shall be capable of sitting or voting in either house of parliament respectively, unless he shall first take and subscribe the oath hereinbefore appointed and set forth, before the same persons, at the same times and places, and in the same manner as the oaths and the declaration now required by law are respectively directed to be taken, made, and subscribed; and that any such person professing the Roman catholic religion, who shall sit or vote in either house of parliament, without having first taken and subscribed, in the manner aforesaid, the oath in this act appointed and set forth, shall be subject to the same penalties, forfeitures, and disabilities, and the offence of so sitting or voting shall be followed and attended by and with the same consequences, as are by law enacted and provided in the case of persons sitting or voting in either house of parliament respectively, without the taking, making, and subscribing the oaths and the declaration now required by law. Roman catholics may elected, upon V. And be it further enacted, that it shall be lawful for persons vote at elec- professing the Roman catholic religion to vote at elections of memtions, and be bers to serve in parliament for England and for Ireland, and also to taking the vote at the elections of representative peers of Scotland and of Ireland, and to be elected such representative peers, being in all other respects duly qualified, upon taking and subscribing the oath hereinbefore appointed and set forth, instead of the oaths of allegiance, oath. supremacy, and abjuration, and instead of the declaration now by law required, and instead also of such other oath or oaths as are now by law required to be taken by any of his majesty's subjects professing the Roman catholic religion, and upon taking also such other oath or oaths as may now be lawfully tendered to any persons offering to vote at such elections. administered VI. And be it further enacted, that the oath herein before appointed Oath shall be and set forth shall be administered to his majesty's subjects profess- in the same ing the Roman catholic religion, for the purpose of enabling them former oath to vote in any of the cases aforesaid, in the same manner, at the same time, and by the same officers or other persons as the oaths for which it is hereby substituted are or may be now by law administered; and that in all cases in which a certificate of the taking, making, or subscribing of any of the oaths or of the declaration now required by law is directed to be given, a like certificate of the taking or subscribing of the oath hereby appointed and set forth shall be given by the same officer or other person, and in the same manner as the certificate now required by law is directed to be given, and shall be of the like force and effect. an oath duly VII. And be it further enacted, that in all cases where the persons Persons administering now authorized by law to administer the oaths of allegiance, supre- oaths at elec macy, and abjuration to persons voting at elections, are themselves tions to take required to take an oath previous to their administering such oaths, to administer they shall, in addition to the oath now by them taken, take an oath for the duly administering the oath hereby appointed and set forth, and for the duly granting certificates of the same. any acts as contained in be tendered VIII. And whereas in an act of parliament of Scotland made in So much of the eighth and ninth session of the first parliament of king William require the the third, intituled an act for the preventing the growth of popery, a formula certain declaration or formula is therein contained, which it is expe- 8 & 9 w. 3, dient should no longer be required to be taken and subscribed; be c. 3, (S.) tod it therefore enacted, that such parts of any acts as authorize the said or taken, declaration or formula to be tendered, or require the same to be repealed. taken, sworn, and subscribed, shall be and the same are hereby repealed, except as to such offices, places, and rights as are hereinafter excepted; and that from and after the commencement of this Roman catholics may act it shall be lawful for persons professing the Roman catholic elect and be religion to elect and be elected members to serve in parliament for elected Scotland, and to be enrolled as freeholders in any shire or stewartry Scotland. of Scotland, and to be chosen commissioners or delegates for choosing burgesses to serve in parliament for any districts or burghs in Scotland, being in all other respects duly qualified, such persons always taking and subscribing the oath hereinbefore appointed and set forth, instead of the oaths of allegiance and abjuration as now required by law, at such time as the said last mentioned oaths, or either of them, are now required by law to be taken. members for catholic of commons. IX. And be it further enacted, that no person in holy orders in No Roman the church of Rome shall be capable of being elected to serve in priest to sit parliament as a member of the house of commons; and if any such in the house person shall be elected to serve in parliament as aforesaid, such election shall be void; and if any person, being elected to serve in parliament as a member of the house of commons, shall, after his |