Office not to be deemed a new Office. 6 Ann. c. 7. Paymaster holding an abo- Duties transferred to new Office. Actions to continue. Bonds to re main in force. and that such Grant when so made shall be and continue in force during His Majesty's Pleasure, in the same Manner as the Offices by this Act authorized to be abolished are granted and held. V. And be it further enacted, That the said Office of Paymaster General shall not be deemed or taken to be a new Office within the Meaning of an Act passed in the Sixth Year of the Reign of Her Majesty Queen Anne, intituled An Act for the Security of Her Majesty's Person and Government, and of the Succession of the Crown of Great Britain in the Protestant Line. VI. Provided always, and be it further enacted, That the Person who may be appointed to the said Office of Paymaster General, if he shall at the Time of the Abolition of the Offices by this Act authorized to be abolished be in Possession of any of the said Offices, shall not by reason of such Appointment thereby vacate the Seat in Parliament which any such Person may then hold; any thing in the said Act of Queen Anne or of any other Act or Acts to the contrary notwithstanding. VII. And be it further enacted, That from and after the Abolition of the said Offices, and so soon as the Appointment of a Paymaster General shall have been made under the Authority of this Act by His Majesty, His Heirs or Successors, all the Interest, Titles, Powers, Authorities, Privileges, and Duties now exercised by or vested, either by Law or Usage, in any of the said Offices so abolished, shall be and the same are hereby declared to be transferred to, exercised by, and vested in the said Paymaster General, in as full and ample a Manner to all Intents and Purposes as they were exercised by or vested in the Persons holding the said Offices so abolished, except only so far as any of such Interests, Titles, Powers, Authorities, Privileges, and Duties are or shall be by this Act controlled, diminished, or varied. VIII. Provided always, and be it further enacted, That nothing herein contained shall extend or be construed to extend to abate any Suits or other Proceedings either at Law or in Equity which are now or shall at the Period of the Abolition of the said Offices be depending in the Name or on behalf of any of the said Officers whose Offices shall be so abolished, but all such Suits and Proceedings shall and may continue to be carried on in their respective Names in the same Manner as if this Act had not been passed, for and on behalf of the Paymaster General to be appointed under the Authority of this Act. IX. And be it further enacted, That all Bonds which shall have been entered into and given to the Crown, or otherwise, by any Deputies or other Officers or Clerks, or by any other Person or Persons whatsoever, and their respective Sureties, for the faithful Discharge of their Duty in any of the said Offices intended to be hereby abolished, shall notwithstanding such Abolition be and continue in force against the Parties to such Bonds, as well in respect of the Duties, Matters, and Things therein mentioned or referred unto, as of all Duties, Matters, and Things thereafter to be done and performed, which the said Deputies or other Officers or Clerks or Persons would have been liable to do and perform, before the Abolition of the Offices intended to be abolished under the Authority of this Act. And whereas by reason of the Abolition of the said Offices Treasury may tions for new Office. it will be necessary that new Regulations should be prescribed make Regulafor the Government of the Office to be created under the Authority of this Act;' be it therefore enacted, That it shall be lawful for the Lord High Treasurer or for the Commissioners of the Treasury for the Time being, or any Three or more of them, and he and they are hereby empowered, to prescribe such Rules and Regulations, and to issue such Orders, from Time to Time, in all Matters and Things relating to the said Office, for the Safety, Economy, and Advantage of the Public Service, as he or they shall see fit; which Rules, Regulations, and Orders shall be of full Force and Authority, and shall be observed by the Comptroller General of His Majesty's Exchequer, and by the Governor and Company of the Bank of England, when certified to them by the Lord High Treasurer or the Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury, or any Three or more of them, and by all Bodies and Persons whatsoever, in relation to all Matters and Things therein contained, any thing in any Act or Acts to the contrary notwithstanding. XI. And be it further enacted, That a Return, setting forth all Regulations to Rules, Orders, and Regulations which shall have been issued and be laid before prescribed by the Commissioners of the Treasury, shall be laid before Parliament. Parliament within Six Weeks from the Date of their being promulgated, if Parliament be then sitting, and if not then sitting within Six Weeks from the Day of the next ensuing Meeting of Parliament. XII. And be it further enacted, That this Act may be amended, Act may be altered, or repealed by any Act or Acts to be passed in this present altered. Session of Parliament. CAP. XXXVI. An Act to limit the Time of taking the Poll in Boroughs WH ⚫ taken in One Day: And whereas by an Act passed in the Second so much of recited Act as allows the Poll to be kept open Two Days re pealed. Borough, Not more than 300 Voters to poll in One Booth. Not more than 100 Voters to poll in One Booth, if so required. In case of such Situation of Oaths of Alle giance, Supre juration not to macy, and Ab be taken. Liverymen of titled to vote in at the Booth for the District where such Borough, or Town, or County of a City or County of a Town, the polling shall commence at Eight of the Clock in the Forenoon of the Day next following the Day fixed for the Election; and the polling shall continue during such One Day only; and no Poll shall be kept open later than Four of the Clock in the Afternoon: Provided always, that when such Day next following the Day fixed for the Election shall be Sunday, Good Friday, or Christmas Day, then in the Case it be Sunday the Poll shall be on the Monday next following, and in the Case it be Good Friday then on the Saturday next following, and in the Case it be Christmas Day then on the next following Day, if the same shall not be Sunday, and if it be Sunday, on the next following Monday. III. And be it further enacted, That the Polling Booths or Compartments at each Polling Place shall be so divided and arranged by the Sheriff or other Returning Officer that not more than Three hundred Electors shall be allotted to poll in each such Booth or Compartment. IV. And be it further enacted, That on the Requisition of any Candidate, or of any Elector being the Proposer or Seconder of any Candidate, the Booths or Compartments of each Polling Place shall be so divided and arranged by the Sheriff or other Returning Officer that not more than One hundred Electors shall be allotted to poll in each such Booth or Compartment: Provided always, that such Candidate or Elector making such Requisition shall pay all Expences incident upon such Division or Arrangement. V. And be it further enacted, That in case any Requisition as aforesaid shall be made on or before the Day fixed for the Election, the Sheriff or other Returning Officer shall forthwith give public Notice of the Situation of such Booths, which shall be deemed to be sufficient Notice, any Law or Statute to the contrary notwithstanding. VI. And be it further enacted, That no Elector at àny Election shall be required to take the Oaths commonly called the Oaths of Allegiance, Abjuration, and Supremacy, nor any Oath or Oaths required to be taken by any Act of Parliament in lieu thereof; any Law or Statute to the contrary notwithstanding. VII. And be it further enacted, That such of the Freemen of the City of London, being Liverymen, as are or shall be entitled to -vote in the Election of Members to serve in any future Parliament mises, may vote for the City of London in the Guildhall, and who are or shall be also entitled to vote in such Election as Owner or Tenant of Premises in such City, shall be entitled to vote at any such Election at the Booth or Place appointed for the Parish, District, or Part wherein the Property may be situate in respect of which he is so entitled to vote as aforesaid; and that such Vote shall be entered in the Poll Books either as the Vote of a Liveryman, or as Owner or Tenant, as the Person so voting shall direct. Premises are situate. Adjournment of Nomination or of Poll in case of Riot. VIII. And be it enacted, That where the Proceedings at any Election shall be interrupted or obstructed by any Riot or open Violence, whether such Proceedings shall consist of the Nomination of Candidates or of the taking the Poll, the Sheriff or other Returning Officer, or the lawful Deputy of any Returning Officer, shall not for such Cause terminate the Business of such Nomination, nor finally close the Poll, but shall adjourn the Nomination, or or the taking the Poll at the particular Polling Place or Places at which such Interruption or Obstruction shall have happened, until the following Day, and, if necessary, shall further adjourn such Nomination or Poll, as the Case may be, until such Interruption or Obstruction shall have ceased, when the Returning Officer or his Deputy shall again proceed with the Business of the Nomination or with the taking the Poll, as the Case may be, at the Place or Places at which the same respectively may have been interrupted or obstructed; and the Day on which the Business of the Nomination shall have been concluded shall be deemed to have been the Day fixed for the Election, and the Commencement of the Poll shall be regulated accordingly; and any Day whereon the Poll shall have been so adjourned shall not as to such Place or Places be reckoned the Day of polling at such Election, within the Meaning of this Act; and whenever the Poll shall have been so adjourned by any Deputy of any Sheriff or other Returning Officer, such Deputy shall forthwith give Notice of such Adjournment to the Sheriff or Returning Officer, who shall not finally declare the State of the Poll, or make Proclamation of the Member or Members chosen, until the Poll so adjourned at such Place or Places as aforesaid shall have been finally closed, and the Poll Books delivered or transmitted to such Sheriff or other Returning Officer, any thing herein-before or in any other Statute to the contrary notwithstanding: Provided always, that this Act shall not be taken to authorize an Adjournment to a Sunday; but that in every Case in which the Day to which the Adjournment would otherwise be made shall happen to be a Sunday, Good Friday, or Christmas Day, that Day or Days shall be passed over, and the following shall be the Day to which the Adjournment shall be made. IX. And be it further enacted, That nothing in this Act shall Not to extend be construed to apply to Ireland or to Scotland. X. And be it further enacted, That this Act may be altered, varied, or repealed by any Act to be passed in this present Session of Parliament. CAP. XXXVII. An Act for the further Reduction of the Militia Staff, and to suspend the Ballot for the Militia. [25th August 1835.] WHEREAS it is expedient to reduce the present Staff of the to Scotland or Ireland. Act may be repealed this Session. bodied Staff of Militia in Great Britain and Ireland;' 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 a Reduction shall take place in the Dis- Reduction of embodied Staff of the said Militia at the Time and in the Manner the Disemherein-after mentioned; namely, it shall be lawful for His Majesty, the Militia. by an Order in Council, at any Time before the Tenth Day of September One thousand eight hundred and thirty-five, to direct that a Proportion of the Serjeants of each Regiment, Battalion, or Corps of Militia, such Proportion not to be less than One Third of the Number of Serjeants (not including the Serjeant-Major) borne on the existing Establishment of the Disembodied Staff, shall be Drum-Majors and Drummers to be reduced. Disposal of the General and Subdivision Meetings relating to the Militia suspended. Proceedings may be had be reduced on the Tenth Day of October One thousand eight hundred and thirty-five: Provided always, that the whole Number of Serjeants so to be reduced shall not exceed One Half of the whole Number serving on the First Day of August in the present Year. II. And be it further enacted, That all the Drum-Majors and Drummers of the Militia of Great Britain and Ireland shall be reduced on the said Tenth Day of October in the present Year. III. And be it further enacted, That it shall be lawful for His Majesty, by an Order signed by One of His Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State in Great Britain, and in Ireland by the Lord Lieutenant or other Chief Governor or Governors of Ireland, for the Time being respectively, to direct the Lord Lieutenant of any County in Great Britain, and the Lieutenant of any County in Ireland, to cause the Arms and other Stores belonging to any Regiment, Battalion, or Corps of Militia of such County in Great Britain and Ireland respectively to be delivered over to His Majesty's Ordnance Department. iv. And whereas it is expedient to suspend for a further Period the making of Lists and the Ballots and Enrolments for the Militia of the United Kingdom;' be it therefore enacted, That all General and Subdivision Meetings relating to the Militia of the United Kingdom, and all Proceedings relating to the procuring any Returns, or preparing or making out Lists for such Militia, or any Parts thereof, or relating to the ballotting for or enrolling any Militiamen or Substitutes, or supplying any Vacancies in such Militia, except as herein-after excepted, shall remain suspended until the End of the next Session of Parliament, any thing in any Act or Acts to the contrary notwithstanding. V. Provided always, and be it enacted, That it shall be lawful for His Majesty by any Order in Council to direct that any ProSuspension by ceedings shall be had, at any Time before the Expiration of such during such Order in Council. Period as aforesaid, either for the giving of Notices and making Returns and preparing Lists, and also for the proceeding to ballot and enrol Men for the filling up Vacancies in the Militia of the United Kingdom or any Part thereof, as His Majesty shall deem expedient; and upon the issuing of any such Order all such Proceedings shall be had for carrying into execution all the Provisions of the Acts in force in England, Scotland, and Ireland respectively relating to the giving Notices for and Returns of Lists, and for the ballotting and enrolling of Men to supply any Vacancies in the Militia, and holding General and Subdivision Meetings for such Purpose, at such Time respectively as shall be expressed in any such Order in Council, or by any Directions given in pursuance thereof to the Lord Lieutenants or Deputy Lieutenants acting for Lord Lieutenants of the several Counties, Shires, Ridings, Cities, and Places in Great Britain, or to the Lieutenants and Deputy Lieutenants of Counties and Places in Ireland, or to the Warden and Special Deputy Wardens of the Stannaries; and all the Provisions of the several Acts in force in England, Scotland, and Ireland respectively relating to the Militia and Corps of Miners of Cornwall and Devon shall upon any such Order, and Direction given in pursuance thereof, become and be in full force and be carried into execution at the Period specified in such Order or Direction as aforesaid, with all such Penalties and Forfeitures for any |