size at the next assizes to be holden for the same county, city, town, or place; and such judges of assize, or one of them, shall have power, on motion, to review such order, and either to affirm or reverse the same, as shall be fit, and thereupon to adjudicate; and which adjudication shall have the same effect, to all intents and purposes, as if it had been made by such assistant barrister or chairman at the sessions aforesaid.

XXVI. In every case in which an order of an assistant barrister or chairman shall upon appeal be reversed, the judge before whom the same shall have been heard shall thereupon cause such oath to be taken and subscribed, and such certificate to be given, and shall sign the same respectively, in like manner as the assistant barrister is hereinbefore required to do, and shall cause such acts to be performed by the clerk of the peace or his deputy, and such proceedings to be had, as herein before directed and required when any voter is registered at any sessions before the assistant barrister or chairman; and such oath and certificate, and such acts and proceedings, shall be of the like effect as if they had been taken, subscribed, given, performed, and had before the assistant barrister or chairman.

XXVII. After the determination of the session hereby directed to be first holden for the registry of voters for counties, cities, towns, and boroughs, it shall be lawful for any person claiming a right so to be registered to apply for that purpose at any sessions of the peace or adjournment thereof to be held by and before the assistant barrister or chairman of the proper county, and by and before the assistant barrister or chairman by the said schedule A authorized to register voters for such city, &c., upon giving to the clerk of the peace a notice of his intention so to do, in the form herein provided, twenty clear days at the least before the day appointed for the holding of such general or quarter session, and if within a county at large, in the division within which the freehold or leasehold interest intended to be registered shall be situate; and the clerk of the peace or his deputy shall in such case proceed in all respects in the same manner as hereinbefore prescribed with relation to applications for registering voters at the first session for that purpose, hereby directed; and the assistant barrister of such county, or chairman, is hereby authorized and required to hear and determine such applications at such general or quarter sessions, and at the commencement of such sessions, and before any other business, civil or criminal, in the same manner in all respects as is hereinbefore provided with respect to applications to register at the sessions for that purpose to be first holden under this act; and thereupon the same proceedings shall and may be had, the like orders made, the like oaths taken, the like certificates granted, the like rights and powers of appeal enjoyed and exercised, and the like rules and regu lations, enactments and things, observed, performed, and followed, as if such application had been made at the first session for registering votes directed to be held under this act : provided always, that a certificate of a former registry under this act shall be deemed and taken to be prima facie evidence of the right of voting; and that any person, having given notice of his intention to register anew under this act, shall, upon producing or causing to be produced such former certificate at the sessions for that purpose to be held, be entitled and admitted to register his vote, and to obtain a new certificate under this act, without further proof or oath, unless cause to the contrary shall appear, and shall by virtue of such new certificate be entitled to vote at any election or elections to be held within eight years next after the obtaining of such new certificate.

XXVIII. Upon any person being under this act declared entitled to be registered as a voter, the clerk of the peace or his deputy shall, upon payment to him of the sum of one shilling, give to the person so declared entitled a certificate on parchment, signed by such clerk of the peace or his deputy, as also by the barrister, chairman, or judge, declaring such right, that such person has been registered as a voter for such county, city, town, or borough, and the character and right in which he has been so registered, and the date of such registry as aforesaid, and shall then and there make an entry of such certificate at the foot of the voter's affidavit of registry, and sign his name to such entry; and which certificate shall be the proper evidence of the right of the person named therein to vote: provided always, that in the absence of such certificate, the voter shall be entitled to refer to his original affidavit of registry, with the entry thereon, in the hands of the deputy clerk of the peace, and which original affidavit such deputy is required immediately to produce to the returning officer or his deputy.

XXIX. Every person who shall duly register as a voter within this act at the first session for registering his vote within this act shall be thereupon forthwith entitled to vote at any election to be held in and for the county, city, town, or borough for which such voter shall be registered; and that any person who shall at any time after such first session duly register his vote according to the provisions of this act shall be entitled to vote at any election to be held by virtue of any writ tested six calendar months at least after such registry.

XXX. And further, that the clerk of the peace, at every election of a member to serve in parliament for any county, city, town, or borough, shall appoint, or in failure thereof the returning officer or officers shall appoint, a deputy clerk of the peace, and likewise an assistant to such deputy, to be present in each booth or place of polling, who shall take with him into such place of polling all the original affidavits and affirmations which have been made by the persons capable of voting in such place of polling respectively, any act to the contrary notwithstanding; which affidavits or affirmations the clerk of the peace is hereby required to have arranged alphabetically in separate parcels, (one or more for each letter of the alphabet,) and indorsed with the names of the persons by whom the same were respectively made, and also with the number of the entry of affidavit or affirmation in the registry book; and that in those cases wherein a certificate of registry shall not be produced by the person tendering his vote or offering to poll, such deputy shall, on the demand of the person offering to poll, produce the original affidavit or affirmation of the registry of such person; and that such deputy clerk of the peace shall be entitled to receive the sum of ten shillings, and no more, for each day of his attendance, any act to the contrary notwithstanding; and such assistant to such deputy shall be entitled to receive the sum of five shillings for each day of his attendance; and that if such deputy, or such assistant to such deputy, shall alter, deface, destroy, or lose any affidavit or affirmation of registry committed to his care, he shall forfeit the sum of ten pounds for every such offence to any person suing for the same, by action of debt, at any general quarter sessions of the peace.

XXXI. No person shall be admitted to vote at any election of a member or members to serve in any future parliament, by virtue of any registry under this act, unless he shall have registered within eight years next before such election.

XXXII. No registry hereafter to be made shall be valid unless made conformably to the provisions of this act.

XXXIII. In case any exigency shall render it necessary for any assistant barrister or chairman to adjourn any session for the registry of votes so appointed to be holden, or in case he shall be so directed by the lord lieutenant, it shall be lawful for him to adjourn and continue the same, as circumstances may require, either to the same place, or to such other place or places as the lord lieutenant shall direct.

XXXIV. Any person registering under this act shall be exempted from the payment of any fee whatever for filing the certificate or other duty in respect of such registry, save only such fee of one shilling to the clerk of the peace as by this act is provided.

XXXV. And further, that the clerk of the peace for each county, city, town, and borough returning a member or members to parliament shall, under the direction and with the advice of the chairman or barrister, as the case may be, on or before the first day of February in each and every year, examine, correct, and make out complete alphabetical lists of the registered voters in each county, &c., in which he has acted in making such registry as aforesaid, with the dates of their registries respectively annexed, and shall, at the expense of such county, &c., respectively, on or before the said first day of February in each year, cause such lists to be printed, and posted in some conspicuous places in the counties, cities, towns, and boroughs to which such lists respectively relate, and shall also deliver to any person applying for the same a copy of each such printed list, upon being paid one shilling for each such copy.

XXXVI. The expenses of printing the notices and postings hereby directed shall be defrayed by the clerk of the peace in such county, city, and town respectively; and the grand jury of each such county, &c., as the case may be, are hereby required, at the next assizes or presenting term after such notices and postings, to present to be levied off their respective counties in the same manner as other sums are authorized to be presented by such grand

juries, all such sums as shall have been necessarily disbursed by such clerks of the peace respectively, which sums shall be paid to such clerks of the peace.

XXXVII. No barrister or chairman shall be eligible to serve in parliament for any county, city, town, or borough sending a member or members to parliament, in which he shall have exercised jurisdiction under this act as such barrister or chairman, for seven years after he shall have exercised such jurisdiction.

XXXVIII. Each riding in the county of Cork shall be deemed to be a county for the purpose of registry under this act.

XXXIX. If any person shall refuse to be sworn or to give evidence before any judge, barrister, chairman, or jury, upon the investigation of any claim to register under this act as aforesaid, without sufficient lawful excuse to be allowed by such judge, &c., it shall be lawful for such judge, &c., to order such person to pay a fine not exceeding ten pounds, to be applied to the use of the infirmary of the county, city, or town respectively, or such charitable institution as the judge, chairman, or barrister shall think fit, or in default thereof to commit such person to the gaol of the said county, city, or town respectively for any term not exceeding two calendar months.

XL. If any person shall forge or counterfeit the signature of any judge, chairman, barrister, or clerk of the peace to any order, certificate, or instrument in writing purporting to be an order or certificate within this act, or the signature of any person to any oath or affirmation within this act, or shall knowingly utter or publish as true and genuine any such forged or counterfeited order, certificate, instrument, writing, oath, or affirmation, every person so offending shall be deemed guilty of felony, and shall be liable, at the discretion of the court before which he shall be tried, to be transported beyond the seas for the term of seven years, or to be imprisoned, with or without hard labour, for any term not exceeding three years.

XLI. In every case where an oath is by this act, required to be taken, every person, being a Moravian or Quaker, may make affirmation in the form prescribed hereby for each such oath respectively, and that all provisions herein contained relative to any oath shall respectively extend and apply to every such affirmation.

XLII. If any person shall, in any oath or affirmation to be taken under this act, wilfully and corruptly swear or affirm falsely, such person shall be deemed guilty of perjury, and be liable to the same pains, penalties, and punishments as any person is now liable to for wilful and corrupt perjury.

XLIII. The sheriff of each county, city, and town in Ireland, or his under sheriff, and also the clerk of the peace or his deputy, and town clerks, for each such county, &c., or his deputy, and the high constable of the barony in which each and every such court of sessions as by this act is directed shall be held, and such number of other constables as the assistant barrister or chairman shall deem sufficient, shall attend the court from day to day during the continuance of such sessions; and every clerk of the peace and town clerk, or deputy, as the case may be, attending any such sessions, shall take with him and from day to day attend with such original affidavits or affirmations, and all and every such book and registry, as under and by virtue of the laws now in force in Ireland, or under this act, such clerk of the peace or town clerk, or his deputy, is required to keep or to attend with and produce at any election or place of polling in Ireland.

XLIV. In the county of Dublin all voters to be registered under this act shall be registered before the chairman of the sessions of that county, and in the city of Dublin before the said chairman, who shall for such purpose hold a session four times in each year, at such times and places as the lord lieutenant or other chief governor or governors of Ireland shall appoint, and that such registry shall be conducted in the same manner in all respects as before the assistant barrister in any other county, city, or town; and such chairman shall have, exercise, perform, and discharge every power, jurisdiction, right, authority, duty, and function hereby vested in or given to any such assistant barrister; and in any case where an appeal is hereby allowed from the order of an assistant barrister to the judge of assize the like power of appeal from any order of such chairman shall and may, in the case of any voter in the county of Dublin and city of Dublin respectively, be enjoyed and had to a judge of any of his majesty's superior law courts of record in Dublin at nisi prius, at the sittings

for the city of Dublin next after such order made, and the judge to which any such appeal shall be made shall proceed with respect thereto in the same manner as any judge of assize is hereby authorized or required to proceed.

XLV. Every session to be held for registering voters within this act shall be deemed a court of record; and that it shall be lawful for every barrister or chairman before whom such court shall be held, from time to time as there shall be occasion, to fine the clerk of the peace or his deputy, the town clerk or his deputy, or the sub-sheriff of the county, city, or town for which the said court shall be held, and any high or other constable, who shall respectively be guilty of any breach of duty in the execution of this act, in any sum not exceeding five pounds, and, at his discretion, to fine in any sum not exceeding forty shillings, or to commit to prison for any time not exceeding a fortnight, any person whatsoever who shall disturb the court so to be held by him for registering voters as aforesaid, or who shall be guilty of any other contempt of the said court.

XLVI. Provided always, that it shall be lawful for any freeholder who may be entitled by law to register a freehold in any county, county of a city, or county of a town in Ireland, of the annual value of not less than fifty pounds, and for every clergyman who claims to vote as a freeholder in right of his benefice, to register such freehold either at the special or any general quarter sessions to be holden under this act, or to register such freehold by taking and subscribing the proper oath by the annexed schedule prescribed, in any of the superior courts of record in Dublin, or before a judge at the assizes, in the manner now by law authorized; and the said oath shall be subscribed by one of the judges of the court before whom the same was taken, and being delivered to the clerk of the peace, shall be signed by him, and kept amongst the records of the proper county; and each such freeholder shall be thereupon entitled, upon payment of the fee of one shilling, to receive, at any quarter sessions of the peace for the division of the county in which his freehold shall be situate, a certificate of his registry as a voter for such county, &c., respectively; which certificate shall be in the form by this act prescribed, and shall be signed by the assistant barrister and clerk of the peace, or his deputy, and shall be of equal validity with any certificate to be granted under this act, and subject to the same provisions.

XLVII. No person shall be allowed to have any vote at any election of a member or members to serve in parliament for or by reason of any trust estate or mortgage, unless such trustee or mortgagee be in actual receipt of the rents and profits of the same estate, but that the cestuique trust or mortgagor in possession shall and may register and vote for the same estate, notwithstanding such trust or mortgage.

XLVIII. After the end of the present parliament all booths erected for the convenience of taking polls shall be erected at the joint and equal expense of the several candidates, and the same shall be erected by contract with the candidates if they shall think fit to make such contract, or if they shall not make such contract, then the same shall be erected by the sheriff or other returning officer or officers, at the expense of the several candidates as aforesaid; and the deputies appointed by the said sheriff or other returning officer or officers shall be paid each two guineas by the day, and the clerks employed in taking the polls shall be paid each one guinea by the day, at the expense of the candidates at such election: provided always, that if any person shall be proposed without his consent, then that the person so proposing him shall deposit or give security in a sufficient sum to defray his share of the said expenses in like manner as if he had been a candidate.

XLIX. The sheriff or other returning officer shall, before the day fixed for the election, cause to be made, for the use of each booth at such election, a true copy of the register of voters, and shall under his hand certify every such copy to be true.

L. Every deputy of a sheriff or other returning officer shall have the same power of administering the oaths and affirmations required by law as the sheriff or other returning officer has by virtue of this or any other act, and subject to the same regulations and provisions in every respect as such sheriff or other returning officer; and that such oaths shall be agreeable to the forms by law required, or as near thereto as may be.

LI. And further, whenever, in any one barony or half barony of the county, or in any county of a city or county of a town, or in any borough, the number of registered voters appearing by the books of the clerk of the peace capable of voting at any election for the same

shall exceed six hundred voters, it shall and may be lawful for the returning officer or officers, and he and they are hereby required, to provide two or more polling places for such barony or half barony, or for such county of a city or county of a town, or borough, and to make such a division or divisions of the voters, according to the first letters of their names, that it shall not be necessary for more than six hundred voters to poll in any one place of polling, but so as not to divide the names beginning with the same letter of the alphabet; and that it shall and may be lawful for the returning officer or officers, and he and they are hereby required, to provide as many new places of polling as may be necessary for the purpose, and to appoint as many additional deputies and poll clerks as shall be necessary to take the poll in such additional places of polling, not exceeding one deputy and one poll clerk for each such place of polling; and provided always, that in case the number of voters in any two or more baronies or half baronies in any county shall not exceed the number of six hundred voters, it shall be lawful for the returning officer or officers, and he and they are hereby required, to provide that the poll for such baronies and half baronies shall be taken in one place of polling only.

LII. And further, that from and after the passing of this act every poll which shall be demanded at any election of a member or members to serve in parliament for any county, city, town, or borough in Ireland shall commence on the day upon which the same shall be demanded, or upon the next day after (unless such day shall happen to be a Sunday, Christmas day, or Good Friday, and in such case on the day next after), and shall be duly and regularly proceeded in from day to day for so many hours of each polling day as the returning officer or officers are now by law directed to keep the poll open in counties at large (Sunday, Christmas day, and Good Friday excepted), until the same shall be finished, but so that no poll shall continue more than five days at the most (Sunday, Christmas day, and Good Friday always excepted); and if such poll shall continue until the fifth day, then the same shall be finally closed at or before the hour of five o'clock in the afternoon of the same day; and the returning officer shall immediately after the final close of the poll declare the name or names of the person or persons having the majority of votes in such poll, and shall forthwith make a return of such person or persons.

LIII. Provided always that it shall and may be lawful for the returning officer at any such election, and he is hereby required, on any day during such election after the first day of polling, to close finally the poll in any booth or place of polling in which no more than twenty persons have polled during that day: provided always, that in case it shall appear to the returning officer, upon the evidence of two or more credible persons, taken upon oath, and which oath the returning officer is hereby empowered to administer, that any persons intending to offer themselves to poll in such booth or place of polling have been prevented by force or violence from coming to the same for the purpose of polling on that day, that then and in such case it shall be lawful to and for the returning officer to keep such booth or place of polling open for another day, and so on from day to day, if such force or violence be repeated, and be found to have taken place upon such evidence as aforesaid, to the satisfaction of the returning officer, and for such purpose to delay the final close of the poll and the return so long as may be necessary.

LIV. The certificate by this act directed, or in default of its production the original affidavit of registry, shall be conclusive of the right of voting of the person named therein; and that the returning officer or his deputy, upon the production of such certificate or affidavit by such person, and upon his taking the oaths hereinafter mentioned, if required so to do, shall admit such person to vote without any other oath or examination, and shall indorse the initials of his name thereon, with the day and year when the same was produced; and that no inquiry whatever as to the right of voting of such persons shall be permitted to be made, nor shall any scrutiny be allowed; save only that the sheriff, returning officer, or his deputy, shall, if required by any candidate or his agent, and he is hereby authorized so to do, immediately before the polling of any voter, administer to such voter the oath in the schedule B to this act annexed; and provided also, that the oath against bribery may be administered, at the desire of any candidate, to any person tendering his vote, in like manner as the same might be administered before the passing of this act; and provided always, that if such person so tendering his vote shall appear by such certificate to have before voted