a judge at the assizes, in manner now by law authorized; and the said oath shall be subscribed by the assistant barrister, or by one of the judges of the court, and being delivered to the clerk of the peace shall be signed by him and kept among the records of the county; and each such freeholder shall thereupou be entitled to receive, at any quarter sessions of the peace for the division of the eounty in which his freehold shall be situate, a certificate of his having duly registered the same, which certificate shall recite the oath, and, being signed by the assistant barrister and clerk of the peace, shall be of equal validity and effect with any certificate to which such freeholder would now by law be entitled.

§ 25. Freeholds of 501. or 20l. registered prior to this Act.-Where any freehold shall have been duly registered as being of the value of fifty pounds or of twenty pounds respectively, the registry whereof sball at the commencement of this act be a valid and unexpired registry according to the provisions of any act now in force, it shall not be necessary during the subsistence of such registry to register such freehold under the provisions of this act. § 26.

Registry contrary to this Act invalid.-No registry hereafter to be made of any freehold shall be valid, unless made conformably to the provisions of this act. § 27.

Freeholds not registered within Eight Years.-No person shall be admitted to vote at any election by virtue of any freehold of less annual value than fifty pounds, registered under the provi sions of this act, unless he shall have registered the same within eight years preceding the test of the writ for bolding such election. § 28.

Duties of Clerk of the Peace.--The clerk of the peace for each county in Ireland shall keep the like books, make the like returns, and execute all other the like duties, matters, and things, as he is now by law required to do with respect to the registry of freeholds, save so far as is otherwise ordained by this act; and all matters and things now by law required for the due registration of freeholds shall be in all respects done, observed, and fulfilled, and all provisions, penalties, rules, orders, regulations, and conditions relating to the registration of freeholds, and contained in any acts now in force, shall be used, applied, and in force with respect to and shall be construed to extend to all freeholds to be registered under this act, save so far as is hereby otherwise provided. § 23.

Laws now in force extended to Freeholds registered under this Act.-All laws now in force touching the registering of freeholds in counties at large of the annual value of fifty pounds, twenty pounds, and forty shillings respectively, and touching the polling of persons qualified to vote at elections for such counties by virtue of such freeholds, are hereby extended to freeholders of the annual value under this act of fifty pounds, twenty pounds, and ten pounds respectively; and it shall be lawful to substitute the words ten pounds for forty shillings in all matters relating to such freeholds, as circumstances may require. § 30.

Freeholds in the County of Dublin to be registered before Chairman of Sessions. In the county of Dublin all freeholds to be registered under this act shall be registered before the chairman of the sessions, in the same manner as before the assistant barrister in any other county; and such chairman shall have and discharge every power, jurisdiction, right, authority, duty, and function hereby vested in or given to such assistant barrister; and in any case where. an appeal is hereby allowed from the order of an assistant barrister to the judges of assize, the like power of appeal from any order of such chairman shall and may, in the case of any freehold in the county of Dublin, be exercised and enjoyed to any of his majesty's superior law courts of record in Dublin; and the court 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. § 31.

And every enactment herein contained relative to any assistant barrister or judge of assize shall, in the county of Dublin respectively, extend and apply to the chairman of the sessions of that county, and to his majesty's superior law courts of record. § 32.

Ridings of Cork.-Each riding in the county of Cork shall be deemed to be a county for the purposes of this act. § 33. Rent-Charges.Provided always, that nothing in this act contained shall extend to alter or in any manner affect the qualification now by law required to entitle any person to vote at any election by virtue of any rent-charge. § 34.

Rectors, Vicars, Curates.-No rector, vicar, or curate shall be obliged to register his freehold arising from his rectory, vicarage, curacy, or other ecclesiastical preferment, or be precluded from voting at any election on account of not having registered the same. § 35.

Administration of Oaths.-It shall be lawful for every assistant barrister to administer all such oaths as are by this act required. § 36.

Expence of Notices, &c.-The expence of printing the notices and advertisements hereby directed shall be defrayed by the clerk of the peace in each county; and the grand jury of each county, or the term grand jury for the county of Dublin, shall present, at the next assizes or presenting term, to be levied off their respective counties in the same manner as other sums are authorized to be presented by such graud juries, all such sums as shall have been necessarily disbursed by such clerks of the peace respectively. § 37.

Vacancies in Representation previous to Termination of Session.When the session herein directed to be first holden for registering freeholds shall have terminated in any county, the lord lieutenant shall cause notice thereof to be inserted in the Dublin Gazette ; and in case of a vacancy in the representation of any such county in this present parliament, no writ shall issue for the holding of an election of a knight of the shire for such county until after the publication of such notice. § 38.

But if, after the commencement of this act, and before the publication of such notice, any election shall take place in pursuance of any writ issued for the election of members to serve in any new parliament, every person who would have been entitled to vote in case this act had not been made shall be entitled to vote at the election to be holden in pursuance of any such writ. § 39.

Adjournment of Sessions.-In case any exigency shall render it necessary, any assistant barrister may adjourn any session for the registry of freeholders so appointed to be first holden, and continue the same, as circumstances may require. § 40.

Assistant Barristers to be remunerated.-It shall be lawful for the lord lieutenant, by order or warrant under his hand, to direct the payment, out of the consolidated fund, of such sum as he shall deem sufficient to remunerate each assistant barrister and clerk of the peace for his attendance at the session to be first holden. §41.

Commencement of Act, &c.—This act shall commence from and after the day next after the passing thereof; and may be amended, altered, or repealed, in this present session. § 42, 43.

SCHEDULES referred to in this Act.
SCHEDULE I.

Form of Notice of holding the First Session for registering Freeholds under this Act.

County of NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That a Session for the purpose of reSgistering free holds in and for the said county, pursuant to an act passed in the tenth year of the reign of King George the Fourth, will be holden on

on

the

the

the day of

day of day of

at

assistant barrister, at which times and places

at

next, at

and on

and in the said county, before the applications to register freeholds

in the several divisions of the said county respectively will be taken into con

sideration.

Dated this

day of

G.

Clerk of the Peace for the said county.

SCHEDULE II.

Form of Notice to be given to the Clerk of the Peace, of Application to

register Freeholds.

TAKE NOTICE, That it is my intention to apply to register a freehold in the county of the particulars whereof are as follows:

Name and Residence of
Applicant.

SCHEDULE III.

List of Applications to be entered by Clerk of the Peace.

[Precisely the same as preceding form, with a column prefixed for numbering.}

SCHEDULE IV.

Outh of Freeholder registering a Freehold of the value of Fifty Pounds [or Twenty Pounds, as the case may be], not arising from a Rent-Charge.

in the county of

I, A.B., of do swear, That I am a freeholder of the county of and that I have a freehold therein, arising from a house [or houses, lands, or both, or other hereditaments, as the case may be], of the clear yearly value of fifty pounds [or twenty pounds, as the case may be], above all charges payable out of the same, lying and being at [naming the townland or townlands, and barony or baronies, half barony or half baronies, wherein the freehold is situate, in the said county], and that a solvent and responsible tenant could afford to pay for the same, as an additional rent, fairly and without collusion, the annual sum of fifty pounds [or twenty pounds, as the case may be], as Í verily believe, over and above any rent which I am liable to pay for, and over and above all other charges, except only public or parliamentary taxes, county, church, or parish cesses, or rates and cesses on any townland or division of any parish or barony; and that the said freehold does not arise from a rentcharge; and that I have not accepted or procured the said freehold fraudulently, nor in exchange for any freehold in any other county; and that I do not hold the said freehold by virtue of any lease, deed, or instrument executed or made after the first day of July, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-three, to any person or persons, jointly, in common, or in partnership. So help me God.

I, A.B., of

SCHEDULE V.

Oath to be taken by Rent-Charger.

in the county of

do swear,

That I am a freeholder in the county of and that I have a freehold therein of the clear yearly value of twenty pounds at the least, above all charges payable out of the same, consisting of a rent-charge granted by deed bearing date the day of in the year on the lands of [naming the lands mentioned in such deed, and the barony or baronies, half barony or baronies, wherein the same lie], and that I am in the possession thereof to the clear amount of twenty pounds yearly, and am entitled to receive the same, as it becomes due, to and for my own sole use and benefit; and that I have not procured or accepted the same fraudulently, nor in exchange for a freehold in any other county. So help me GOD.

SCHEDULE VI.

Oath of a Freeholder registering a Freehold of the annual value of Ten Pounds. I, E.F., of in the county of do swear, That I am a freeholder of the county of and that I have a freehold therein, arising from a house [or houses, land, or both, or other hereditaments, as the case may be], of the clear yearly value of ten pounds above all charges payable out of the same, except only public or parliamentary taxes, county, church, or parish cesses or rates, and cesses on any townland or division of any parish or barony, lying and being at [naming the townland or townlands or other denomination by which the place is generally known, and the barony or half barony or baronies wherein it is situate], in this county; and that a solvent and responsible tenant could, as I verily believe, afford to pay for the same, as an additional rent, fairly and without collusion, the annual sum of ten pounds, over and above all rent to which I am liable in respect thereof; and that the said freehold does not arise from a rent-charge; and that the same arises by

"

day of

virtue of the deed, lease, and instrument which I now produce, bearing date the in the year Lor otherwise, stating the nature of the title, as the case may be]; and that I am in the actual occupation thereof, by residing thereon [or by tilling, or by grazing, or by both tilling and grazing, as the case may be; and where the freehold is held under any deed, lease, or instrument, adding these words, and that the said freehold is not let or agreed to be let to the person or persons who executed the said deed or instrument, or to the heirs or assigns of such person or persons, or to any one in trust for him, her, or them, nor do I intend to let the same or any part thereof to such person or persons, or any of them, and that I have not agreed to let it for the term for which I hold it]; and that I have not procured or accepted the said freehold fraudulently, nor in exchange for a freehold in any other county; and that I do not hold my said freehold by virtue of any lease, deed, or other instrument executed or made after the first day of July, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-three, to any person or persons jointly, in common, or in partnership. So help me God.

SCHEDULE VII.

Oath of a Juror.

You shall well and truly try, whether the lands, tenements, or hereditaments, in respect of which C.D. claims to register a freehold in the county of

are or are not of the clear yearly value of ten pounds [or twenty pounds, as the case may be] over and above all charges payable out of the same, except only public or parliamentary taxes, county, church, or parish cesses, or rates and cesses on any townland or division of any parish or barony, and whether a solvent and responsible tenant could afford to pay for the same, fairly and without collusion, as an additional rent, the said annual sum over and above any rents to which the said C.D. is liable in respect of such freehold, and a true verdict give according to the evidence. So help you GOD.

INNKEEPERS' ALLOWANCES.

CAP. 9.-An Act for fixing, until the 25th of March, 1830, the rates of subsistence to be paid to innkeepers and others on quartering soldiers. [13th April, 1829.

Allowance for Diet and Small Beer.-Every non-commissioned officer and private soldier who shall be furnished with diet and small beer, within those parts of the United Kingdom specified in the Mutiny Act (cap. 6.) of this session by the innholders or other persons on whom such non-commissioned officers or private soldiers shall be quartered and billeted, shall pay for the same one shilling per diem; and for such allowance the innholder shall furnish one meal, viz. a hot dinner (if required) in each day, to each noncommissioned officer, trumpeter, drummer, and private soldier quartered and billeted on him, to consist of such quantity of diet and small beer as have been or shall be specified and fixed in and by any regulations made or to be made from time to time by his majesty in that behalf, but not to exceed one pound and a quarter of meat previous to being dressed, one pound of bread, one pound of potatoes or other vegetables previous to being cooked, and two pints of small beer, and vinegar, salt, and pepper.

§ 1.

Allowance for certain articles furnished in lieu of Diet and Small Beer.-In case any innholders, on whom any non-commissioned officers or private men shall be quartered, shall, by virtue of the option in the said act, furnish such non-commissioned officers or