42 Geo. 3. c.

116.

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vote, &c. on

therefore enacted, that every person who shall tender his vote at the election of any knight or knights of the shire, or other member or mem- Persons claimbers to serve in parliament, within that part of ing to vote at Great Britain called England, or the princi- respect of pality of Wales, in respect of any messuages, &c. of quality lands, or tenements, of the quality and value which would which would by law entitle him to vote at such vote, whereon election, the land-tax charged whereon shall the land-tax have been redeemed or purchased, shall, from and deemed, are to after the passing of this act, be entitled to vote be entitled to at any such election as aforesaid, without being proving landcompelled to shew that such messuages, lands, tax redeemed. or tenements, have been assessed to the landtax, upon proving, to the satisfaction of the returning officer, on oath or otherwise, that such land-tax hath, at any time previously to such election, been redeemed or purchased, and the said messuages, lands, or tenements, become exonerated therefrom, under the provisions of the said recited acts, for the redemption of land-tax, or of this act; the said recited acts passed in the nineteenth year of his late majesty's reign, and in the twentieth year of his present majesty's reign, or any other act or law to the contrary notwithstanding. 26th June, 1802,

42 Geo. 3. c. 116, recited.

The Stat. 51 Geo. 3. c. 99.

An Act for removing Doubts, as to the regis tering of certain Property, purchased or sold under the Land-Tax Redemption Act, in Right of which Persons may claim to vote at Elections of Members to serve in Parliament.

(a) "WHEREAS, by an act passed in the "forty-second year of his present majesty, inti"tuled, An act for consolidating the provi "sions of the several acts, passed for the redemption and sale of the land-tax, into one

"act, and for making further provision for 51 Geo. 3. c.99. "the redemption and sale thereof; and for ($154.) "removing doubts respecting the right of per

sons claiming to vote at elections for knights of the shire, and other members to serve in parliament, in respect of messuages, lands, or tenements, the land-tax upon which shall "have been redeemed or purchased, purchasers "of land-tax, charged upon manors, messuages, "lands, tenements, and hereditaments, are, by "virtue of that act, adjudged, deemed, and "taken to be in the actual seisin and possession "of yearly rent or sums, as fee-farm rents, "equal in amount to the land-tax so purchased by them, to be issuing and payable out of the manors, messuages, lands, tenements, and "hereditaments, whereon the land-tax so pur"chased, was charged: And whereas no person "is allowed, by law, to vote for electing any "member of parliament, in respect of any an

nuity, fee-farm rent, or rent-charge, without "the same being first duly registered in manner "directed by law: And whereas doubts have "arisen, whether any person can vote at an "election for a member of parliament, in respect "of any land-tax so purchased as aforesaid, "without the same, or some memorial of the "contract or certificate for such purchase being "first registered, in the same manner as other "fee-farm rents, rent-charges, and annuities, "or memorials of the grant thereof, are required "to be registered as aforesaid:" Now, for removing such doubts, be it enacted and declared, by the king's most excellent majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the lords spiritual and temporal, and commons, of the united kingdom, in parliament assembled, and

51 Geo. 3. c.99. by the authority of the same, that in order to entitle any person to vote at an election for a member of parliament, in respect of land-tax so purchased as aforesaid, it shall not be necessary to have the same or any memorial of the contract or certificate of the purchase thereof registered, as other fee-farm rents and annuities, or a memorial of the grant thereof, are required entitle to vote by law to be registered before any person can vote for electing a member of parliament in respect thereof.

Registry of purchase of land-tax not necessary to

at elections.

ACTS

RESPECTING

DISQUALIFICATIONS OF ELECTORS.

(For the stat. 7 and 8 Will. 3. c. 25. § 8, enacting that no person under the age of twentyone shall be capable of voting at any election, see 1 vol. 112).

The Stat. 22 Geo. 3. c. 41.

An Act for better securing the Freedom of Elections of Members to serve in Parliament, by disabling certain Officers, employed in the Collection or Management of His Majesty's Revenues, from giving their Votes at such Elections.

FOR the better securing the freedom of elec tions of members to serve in parliament, 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 from and after the first day of August, one thousand seven hundred and

From Ang. 1, 1782, no com

missioner or of