Cricklade. 22 Geo.3.c.31. Basset, by affixing up a notice thereof in writing on the market-houses, or on the doors of the churches of the said towns, of the day of Time of elec- election; and shall proceed to election thereupon within the space of twelve days, and not less than eight days, next after his receipt of the same precept. tion. This act to be tions. § 6. And be it further enacted, by the authoread at elec- rity aforesaid, that this act shall be publicly read at every election for the said borough of Cricklade, immediately after the acts directed by any act of parliament to be read thereat, and before the persons present shall proceed to make such election. The Stat. 44 Geo. 3. c. 60. (To be read at Elections for Aylesbury). An Act for the preventing of Bribery and of Aylesbury, in the county of Buckingham: "and whereas such bribery and corruption is "likely to continue and be practised in the said "borough in future, unless some means are taken "to prevent the same; in order, therefore, to pre"vent such unlawful practices forthe future, and "that the said borough may from henceforth be duly represented in parliament;" Be it enacted, by the king's most excellent majesty, by and Aylesbury. with the advice and consent of the lords spiri- 44 Geo.3.c.60. tual and temporal, and commons in this present parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, that from henceforth it shall and may Persons havbe lawful to and for every freeholder, being within the ing a freehold above the age of twenty-one years, who shall three hundreds have within the three hundreds of Aylesbury, of the yearly of Aylesbury, or one or more of them, in the county of Buck- value of 40s. ingham, a freehold of the clear yearly value of may vote for forty shillings, to give his vote at every election of a burgess or burgesses to serve in parliament for the said borough of Aylesbury. Aylesbury. holders and persons having a right by cus rough of Aylesbury to vote, tom of the bo &c. § 2. And be it further enacted, that the right Right of elec of election of a member or members to serve bury shall be in parliament for the said borough of Ayles- in such freebury, shall be and is hereby declared to be in such freeholders as aforesaid, and in the persons who, by custom and usage of the said borough, have, or shall hereafter have, a right to vote at such election; and the proper officer for the time being, to whom the return of every writ or precept does belong, is hereby required to return the person or persons to serve in parliament for the said borough who shall have the major number of votes of such freeholders, and other persons having a right to vote at such election, any law or usage to the contrary notwithstanding: Provided always, that such free- such freeholders only shall be entitled to vote as shall holders only be duly qualified to vote at elections for knights qualified to of the shire for the said county of Buckingham, vote for the according to the laws now in being for regulat ing county elections. to vote as are county. before voting § 3. And be it further enacted, that every Freeholders such freeholder, before he is admitted to poll hall take the at any election for the said borough, shall, if following Aylesbury. 44 Geo.3.c.60. required by the candidates, or any of them, or any other person having a right to vote at the said election, first take the oath, or, being one of the people called Quakers, the solemn affirmation following: videlicet. oath or affirmation. "I do swear, [or being a Quaker, solemnly σε affirm,] that I am a freeholder in the three "hundreds of Aylesbury, or any one or more of them, in the county of Buckingham, and have "a freehold estate, consisting of ing at [specifying the nature thereof, and if it consists in messuages, lands, tenements, or tithes, "in whose occupation the same are; and, if in "rent, the names of the owners or possessors of "the tenements out of which such rent is issu"ing, or of some of them,] situate, lying, or bein the aforesaid hundreds, or in one or more of them, of the clear yearly value "of over and above all rents and "charges payable out of or in respect of the "same; and that I have been in the actual pos"session or receipt of the rents and profits there"of, for my own use, above twelve calendar "months [or, that the same came to me within "the time aforesaid by descent, marriage, mar"riage-settlement, devise, or promotion to a benefice in a church, or by promotion to an office,] and that such freehold estate has not "been granted or made to me fraudulently, on purpose to qualify me to give my vote; and "that the place of my abode is at " in Which oath or solemn affirmation, the proper officer to whom the return of any writ or pre Aylesbury. Penalty for taking a false as under the 5 Eliz. c. 9. and oath, perjury, 2 Geo. 2. c. 25. cept for such election shall belong, is hereby 44 Geo.3.c.60. required to administer; and in case any free holder, or other person taking the said oath or affirmation hereby appointed, shall thereby commit wilful perjury, and be thereof convicted; or if any person shali unlawfully and corruptly procure or suborn any freeholder or other person to take the said oath or affirmation, in order to be polled, whereby he shall commit such wilful perjury, and shall be thereof convicted, he and they, for every such offence respectively, shall incur such penalties as are inflicted on persons guilty of perjury, or subornation of perjury, in and by two acts of parlia ment, one made in the fifth year of the reign of queen Elizabeth, intituled, An act for punishing such persons as shall procure or commit wilful perjury, or suborn or procure any person to commit any wilful or corrupt perjury, and the other made in the second year of the reign of his late majesty king George the second, intituled, An act for the more effectual preventing and further punishment of forgery, perjury, and subornation of perjury, and to make it felony to steal bonds, notes, or other securities for payment of money, contrary to the said acts. precept to inand forthwith of election as § 4. And be it further enacted, that such Officer on reproper officer to whom any writ or precept shall ceiving writ or be directed for making any election for the dorse the same, said borough, shall, upon the receipt of such to give notice writ or precept, indorse upon the back thereof the day of his receipt thereof, in the presence of the party from whom he received such precept; and shall forthwith cause public notice to be given within the said borough of Aylesbury, and the several towns of great Missen herein. Aylesbury. 44 Geo. 3.c.60. den, Wendover, and Haddenham, by affixing up a notice thereof in writing on the markethouses, or on the doors of the churches of the Time of elec- said towns, of the day of election, and shall proceed to election thereupon within the space of twelve days, and not less than eight days next after his receipt of the same precept. tion. This act shall be read at elections, § 5. And be it further enacted, that this act shall be publicly read at every election for the said borough of Aylesbury immediately after the acts directed by an act of parliament to be read thereat, and before the persons present shall proceed to make such election. The Stat. 51. Geo. 3. c. 126. (To be read at Elections for Westminster). An Act to extend an Act made in the Year of "WHEREAS, by an act passed in the eighteenth year of the reign of his late majesty king 18 Geo.2.c.18. "George the second, intituled, An act to explain "and amend the laws, touching the elections of "knights of the shire to serve in Parliament for that part of the united kingdom called England, it is, amongst other things, provided, "that the expences of erecting booths, and of |