The Royal Kalendar and Court and City Register for England, Scotland, Ireland, and the Colonies for the Year ...

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Wm. H. Allen, 1866
Vol. for 1832 includes the British almanac of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge.

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Page 160 - Every person who shall, directly or indirectly, by himself, or by any other person on his behalf, make any such gift*, loan, ofler, promise, procurement, or agreement as aforesaid, to or for any person, in order to induce such person to procure, or endeavour to procure, the return of any person to serve in Parliament, or the vote of any voter at any election ! 4.
Page 160 - ... to or for any voter, or to or for any person on behalf of any voter, or to or for any other person in order to induce any voter to vote, or refrain from voting, or shall corruptly do any such act as aforesaid, on account of such voter having voted or refrained from voting at any election : 2.
Page 160 - Every person who shall advance or pay, or cause to be paid, any money to or to the use of any other person with the intent that such money, or any part thereof, shall be expended in bribery at any election...
Page 146 - House has met before that day, or will meet on the day of the issue), issue his warrant to the clerk of the Crown to make out a new writ for electing another member in the room of the member whose seat has so become vacant.
Page 190 - ... in order to multiply voices, or to split and divide the interest in any houses or lands among several persons, to enable them to vote at elections of members to serve in Parliament, are hereby declared to bo void and of none effect, and that no more than one single voice shall be admitted for one and the same house or tenement.
Page 160 - ... or to refrain from voting, at any election : And any person so offending shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and...
Page 19 - October, in the first week after the 28th of December, in the first week after the 31st of March, and in the first week after the 24th of June.
Page 163 - That the giving or causing to be given to any Voter on the Day of Nomination or Day of polling, on account of such Voter having polled or being about to poll, any Meat, Drink, or Entertainment, by way of Refreshment, or any Money or Ticket to enable such Voter to obtain Refreshment, shall be deemed an illegal Act, and the Person so offending shall forfeit the Sum of Forty Shillings for each Offence, to any Person who shall sue for the same, together with full Costs of Suit.
Page 163 - ... (to be acknowledged in like manner as is now required in cases of writs of certiorari awarded at the instance of a defendant in an indictment), with the conditions following; that is to say, that the prosecutor shall conduct the prosecution with effect, and shall pay to the defendant or defendants, in case he or they shall be acquitted, his or their costs.

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