Army agents. Except members of trading companies in Ireland. Deputies or clerks in certain offices. Persons hold lieutenant of Ireland shall in future be disabled. or which shall hereafter be granted by any Act of Parliament to his Majesty, his heirs or successors (except the commissioners of the Treasury and their secretary): Nor any agent for any regiment: Nor any person who shall directly or indirectly, himself, or by any person whatsoever in trust for him, or for his use or benefit, or on his account, undertake, execute, hold, or enjoy, or continue to execute, hold, or enjoy in the whole or in part, any contract, agreement, or commission made or entered into under or from the commissioners of his Majesty's Treasury in Ireland, or with any one or more of such commissioners, or with any other person or persons whomsoever, for or on account of the public service in Ireland; or who shall knowingly and willingly furnish or provide, in pursuance of any such agreement, contract, or commission which he or they shall have made or entered into as aforesaid, any money to be remitted abroad, or any wares or merchandize to be used or employed in the service of the public, during the time that he shall execute, hold, or enjoy any such contract, agreement, or commission, or any part or share thereof, or any benefit or employment arising from the same (except persons who shall be members of any incorporated trading company now existing or established in Ireland, and consisting of more than ten persons, so far as relates to any contract, agreement, or commission, which now is or shall or may hereafter be made, entered into, or accepted by such company in its corporate capacity, for the general benefit of such incorporation or company): Nor any deputies or clerks in any of the several offices following; that is to say, the office of lord high treasurer or the commissioners of the Treasury, (except the secretary of the Treasury); or of the chancellor of the Exchequer, (except the secretary of the chancellor of the Exchequer); or of the commissioners of stamps; V. AND be it further enacted, that, from and after the dissolution or other under the lord determination of this present Parliament, no person who shall have in his own name, or in the name of any person or persons in trust for him or his benefit, any office or place of profit, from or by the nomination or appointment, or by any appointment subject to the approbation of the lord lieutenant, lord deputy, lord justices, or other chief governor or governors of that part of the United Kingdom called Ireland, created or erected at any time after the passing of an Act of the Parliament of Ireland, in the thirty-third year of the reign of his present Majesty, intituled "An Act for securing the freedom and independence "of the House of Commons, by excluding therefrom persons holding any offices "under the Crown to be hereafter created, or holding certain offices therein enumerated, or pensions for terms of years, or during his Majesty's pleasure," shall be capable of being elected or chosen a member of, or of sitting or voting as a member of, the House of Commons of any Parliament of the said United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, in any Parliament which shall hereafter be summoned and holden. Irish Act, 33 Geo. 3. c. 41. Elections of disabled persons void, and such persons presuming to sit in Parliament shall incur the penalties under VI. AND be it further enacted, that if any person hereby declared to be disabled from, or rendered incapable of sitting or voting in the House of Commons, shall nevertheless be elected or returned as a member to serve in Parliament or any county, stewartry, city, borough, cinque port, town, or place, in any part of the said United Kingdom, such election or return are hereby enacted and declared to be void to all intents and purposes whatsoever; and if any former British person or persons so hereafter elected or returned, and declared to be disabled or Irish Acts; or to be rendered incapable by this Act to be elected, shall presume to sit or vote as a member of the said House of Commons, such person or persons so sitting or voting shall incur such pains, penalties, and forfeitures, as are inflicted or imposed by the several Acts of Parliament heretofore passed in Great Britain or Ireland for disabling or incapacitating such persons from sitting in the Parliaments of Great Britain or Ireland respectively; and if such person or persons or if disabled shall be disabled or incapacitated by the having, holding, or accepting of any shall forfeit office, employment, or place of profit, in this Act enumerated and particularized, 500l. per day. then and in such case such person or persons so sitting or voting shall forfeit the sum of five hundred pounds for every day in which he shall sit or vote in the said house; to be recovered by such person as shall sue for the same in any court of record in any part of the said United Kingdom, by action of debt, bill, plaint, or information, wherein no essoign, protection, or wager of law shall be allowed, and only one imparlance. under this Act Not to extend for life or to offices held behaviour, ex VIII. PROVIDED also, and it is hereby further enacted and declared, that nothing in this Act shall extend or be construed to exclude any person having or holding any office, place, or employment for life, or for so long as he shall during good behave himself well in his office (other than and except the commissioners of cept in certain of imprest accounts, and [Rep., Stat. Law Rev. Act, 1872. all persons concerned cases. in the managing, collecting, or farming of any sums of money, duties, or other aids granted or to be granted to his Majesty, his heirs or successors); any thing herein contained to the contrary notwithstanding. 'shall vacate IX. PROVIDED always, that if any person being chosen a member of the Members accepting any House of Commons shall, from and after the passing of this Act, accept of any office whatoffice of profit whatever, immediately and directly from the crown of the said ever from the King, or lord United Kingdom, or by the nomination or appointment, or by any other lieutenant, appointment subject to the approbation of the lord lieutenant, lord deputy, &c. of Ireland, lord justices, or other chief governor or governors of that part of the said his seat. United Kingdom called Ireland, his seat shall thereupon become vacant, and a writ shall issue for a new election; provided nevertheless, that such person (if he be not incapacitated by anything herein-before contained), shall be capable of being again elected to be a member of the House of Commons for the place for which he had been a member, or for any other place sending members to the House of Commons. CHAPTER LVII. AN ACT for the better Prevention of the Forgery of the Notes and Bills of [20th June 1801.] HEREAS it is expedient to prevent the crime of forgery in all parts of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland: Be it therefore 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 if any person or After July 10, [ Rep., except as to Scotland, 24 & 25 Vict. c. 95. s. 1.] 1801, any per son who shall make or use any frame or with the name or banking paper, without a written au purpose, or persons, in any part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, from and after the tenth day of July one thousand eight hundred and one, shall make or cause or procure to be made, or knowingly aid or assist in the making or using, of any frame, mould, or part of any frame or mould, for the making of paper, with the name or firm appearing visible in the substance of the paper of any person or persons, body corporate, or other banking company or company appartnership carrying on the business of bankers, without an authority in pearing in the substance of the writing for that purpose from such person or persons, body corporate, or other banking company or partnership, or from some person or persons duly authothority for that rized to give such authority; or shall manufacture, make, vend, expose to sale, publish or dispose of, or cause or procure to be manufactured, made, vended, or exposed to sale, published or disposed of, any paper having the name or firm appearing visible in the substance of the paper of any person or persons, body corporate, or other banking company or partnership whatsoever, carrying on the business of bankers; or if any person or persons without such authority, shall by any art, means, mystery, or contrivance, cause or procure, or shall knowingly aid or assist in causing or procuring the name or firm of any person or persons, body corporate, or other banking company or partnership carrying on the business of bankers, to appear visible in the substance of the whereon the same shall be written or printed; every person or persons paper so offending in any of the cases aforesaid, and being convicted thereof according for seven years. to law, shall for the first offence be imprisoned for any time not exceeding two years nor less than six months, and for the second offence be transported to any of his Majesty's colonies or plantations for the term of seven years. shall make or vend such paper, or cause such name or firm to appear in the substance of the paper, shall for the first offence be imprisoned for not above two years, nor less than six months; and for the second, be transported Any person any bill or note so engraved, or making or printing such bill or note, without a written authority for the purpose, or shall know II. AND be it further enacted, that if any person or persons, in any part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, from and after the said tenth day of July one thousand eight hundred and one, shall engrave, cut, etch, scrape, or by any other means or device make, or shall cause or procure to be engraved, cut, etched, scraped, or by any other means or device made, or shall knowingly aid or assist in the engraving, cutting, etching, scraping, or by any other means or device making, in or upon any plate whatsoever, any bill of exchange, promissory note, or other note for the payment of money, or part of any bill of exchange, promissory note, or other note for the payment of money, purporting to be the bill of exchange, promissory note, or other note for the payment of money, of any person or persons, body corporate, banking company or partnership carrying on the business of bankers, without an authority in writing for that purpose from such person or persons, body corporate, banking company or partnership, or some person or persons duly authorized to give such authority; or shall use any such plate so engraved, authority utter cut, etched, scraped, or by any other means or device made, or shall use any other device for the making or printing any such bill of exchange, promissory note, or other note for the payment of money, without such authority in writing as aforesaid; or if any person or persons shall, after the said tenth. day of July one thousand eight hundred and one, without such authority as aforesaid, knowingly have in his, her, or their custody, any such plate or device, or shall, without such authority as aforesaid, knowingly and wilfully publish, dispose of, or put away any such bill of exchange, promissory note, or other note for the payment of money, or part of such bill of exchange, promissory note, or other note for the payment of money; every person so ingly have in his custody such plate or device, or shall without such such bill or note, shall suffer the like penalties. offending in any of the cases aforesaid, and being convicted thereof according to law, shall, for the first offence be imprisoned for any time not exceeding two years nor less than six months, and for the second offence be transported to any of his Majesty's colonies or plantations for the term of seven years. engrave, &c. any subscriptions subjoined to any bill or note of any banker or. banking com pany, payable have in his III. AND be it further enacted, that if any person or persons, in any part of Any person the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, from and after the tenth who shall day of July one thousand eight hundred and one, shall engrave, cut, or etch, on any plate or by any other means or contrivance trace with a hair stroke or other mode of delineation, or any plate whatsoever, any of the subscriptions subjoined to any bill of exchange, promissory note, or other note for the payment of money, of any person or persons, body corporate, or other banking company or partnership carrying on the business of bankers, to be payable to bearer on demand, to bearer ou or shall have in his, her, or their possession any plate with the hair strokes or other delineation of any subscription traced thereon, subjoined to any bill of exchange, promissory note, or other note for the payment of money, purporting to be the bill of exchange and promissory note, or other note for the payment of money, of any person or persons, body corporate, or other banking company or partnership carrying on the business of bankers, and to be payable to the bearer on demand, and shall not be able to prove that such plate came into than twelve his, her, or their possession without his, her, or their knowledge or consent, for the second every person so offending in any of the cases aforesaid, and being convicted be transported thereof according to law, shall for the first offence be imprisoned for any time not exceeding three years nor less than twelve months, and for the second offence be transported to any of his Majesty's colonies or plantations for the term of seven years. demand, or shall for the years nor less months, and for seven years. CHAPTER LXIII. AN ACT to remove Doubts respecting the Eligibility of Persons in Holy WHEREAS it is expedient to remove doubts which have arisen respecting dained a priest or deacon, or of Scotland, the eligibility of persons in holy orders to sit in the House of Commons, No person orand also to make effectual provision for excluding them from sitting therein: Be it therefore declared and 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 no person having been ordained to the office of priest or deacon, or being a minister of the Church of Scotland, is or shall be capable of being elected to serve in Parliament as a member of the House of Commons. being a minister of the Church shall be capable of being elected a member of the House of Commons. The election of such person and if any person after shall be ordained a priest, shall be void, his election II. AND be it further declared and enacted, that if any person, having been ordained to the office of priest or deacon, or being a minister of the Church of Scotland, shall hereafter be elected to serve in Parliament as aforesaid, such election and return shall be void; and that if any person, being elected to serve in Parliament as a member of the House of Commons, shall, after his election, be ordained to the office of priest or deacon, or become a minister of the Church of Scotland, then and in such case the seat of such person shall immediately become void; and if any such person shall, in any of the aforePenalty for said cases, presume to sit or vote as a member of the House of Commons, he sitting or voting &c. he shall vacate his seat. in either case, 500l. per day, and disqualification to hold any preferment. Limitation of actions. What proof sary. shall forfeit the sum of five hundred pounds for every day in which he shall sit or vote in the said house, to any person or persons who shall sue for the same in any of his Majesty's courts at Westminster; and the money so forfeited shall be recovered by the person or persons so suing, with full costs of suit, in any of the said courts, by any action of debt, bill, plaint, or information, in which no essoign, privilege, protection, or wager of law, or more than one imparlance, shall be allowed; and every person against whom any such penalty or forfeiture shall be recovered by virtue of this Act, shall be from thenceforth incapable of taking, holding, or enjoying any benefice, living, or promotion ecclesiastical, and of taking, holding, or enjoying any office of honour or profit under his Majesty, his heirs, or successors: . III. PROVIDED also, and be it enacted, that no person shall be liable to any forfeiture or penalty inflicted by this Act, unless a prosecution shall be commenced within twelve calendar months after such penalty or forfeiture shall be incurred, IV. AND be it further enacted, that proof of the celebration of divine shall be neces- service according to the rites of the Church of England, or of the Church of Scotland, in any church or chapel consecrated or set apart for public worship, shall be deemed and taken to be primâ facie evidence of the fact of such person having been ordained to the office of a priest or deacon, or of his being a minister of the Church of Scotland, within the intent and meaning of this Act. Recital of 27 Geo. 2. c. 3. CHAPTER LXXVIII. AN ACT to extend the Powers of an Act passed in the twenty-seventh year of WHEREAS by an Act made in the twenty-seventh year of the reign of his late Majesty King George the Second, intituled "An Act for the better securing to constables and others the expences of conveying offenders "to gaol, and for allowing the charges of poor persons bound to give evidence "against felons," it is enacted, that when any person, not having goods or money within the county where he is taken, sufficient to bear the charges of himself and of those who convey him, is committed to gaol or the house of correction, by warrant from any justice or justices of the peace, then on application by any constable or other officer who conveyed him to any justice of the peace for the same county or place, he shall upon oath examine into and ascertain the reasonable expences to be allowed such constable or other officer, and shall forthwith, without fee or reward, by warrant under his hand and seal, order the treasurer of the county or place to pay the same, which the said treasurer is hereby required to do as soon as he received such warrant; and any sum so paid shall be allowed in his accounts: And whereas it is expedient, in certain |