truly and faithfully to perform the duties belonging to a member of the said committee, without fear or favour, to the best of his judgment and ability.

xxx. That no business shall be transacted by or before the General Committee of Elections unless at the least four members of the General Committee shall be then present together; and no appointment of a select committee by the General Committee, to be made as hereinafter provided, shall be of force unless at the least four members then present of the said General Committee shall agree in the appointment.

XXXI. That, subject to the provisions of this Act, the said committee shall make regulations for the order and manner of conducting business to be transacted by and before them.

XXXII. That the General Committee shall be attended by one of the committee clerks of the House, who shall be selected by the clerk of the House of Commons for the time being, and shall make a minute of all the proceedings of the committee, in such form and manner as shall be from time to time directed by the committee; and a copy of the minutes so kept shalĺ be laid from time to time before the House of Commons.

XXXIII. That if, at the time of the dissolution or suspension of all the proceedings of the General Committee of Elections, there shall be any business appointed to be transacted by or before such General Committee on any certain day, it shall be lawful for the Speaker to adjourn the transaction of such business to such other day as to the Speaker shall seem convenient, and so as often as the case may happen.

XXXIV. That every member who shall be more than sixty years old shall be wholly excused from serving on election committees; provided that on or before the reading over of the names of such excused members as hereinafter mentioned, or upon his afterwards becoming entitled to make such claim, he shall claim to be excused by declaring in his place, or in writing under his hand, to be delivered to the clerk at the table, that he is more than sixty years old; but no member shall be so excused who shall not claim to be excused before he shall be chosen to serve as hereinafter provided.

XXXV. That in the first session of every Parliament on the next meeting of the House after the last day allowed for questioning returns of members to serve in Parliament, and in every subsequent session on the next meeting of the House after the Speaker shall have laid on the table of the House his warrant for the appointment of the General Committee of Elections, the clerk of the House of Commons shall read over the names of all the members who shall so have claimed to be excused.

XXXVI. That every member who shall have leave of absence from the House shall be excused from serving on election committees during such leave; and if any member in his place shall offer any other excuse, either at the reading over the said names or at any other time, the substance of the allegations shall be taken down by the clerk, in order that the same may be afterwards entered on the journals, and the opinion of the House shall then be taken thereon; and if the House shall resolve that the said member ought to be excused, he shall be excused from serving on election committees for such time as to the House shall seem fit, but no member shall be so excused who shall not claim to be excused before he shall be chosen to serve as hereinafter provided; and every member who shall have served on one select committee for trying an election petition, and who, within seven days after such committee shall have made its final report to the House, shall notify to the clerk of the General Committee his claim to be excused from so serving again, shall be excused during the remainder of the session, unless the House shall at any time resolve, upon the report of the General Committee, that the number of members who have not so served is insufficient; but no meinber shall be deemed to have served on an election committee who, on account of inability or accident, shall have been excused from attending the same throughout.

XXXVII. That every member whose return shall not have been brought in for a time exceeding that allowed for questioning the returns of members, or who shall be a petitioner complaining of an undue election or return, or against whose return a petition shall be then depending, shall be disqualified to serve on election committees during the continuance of such ground of disqualification; and every member of any select committee appointed to try an election petition shall be disqualified to serve again on an election committee during seven days after the final report of the committee on which he so served.

XXXVIII. That the clerk of the House of Commons shall make out an alphabetical list of all the members, omitting the names of such members as shall have claimed to be wholly excused from serving on election committees as aforesaid; and the clerk shall also distinguish in such list the name of every member who shall be for a time excused or disqualified, and shall also note in the list every cause of such temporary excuse or disqualification, and the duration thereof; and such list shall be printed and distributed with the votes of the House, and the names of all the members so omitted shall be also printed and distributed with the votes.

XXXIX. That during three days next after the day of the distribution of such corrected list further corrections may be made in such list by leave of the Speaker, if it shall appear that any name has been improperly left in or struck out of such list, or that there is any other error in such list.

XL. That the list so finally corrected shall be referred to the General Committee of Elections, and the General Committee shall thereupon select, in their discretion, six, eight, ten, or twelve members, whom they shall think duly qualified, to serve as chairmen of election committees; and the members so selected shall be formed into a separate panel, to be called the chairthen's panel, which shall be reported to the House; and while the name of any member shall be upon the chairmen's panel he shall not be liable or qualified to serve on an election committee, otherwise than as chairman; and every member who shall have been placed on the chairmen's panel shall be bound to continue upon it until the end of the session, or until he shall sooner cease to be a member of the House, or until, by leave of the House, he shall be discharged from continuing upon the chairmen's panel: Provided always, that every member of the chairmen's panel, who shall have served on one or more election committees, and who shall notify to the clerk of the General Committee of Elections his claim to be discharged from continuing upon the chairmen's panel, shall be so discharged accordingly; and every such member shall be excused from serving upon any election committee, either as chairman or otherwise, during the remainder of the session; but no member

of the chairmen's panel shall be deemed to have served on an election committee who, on account of inability or accident, shall have been excused from attending the same throughout.

XLL. That after the chairmen's panel shall have been so as aforesaid selected the General Committee shall divide the members then remaining on such list into five panels, in such manner as to them shall seem most convenient, but so nevertheless that each panel may contain as nearly as may be the same number of members, and shall report to the House the division so made by them; and the clerk shall decide by lot at the table the order of the panels as settled by the General Committee, and shall distinguish each of them by a number denoting the order in which they shall have been drawn; and the panels shall then be returned to the General Committee of Elections, and shall be the panels from which all members shall be chosen to serve on election committees.

XLII. That the General Committee of Elections shall correct the said panels from time to time by striking out of them the name of every member who shall cease to be a member of the House, or who from time to time shall become entitled and shall claim as aforesaid to be wholly excused from serving on election committees, and by inserting in one of the panels to be chosen by the General Committee, at their discretion, the name of every new member of the House who shall not be entitled and claim as aforesaid to be wholly excused, and shall also from time to time distinguish, in the manner aforesaid, in the said panels the names of those members who shall be for a time excused or disqualified for any of the reasons aforesaid; and the General Committee shall, as often as they shall think fit, report to the House the panels as they shall then stand corrected; and as often as the General Committee of Elections shall report the said panels to the House they shall be printed and distributed with the votes of the House.

XLIII. That when leave of absence for a limited time shall have been granted by the House to any member, it shall be lawful for the General Committee of Elections to transfer the name of such member from the panel in which it shall have been placed to some other panel subsequent in rotation, if they shall think fit so to do, having regard to the length of time for which such leave of absence shall have been granted, and to the number of select committees then about to be appointed.

XLIV. That whenever any member of the chairmen's panel shall cease to be a member of the House, or shall be, by leave of the House, discharged from continuing upon the chairmen's panel, or shall be so discharged by reason of service, under the provisions herein before contained, the General Committee shall forthwith select another member to be placed upon the chairmen's panel in his room; and in case it shall at any time appear to the General Committee that the chairmen's panel is too small, it shall be lawful for the General Committee to select two, four, or six additional members to place upon it, so nevertheless that the chairmen's panel shall not at any time consist of more than eighteen members, without the leave of the House first obtained.

XLV. That it shall be lawful for the members who are upon the chairmen's panel from time to time to make such regulations as they may find convenient for securing the appointment or selection of chairmen of election committees, and for distributing the duties of chairman among all of them.

XLVI. That all election petitions which shall be received by the House shall be referred by the House to the General Committee of Elections, for the purpose of choosing select committees, as hereinafter provided, to try such petitions; and the Speaker shall communicate to the House and the General Committee every report by the examiner of recognizances to him concerning the sureties to any election petition; and in every case in which any election petition shall be withdrawn or the examiner of recognizances shall have reported to the Speaker that the sureties are objectionable, the order for referring such petition to the General Committee of Elections shall be discharged, and no further proceeding shall be had upon such petition; and the general committee shall make out a list of all election petitions in which the examiner of recognizances shall have reported to the Speaker that the sureties are unobjectionable, and in which the proceedings are not suspended, in which list the petitions shall be arranged in the order in which they shall have been so reported upon; and in every case in which the proceedings in any petition inserted in such list shall be afterwards suspended the petition shall be struck out of the list, and shall be again inserted at the bottom of the list at the end of such suspension of proceedings.

XLVII. That when notice of the death or vacancy of the seat of any member petitioned against, or that it is not the intention of such member to defend his election or return, shall be given to the General Committee of Elections by the Speaker as hereinbefore provided, the General Committee shall suspend their proceedings in the matter of the petition referred to in such notice until twenty-one days after the day on which notice of such death or vacancy, or intention not to defend, shall have been inserted in the Gazette under the provision herein before contained, unless the petition of some person or persons claiming to be admitted as a party or parties in the room of such member shall be sooner referred to them.

XLVIII. That when more than one election petition relating to the same election or return shall be referred to the General Committee of Elections they shall suspend their proceedings in the matter of all such petitions until the report of the examiner of recognizances upon each of such petitions, or such of them as shall not have been withdrawn, shall be received by them: and upon receipt of the last of such reports they shall place such petitions at the bottom of the then list of election petitions, bracketed together, and such petitions shall afterwards be dealt with as one petition.

XLIX. That the General Committee of Elections shall choose the committees to try the election petitions standing in the said list of petitions in the order in which such petitions stand in the said list, and they shall from time to time determine how many committees shall be chosen in each week for trying such petitions, and the day or days on which they will meet for choosing such committees, having regard to the number of select committees which may then be sitting for the trial of elec tion petitions, and to the whole number of such committees then to be appointed; and they shall report to the House from time to time the days appointed by them for choosing such committees.

L. That notice of the time and place at which the committee will be chosen to try any election petition shall be published with the votes, not less than fourteen days before the day on which such committee shall be appointed to be chosen: and in case the conduct of the returning officer is complained of, such notice shall be sent to him through the post, not less

than fourteen days before the day on which such committee shall be appointed to be chosen; and every such notice shall direct all parties interested to attend the General Committee of Elections, by themselves, their counsel or agents, at the time and place appointed for choosing the select committee; and if (after any such notice shall have been published with the votes, or sent to the returning officer as aforesaid,) the proceedings in the matter of such petition shall become suspended, notice of such suspension shall be immediately published with the votes; and in case the conduct of the returning officer is complained of such notice shall be sent to him through the post.

LI. Provided and enacted, That in case notice of the death or vacancy of the seat of any member petitioned against or that it is not the intention of such member to defend his election or return, shall have been inserted in the Gazette, by order of the Speaker as hereinbefore provided, and no party shall have been admitted to defend such election or return, then, if the conduct of the returning officer is not complained of in such petition, it shall not be necessary to insert such petition at the bottom of the then list of petitions, but the General Committee of Elections shall meet for choosing the select committee to try such petition as soon as conveniently may be after the expiration of the time allowed for parties to come in to defend such election or return, as hereinbefore provided; and not less than one day's notice of the time and place appointed for choosing such committee shall be given in the votes.

LII. That it shall be lawful for the General Committee of Elections to change the day and hour appointed by them for choosing a select committee to try any election petition, and to appoint some subsequent day and hour for the same, if it shall in their judgment be expedient so to do, giving notice in the votes of the day and hour so subsequently appointed; and in every case in which any such change shall be made by them they shall forthwith report the same to the House, with their reasons for making such change.

LIII. That notice shall be published with the votes of the petitions appointed for each week, and of the panel from which committees will be chosen to try such petitions.

LIV. That in all cases of controverted elections or returns of members to serve in Parliament all the parties complaining of or defending such elections or returns shall, by themselves or their agents, deliver in to the clerk of the General Committee lists of the voters intended to be objected to, giving in the said lists the several heads of objections, and distinguishing the same against the names of the voters excepted to, not later than six of the clock in the afternoon on the sixth day next before the day appointed for choosing the committee to try the petition complaining of such election or return; and the said clerk shall keep the lists so delivered to him in his office, open to the inspection of all parties concerned.

LV. That the General Committee shall meet at the time appointed for choosing the committee to try any election petition, and shall choose from the panel then standing next in order of service, exclusive of the chairmen's panel, four members, not being then excused or disqualified for any of the causes aforesaid, and who shall not be specially disqualified for being appointed on the committee to try such petition for any of the following causes; (that is to say,) by reason of having voted at the election, or by reason of being the party on whose behalf the seat is claimed, or related to the sitting member or party on whose behalf the seat is claimed, by kindred or affinity in the first or second degree according to the canon law; and each panel shall serve for a week, beginning with the panel first drawn and continuing by rotation in the order in which they were drawn, and not reckoning those weeks in which no select committee shall be appointed to be chosen.

LVI. That in case at the least four members then present of the General Committee of Elections shall not agree in choosing a committee to try any petition appointed for that day, the General Committee shall adjourn the choosing of that committee and of the remaining committees appointed to be chosen on that day to the following day, and the parties shall be directed to attend on the following day, or if such following day shall happen during an adjournment of the House then on the day to which the House shall stand adjourned, and so from day to day until all such committees shall be chosen, or until the General Committee of Elections shall be dissolved, as herein before provided; and the General Committee shall not in any case proceed to choose a committee to try an election petition until they shall have chosen a committee to try every other election petition standing higher in the list aforesaid, the order for referring which shall not be then discharged, except in the case where the day originally appointed for choosing a committee shall have been changed under the provision hereinbefore contained.

LVIL. That on the day appointed by the General Committee to choose a committee to try an election petition the members who are upon the chairmen's panel shall select one of such members to act as the chairman of such election committee, and when they shall have been informed by the General Committee that four members of such election committee have been chosen, they shall communicate the name of the member so selected by them to the General Committee, but no member shall be so selected who would be disqualified from serving on such committee if not upon the chairmen's panel: Provided always, that if, with reference to any petition for trying which they are about to appoint a chairman, the members of the chairmen's panel shall receive notice from the Speaker, under the provision hereinbefore contained, of the death or vacancy of the seat of the sitting member petitioned against in such petition, or that it is not his intention to defend his seat, the members of the chairmen's panel shall suspend their proceedings with regard to the appointment of a chairman to try such petition until the day appointed by the General Committee of Elections for selecting a committee to try such petition.

LVIII. That as soon as the General Committee of Elections shall have chosen four members of a committee to try any such petition, and shall have received from the members of the chairmen's panel the name of a chairman to serve on such committee, the parties in attendance shall be called in, and the names of the members so chosen and of the chairman shall be read over to them.

LIX. That after hearing the said names the parties present shall be directed to withdraw, and the General Committee may proceed to choose another committee to try the next petition appointed for that day, and so on until all the committees appointed to be chosen on that day shall be chosen, or until the choosing of any committee shall be adjourned as aforesaid; and after any such adjournment the General Committee shall not transact any more business on that day, except with regard to those petitions for trying which committees shall have been previously chosen.

LX. That within one half hour at furthest from the time when the parties to any election petition shall have withdrawn, or if the parties to any other election petition shall then be before the General Committee of Elections, then after such other parties shall have withdrawn, the parties in attendance shall be again called before the General Committee, in the same order in which they were directed to withdraw; and the petitioners and sitting member or members, or such party as may have been admitted as aforesaid to defend the return or right of election, their counsel or agents, beginning on the part of the petitioners, may object to all or any of the members chosen, or to such chairman, as being then disqualified or excused, for any of the reasons aforesaid, from serving on the committee for the trial of that election petition, but not for any other reason.

LXI. That if at the least four members then present of the General Committee shall be satisfied that any member so objected to is then disqualified or excused for any of the reasons aforesaid, the parties present shall be again directed to withdraw, and the General Committee shall proceed to choose another committee from the same panel to try that petition, or if the member to whom any such objection shall be substantiated be the chairman, they shall send back his name to the members on the chairmen's panel, and the members on the chairmen's panel shall proceed to choose another chairman to try that petition, and shall communicate his name to the General Committee, and so as often as the case may happen.

LXII. That in the second or any following committee the General Committee may, if they shall think fit, include all or any of the members previously chosen by them to whom no objection shall have been substantiated; and no party shall be allowed to object to any member who may be included in the second or any following committee who was not objected to when included in the committee first chosen to try that petition.

LXIII. That when four members and a chairman shall have been chosen, to none of whom any objection shall have been substantiated, the clerk of the General Committee of Elections shall give notice thereof in writing to each of the members so chosen by the General Committee; and with every such notice shall be sent a notice of the general and special grounds of disqualification and excuse from serving which are hereinbefore mentioned, and of the time and place when and where the General Committee will meet on the following day; and notice of the time and place of such meeting shall be published with

the votes.

LXIV. That the General Committee shall meet on the following day at the time and place mentioned in such notice as last aforesaid; and if any such member shall then and there prove, to the satisfaction of at least four members then present of the General Committee, that for any of the reasons aforesaid he is disqualified or excused from serving on the committee for which he shall have been so chosen, or if any such member shall prove, to the satisfaction of at least four members then present of the General Committee, that there are any circumstances in his case which render him ineligible to serve on such select committee, such circumstances having regard not to his own convenience but solely to the impartial character of the tribunal, the General Committee shall proceed to choose a new committee to try that petition, in like manner as if that member had been objected to by any party to the petition; and if within the space of one quarter of an hour after the time mentioned in the notice no member shall so appear, or if any member so appearing shall not prove his disqualification or excuse, to the satisfaction of at least four members then present of the General Committee, the select committee shall be taken to be appointed.

LXV. That at the meeting of the House of Commons for the despatch of business next after any such select committee shall be appointed, the members chosen, including the chairman, shall attend in their places, and the General Committee of Elections shall report to the House the names of the select committee appointed, and shall annex to such report all petitions referred to them by the House which shall relate to the return or election of which such select committee is appointed to try the merits, and all lists of voters which shall have been delivered to them by either party; and the members chosen to be of the said select committee shall not depart the House till the time for the meeting of such select committee shall be fixed.

LXVI. That the five members appointed as hereinbefore is mentioned shall, before departing the House, be sworn at the table, by the clerk, well and truly to try the matter of the petitions referred to them, and a true judgment to give according to the evidence, and shall be taken to be a select committee legally appointed to try and determine the merits of the return or election so referred by the House to them; and the member so appointed from the chairmen's panel shall be the chairman of such committee.

LXVII. That if any member of the said select committee shall not attend in his place within one hour after the meeting of the House on the day appointed for swearing the said committee, or if after attending any member shall depart the House, before the said committee shall be sworn, unless the committee shall be discharged, or the swearing of the said committee shall be adjourned as hereinafter provided, he shall be ordered to be taken into the custody of the serjeant-at-arms attending the House for such neglect of his duty, and shall be otherwise punished or censured, at the discretion of the House, unless it shall appear to the House by facts specially stated, and verified upon oath, that such member was by a sudden accident or by necessity prevented from attending the House.

LXVIII. That if any such absent member shall not be brought into the House within three hours after the meeting of the House on the day first appointed for swearing the said committee, and if no sufficient cause shall be shewn to the House before its rising whereon the House shall dispense with the attendance of such absent member, the swearing of the committee shall be adjourned to the next meeting of the House; and all the members of the said committee shall be bound to attend in their places for the purpose of being sworn at the next meeting of the House, in like manner as on the day first appointed for that

purpose.

LXIX. That if on the day to which the swearing of the said committee shall be so adjourned all the members of the committee shall not attend and be sworn, within one hour after the meeting of the House, or if on the day first appointed for swearing the said committee sufficient cause shall be shewn to the House before its rising why the attendance of any member of the committee should be dispensed with, the said committee shall be taken to be discharged, and the General Committee shall meet on the following day, or if such following day shall happen during an adjournment of the House, then on the day to which the House shall stand adjourned, and shall proceed to choose a new committee from the panel on service for the time being in the manner hereinbefore provided, and notice of such meeting shall be published with the votes.

LXX. That the House shall refer the petitions and lists annexed to the report of the General Committee of Elections to the select committee so appointed and sworn, and shall order the said select committee to meet at a certain time, to be fixed by the House, which shall be within twenty-four hours of their being sworn at the table of the House, unless a Sunday, Christmas Day, or Good Friday shall intervene; and the place of their meeting shall be some convenient room or place adjacent to the House of Commons properly prepared for that purpose.

LXXI. That every such select committee shall sit from day to day, Sunday, Christmas Day, and Good Friday only excepted, and shall never adjourn for a longer time than twenty-four hours, unless a Sunday, Christmas Day, or Good Friday intervene, and in such case not for more than twenty-four hours, exclusive of such Sunday, Christmas Day, or Good Friday, without leave first obtained from the House, upon motion, and special cause assigned for a longer adjournment; and in case the House shall be sitting at the time to which such select committee is adjourned, then the business of the House shall be stayed, and a motion shall be made for a further adjournment for any time to be fixed by the House: Provided always, that if such select committee shall have occasion to apply or report to the House, and the House shall be then adjourned for more than twentyfour hours, such select committee may also adjourn to the day appointed for the meeting of the House.

LXXII. That no member appointed as aforesaid to be of any such select committee shall absent himself from the same without leave obtained from the House, or an excuse allowed by the House at the next sitting thereof, for the cause of sickness, verified upon the oath of his medical attendant, or for other special cause shewn, and verified upon oath; and in every such case the member to whom such leave shall be granted or excuse allowed shall be discharged from attending, and shall not be entitled again to sit or vote on the said committee; and such select committee shall never sit until all the members to whom such leave has not been granted, nor excuse allowed, are met; and in case all such members shall not meet within one hour after the time appointed for the first meeting of such select committee, or within one hour after the time to which such select committee shall have been adjourned, a further adjournment shall be made, and reported by their chairman, with the cause thereof, to the House.

LXXIII. That every member whose absence without leave or excuse shall be so reported shall be directed to attend the House at its next sitting, and shall then be ordered to be taken into the custody of the serjeant-at-arms attending the House for such neglect of his duty, and shall be otherwise punished or censured, at the discretion of the House, unless it shall appear to the House, by facts specially stated, and verified upon oath, that such member was by a sudden accident or by necessity prevented from attending the said select committee.

LXXIV. That the committee shall not be dissolved by reason of the death or necessary absence of one member or two members thereof only, but the remaining members shall thenceforward constitute the committee; and in case there shall ever be occasion for electing a new chairman on the death or necessary absence of the chairman first appointed, the remaining members of the committee shall elect one of themselves to be chairman, and if in that election there shall be an equal number of voices, the member whose name stands foremost in the list of the committee, as reported to the House, shall have a second or casting vote.

LXXV. That in case the number of members able to attend any such select committee shall be, by death or otherwise, unavoidably reduced to less than three, and shall so continue for the space of three sitting days, such select committee shall be dissolved (except in the case hereinafter provided), and another shall be appointed to try such petition in manner aforesaid; and the General Committee and members of the chairmen's panel shall meet for that purpose as soon as conveniently may be after the occasion shall have arisen, at a day and hour to be appointed by the General Committee, and notice of such meeting shall be published with the votes; and all the proceedings of such former committee shall be void and of no effect: Provided always, that if all the parties before the committee shall consent thereto the two remaining members of the committee, or the sole remaining member if only one, shall continue to act, and shall thenceforward constitute the committee. LXXVI. That every such committee shall be attended by a person skilled in the art of writing shorthand, who shall be specially appointed by the clerk of the House of Commons for the time being, and sworn by the chairman faithfully and truly to take down the evidence given before such committee, and from day to day, as occasion may require, to write or cause the same to be written in words at length for the use of the committee.

LXXVII. That every such select committee shall have power to send for persons, papers, and records, and to examine any person who may have subscribed the petition which such select committee shall have been appointed to try, unless it shall otherwise appear to such committee that such person is an interested witness, and shall examine all the witnesses who come before them upon oath, which oath the clerk attending such select committee is hereby empowered to administer; and if any person summoned by such select committee, or by the warrant of the Speaker of the House of Commons (which warrants the Speaker is hereby authorized to issue from time to time as he shall think fit), shall disobey such summons, or if any witness before such select committee shall give false evidence, or prevaricate, or shall otherwise misbehave in giving or refusing to give evidence, the chairman of such select committee, by their direction, may at any time during the course of their proceedings report the same to the House for the interposition of the authority or censure of the House, as the case may require, and may, by a warrant under his hand directed to the serjeant-at-arms attending the House of Commons, or to his deputy or deputies, commit such person (not being a peer of the realm or lord of Parliament) to the custody of the said serjeant, without bail or mainprize, for any time not exceeding twenty-four hours, if the House shall then be sitting, and if not, then for a time not exceeding twenty-four hours after the hour to which the House shall then be adjourned.

LXXVIII. That where in this Act anything is required to be verified on oath to the House of Commons, it shall be lawful for the clerk of the House of Commons to administer an oath for that purpose, or an affidavit for such purpose may lawfully be sworn before any Justice of the Peace or Master of the High Court of Chancery.

LXXIX. That every person who shall wilfully give any false evidence before the House of Commons, or any committee or examiner of recognizances, under the provisions of this Act, or who shall wilfully swear falsely in any affidavit authorized by this Act to be taken, shall, on conviction thereof, be liable to the penalties of wilful and corrupt perjury.

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