taken twelve peace held twelve months at the least previous to the said Oath to be test, in the county, town, or city where his freehold arises, months before take and subscribe the following oath, or if a quaker, the test. following affirmation : or the town or city of in the county of [as the case may be] do swear, [or if a quaker, affirm,] that I am a freeholder of the county of on the lands of day , and that I have a freehold therein of the clear yearly 6 35. AND be it further enacted, That every oath or affir- Oaths read in mation made and subscribed at any sessions of the peace and delivered court, signed as aforesaid, shall be read aloud in open court, and be to c. of peace. signed by two of the justices presiding there, and shall be then delivered by the court to the clerk of the peace, to be filed and kept amongst the records of the county, town, or city. 6 take oath as assizes, &c. sessions, &c. taken at ses sions. See 37 G. 3. c. 47. s. 1, 2. 36. PROVIDED always, and be it further enacted, That Where 50%, where the freehold, whether consisting of a rent-charge or freeholders not, shall be of the clear yearly value of fifty pounds, and herein, in the freeholder who shall be seised of the same shall take Dublin, or at and subscribe the oath or affirmation [as the case may be] such may be respectively required as aforesaid, to be by him taken for produced at registering the said freehold, with the words fifty pounds' and shall be inserted therein, in place of the words forty shillings,' as good as if or twenty pounds,' in any of the courts of king's bench, common pleas, or exchequer, in the city of Dublin, or at any assizes, and the same shall be subscribed by one of the judges of such courts, or the judge of assize, such oath or affirmation so subscribed may be produced at any sessions of the peace as aforesaid, held in the county, town, or city where such freehold lies, and when read aloud there in open court, shall be signed by two of the justices presiding there, and shall then be delivered by the court to the acting clerk of the peace, to be filed and kept amongst the records of such county, town, or city; and every such oath or affirmation so taken, shall be of equal effect for registering such freehold within the meaning of this act, as if it had been made at the sessions of the peace as aforesaid. 37. PROVIDED also, That in all cases where the person 308. instead of intending to register his freehold shall desire to insert in 40s. to be inserted, at dethe oath or affirmation before he takes and subscribes the sire of freesame, either at a sessions, or in any of the courts before- holder ; upon such being rementioned in the city of Dublin, or at any assizes, the gistered, he words 'fifty pounds,' in the place of forty shillings,' or may vote, although not ، twenty pounds,' the said words shall be inserted therein; within eight and upon his freehold being registered, in consequence of years. 6 disposed of a his taking such oath, or making such affirmation, such registry shall be deemed a sufficient registry to enable him to vote, although it shall not have been made within eight years previous to the test of the writ for holding the election at which he shall offer to vote : None preclud- 38. PROVIDED always, That no person shall be precluded ed who have from voting by virtue of any freehold, on account of having part, if they sold, aliened, or disposed of any part of the freehold he retain as much shall have registered, between the date of such registry as sworn to. and the day he shall offer his vote, if he shall have retained thereof to the annual value sworn in such registry : Rent-charges by descent, within nine months, may 39. PROVIDED also, That no person shall be precluded &c. within' 15 from voting by virtue of a freehold, on account of its not months, others being registered pursuant to the provisions of this act, if it consists of a rent-charge, and shall have come to him by descent, devise, marriage, or marriage-settlement, within fifteen months previous to the test of the writ for holding the election at which he shall offer to vote, or if it does not consist of a rent-charge, and shall have come to him in like manner within nine months previous to such test: vote though not registered. See 37 Geo. 3. c. 47, s. 4. Clergymen register eccle 40. PROVIDED also, That no rector, vicar, or curate shall not obliged to be obliged to register his freehold, arising from his rectory, siastical free- vicarage, curacy, or other ecclesiastical preferment, or be precluded from voting at any election, on account of his not having registered the same. holds. Clerks of peace to give containing as 41. AND be it further enacted, That every clerk of the certificates to peace shall give to every person immediately on the registry freeholders, of his freehold, if he shall demand it, a certificate signed herein, penal- by himself, certifying such person having duly registered ty 51. Free- the same, and reciting his oath or affirmation exactly holder to pay therein, under a penalty of five pounds for every neglect 3d. Clerk to enter a book; or refusal, for which certificate he shall be paid by such freeholder the sum of three pence; and every such certificate, when signed in open court by two justices, and countersigned by the acting clerk of the peace, shall be and is hereby declared to be of equal authenticity with the original oath or affirmation, in case the same shall be lost or mislaid. 42. AND be it further enacted, That the acting clerk of freeholders in the peace shall, during every sessions, enter into a book, in alphabetical order, according to the surnames of the persons registered, the substance of every such oath or affirmation, delivered to him in the form following: a book for And he shall in every county likewise enter the same in the like in like alphabetical order, and form into separate books, one every county, for each barony or half barony, according to the barony or each barony or half barony in which such freehold shall be sworn or with which he half barony, affirmed to lie, which books he shall attend with at every shall attend at elections and swear to, election for a knight or knights of the shire, and deliver in for knight of court to the sheriff previous to the commencement of the the shire. Clerk to give copies of re gistries to requesting, at 3d. per 100 names. poll, making oath at the same time, before a justice of the peace, that all the entries in the said books are truly and exactly made, according to the directions of this act. 43. AND be it further enacted, That every clerk of the peace shall, from time to time, within ten days after every treasurer in 10 sessions, deliver to the treasurer of the county a true copy days after, copies of which of every entry of registry by him made at such sessions, are to be given which copy shall be kept by the said treasurer amongst the to freeholders accounts of the said county, and that at the request of any freeholder of said county to the clerk of the peace or treasurer, the said clerk of the peace or treasurer shall, within ten days from such request, deliver to such person a true copy of the registry of all the freeholders which shall have been registered in such county at the time of such request being made, on receiving a sum at the rate of three-pence for every hundred persons' names contained in said copy. Clerk of peace 44. AND be it further enacted, That if any clerk of the neglecting to do as herein, peace shall omit, or neglect to keep, any of the books hereforfeit 1007. & by required, or to make due entries therein, in the order disqualified; for neglecting and form required, or to file any oath and affirmation delivered to him to be filed, and to preserve the same free from erasure, blot, interlineation, or damage, or shall omit to give the copies hereby required within the time limited to the treasurer of the county, he shall, for every such of fence, forfeit the sum of one hundred pounds, and be incapable of serving as clerk of the peace for any county, and if he shall neglect or refuse to attend at any sessions whereat freeholders may be registered by virtue of this act, or shall omit to give copies of the registry or any poll-book lodged with him, within a reasonable time after demand, he shall forfeit, for every such offence, the sum of fifty pounds to any person suing for the same. to attend at sessions, &c. 501. What adjournment of quarter sessions ed for the pur tering freeholders.. 45. AND for the greater ease of registering freeholders, be it enacted, That the general or quarter sessions may be shall be deem- adjourned from time to time, to be held either at any usual pose of regis- place of sessions, or at any market-town within the county, and that every such sessions, and every such adjournment thereof, or adjournment of any adjournment, shall be deemed a sessions within the meaning of this act, for the purpose of registering freeholders, but that no special sessions held for any purpose of the militia, or for licensing persons to sell ale, beer, or spirituous liquors, shall be deemed a sessions within the meaning of this act, for the purpose of registering freeholders. Oaths to be 46. AND be it further enacted, That every person who taken by rent chargers and shall offer to vote as a freeholder, shall, before he shall be freeholders, if admitted to poll at any election, declare whether his freerequired, before they poll. hold arises from a rent-charge or not; and if it arises from a rent-charge, he shall, before he be admitted to poll, take the oath hereafter following, entitled, "The rent-charger's oath," if required so to do by any elector; and if his freehold does not arise from a rent-charge, he shall, if so re quired by any elector, before he be admitted to poll, take one or other of the oaths hereafter following, entitled, "The freeholder's oath," in every which oath the sum of forty shillings, or twenty pounds, or fifty pounds, shall be inserted, according as the same shall have been entered in the oath for the registry of the freehold. Freeholder's oath, where the freehold is registered under the yearly value of twenty pounds. of oath, where , under 20/. 'I in the county of Freeholder's [or] of the town or city of [as the case may be,] do swear, [or if a quaker, affirm,] that I am a freeholder of this county, and that I have a freehold therein arising from a house, or houses, land, or both, or other hereditaments, [as the case may be,] of the clear yearly value of forty shillings at the least, above all charges payable out of the same, lying and being at [naming the parish or parishes, the town-land or town-lands, Freeholder's oath, where the freehold is registered of or above twenty pounds yearly value. in the county of Freeholder's [as the , or of the town or city of case may be,] do swear, [or if a quaker, affirm,] that I am a freeholder of this county, and that I have a freehold therein of the clear yearly value of twenty pounds, or fifty pounds, (as stated in his oath of registry) above all charges payable out of the same, lying and being at [naming the parish or parishes, town-land or town-lands, and barony or half-barony, baronies or half-baronies, as stated in his oath of registry,] in this county, and that the said freehold does not arise from a rent-charge, and that I have not been polled before at this election.' oath for above 201. Rent-charg. in the county of er's oath[as the or of the town or city of case may be,] do swear, [or if a quaker, affirm,] that I am a |