from the privy council, and that it may be highly important that such persons as have been or shall be secured and detained under such warrants, should be kept wholly separate from each other, so as to prevent all communication between them, and with other persons, except such communications as his majesty may think fit to permit, and under such restrictions as may be advisable; and that doubts may arise how far the powers of the principal secretaries of state, to change the places of confinement of persons so committed,extend, &c.; and therefore enacts and declares, that it shall be lawful for one of the principal secretaries of state, as he shall see occasion, to order any person committed to any gaol or other prison on any charge of high treason, suspicion of high treason, or treasonable practices, either before or after indictment found, to be conveyed to and detained in any other gaol, &c. until discharged by due course of law, and to issue all warrants necessary for such purposes: provided that no person who shall be re- Such removal moved by any such warrant, shall be, by means of such not to prejudice removal, deprived of such right to be tried or discharg- tried or dischar ed as such person would be entitled to, if not so remov- ged. ed; and in every case in which any such person would have been entitled to have been tried or discharged, if such person had continued in the prison to which he was before committed, it shall be lawful for such person to apply to be bailed or discharged, in the same manner as if such person had remained in the prison, &c. to which he was before committed. By s. 7. this act shall continue in Act in force till force until 1 March 1818.

The 57 Geo. 3. c. 19. G. B. which imposes certain restraints upon assemblies of persons collected for the purpose, or under the pretext of deliberating on public grievances, and of agreeing on petitions, complaints, remonstrances, declarations, or other addresses to the king, or prince regent, or both houses, or either house of parliament, may be considered as a temporary suspension of the right of petitioning for redress of grievances, which is one of the absolute rights of individuals. But this statute, as well as those framed for the preserving and restoring of peace

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their right to be

s. 7.

1 March 1818,

peace in such parts of Ireland as may at any time be disturbed by seditious persons, or by persons entering into unlawful combinations or conspiracies, (54 Geo. 3.c. 186. I. and 57 Geo. 3. c. 50. I.) and for the preventing improper persons from having arms in Ireland, (57 Geo. 3. c. 21. I. which continues the 47 Geo. 3. st. 2. c. 54. I.) appear to belong more properly to the head" of offences against the public peace," and are therefore reserved for another part of this supplement.

Devises by will for splitting

votes void.

E.

Of the Parliament.

P. 26. l. 7. The 7 & 8 W. 3. c. 25. Eng. as far as re

lates to the splitting and dividing the interest in houses

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and lands among several persons, to enable them to vote 53 Geo.3.c.49. at elections of members to serve in parliament, is explained and amended by the 53 Geo. 3. c. 49. E. which declares and enacts, that all devises by will, made in such cases and for such purposes as by said act (7 & 8 W. 3..c. 25.) are described,shall be taken to be conveyances within the meaning of said act: provided that this act shall not revoke or defeat any part of any will, other than the devise made void by this act. And provided also (s. 2.) that this act shall not affect any devise made by any testator, &c. whose death took place 20 years before the passing of this act, (21st May 1813.)

s. 2.

Proviso.

Certain free

P. 33. l. 33. The law in respect to the registry of freeholders under holds under £20. yearly value, as regulated by the 35 Geo.3. £20. subject

entitled to

only to crown c. 29. Ir. and 45 Geo. 3. c. 59. I. is amended by the or quit rents, 57 Geo. 3. c. 131. I. which recites, that it is expedient that persons having freeholds under the yearly value of £20. occupying free- and subject only to crown or quit rent, or arising from fee farm grants, or under a lease or leases for ever, or for

register and

vote, though not

holds.

57 Geo. 5.c.11. s. 21. I.

lives

* This act by the 37th section confirms and re-enacts all former election acts concerning Ireland, not heretofore repealed, except as herein amended or altered,

8. 22.

s. 23.

lives renewable for ever, should have the power of voting at elections for members of parliament, although they should not reside thereon, or occupy such freeholds by tilling or grazing, to the amount of 40s. yearly value thereof; and therefore enacts, that it shall be lawful for persons having freeholds under £20. yearly value, not consisting of a rent-charge, and liable only to crown or quit rents, to register the same in like manner as is provided for persons having freeholds of the yearly value of £20. by the 37 Geo. 3. c. 47. Ir. And by s. 22. such person so registering his freehold, shall insert in the oath of registry, the Form of oath for words "forty shillings" instead of the words "twenty upon registersuch freeholders "pounds" or "fifty pounds;" and shall add the following ing. words," and that the said freehold does not consist of a "rent-charge, and that it is liable to no rent, except "crown or quit rent" or "that it arises from a fee farm "grant" or "that I hold it under a lease (or leases) for "lives renewable for ever," as the case may be. And by s. 23. (which refers to the 37 Geo. 3. c. 47. s. 5. Ir. vide P. 85. 1. 27) every person who shall offer to vote by virtue Form of oaths of a freehold under the yearly value of £20. and holding holders at pollfor such freethe same subject only to crown or quit rents, before. he be ing admitted to poll, shall make the same affirmations, and take the same oaths, as are now provided for persons having freeholds of the value of £20: provided that such person shall, in such oaths, make the same alterations and additions as are herein set forth in the oath of registry for such persons. And the oath prescribed by the 37 Geo. 3. c. 47. s. 1. Ir. for persons seised of freeholds not consisting of rent-charges, who shall desire to register them as being of the value of £50. or £20. is altered by this statute 57 Geo. 3. c. 131. I. which enacts (s. 19.) that it shall be lawful for any person who shall desire to register such In registering freehold, to omit in the oath, or affirmation, the name of freeholds of £20 the parish or parishes in which said freehold may be si- name of parish tuated, and to name therein the townland or townlands, or other denomination, by which the place is generally known, wherein the said freehold may be situated.

s. 19.

or £50. value,

may be omitted.

P. 37. l. 33. The 57 Geo. 3. c. 131. s. 24. I. recites the Chief magistrates in cities, provision of the 35 Geo. 3. c. 29. Ir. and 45 Geo. 3. c. 59. I. &c. shall con

ded, to give free

general quarter which requires that every oath or affirmation made and session, for one day, after other subscribed at any session of the peace for registry of any business conclu- freehold, shall be read aloud in open court, and signed by holders an op- two of the justices presiding therein; and further recites, portunity of re- that the number of the justices who are empowered to act 57 Geo.3.c.131. within several of the counties of cities and counties of

gistering.

S. 24. I.

Chief magis

trate or deputy to sit between

that purpose.

towns in Ireland, agreeable to the charters thereof, is extremely limited in amount, and often confined, in a great degree, to those who from age and infirmity are incapacitated for active performance of duty; and that it is necessary to provide against any consequent inconvenience or delay of persons possessed of freehold property, who wish duly to register such freeholds; and therefore enacts, that in all counties of citics and counties of towns in Ireland, the mayor or other chief magistrate, or his sufficient deputy appointed by him pursuant to charter, in case of his 10 o'clock and illness or absence from such city, &c. shall continue to 4 o'clock for hold each general quarter session of the peace for one entire day after the criminal and other business of every such session has been fully transacted, commencing his sitting at ten in the forenoon, for the purpose of registering all such freeholders as present themselves for the purpose, in such manner as now required by law; and the said mayor* shall continue his sitting until the hour of four in the afternoon, and administer all the oaths, and sign all certificates which are now required to render the registry of such freeSignature of holds valid; and the signature of such chief magistrate or chief magis trates sufficient his deputy shall be, of itself, a sufficient attestation of such allestation of registry, in place of the signatures of two magistrates as now required by law, and shall be then and there delivered by such mayor, * or his deputy,to the clerk of the peace, to be filed and kept among the records of the conrt. And by s. 25. if such mayor, &c. shall by himself, or his sufficient deputy, neglect or wilfully omit to hold any such session, or to admit to register their freeholds thereat, such persons, duly qualified, as shall present themselves for that purpose to the said mayor, &c. such mayor or chief magistrate so offending

registry.

s. 25. Penalty on mayor, &c. and

on clerk of the

peace for neglect of duty.

used.

"Chief magistrate or his deputy," should it seems have been here

offending shall forfeit £100, for every such neglect of duty; and if the clerk of the peace, or his sufficient deputy, shall neglect or omit to attend at such session of the peace, and then and there to do all acts now required of him by law for the registry of freeholders, such clerk of the peace shall forfeit 450; such penalties to be recovered by information in any court of record in Dublin, one moiety thereof to the king, and the other to him who shall sue for the same.

gent, or queen,

P. 55. l. 37. The 51 Geo. 3. c. 1. U. K. provides (s. 25.) Accepting of of 'fice of profit unthat if any person being a member of the house of com- der rince remons, shall accept any office of profit from the crown, by vacates seat. the nomination and appointment of the prince regent, (in 51 Geo. 3.c. 1. the name and on behalf of his majesty) or of her majesty s. 25. U. K. the queen, during the continuance of the regency hereby established, the election of such member shall be void, and a new writ shall issue for a new election, as if such person had been appointed to such office by his majesty.

lieutenants, &c.

to be vacated.

P. 60. 1. 2. It is provided by the 54 Geo. 3. c. 16. U.K. Seats of persons continuing in which explains the 41 Geo. 3. c. 52. s. 5. that if any offices under person being a member of the house of commons, be- succeeding lord fore or after the passing of this act (6 December, 1813,) of Ireland, not who shall have accepted of any office of profit, on the no- 54 Geo. 5. c.16. mination or appointment, or by any other appointment sub- u. K. ject to the approbation of any lord lieutenant, &c. or other chief governor of Ireland, shall have remained in, or shall remain in, or shall have accepted or re-accepted, or shall accept or re-accept the same office by the nomination or appointment, or by any appointment subject to the approbation of any successor to the lord lieutenant, &c. by whom such person was previously nominated, appointed, or approved, or re-appointed or continued, the seat of such person shall not thereupon become vacant, nor shall any writ issue for a new election. Provided (s. 2.) that nothing in this act shall extend to any person but such as To what persons shall have been or shall have continued and remained, or tend. shall be, or shall continue and remain, in any such office, at the time of the decease, removal, or absence of the lord lieutenant, &c. of Ireland, by whom such person was nominated, &c. or re-appointed, &c.

6.2.

this act shall ex