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36. Whereany—person, being a trustee, having: been
charged with any of the duties aforesaid, shall obtain such
certificate as aforesaid, for the purpose of enabli 3g the
person beneficially entitled to be registered as a voter in
respect of the said duties so charged, or so much of the
amount so charged as such trustee would be enti tied to
deduct out of the moneys payable to such person, such
trustee shall make and sign a declaration in the form num-
bered (3) in the said schedule (E.), setting forth the 'Christian
name and surname, place of abode, and rank, calling, or oc-
cupation of the person so beneficially entitled, and in the
actual receipt and enjoyment of the profits in respect of
which such duties shall have been charged, or of a certain
specified portion thereof, and declaring that the duty men-
tioned in the said certificate as being charged upon. the
declarant in respect thereof, or a certain portion of such
duty to the amount of Arty shillings at the least, is in fact
a charge borne and paid by the person so declared to be be-
neficially entitled, and such declaration shall be endors(ad
upon the certificate to which the same refers; and in cave
such person so beneficially entitled shall be using such cer-
tificate and declaration as evidence, there shall be subjoined
to such last-mentioned-declaration a notice in the form num-
bered (4) in the said schedule (E.), made and signed by the
party so declared to be beneficially entitled as aforesaid,
that he claims by virtue of such charge of duty as in the
said declaration is mentioned to be entitled to vote at any
election of a knight or knights of the shire to serve in Par-
liament for a county, or riding, parts, or division of a
county, or to vote at any election of a Member or Members
to serve in Parliament for a city or borough, specifying
such county, riding, parts, or division, or such city or
borough, as the case may be; and such certificate, declara-
tion, and claim as aforesaid, being delivered to the overseers,
or one of the overseers of the poor of the parish or place
where such claimant shall claim to be registered as entitled ,
to vote as aforesaid, shall be kept by such overseers, and the
same shall on all occasions touching the right or title of such
claimant to be so registered or to vote at any election be re-
ceived and admitted as evidence that such claimant is
charged with such duty as aforesaid to the amount and in
manner in the said certificate and declaration specified.
PERSONS CLAIMING EXEMPTION NOT TO BE ENTITLED TO BE
REGISTERED, ,AND PERSONS REGISTERED NOT TO BE EN-
TITLED TO EXEMPTION.'
37. No person shall be entitled to be registered as a voter
under this Act in respect of the charge of any duties which
he shall have been repaid, or of which he shall have claimed
repayment on the ground of exemption ; and no person
haring been registered or having claimed to be registered as
a voter under this Act in respect of the charge of any duties,
shall be entitled to exemption from such duties, or to ;any
repayment, on the ground of such exemption.
THE PROVISIONS OF 6 VICT., C. 18, TO BE APPLICABLE FOR
THE PURPOSES OF THIS ACT.

38. The provisions of the said Act of the sixth year of her
Majesty, as amended by this Act, shall be applicable for the
registration of persons entitled to vote, and to the rights
of voting under this Act, and to the proceedings in elections
of Members to serve in Parliament for the boroughs hereby
empowered to return Members, and for the boroughs in the
elections for which places shall be entitled to share under
this Act, in like manner as such provisions are now appli-
cable for the registration of persons entitled to vote, to rights
of voting, and to proceedings in the election of Members to
serve in Parliament.
ALL ELECTION LAWS TO REMAIN IN FORCE EXCEPT WHERE
SUPERSEDED BY THIS ACT.

39. All laws, statutes, usages, provisions, and penalties
now in force respecting the election of Members to serve in
Parliament for England and Wales, not hereby repealed, shall
be and remain and are hereby declared to be and remain in
full force, and shall apply as well to the election of Members
to serve in Parliament for the boroughs hereby empowered
to return Members as to the election of Members to serve in
Parliament for counties and ridings, parts, and divisions of
counties, and cities and boroughs, now returning Members
to serve in Parliament, except so far as the same are incon-
sistent with the provisions of this Act.
wafts, ETC., TO BE MADE CONFORMABLE TO THIS ACT.
40. All writs to be issued for the election of Members to
serve in Parliament, and all mandates, precepts, instru-

....... ,
ments, proceedings, and notices consequent open such writs,
shall be framed and expressed in such manner and form as
may be necessary for the carrying the provisions of this Oct
ih to effect.
THIS ACT NOT TO EXTEND TO UNIVERSITIES OF OXFORD

AND CAMBRIDGE.

41. Provided always, that nothing in this Act contained
shall entitle any person to vote in the election of Members
to serve in Parliament for 'the city of Oxford or town of
Cambridge in respect of the occupation of any chambers or
premises in any of the colleges or halls of the Universities of
Oxford or Cambridge, or shall entitle any person residing
in any of such colleges or halls to vote in the election of
Members for such city or town in respect of any charge
of duties.

OATHS TO BE TAKEN BY MEMBERS OF THE HOUSE OF COM.

MONS INSTEAD OF THE OATHS OF ALLEGIANCE, SUPRE.

MACY, AND ABJURATION.

42. From and after the thirtieth day of November, one
thousand eight hundred and fifty-two, where the oaths of
allegiance, supremacy, and abjuration, or the oath appointed
by the Act of the tenth year of King George the Fourth,
chapter seven, are or is now by law required to be taken and
subscribed respectively by a Member of the House of Com-
mcns as a qualifioation for sitting and voting in Parliament,
the following oath shall be taken and subscribed instead

thereof:—
" I, A. 8., do sincerely promise and swear, that I will be
faithful and bear true allegiance to her Majesty Queen
Victoria, and will defend her to the utmost of my power
against all conspiracies and attempts whatever which shall
be made against her person, Crown, or dignity; and I will do

my utmost endeavour to disclose and make known to her

Majesty, her heirs and successors, all treasons and traitorous

conspiracies which may be formed against her or them; and
I do faithfully promise to maintain, support, and defend to
the utmost of my power the succession of the Crown, which
succession, by an Act intituled An Act for the further limi-

,ation of the Crown, and better securing the rights and

liberties of the subjects' is and stands limited to the Princess

Sophia, Electress of Hanover, and the heirs of her-body,
being Protestants; hereby utterly renouncing and abjuring
any obedience or allegiance unto any other person claiming
or pretending a right to the Crown of this realm; and I do
further declare, that it is not an article of my faith, and that
I do renounce, reject, and abjure, the opinion that Princes
excommunicated or deprived by the Pope, or any other
authority of the See of Rome may be deposed by their sub-
jects or by any person whatsoever; and I do declare that I
do not believe that the Pope of Rome, or any other foreign
Prince, Prelate, Person, State, or Potentate, bath or ought to
have any temporal or civil jurisdiction, power, superiority, or
pre-eminence, directly or indirectly, within this realm; and I
do solemnly, in the presence of God, profess, testify, and de-
clare, that I do make this declaration and every part thereof
in the plain and ordinary sense of the words of this oath,
without any evasion, equivocation, or mental reservation

whatsoever. " So help me God."
NAME OF THE SOVEREIGN FOR THE TIME BEING TO

BS USED IN THE OATII.

43. Whenever in the oath hereby appointed and set forth
the name of her present Mr jesty is expressed or referred to,
the name of the Sovereign of this kingdom for the time being,
by virtue of the Act for the Further Limitation of the Crown,
and better securing the Rights and Liberties of the subject,
shall be substituted from time to time, with proper words of
reference thereto.

NO MEMBER CAPABLE OF SITTING OF VOTING UNTIL lIE

HAS TAKEN THE OATH.

44. From and after the said thirteenth day of No.vember no
Member of the House of Commons shall be capable of sitting
or voting in Parliament, unless he shall first solemnly and
publicly take and subscribe the oath hereby appointed before
the same persons and at the same times and places as the oaths
now required by law are respectively directed to be taken and
subscribed; and any person who shall sit and vote in Parlia-
ment as a Member of the House of Commons without having
first taken and subscribed in manner aforesaid the oath by
this Act appointed, shall be subject to the same penalties, for-
feitures, and disabilities, and the offence of so sitting or
voting shall be followed and attended by and with the same
consequences as are by law enacted and provided in the case
of a person sitting or voting in Parliament without taking
and subscribing the oaths now required by law; provided
always that no Member of the House of Commons, having
before the said thirtieth day of November taken the oaths of
allegiance, supremacy, and abjuration, or the oath appointed
by the said Act of the tenth year of King George the Fourth
as a qualification for sitting and voting as aforesaid, shall be,
required to take and subscribe the oath hereby appointed,
unless and until he would be by law required to take the
said oaths of allegiance, supremacy, and abjuration, or the
oath appointed by the said Act of the tenth year of King
George the Fourth, in case this Act had not been passed.
FORM OF AFFIRMATION FOR QUAKERS, &C.
45. Provided also, that ever.), person of the persuasion of
the people called Quakers, and every other person by law
permitted to make his solemn affirmation or declaration in-
stead of taking an oath, may, instead of taking and sub-
scribing the oath hereby appointed, make and subscribe
a solemn affirmation in the form of oath hereby appointed,
substituting the words " declare and affirm" for the word
" swear," and the word " affirmation" for the word " oath,
and omitting the words " So help me God."
ENACTMENTS CONCERNING PROPERTY QUALIFICATION OF
MEMBERS FOR ENGLAND AND IRELAND REPEALED.
46. And whereas by the several Acts and parts of Acts
hereinafter mentioned provisions have been made for re-
quiring, on the part of Members of the House of Commons
elected for England and Ireland, respectively, certain quali-
cations in respect of property; and whereas it is expedient
that the said provisions should be repealed :
The several Acts and parts of Acts hereinafter mentioned,
that is to say, an Act of the ninth year of the reign of Queen
Anne, intituled "An Act for securing the Freedomo.nl ar-
liament by the farther Qualifying the Members to sitofthe
House of Commons ;" an Act of the thirty-thir year. the
A
reign of King George the Second, intituled An ot to
enforce andrender more Effectual the Laws relating tolthe
Qualification of Members to sit in the House of Commons ;"
an Act of the fifty-ninth year of the reign of King George
the Third, intituled " An Act for farther regulating the
Qualification of Members to serve
and the
United Parliament
of Great Britain and Ireland; and an Act of the session of
Parliament holden in the first and second years of the reign of
her present Majesty, intituled "An Act to amend the Laws
relating to the Qualification of Members to serve in
Parliament ;" and so much of ap Act cf Parliament of Eng-
land, and of an Act of Parliament of Ireland, respectively
passed in the fortieth year of Kingf George the Third, and
iAd
ecst
thator ?bee
GreatqUunailninficanftioi.
respectively intituled,
"pAronv
Britain and Ireland," as
Ireland t the property of Members elected on the p qualifications
in
Ireland to sit in the House of Commons of the United
Kingdom shall be respectively the same as were h
in that
provided by law in the cases of elections toracrotuntiestanedn
cities and boroughs respectively
of Great
Britain called England, unless any other prro)v* • should
thereafter be made in that respect by Act of Parliamentlsi° of
the',United Kingdom ;Lnid so much:of an Act of the forty-first
year of the reign of King George the Third, intituled " An
Act for regulating until the first,. day of May, one thousand
eight huAdrid and kw°l L toil et C9ntroverted Election)

and declaration as aforesaid, being delivered to tho over-
seers or one of the overseers of the poor of the parish or
place where the person certified to be so charged shall claim
to be registered to vote as aforesaid, shall be kept by such
overseers, and the same shall on all occasions touching the
right or title of such claimant to be registered or te vote at
any election be received and admitted as evidence of such
charge of duty.
DECLARATION TO BE MADE EY TRUSTEES.