ply the place so vacant. And be it enacted, that of the one hundred commoners to fit on the part of Ireland in the united parliament, fixty-four shall be chofen for the counties, and thirty-fix for the following cities and boroughs, viz. for each county of Ireland two; for the city of Dublin two; for the city of Cork two; for the College of the Holy Trinity of Dublin one; for the city of Waterford one; for the city of Limerick one; for the borough of Belfast one; for the county and town of Drogheda one; for the county and town of Carrickfergus one; for the borough of Newry one; for the city of Kilkenny one; for the city of Londonderry one; for the town of Galway one; for the borough of Clonmell one; for the town of Wexford one; for the town of Youghall one; for the town of Bandon Bridge one; for the borough of Armagh one; for the borough of Dundalk one; for the town of Kinfale one; for the borough of Lisburne one; for the borough of Sligo one; for the borough of Catherlough one; for the borough of Ennis one; for the borough of Dungarvan one; for the borough of Downpatrick one; for the borough of Colraine one; for the town of Mallow one; for the borough of Athlone one; for the town of New Rofs one; for the borough of Tralee one; for the eity of Cashel one; for the borough of Dungannon one; for the borough of Portarlington one; for the borough of Enniskillen one. And be it enacted, that in cafe of the fummoning of a new parliament, or if the feat of any of the faid commoners fhall become vacant by death or otherwife, then the faid counties, cities, or boroughs, or any of them, as the cafe may be, fhall proceed to a new election; and that all the other towns, cities, corporations, or boroughs, other than the aforefaid, shall ceafe to elect representatives to serve in parliament; and no meeting fhall at any time hereafter be fummoned, called, convened, or held, for the purpose of electing any perfon or persons to serve or act, or be confidered as representative or reprfeentatives of any other place, town, city, corporation, or borough, other than the aforefaid, or as representative or representatives of the freemen, freeholders, householders, or inhabitants thereof, either in the parliament of the united kingdom or elsewhere, (unless it shall hereafter be otherwise provided by the parliament of the united kingdom;) and every perfon fummoning, calling, or holding

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any fuch meeting or affembly, or taking any part in fuch election or pretended election, shall, being thereof duly convicted, incur and suffer the pains and penalties ordained and provided by the statute of provifion and præmunire, made in the fixteenth year of the reign of Richard the Second. For the due election of the perfons to be chofen to fit in the respective houfes of parliament of the united kingdom on the part of Ireland, be it enacted, that on the day following that on which the act for establishing the Union shall have received the royal affent, the primate of all Ireland, the Lord Bishop of Meath, the Lord Bishop of Kildare, and the lord bishop of Derry, shall be, and they are hereby declared to be the representatives of the lords fpiritual of Ireland in the parliament of the united kingdom, for the firft feffion thereof; and that the temporal peers of Ireland fhall affemble at twelve of the clock on the fame day as aforefaid, in the now accustomed place of meeting of the house of Lords of Ireland, and fhall then and there proceed to elect twenty-eight lords temporal to reprefent the peerage of Ireland in the parliament of the united kingdom, in the following manner; that is to fay, the names of the peers fhall be called over according to their rank, by the clerk of the crown, or his deputy, who fhall then and there attend for that purpose; and each of the faid peers, who, previous to the faid day, and in the prefent parliament shall have actually taken his feat in the House of Lords of Ireland, and who fhall there have taken the oaths, and figned the declaration, which are or fhall be by law required to be taken and figned by the lords of the parliament of Ireland before they can fit and vote in the parliament hereof, fhall, when his name is called, deliver, either by himself or by his proxy, (the name of such proxy having been previously entered in the books of the House of Lords of Ireland, according to the prefent forms and ufages thereof) to the clerk of the crown or his deputy (who shall then and there attend for that purpose), a lift of twenty-eight of the temporal peers of Ireland; and the clerk of the crown or his deputy fhall then and there publicly read the faid lifts, and fhall then and there caft up the faid lifts, and publicly declare the names of the twenty-eight lords who fhall be chosen by the majority of votes in the faid lifts, and fhall make a return

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of the fame names to the House of Lords of the first parliament of the united kingdom; and the twenty-eight lords so chosen by the majority of votes in the faid lifts fhall, during their respective lives, fit as representatives of the peers of Ireland in the House of Lords of the united kingdom, and be entitled to receive writs of fummons to that and every fucceeding parlia ment; and in cafe a complete election thall not be made of the whole number of twenty-eight peers, by reason of an equality of votes, the clerk of the crown fhall return fuch number in favour of whom a complete election fhall have been made in one lift, and in a fecond lift shall return the names of those peers who fhall have an equality of votes, but in favour of whom, by reason of such equality, a complete election fhall not have been made, and the names of the peers in the fecond lift, for whom an equal number of votes fhall have been fo given, fhall be written on pieces of paper, of a fimilar form, and shall be put into a glafs by the clerk of the parliament of the united kingdom, at the table of the House of Lords thereof, whilst the house is fitting, and the peers whose name shall be first drawn out by the clerk of the parliament, fhall be deemed the peer elected; and fo fucceffively as often as the cafe may require ; and whenever the feat of any of the twenty-eight lords tem poral fo elected fhall be vacated by decease or forfeiture, the chancellor, the keeper, or commiffioners of the great feal of the united kingdom for the time being, upon receiving a certificate under the hand and feal of any two lords temporal of the pars liament of the united kingdom, certifying the decease of fuch peer, or on view of the record of attainder of such peer, fhall direct a writ to be iffued under the great feal of the united kingdom, to the chancellor, the keeper or commiffioners of the great feal of Ireland for the time being, directing him or them to caufe writs to be iffued, by the clerk of the crown in Ire. land, to every temporal peer of Ireland, who fhall have fat and voted in the House of Lords of Ireland before the Union, or whofe right to fit and vote therein, or to vote at such elections, fhall, on claim made on his behalf, have been admitted by the Houfe of Lords of Ireland before the Union, or after the Union by the House of Lords of the united kingdom; and notice shall forthwith be published by the said clerk of the crown, in the VOL. II.

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London and Dublin Gazettes, of the iffuing of fuch writs, and of the names and titles of all the peers to whom the fame are directed; and to the said writs there shall be annexed a form of return thereof, in which a blank fhall be left for the name of the peer to be elected, and the faid writs fhall enjoin each peer, within fifty-two days from the tefte of the writ, to return the fame into the crown-office of Ireland with the blank filled up, by inserting the name of the peer for whom he shall vote, as the peer to fucceed to the vacancy made by demife or forfeiture as aforefaid; and the faid writs and returns fhall be bipartite, so as that the name of the peer to be chosen shall be written twice, that is, once on each part of such writ and return, and so as that each part may alfo be fubfcribed by the peer to whom the same shall be directed, and likewise be fealed with his feal of arms; and one part of the faid writs and returns fo filled up, fubfcribed and sealed as above, shall remain of record in the crown office of Ireland, and the other part shall be certified by the clerk of the crown to the clerk of the parliament of the united kingdom, and no peer of Ireland, except fuch as fhall have been elected as representative peers on the part of Ireland in the House of Lords of the united kingdom, and fhall there have taken the oaths, and figned the declaration prescribed by law, fhall, under pain of suffering fuch punishment as the House of Lords of the united kingdom may award and adjudge, make a return to fuch writ, unless he fhall, after the issuing thereof, and before the day on which the writ is returnable, have taken the oaths and figned the declaration which are or shall be by law required to be taken and figned by the lords of the united kingdom, before they can fit and vote in the parliament thereof; which oaths and declaration shall be either taken and subscribed in the court of chancery of Ireland, or before one of his majefty's justices of the peace of that part of the united kingdom called Ireland, a certificate whereof, figned by fuch justices of the peace, or by the register of the faid court of chancery, shall be tranfmitted by fuch peer with the return, and shall be annexed to that part thereof remaining of record in the crown office of Ireland; and the clerk of the crown fhall forthwith after the return day of the writs, caufe to be published in the London and Dublin Gazettes, a notice of the name of the perfor

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chofen by the majority of votes; and the peer fo chofen fhall during his life, be one of the peers to fit and vote on the part of Ireland in the Houfe of Lords of the united kingdom; and in case the votes shall be equal, the names of such persons who have an equal number of votes in their favor, shall be written on pieces of paper of a fimilar form, and fhall be put into a glass by the clerk of the parliament of the united kingdom, at the table of the House of Lords, whilft the house is fitting, and the peer whose name shall be first drawn out by the clerk of the parliament shall be deemed the peer elected. And be it enacted, that in case any lord fpiritual, being a temporal peer of the united kingdom, or being a temporal peer of that part of the united king. dom called Ireland, shall be chosen by the lords temporal to be one of the representatives of the lords temporal, in every fuch cafe, during the life of such spiritual peer being a temporal peer of the united kingdom, or being a temporal peer of that part of the united kingdom called Ireland, so chofen to represent the lords temporal, the rotation of reprefentation of the fpiritual lords fhall proceed to the next spiritual lord, without regard to such spiritual lord so chofen a temporal peer, that is to say, if fuch spiritual lord shall be an archbishop, then the rotation fhall proceed to the archbishop whose see is next in rotation, and if such spiritual lord shall be a fuffragan bishop, then the rotation shall proceed to the fuffragan bishop whofe fee is next in rotation. And whereas by the said fourth article of union it is agreed, that, if his Majesty shall, on or before the first day of January next, declare, under the great seal of Great Britain, that it is expedient that the lords and commons of the present parliament of Great Britain should be the members of the respective houfes of the first parliament of the united kingdom, on the part of Great Britain, then the lords and commons of the prefent parliament of Great Britain shall accordingly be the members of the refpective houfes of the first parliament of the united kingdom on the part of Great Britain; be it enafted, for and in that cafe only, that the prefent members of the thirty-two counties of Ireland, and the two members for the city of Dublin, and the two members of the city of Cork, fhall be, and they are hereby declared to be, by virtue of this act, members for the said counties and cities in the first parRT 2

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