Bounty on Tonnage of Slave Ships captured and demolished. Where no Slaves are on board a Ship seized an additional Bounty to be paid. Bounties on the Consolidated Fund. of the said Treaties or Conventions, there shall be paid to the Captors the Moiety to which Her Majesty is entitled of the net Proceeds of the said Ship and Cargo: II. And be it enacted, That where any Ship or Vessel which shall have been or may be seized and condemned under the Provisions of any Treaty or Convention made or to be made with any Foreign Power, or additional Article to any such Treaty or Convention, shall have been or shall be entirely demolished, and the Materials thereof publicly sold in separate Parts, as well as her Cargo, there shall be paid to the Commanders, Officers, and Crews of Her Majesty's Ships authorized to make and making such Seizures, in addition to the Amount which may be payable in respect of the Moiety of the Proceeds of such Sale as herein-before mentioned, a further Bounty on the Tonnage of such Ship or Vessel at the Rate of One Pound Ten Shillings for every Ton of such Tonnage. III. And be it enacted, That where any Ship or Vessel having no Slaves on board shall have been or may be seized and condemned under the Provisions of any Treaty or Convention or any additional Articles made or to be made with any Foreign Power for the Abolition of the Slave Trade, there shall be paid to the Commanders, Officers, and Crews of Her Majesty's Ships authorized to make and making such Seizure an additional Bounty upon the Tonnage of such Ship or Vessel at the Rate of Four Pounds for every Ton, and the Tonnage of all such Vessels shall be estimated or ascertained according to the Mode of ascertaining the Admeasurement of British Vessels, either by the principal Officer of the Customs at the Port where the Vessel may be at the Time of Condemnation, or, in default thereof, by the best Evidence which can be obtained, to be certified by the Commissioners by whom such Condemnation shall be pronounced: Provided always, that in every Case in which any Ship or Vessel shall be seized with Slaves on board in which the Bounty calculated upon the Number of Slaves shall be less than the Bounty calculated upon the Tonnage, the Commanders of Her Majesty's Ships making the Seizure may elect to take the Bounty calculated according to Tonnage, in lieu and instead of the Bounty which would be payable upon the Number of Slaves on board. IV. And be it enacted, That all such Bounties on Tonnage shall be paid out of the Consolidated Fund of the United be paid out of Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland to the Commanders, Officers, and Crews of Her Majesty's Ships authorized to make such Seizures under the Provisions of any such Treaties or Conventions, and such Bounties shall be issued and paid by Order from the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury. Proof of V. Provided_always, and be it enacted, That in order to entitle the Captors to receive the said Bounty Money the Tonnage of the Ship or Vessel so seized, delivered over, and condemned shall be proved to the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury by producing a Copy duly certified of the Sentence Sentence or Decree of Condemnation, or by such documentary or other Evidence as they may deem satisfactory. VI. And be it enacted, That the Bounties payable under Distribution of this or any other Act of Parliament for the Seizure of Slaves Bounty and and Vessels fitted out for or engaged in the Traffic of Slaves Prize Money. shall be paid to and distributed amongst the Commanders, Officers, and Crews of Her Majesty's Ships engaged in the Seizure thereof in such Manner and Proportion and to and amongst such Persons as by any Order in Council or Proclamation of His late Majesty King William the Fourth at present in force hath been, or by any Order in Council or Proclamation of Her present Majesty, Her Heirs and Successors, shall be for that Purpose ordered and directed; and that all the Provisions in regard to Prize Money, and other Money in the Nature thereof, including all Rules and Regulations relating to the Delivery by Agents of Accounts of Prize and other Money as aforesaid, and to the Examination of such Accounts, and to the Distribution of Prize or other Money, and to the accounting for and paying over the unclaimed and forfeited Shares, and to the Per-centage payable in aid of the Greenwich Out-Pension Fund for the Benefit of the old and invalid Seamen who have served in the Royal Navy, which under any Act or Acts of Parliament are now in force, and all Penalties and Forfeitures to which Agents and others are made subject by any such Acts, shall be and the same are hereby extended to all Bounties and Proceeds payable and distributable under the Provisions of this Act to the Commanders, Officers, and Crews of any of Her Majesty's Ships or Vessels. CAP. XLVIII. An Act to amend the Laws relating to the Qualification of Members to serve in Parliament. [27th July 1838.] WHEREAS an Act was passed in the Ninth Year of the Reign of Queen Anne, intituled An Act for securing the 9 Anne, c.5. "Freedom of Parliament by further qualifying the Members to sit in the House of Commons: And whereas another Act was passed in the Thirty-third Year of the Reign of King George the • Second, intituled An Act to enforce and render more effectual 33G. 2. c. 20. the Laws relating to the Qualification of Members to sit in the House of Commons: And whereas by the Act for the Union of Great Britain and Ireland it is amongst other things enacted, that the Qualification in respect of Property of the • Members elected on the Part of Ireland to sit in the House ' of Commons of the United Kingdom shall be respectively the same as were at the Time of the passing of the said Act · provided by Law in the Cases of Elections for Counties and • Cities and Boroughs respectively in that Part of Great Britain called England, unless any other Provision should thereafter be made in that respect by Act of Parliament of the United Kingdom: And whereas it is expedient to repeal the said • Act Recited Acts repealed. Qualification of 1 & 2 VICT. Act passed in the Ninth Year of the Reign of Queen Anne, ' and the said Act passed in the Thirty-third Year of the Year of King George the Second, and the said Enactment in the Act for the Union of Great Britain and Ireland, and to make other Provisions in lieu thereof, for the better qualifying Members to sit in the House of Commons by reason of the Possession of Property:' Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, That the said Act passed in the Ninth Year of the Reign of Queen Anne, and the said Act passed in the Thirty-third Year of the Reign of King George the Second, and the said Enactment in the Act for the Union of Great Britain and Ireland, be and the same are hereby repealed. II. And be it enacted, That from and after the passing of this Act no Person shall be capable of being elected a Member of the House of Commons for any County, Riding, Part, or Division of a County, within that Part of Great Britain called England, the Dominion of Wales, or Ireland, unless he shall be seised or entitled, for his own Use and Benefit, of and to an Estate, legal or equitable, in Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments of any Tenure whatever, situate, lying, or being within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, or in the Rents and Profits thereof, for his own Life, or for the Life or Lives of any other Person or Persons then living, or for a Term of Years, either absolute or determinable on his own Life or on the Life or Lives of any other Person or Persons then living, of which Term not less than Thirteen Years shall be at the Time of his Election unexpired, such Estate being of the clear yearly Value of not less than Six hundred Pounds over and above all Incumbrances affecting the same; or unless he shall be possessed or entitled, for his own Use and Benefit, at Law or in Equity, for his own Life or for the Life or Lives of any other Person or Persons then living, or for any Term of Years, either absolute or determinable on his own Life or on the Life or Lives of any other Person or Persons then living, of which Term not less than Thirteen Years shall be at the Time of his Election unexpired, of or to Personal Estate or Effects of any Nature or Kind whatsoever within the said United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, or the Interest, Dividends, or annual Proceeds of any such Personal Estate or Effects, such Personal Estate or Effects, Interest, Dividends, or annual Proceeds actually producing the clear yearly Income of not less than Six hundred Pounds over and above all Incumbrances affecting the same; or unless he shall possess more than One of the several Kinds of Qualification herein-before mentioned, the several Qualifications of or to which he shall be so seised, possessed, or entitled being jointly of sufficient Value to qualify a Person as a Member to serve in Parliament for any County according to the Provisions herein contained, although each of such Qualifications may, according to the same Provi sions, be separately insufficient for that Purpose; nor shall any Person be capable of being elected a Member of the House of Commons for any City, Borough, or Cinque Port within that Part of Great Britain called England, the Dominion of Wales, the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, or Ireland, unless he shall be seised or entitled, for his own Use and Benefit, of and to an Estate, legal or equitable, in Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments of any Tenure whatever, situate, lying, or being within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, or in the Rents and Profits thereof, for his own Life or for the Life or Lives of any other Person or Persons then living, or for a Term of Years, either absolute or determinable on his own Life or on the Life or Lives of any other Person or Persons then living, of which Term not less than Thirteen Years shall be at the Time of his Election unexpired, such Estate being of the clear yearly Value of not less than Three hundred Pounds over and above all Incumbrances affecting the same; or unless he shall be possessed or entitled, for his own Use and Benefit, at Law or in Equity, for his own Life or for the Life or Lives of any other Person or Persons then living, or for any Term of Years, either absolute or determinable on his own Life or for the Life or Lives of any other Person or Persons then living, of which Term not less than Thirteen Years shall be at the Time of his Election unexpired, of or to Personal Estate or Effects of any Nature or Kind whatsoever, situate within the said United Kingdom, or the Interest, Dividends, or annual Proceeds of any such Personal Estate or Effects, such Personal Estate or Effects, Interest, Dividends, or annual Proceeds actually producing the clear yearly Income of not less than Three hundred Pounds over and above all Incumbrances affecting the same; or unless he shall possess more than One of the several Kinds of Qualification herein-before mentioned, the several Qualifications of or to which he shall be so seised, possessed, or entitled being jointly of sufficient Value to qualify a Person as a Member to serve in Parliament for any Borough, according to the Provisions herein contained, although each of such Qualifications may, according to the same Provisions, be separately insufficient for that Purpose; and if any Person who shall be elected or returned to serve in any Parliament for any County, Riding, Part, or Division of a County, City, Borough, or Cinque Port as aforesaid, shall not at the Time of such Election and Return be qualified in manner above mentioned, such Election and Return shall be void. III. And be it enacted, That every Candidate at any Elec- Candidates at tion of a Member or Members to serve in Parliament for any Elections to County, Riding, Part, or Division of a County, City, Borough, make the following Declaor Cinque Port as aforesaid, shall, upon a reasonable Request ration, if remade to him at the Time of such Election, or at any Time quired. before the Day named in the Writ of Summons for the meeting of Parliament, by or on behalf of any Candidate at such Election, or by any Two or more registered Electors having a Right to vote at such Election, make and subscribe a Declara Before whom Declaration to be made. Declaration to be certified, under Penalty Fees for administering and filing Declara- · tion. tion to the Purport or Effect following, such Request to be in Writing, and signed by the Candidate or the said Two or more Electors; (that is to say,) I A. B. do solemnly and sincerely declare, That I am to the best of my Knowledge and Belief duly qualified to be elected as a Member of the House of Commons, according to the true Intent and Meaning of the Act passed in the Second "Year of the Reign of Queen Victoria, intituled An Act to amend the Laws relating to the Qualification of Members to serve in Parliament, and that my Qualification to be so elected doth ' arise out of [here let the Party state the Nature of his Qualification, as the Case may be; if the same ariseth out of Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments, let him state the Barony or Baronies, Parish or Parishes, Township or Townships, Precinct or Precincts, and also the County or Counties, in which such Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments are situate, and also the Estate in the said Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments, or in the Rents 6 or Profits thereof, of or to which he is seised or entitled; or if the same ariseth out of Personal Estate or Effects, let him state of what Nature and where situate such Personal Estate or Effects " are, and what Interest he hath in such Personal Estate or Effects, and upon what Securities and in whose Names the same are vested, as hereunder set forth.' And the Election and Return of any Person who, upon such Request as aforesaid, shall wilfully refuse or neglect to make and subscribe the said Declaration within Twenty-four Hours after such Request shall have been so made, shall be void. IV. And be it enacted, That the said Declaration shall be made before the Returning Officer at any Election, or a Commissioner for that Purpose lawfully appointed, or any Justice of the Peace within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland; and the said Returning Officer, Commissioner, or Justice of the Peace before whom the said Declaration shall be made is hereby required to certify the making thereof, when the same shall have been made in England or Wales, unto the High Court of Chancery, or to the Court of Queen's Bench in England, and when the same shall have been made in Ireland unto the High Court of Chancery or to the Court of Queen's Bench in Ireland, within Three Months after the making of the same, under the Penalty of forfeiting the Sum of One hundred Pounds, to wit, one Moiety thereof to the Queen, and the other Moiety thereof to such Person or Persons as will sue for the same, to be recovered, with full Costs of Suit, by Action of Debt or Information, in any of Her Majesty's Courts of Record at Westminster or Dublin respectively. V. And be it enacted, That no Fee or Reward shall be taken for administering any such Declaration, or making, receiving, or filing the Certificate thereof, except One Shilling for administering the Declaration, and Two Shillings for making the Certificate, and Two Shillings for receiving and filing the same, to be paid by the Person or Persons requiring such Declaration |