Provisions of 4 G. 4. c. 94. and 6 G.4.c.80. to be deemed to apply to Distillers licensed under 6 G. 4. c. 81. Act may be amended, &c. other Persons if licensed under the said firstly-recited Act of the • Sixth Year of the Reign of King George the Fourth, and it is expedient to remove all such Doubts:' Be it therefore declared and enacted, That nothing in the said Act of the Sixth Year of the Reign of King George the Fourth, herein-before firstlyrecited, contained, shall be deemed or construed to repeal or in any way affect any of the Regulations or Provisions contained in either of the said Two other recited Acts of the Fourth and Sixth Years of the Reign of the said King respectively, save and except as to the Manner of granting and issuing such Licence, and as to the Duty payable thereon, and as to the Penalty to be incurred for making use of a Still without being licensed for that Purpose, and save and except so far as the express Provisions of the said Two last-mentioned Acts or either of them are inconsistent with the Provisions of the said firstly-recited Act of the Sixth Year of the said King's Reign; and that every Distiller or Maker of Low Wines or Spirits in England, Scotland, and Ireland respectively, to whom a Licence in that Behalf hath been or shall be granted under the Provisions of the said last-mentioned Act, shall for all Purposes be deemed and considered to be and to have been licensed, as well under the said other recited Acts respectively of the Fourth and Sixth Years of the said King's Reign as under the said firstly-recited Act of the Sixth Year of the said King's Reign, and that all Enactments, Provisions, Restrictions, and Penalties contained in the said Two other recited Acts respectively of the Fourth and Sixth Years of the said King's Reign, or either of them, save and except in the Particulars herein-before mentioned with regard to Distillers and other Persons therein mentioned or referred to as licensed or required to be licensed under them or either of them respectively, shall be deemed and construed to apply to every Distiller or Maker of Low Wines or Spirits in England, Scotland, and Ireland respectively to whom any Licence in that Behalf hath been or shall be granted under the Provisions of the said firstly-recited Act of the Sixth Year of the Reign of King George the Fourth, in like Manner as if such Persons had been licensed respectively under either of the said Two other recited Acts. IX. And be it enacted, That this Act may be amended or repealed by any Act to be passed in this present Session of Parliament. WH CA P. LXVIII. An Act to shorten the Duration of Elections in Ireland, and and ing to continue and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, That at every contested Election of a At contested Knight or Knights of the Shire to serve in Parliament for any Elections for County in Ireland which shall take place after the Fifteenth Day Counties, Pollof March in the Year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred for Two Days and fifty-one the Polling shall commence on the next Day but only. Two after the Day fixed for the Election, save in the Cases hereinafter mentioned, at the principal Place of Election, and also at the several Places to be appointed as herein-after directed for taking the Polls; and such Polling shall continue for Two Days only, such Days being successive Days, save in the Cases hereinafter mentioned, and shall commence at the Hour of Nine of the Clock in the Morning of the First Day and at Eight of the Clock in the Morning of the Second Day, and be kept open only between the Hours of Nine in the Morning and Four in the Afternoon for the First Day, and between the Hours of Eight in the Morning and Four in the Afternoon of the Second Day; and no Poll shall be kept open later than Four of the Clock in the Afternoon of the Second Day, any Statute to the contrary notwithstanding: Provided always, that when such Day next but Two after the Day fixed for the Election shall be Saturday, Sunday, Good Friday, or Christmas Day, then in case it be Saturday or Sunday the Poll shall be on the Monday next following, and in case it be Good Friday then on the Monday next following, and in case it be Christmas Day then on the next following Day, if the same shall not be Saturday or Sunday, and if it be Saturday or Sunday on the next following Monday: Provided also, that when the Day following the First Day of Polling shall be Good Friday or Christmas Day, then in case it be Good Friday the Second Day of Polling shall be on the Saturday next following, and in case it be Christmas Day then on the next following Day, if the same shall not be Sunday, and if it be Sunday then on the next following Monday. IL And be it enacted, That the several Counties in Ireland, as mentioned in the Schedule (A.) to this Act annexed, shall from and after the said Fifteenth Day of March in the Year One thou. sand eight hundred and fifty-one be divided into Districts for Polling, according to the Arrangement specified in the said Schedule; and that in each such District the Poll shall be taken in the Town or Place specified in the said Schedule, and that each Polling District shall include the several Baronies or Divisions connected with the Name of the same Polling Place in the said Schedule ; and each such District shall, for the Purposes of this Act, be called after the Name of such Polling Place: Provided always, that so far as may be necessary for the Purposes of Registration of Electors under an Act of the present Session to amend the Laws which regulate the Qualification and Registration of Parliamentary Voters in Ireland, and to alter the Law for rating Immediate Lessors of Premises to the Poor Rate in certain Boroughs, and not otherwise, such Division as aforesaid shall take effect from the Ninth Day of September in the Year One thousand eight hundred and fifty. for Counties to be divided into Districts for Polling according to the Schedule to this Act. III. And be it enacted, That at every such contested Election At contested any County in Ireland after the Fifteenth Day of March Elections for One Counties Booths to be erected so that not more than Six hundred be required to poll in One Booth. Sheriff to appoint Deputies and Poll Clerks for each Polling Booth. One thousand eight hundred and fifty-one the Sheriff shall, at the Place appointed for taking the Poll for each such District as aforesaid, cause to be erected or provided a separate Booth for each Barony or Half Barony in such District, and shall cause to be affixed on the most conspicuous Part of each such Booth the Name of the Barony or Half Barony for which such Booth is respectively allotted, and no Person shall be admitted to vote at any such Election in any Booth except that allotted for the Barony or Half Barony upon the Register of which his Name shall appear: Provided always, that if in any Barony or Half Barony there shall appear upon the Register thereof the Names of more than Six hundred Electors, the Sheriff shall cause so many separate Booths to be erected or provided for such Barony or Half Barony that not more than Six hundred shall be required to poll in any One Booth; and the Sheriff shall, in case of such separate Booths for the same Barony or Half Barony, declare the Initial Letters of the Surnames of the Voters who are to vote at the same, and have such Initial Letters placed on the said Booths under the Name of the Barony or Half Barony: Provided also, that on the Requisition of any Candidate, or of any Elector being the Proposer or Seconder of any Candidate, at any such contested Election after the Day last aforesaid, such Requisition to be made or given at or before Twelve of the Clock at Noon on the Day of Nomination, the Booths shall be so arranged by the Sheriff that not more than Three hundred Electors shall be allotted to poll at each such Booth: Provided also, that the Candidate or Elector making such Requisition shall pay all additional Expenses occasioned by such Division or Arrangement. IV. And be it enacted, That at every such contested Election as aforesaid for any County in Ireland the Sheriff shall have Power to appoint, and shall appoint, Deputies to preside, and Clerks to take the Poll at the several Places appointed for Polling for the several Baronies or Half Baronies as mentioned in the said Schedule, and in the several Polling Booths, not exceeding One Deputy and One Poll Clerk for each Polling Booth; and that the Poll Clerks employed at such several Places shall at the Close of each Day's Poll enclose and seal their several Books, and shall publicly deliver them so enclosed and sealed to the Sheriff or Sheriff's Deputy presiding at such Poll, who shall give a Receipt for the same, and shall on the Commencement of the Poll on the Second Day deliver them back so enclosed and sealed to the Person from whom he shall have received them; and on the final Close of the Poll every such Deputy who shall have received any such Poll Books shall forthwith deliver the same so enclosed and sealed to the Sheriff or his Under Sheriff, who shall receive and keep all the Poll Books unopened until the re-assembling of the Court on the Day next but One after the Close of the Poll, unless such Day shall be Sunday, and then on the Monday following, at an Hour not earlier than Eleven of the Clock, when he shall openly break the Seals thereon, and cast up the Number of Votes as they appear on the said several Books, and shall openly declare Poll when to be the State of the Poll, and shall declare the Member or Members declared. chosen, at or before Two of the Clock in the Afternoon of the said Day. V. And be it enacted, That each of the Cities, Towns, and Cities and BoBoroughs in Ireland mentioned in the Schedule (B.) to this Act roughs in Scheannexed shall from and after the Fifteenth Day of March in the divided into dule (B.) to be Year One thousand eight hundred and fifty-one be divided into Polling DisPolling Districts, and that each of the Wards into which the said tricts. Cities, Towns, and Boroughs shall have been respectively divided for Municipal Purposes under the Provisions of the Act for the Regulation of Municipal Corporations in Ireland, or any Act amending the same, shall be a separate Polling District. Towns, &c. to VI. And be it enacted, That the Clerk of the Peace of or acting List of Electors in or for each of the said Cities, Towns, and Boroughs mentioned of such Cities, in the said Schedule (B.) shall before the Fifteenth Day of March be divided by in the Year One thousand eight hundred and fifty-one cause the Wards, &c., and List of Voters for such City, Town, or Borough, duly signed by so printed in the Assistant Barrister, Chairman, or Revising Barrister, upon the Register. the Revision of the same, to be divided, arranged, and printed in the Book of the Register of Voters for such City, Town, or Borough in manner following; (that is to say,) the Names of all Persons appearing upon the said List as Resident Freemen shall be placed upon a separate List, to be entitled "The List of Resident Freemen," and shall be arranged therein in strict alphabetical Order according to the First, Second, and other Letters of their Surnames, and the Names in such List of Freemen shall be numbered consecutively, beginning with Number One, and the Names of all Persons appearing on the said List of Voters, signed as aforesaid, as qualified in respect of any Property Qualification, or as Occupiers of any Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments, shall be divided into Lists for the respective Wards, according to the Number and Names of the Municipal Wards into which each such City, Town, or Borough shall have been divided under the said Act for the Regulation of Municipal Corporations in Ireland, or any Act amending the same; and each of such Ward Lists shall be headed with the Name of the Ward, and shall contain the Names of all Persons appearing upon the said List of Voters signed as aforesaid as qualified in respect of any Property situate within such Ward, or as Occupiers of any Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments situate within such Ward; and in each such Ward List the Names of the Persons appearing thereon shall be arranged in strict alphabetical Order, according to the First, Second, and other Letters of the Surnames, and the Names in each such Ward List shall be numbered consecutively, beginning with Number One. VII. And be it enacted, That in the Case of any Persons Electors in appearing on the said List of Voters signed as aforesaid for any respect of Prosuch City, Town, or Borough mentioned in the said Schedule perty not situate in any Ward to (B.) as qualified in respect of any Property Qualification, or as be inserted in Occupiers of any Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments, not situate List of adjoinwithin the Limits of any of such Wards, such Clerk of the Peace ing Ward. shall insert the Name of each of such last-mentioned Persons in the List for the Ward which the said Property, or the said Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments, in respect of which he may be so qualified, shall most nearly adjoin; or in case the said Property, Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments in respect of which any Person may be qualified shall be situate in more than One Ward, or partly Electors for such Cities, &c. hereafter to be arranged and printed in like Manner. Booths at which other Voters Votes. partly within One or more Ward or Wards and partly without the Limits of any Ward, the Clerk of the Peace shall insert the Name of any such last-mentioned Person in the List of such One Ward in which such Property, Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments shall be partly situate, as such Clerk of the Peace shall think fit. VIII. And be it enacted, That the Names of all Persons who shall at any Time after the said Fifteenth Day of March One thousand eight hundred and fifty-one be on the List of Voters signed as aforesaid in each Year for any such City, Town, or Borough mentioned in the said Schedule (B.) shall be divided, arranged, and printed by the said Clerk of the Peace in manner herein-before specified. IX. And be it enacted, That at every contested Election for any such City, Town, or Borough mentioned in the said Schedule (B.) which shall take place after the Fifteenth Day of March in are to give their the Year One thousand eight hundred and fifty-one the Persons on the Register and entitled to vote thereat as Resident Freemen shall (save as herein-after mentioned) vote at some Booth or Compartment to be erected or provided at or near the Place at which the Elections for such City, Town, or Borough, are now usually holden, and not elsewhere; and all Persons on the Register and entitled to vote in respect of any Property Qualification, or as Occupiers of any Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments, shall vote at some Booths or Compartments to be erected or provided within the Ward upon the List of which their Names shall appear, and not elsewhere. Freemen's Booths in each Voters. X. And be it enacted, That the Sheriff or other Returning Officer at any such contested Election for any such City, Town, or Borough mentioned in the said Schedule (B.) (save as hereinafter provided) which shall take place after the Day last aforesaid shall cause a sufficient Number of Booths to be erected or provided at or near the Place where Elections for such City, Town, or Borough are now usually holden, to be called the Freemen's Booths, so that not more than Four hundred such Electors shall be allotted or obliged to poll in any One Booth, and that, as far as practicable consistently with the said Provision as to the Number of Four hundred, all such Persons whose Surnames shall begin with the same Letter of the Alphabet shall poll in the same Booth or Compartment: Provided always, that where the Number of Freemen on the Register shall not exceed Three hundred in Number no Freemen's Booth shall be provided, but such Freemen shall poll in such Ward Booths and in such Proportions as the Sheriff or other Returning Officer shall appoint and notify for such Purpose. XI. And be it enacted, That at every such contested Election Ward for other for any such City, Town, or Borough mentioned in the said Schedule (B.) after the Day last aforesaid the Sheriff or Returning Officer shall cause to be erected or provided within each Ward thereof a sufficient Number of Booths or Compartments, to be called the Ward Booths, for the Purpose of taking the Votes of all those registered Electors whose Names appear on the List for such Ward, so as that not more than Four hundred such Electors shall be allotted or obliged to poll in any One Booth or Compartment, and that, as far as practicable consistently with the said Provision as to the Number of Four hundred, all such Persons whose Sur names |