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 398 C. 20. Anno decimo tertio Georgii II. A. D. 1740. Vol en to be poffelFed of Lands, &c. to fie Value of 40 s. per Ann. a full Year be- fore the Elec- tion. Unlefs fuch Lands come by Defient. &c. within the Time, on Penalty of 4c 1. 12 Annoe, ft. I. c. 5. Conditions, Claufes of Re-entry, Powers of Revocation, Provifoes of Redemption, or other De- feazances whatfoever, between or with the faid Parties, or any other Perfon or Perfons in Truft for them ; and that all Bonds, Covenants, Collateral or other Securities, Contracts, or Agreements, be- tween or with the faid Parties, or any other Perfon or Perfons in Truft for them, or any of them, for the redeeming, revoking, or defeating fuch Eflate or Eftates, or for the reftoring or re-conveying thereof, or any Part thereof, to any Perfon or Perfons who made or executed fuch Conveyance, or to any other Perfon or Perfons in Truft for them, or any of them, fhall be null and void to all Intents by Shire to ferve in Parliament, (hall, for every fuch Conveyance fo made, or Vote fo created or given, forfeit the Sum of P'orty Pounds to any Perfon who fhall fue for the fame, to be recovered, together with full Colts of Suit, by Action of Debt, Bill, Plaint or Information in any of the Courts of Re- cord at IVeJhninfter, wherein no EfToin, Privilege, Protection, Wager of Law, or more than one Impar- lance fhall be admitted or allowed. And it is thereby further enacted, That no Perfon (hall vote for the electing of any Knight of a Shire within that Part of Great Britain called England, in Refpect or ia Right of any Lands or Tenements which have not been charged or affeffed to the publick Taxes, Church Rates, and Parifh Duties, in fuch Proportion as other Lands or Tenements of Forty Shil- lings per Annum, within the fame Parifh orTownfhip where the fame fhall lie, or be ufually charged, and for which fuch Perfon fhall not have received the Rents or Profits, or be intitled to have received the fame, to the full Value of forty Shillings or more to his own Ufe for one Year before fuch Elec- tion; unlefs fuch Lands or Tenements came to fuch Perfon within the Time aforefaid by Defcent, Marriage, Marriage Settlement, Devife, or Prefer) tation to fome Benefice in the Church, or by Pro- motion to fome Office unto which fuch Freehold is affixed ; and that if any Perfon (hall vote in any fuch Election, contrary to the true Intent and Meaning of the faid Act, he (hall for every fuch Of- fence forfeit the Sum of Forty Pounds, one Moiety thereof to the Poor, of the Parifh or Parifhes where the Lands or Tenements lie, for which fuch Perfon fhall vote, and the other Moiety to the Perfon or Perfons who (hall fue for the fame, to be recovered by Action of Debt, Bill, Plaint or Information in any of the Courts of Record at IVejhninfier, wherein no EfToin, Privilege, Protection, or Wager of Law fhall be allowed, or more than one imparlance: And whereas by an Act made in the next Seffion of Parliament, to explain a Claufe in the laid I a ft recited Act, made in the tenth Year of the Reign of Queen Anne, it is enacted, That the faid Act, made in the tenth Year of the Reign of Queen Anne, or any Thing therein contained, (hall not extend, or be conftrued to reftrain any Perfon from voting in fuch Election of any Knight of a Shire within that Part of Great Britain called England, in refpect, or in Right of any Rents, Tythes, or other incorporeal Inheritances, or any Meffuages or Lands in extraparochial Places, or any Chambers in the Inns of Court, or Inns of Chancery, or any Meffuages or Seats belonging to any Offices, in regard, or by reafon that the fame have not ufually been, or fhall not be charged or affeffed to all or any of the publick Taxes, Church Rates, and Pa- rifh Duties, as mentioned in the faid Act, made in the tenth Year of the Reign of Queen Anne, or in refpect or Right of any other Meffuages or Lands not therein before fpecified, in regard, or by reafon that the fame have not been ufually charged or affeffed to all and every the publick Taxes, Church Rates, and Parifh Duties aforefaid; provided that fuch Meffuages or Lands have ufually been charged or affeffed to fome one or more of the faid publick Taxes, Rates or Duties, in fuch Propor- tion as other Meffuages or Lands of forty Shillings per Annum, within the fame Parifh or Townlhip where the fame fhall lie or be, are ufually charged to the fame; anything contained in the laid Act, made in the tenth Year' of the Reign of Queen Anne, to the contrary thereof in any wife notwith- standing: And whereas it is reafonable, That Provifion (liould likewife be made to prevent any frau- dulent Conveyances of Lands and Tenements, in order to multiply Votes for electing Members to ferve in Parliament, for fuch Cities and Towns as are Counties of themfelves, wherein Perfons have a Right to vote for electing fuch Members, for or in refpect of Lands, Tenements or Hereditaments of the yearly Value of forty Shillings ;' Be it enacted by the King's moft Excellent Majefty, by and nth the Advice and Confent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Common;, in this prefent Par- liament affembled, and by the Authority of the fame, That from and after the twenty-fifth Day of March one thoufand feven hundred and forty, the faid Provisions contained in the faid in Part recited Act made in the tenth Year of the Reign of Queen Anne, for preventing fraudulent Conveyances, in order before Eieflion, to multiply Votes for electing Knights for Shires ; and in the faid Act made in the next Seffions of Par- fuhjeflr to the liament, (hall be. extended, and conftrued to extend, to fuch Lands or Tenements, for or in Refpect of which any Perfon (hall vote for the Election of any Member to ferve in Parliament, for "any fuch City or Town as aforefaid, being a County of itfeif, in that Part of Great Britain called England; and that if any Perfon fhall vote for the Election of any fuch Member as a Freeholder, not having fuch an Eftate for one Year before the fame Election, and fo charged or affeffed, as in the faid Acts, or one of In part repealer! tnem > ' s defcribed, except in Cafes therein excepted, every fuch Perfon fhall be fubject to the like Pe- b/igGeo. 2.c. nalties and Forfeitures as are by. the faid Act made in the tenth Year of' the Reign of Queen Anne, J?- . impofed on Perfons voting for Knights of Shires, not having the Qualifications thereby required, Perfnns voting .a* Freeholders not having an Eftate 1 Year Penalties and Forfeitures 10 Annas. Exception. CAP.
 * nur.t jt! farther 15 Geo. a, e. 22. i3 Geo. 2. c. lS. 31 G:o. 2. c. 14. J3 GeeS. z. -c. 20'.