Reports of Cases of Controverted Elections: In the Sixth Parliament of the United KingdomJ. & W. T. Clarke, 1821 - 288 pages |
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Page 115 - A Senator shall not be capable of being elected or of sitting or voting as a Member of the House of Commons.
Page 116 - That no person having any pension from the crown for any term or number of years, either in his own name, or in the name or names of any other person or persons in trust for him, or for his benefit...
Page 115 - Act made in the Sixth Year of the Reign of Her late Majesty Queen Anne, intituled, An Act for the Security of Her Majesty's Person and Government, and of the Succession to the Crown of Great Britain, in the Protestant Line...
Page 17 - Tweed shall and he is hereby enjoyned and required upon reasonable Request to him to be made (at the Time of such Election or before the Day to be prefixed in the Writ of Summons for the Meeting of the Parliament) by any other Person who shall stand Candidate at such Election or by any Two or more Persons having Right to vote at such Election take a Corporal Oath in the Form or to the Effect following...
Page 56 - Thellusson is not duly elected a burgess to serve in this present parliament for the said borough of Southwark ; " And also, that the said select committee have determined,
Page 176 - Returns shall, by themselves or their agents, deliver in to the clerk of the General Committee Lists of the Voters intended to be objected to, giving in the said lists the several heads of objections, and distinguishing the same against the names of the Voters excepted to...
Page 9 - Estate either in Law or Equity to and for his own Use and Benefit of or in Lands Tenements or Hereditaments...
Page 166 - Gibson, esquire, is duly elected a burgess to serve in this present Parliament for the borough of Ipswich.
Page 5 - B. for life, with remainder to the children of the marriage, and in default of children, for the persons therein mentioned.
Page 44 - Lords, a clause was added which set out that "such votes shall be deemed to be legal which have been so declared by the last determination in the House of Commons, which last determination concerning any county, shire, city, borough, cinque port or place, shall be final to all intents and purposes whatsoever, any usage to the contrary notwithstanding3.