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Parliamentary Oaths Amendment.

according to such Regulations as each House may by its Standing Orders direct.

favour of

Quakers, &c.

4. Every Person of the Persuasion of the People called Quakers, Provision in and every other Person for the Time being by Law permitted to make a solemn Affirmation or Declaration instead of taking an Oath, may, instead of taking and subscribing the Oath hereby appointed, make and subscribe a solemn Affirmation in the Form of the Oath hereby appointed, substituting the Words "solemnly, "sincerely, and truly declare and affirm," for the Word "swear, and omitting the Words "So help me God;" and the making and subscribing such Affirmation with such Substitution as aforesaid by a Person hereby authorized to make and subscribe the same shall have the same Effect as the making and subscribing by other Persons of the Oath hereby appointed.

Omission to

take Oath.

5. If any Member of the House of Peers votes by himself or Penalty for his Proxy in the House of Peers, or sits as a Peer during any Debate in the said House, without having made and subscribed the Oath hereby appointed, he shall for every such Offence be subject to a Penalty of Five hundred Pounds, to be recovered by Action in One of Her Majesty's Superior Courts at Westminster; and if any Member of the House of Commons votes as such in the said House, or sits during any Debate after the Speaker has been chosen, without having made and subscribed the Oath hereby appointed, he shall be subject to a like Penalty for every such Offence, and in addition to such Penalty his Seat shall be vacated in the same Manner as if he were dead.

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6. There shall be repealed the several Acts and Parts of Acts Repeal of Acts specified in the Schedule hereto to the Extent in the said Schedule and Parts of in that Behalf mentioned: Provided always, that the Repeal of Schedule. these Acts or any of them, or of any Parts thereof, shall not be construed to weaken or in any Manner to affect any Laws or Statutes now in force for preserving and upholding the Supremacy of Our Lady the Queen, Her Heirs and Successors, in all Matters Civil and Ecclesiastical within this Realm and other Her Majesty's Dominions.

7. This Act may be cited for all Purposes as "The Parliamentary Short Title Oaths Act, 1866."

SCHE

Parliamentary Oaths Amendment.

SCHEDULE.

Date of Act.

30 Car. 2. stat. 2. c. 1.

13 Will. 3. c. 6.

1 Geo. 1. stat. 2. c. 13.

6 Geo. 3. c. 53.

10 Geo. 4. c. 7.

6 & 7 Vict. c. 6.

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An Act for the more effectual preserving the So much as is unrepealed.
King's Person and Government, by dis-

abling Papists from sitting in either House

of Parliament.

An Act for the further Security of His Ss. 10, 11.
Majesty's Person, and the Succession of
the Crown in the Protestant Line, and
for extinguishing the Hopes of the pre-
tended Prince of Wales and all other Pre-
tenders, and their open and secret Abettors.
An Act for the further Security of His Ss. 16, 17.
Majesty's Person and Government and the
Succession of the Crown in the Heirs of
the late Princess Sophia, being Protestants,
and for extinguishing the Hopes of the
pretended Prince of Wales, and his open
and secret Abettors.

An Act for altering the Oath of Abjuration
and the Assurance, and for amending so
much of an Act of the Seventh Year of
Her late Majesty Queen Anne, intituled
An Act for the Improvement of the
Union of the Two Kingdoms, as after
the Time therein limited requires the Deli-
very of certain Lists and Copies therein
mentioned to Persons indicted of High
Treason or Misprison of Treason.
An Act for the Relief of His Majesty's Roman
Catholic Subjects.

An Act to alter the Hours within which certain Oaths and Declarations are to be made and subscribed in the House of Peers. 21 & 22 Vict. c. 48. An Act to substitute One Oath for the Oaths of Allegiance, Supremacy, and Abjuration, and for the Relief of Her Majesty's Subjects professing the Jewish Religion. 21 & 22 Vict. c. 49. An Act to provide for the Relief of Her Majesty's Subjects professing the Jewish Religion.

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So far as relates to Oaths to be taken by Members of either House of Parliament.

So far as relates to Oaths to be
taken by Members of either
House of Parliament.
The whole Act.

So far as relates to Oaths to be taken by Members of either House of Parliament.

So far as relates to Oaths to be
taken by Members of either
House of Parliament.
So far as relates to Oaths to be
taken by Members of either
House of Parliament.

23 & 24 Vict. c. 63. | An Act to amend the Act of the Twenty- The whole Act.

first and Twenty-second Years of Victoria,
Chapter Forty-nine, to provide for the
Relief of Her Majesty's Subjects professing
the Jewish Religion.

CAP. XX.

Forsyth's Indemnity.

CA P. XX.

An Act to indemnify William Forsyth Esquire, One of Her Majesty's Counsel, from any penal Consequences which he may have incurred by sitting or voting as a Member of the House of Commons while holding the Office of Standing Counsel to the Secretary of State in Council of India.

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[30th April 1866.]

HEREAS William Forsyth Esquire One of Her Majesty's Counsel, was elected and returned at the General Election in One thousand eight hundred and sixty-five as One of the Burgesses to serve in this present Parliament for the Borough of Cambridge: And whereas the said William Forsyth, at the Time of the said Election, held and still holds the Office of Standing Counsel to the Secretary of State in Council of India: And whereas a Petition was presented to the House of Commons on the Sixteenth Day of February last by Robert Richard Torrens Esquire, One of the Candidates at the said Election for the said Borough, stating that the said William Forsyth, during the said Election and at the Time of the said Return, held and enjoyed the said Office of Standing Counsel to the Secretary of State in Council of India, which the said Robert Richard Torrens in his said Petition alleged to be a new Office or Place of Profit under the Crown within the Meaning of a certain Act of Parliament passed in the Session of Parliament held in the Sixth Year of Her Majesty Queen Anne, intituled An Act for the Security of Her Majesty's Person and Government, and of the Succession of the Crown of Great Britain in the Protestant Line, and that by reason thereof the said William Forsyth was incapable of being elected and of sitting and voting as a Member of the House of Commons:

And whereas a Committee of the House of Commons duly appointed to try and determine the Matter of the said Petition has determined that the said William Forsyth Esquire was not duly elected a Burgess to serve in this present Parliament for the Borough of Cambridge, and that the last Election for the said Borough, so

far

Forsyth's Indemnity.

Indemnifica

Forsyth.

far as regards the Return of the said William Forsyth Esquire, is a void Election:

And whereas the said William Forsyth may by sitting or voting as a Member of the House of Commons during the present Session of Parliament have incurred or may be in danger of incurring divers penal Consequences under and by virtue of the Provisions of the Act of Parliament aforesaid:

And whereas the said William Forsyth was advised and bona fide believed that he was not incapable of being elected as aforesaid, and of sitting and voting as a Member of the House of Commons, and it is fit and proper that the said William Forsyth should be indemnified from all such penal Consequences: 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, as follows:

1. That the said William Forsyth shall be and is hereby indemtion of William nified, freed, and discharged from and against all Penalties, Forfeitures, Incapacities, and Disabilities whatsoever (if any) incurred or to be incurred by him for or by reason of any Infringement by him of the Provisions of the said Act of Parliament by sitting or voting as a Member of the House of Commons.

The General

Issue may be pleaded in any Action or Suit.

2. In case any Action, Suit, Bill of Indictment or Information shall have been or shall be brought, carried on, or prosecuted against the said William Forsyth for or on account of any Penalty, Forfeiture, Incapacity, or Disability whatsoever incurred or to be incurred for or by reason of such Infringement of the said Act of Parliament as aforesaid, he may plead the General Issue, and upon his Defence give this Act and the special Matter in Evidence upon any Trial to be had thereupon.

CAP. XXI.

Public Offices (Site).

CA P. XXI.

An Act to authorize the Commissioners of Her
Majesty's Works and Public Buildings to acquire
by compulsory Purchase or otherwise certain Lands,
Houses, and Premises in the Parish of Saint
Margaret, Westminster; and for other Purposes.
[18th May 1866.]

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HEREAS under the Provisions of the following Acts,

namely, the Act of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth 18 & 19 Viet. Years of Her Majesty, Chapter Ninety-five (called the c. 95..

Downing Street Public Offices Extension Act, 1855"), the Act

of the Twenty-second Year of Her Majesty, Chapter Nineteen 22 Vict. c. 19. (called the "Public Offices Extension Act, 1859 "), the Act of the

c. 74.

Twenty-fourth and Twenty-fifth Years of Her Majesty, Chapter 24 & 25 Vict. Thirty-three (called the "Supplemental Public Offices Extension c. 33. Act, 1861 "), the Act of the same Session, Chapter Eighty-eight, 24 & 25 Vict. the Act of the Twenty-fifth and Twenty-sixth Years of Her Majesty, c. 88. Chapter Seventy-four, and the Act of the Twenty-eighth and 25 & 26 Vict. Twenty-ninth Years of Her Majesty, Chapter Thirty-one (called 28 & 29 Vict. the Public Offices Act, 1865"), the Commissioners of Her c. 31. Majesty's Works and Public Buildings, as incorporated for the Purposes of the said Acts, have acquired divers Lands and Tenements in and near Downing Street in the City of Westminster, as a Site for Offices for the Public Service, with suitable Approaches thereto, and such Offices are now in course of Erection :

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And whereas it has been found necessary, for the Purpose of improving the Site of and the Approaches to such Public Offices, and of enlarging and improving the Station of the Metropolitan Police in King Street and Gardeners Lane adjoining thereto, that the said Commissioners should also be empowered to acquire the additional Lands described and shown on the Plans herein-after mentioned, but such Lands cannot be acquired without the Authority of Parliament:

And whereas duplicate Plans, describing the Situation of the said Deposit of Lands (herein-after referred to as the prescribed Lands), with a Books of Re

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