Assurance required by the Scots stats. of W. & M. 1st Parl. sess. 2. c. 38., and sess. 4. (1693) c. 6., and s. 2., to be taken by Freeholders in Shires in Scot- land, before the Election of Preses and Clerk, and also before the Election of the Members to serve in Parliament. . . . . . . . . Oath required by 16 G. 2. c. 11., to be taken by a Ma- gistrate at the Election of a Burgess; by the Com- mon Clerk before the Election of Commissioners to choose a Burgess; by the Clerk of the presiding Bo- ib. 17 ditto for 2 G. 2. c. 24. s. 1., read 2 G. 2. c. 24. s. 4. 18 2nd line for c. 24. s. 7, read c. 17. s. 14. 38 Margin, for c. 2. read c. 25. 41 22nd line, for st. 1., read st. 2. 126 2nd line of note, for 22nd G. 2., read 22nd G. 3. 128 15th line, for c. 24., read c. 28. A DIGEST OF THE LAW OF ELECTIONS. CHAPTER I. PROCEEDINGS ON ELECTIONS FOR ALL PLACES IN A PARLIAMENT shall be held once in every year, or 4E.3.c.14. oftener if need be. 26 E. 3 c. 10. A parliament shall be held at least once in three 16C, 2. c. 1. years. Within three years from the dissolution of parliament, writs shall be issued for a new parliament. By 6 A. c. 7. s. 7. the act of 6 W. & M. c. 2. is declared to extend to the Parliament of Great Britain. Forty days must intervene between the teste and re- 7 & 8 W. 3. turn of the writs for a new parliament, the lord chan- c.25.8.1. Forty days cellor, lord keeper, or lords commissioners of the Great between Seal, shall issue them. Fifty days however now intervene, the reason of which appears to be that the twenty-second article of the treaty of union with Scotland limited the power of Queen Ann in calling the first Parliament to a period not less than fifty days from the date of the proclamation, and the same interval has been continued ever since. The writs are now issued B teste and writ. |