59. U. K. cited act; provided he shall produce to the 45 Geo. 3. c. returning officer, if required by him or any elector, the deed, lease, article, or agreement, on producing under which he shall have registered such free- deed, &c. hold, duly executed prior to such registry. ment of ad deemed a ses the meaning of sions lapse, §13. "And, for the greater convenience of Adjournment "registering freeholds," be it enacted, that every and adjourn adjournment of a sessions of the peace, and journment of every adjournment of an adjournment, shall be sessions to be deemed a sessions of the peace within the mean- sions of the ing of the said act, and this present act; and in peace within case there shall have been no adjournment of said act; such sessions, or no adjournment of an adjourn- where there ment of such sessions, and that such sessions being neither such adjourn shall in that case lapse, a sessions shall be holden, ment, and sesat which the clerk of the peace, or his deputy, clerk of peace shall and is hereby required to attend, for the to attend the purpose of registering of freeholders, the first first Monday in Monday in the next month, at the place where month, &c. for the last general sessions of the peace shall have been held for the purpose of registering free- freeholders. holders; and every adjournment of every such Adjournment sessions, to any city or market-town within the of sessions. county, shall be deemed and taken to be a sessions within the meaning of the said act, or this present act. the next the purpose of registering § 14. And be it further enacted, that if any Penalty on person, in taking any oath or affirmation herein perjury and before appointed or authorized to be taken at as under existany registry, or before any returning officer or ing acts. officers, shall thereby commit wilful perjury, and be thereof convicted, or if any person shall unlawfully and corruptly procure or suborn any other person to take any such oath or affirmation, whereby he, or such person or persons, 59. U. K. 45 Geo. 3. c. shall commit such wilful perjury, and shall be thereof convicted, he, or such person or persons so offending, shall incur such pains and penalties as are inflicted by any act or acts for the more effectual preventing, and further punishment of, perjury and subornation of perjury. Commissioners The Stat. 46 Geo. 3. c. 106. U. K. An Act to provide for the better Execution of the several Acts relating to the Revenues, Matters, and Things, under the Management of the Commissioners of Customs and Port Duties, and of the Commissioners of Inland Excise and Taxes in Ireland. [16th July, 1806.] $75. "AND whereas it is necessary that the of customs and said commissioners of customs and port du"ties, and the said commissioners of inland "excise and taxes, respectively, should be en"abled to take lands and tenements for build excise empowered to take for lighthouses, &c. (See ante, 40 Geo. S. c. 43.) ing houses, offices, warehouses, light-houses, "watch-houses, or other accommodations for "the business of the revenue;" be it enacted, that it shall be lawful for all persons, bodies politic and corporate, tenants in tail, tenants for life, infants by their guardians, and the guardians and committees of lunatics and idiots, fêmes covert with their husbands, by leases or deeds indented and inrolled, to demise for any term of years to his majesty, or to the said commissioners respectively for the time being, or to such person or persons as the said commissioners respectively, or any three of them respectively shall appoint, in trust, and to and for the use of his majesty, any lands, not exceeding ceeding in any in any one place six acres, plantation measure, with the tenements thereon, together with such passage or road as may be necessary to such buildings, not exceeding twenty-one feet in breadth, without fine or other consideration, lands not ex one place six acres, &c.; 106. U. K. save only the yearly rent reserved: Provided 46 Geo. S. c. always, that if such land be any part of any fair, green, or market-place, or within the precincts of any city, town corporate, borough, or manor having a right to return citizens or burgesses to parliament; or of any quay, pier, or dock, or any part of any town or village actually built upon, any part of a demesne, or of any lawn, garden, orchard, yard, planted wall, or avenue to a house, or of any park or paddock for deer, not more of such land shall be demised than is absolutely necessary for such purposes as aforesaid: Provided always, that no no right of officer or officers, or other person or persons, voting to be acquired by residing on or inhabiting such lands or tene- residence ments so taken, shall have, acquire, or exercise, thereon. any right of voting for members to serve in parliament, for or by reason of such inhabiting or residence. The Stat. 47 Geo. 3. sess. 1. c. 14. U. K. An Act to amend several Acts, for regulating the Trial of Controverted Elections or Returns of Members to serve in Parliament, so far as the same relate to Ireland. [19th February, 1807.] "WHEREAS an act was made in the forty- 42 Geo. 3. c. "second year of the reign of his present ma- 106. jesty, intitled, An act for regulating the "trial of controverted elections or returns of "members to serve in the united parliament, |