The History of the Cases of Controverted Elections: Which Were Tried and Determined During the First and Second Sessions of the Fourteenth Parliament of Great Britain, 15 & 16 Geo. III, Parte120,Volumen3

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Página xiv - House has met before that day, or will meet on the day of the issue), issue his warrant to the clerk of the Crown to make out a new writ for electing another member in the room of the member whose seat has so become vacant.
Página xiv - And whereas the faid John Wilkes, Efq; having been again duly elefted and returned a knight of the (hire to ferve in this prefent parliament for the county of Middlefex aforefaid, and having on the original ppll books eleven hundred and forty-thre'e votes in his favour...
Página 160 - ... prefent. WHEN the counfel had argued the point, the chairman faid, That he had enquired into what had been done by the committee in the cafe of Shaftefbury; and that hehad been informed by the gentlemen who had fat in that committee, as well as by fome of the counfel in the caufe, that, although on the firft day of the trial, a refolution had been come to agreeable to what is ftated in the printed report of the cafe, yet they had afterwards found fuch inconvenience attending the rule, that it...
Página 100 - Trent, who pay, or ought to pay, fcot and lot within the faid borough, have a right to vote at the election of members to ferve in parliament for the faid borough.
Página 90 - Is in the inhabitants, paying fcot and lot, and not receiving alms or public charities.
Página vi - Ordered, that all perfons who will queftion any returns of members to ferve in Parliament do queftion the fame within fourteen days next, and fo within fourteen days next after any new return fhall be brought in...
Página 14 - ... shall be sworn at the table, well and truly to try the matter of the petition referred to them, and a true judgment to give according to the evidence ; and shall be a select committee to try and determine the merits of the...
Página xiv - Crown, to make out a new writ for the electing . " of a knight of the mire to ferve in this prefent " Parliament for the county of Weftmoreland, in " the room of the faid Sir James Lowther ; 4 " It ** It pafled in the negative...
Página 78 - That the right of electing members to ferve in parliament for the faid borough of Lymington, is only in the mayor and burgefles of Lymington, exclufive of the commonalty, pay.

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