cepted), and all former proceedings of the said 28 Geo. 3. e. 52. committee shall remain and continue to be of the same force and effect as if parliament had not been so prorogued; and such committee shall meet on the day and hour to which it shall be so adjourned, and shall thenceforward continue to sit from day to day, in the manner provided in the above-recited acts, and in this act, until they shall have reported to the house their determination on the merits of such petition.

Form of the Recognizance referred to in this
Act.

in the year of our Lord

before me A. B. [speaker of the house of commons] or [one of his majesty's justices of the peace for the county of came C. D. E. F. and J. G. and severally acknowledged themselves to owe to our sovereign lord the king the following sums; that is to say, the said C. D. the sum of two hundred pounds, and the said E. F. and the said J. G. the sum of one hundred pounds each, to be levied on their respective goods and chattels, lands, and tenements, to the use of our said sovereign lord the king, his heirs and successors, in case the said C. D. shall fail in performing the condition hereunto annexed.

28 jeo.3.c. 52.

The condition of this recognizance is, that if the said C. D. shall duly appear before the house of commons, at such time or times as shall be fixed by the said house for taking into consideration the petition signed by the said C. D. complaining of an undue election or return for the

of

[Here specify the county, city, borough, or district of burghs] or, complaining that no return has been made for the said

of [

] within the time limited

by act of parliament, or, that the return made for the said [

] of [

is not a return of a member or members according to the requisition of the writ, and shall appear before any select committee which shall be appointed by the house of commons for the trial of the same, and shall renew his said petition in every subsequent session of this present parliament, until a select committee shall have been appointed by the said house for the trial of the same, or until the same shall have been withdrawn by the permission of the said house; then this recognizance to be void, otherwise to be of full force and effect.

The Stat. 32 Geo. 3. c. 1.

An Act to extend the Provisions of certain
Acts of Parliament made to regulate the
Trials of controverted Elections, or Returns
of Members to serve in Parliament.

"WHEREAS, by an act passed in the eleventh 11 Geo. 3. c. 42, year of the reign of his present majesty, in"tituled, An act to explain and amend an act, "made in the last session of parliament, in

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tituled, An act to regulate the trials of con"troverted elections or returns of members to serve in parliament, it is enacted, that on the day appointed by the house of commons for taking into consideration any petition com"plaining of an undue election, or return of any member to serve in parliament, the house "shall not proceed to any other business what- ($4.) soever, except the swearing of members, pre"vious to the reading of the order of the day "for that purpose: And whereas, by an act "passed in the twenty-eighth year of the reign "of his present majesty, intituled, An act for 28 Geo. 3. c. 52. "the further regulation of the trials of con"troverted elections, or returns of members to

serve in parliament, it is enacted, that it "shall and may be lawful for the house, pre"vious to the reading such order, to proceed "to such other business as in the said act is particularly specified: And whereas it is of ($12.) "importance, that the like power should be ex"tended to the several cases hereinafter men

32 Geo. 3. c.1.

On day appointed for taking any pe

the house may, previous to reading order of the day for

same, first sages from the

receive mes

lords; or on

"tioned:" Be it enacted, by the king'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, that on the day appointed by the house for taking into consideration any petition complaining of an undue tition, &c. into election, or return of any member to serve in consideration, parliament, or the petition of any person or persons desiring to oppose any right of election, or the right of choosing, nominating, or appointing, any returning officer, or returning officers, which shall have been deemed valid by the determination of any select committee, it shall and may be lawful for the house, previous to the reading the order or orders for taking any such petition or petitions into consideration, to receive any message or messages from the lords; and also that it shall and may be lawful for the house, on the days appointed for the trial of any articles of impeachment, exhibited or to be exhibited by the commons, before the lords in parliament, previous to the reading any such order or orders as aforesaid, to proceed to any business that may be necessary for the pose of carrying on the prosecution of such impeachment.

day appointed articles of im

for trial of

peachment, to proceed to

business neces

sary thereto.

pur

The Stat. 34 Geo. 3. c. 83.

An Act to explain so much of an Act, made in the twenty-eighth Year of his present Majesty's Reign, intituled, An Act for the further Regulation of the Trials of controverted Elections, or Returns of Members to serve in Parliament, as relates to the Time of presenting certain renewed Petitions, and taking the same into Consideration.

"WHEREAS, by an act passed in the twenty- 28 Geo. 3.c. 52. eighth year of his present majesty's reign, intituled, An act for the further regulation of "the trials of controverted elections, and re"turns of members to serve in parliament, it "is enacted, that whenever any such select (§ 26.) "committee of the house of commons, as is "therein mentioned, shall have reported to the "house their judgment respecting the right of "election of members to serve in parliament, "for any county, city, borough, or place, or "of choosing, nominating, or appointing, the "returning officers, who is or are to make re"turn of such election, it shall be lawful for

any person or persons, at any time within "twelve calendar months after the day on "which such report shall have been made to "the house, or within fourteen days after the "day of the commencement of the next session "of parliament, after that in which such report "shall have been made to the house, to peti"tion the house to be admitted as parties to