A Compendium of the Practice at Elections of Members to Serve in Parliament: As Regulated by the Several Statutes in Force in Ireland, with an Appendix of Forms and the Modern Statutes |
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Page 117 - ... 2. Every person who shall after any election directly or indirectly, by himself, or by any other person on his behalf, receive any money or valuable consideration on account of any person having voted or refrained from voting, or having induced any other person to vote or refrain from voting at any election...
Page 118 - Every person who shall directly or indirectly by himself, or by any other person on his behalf make use of, or threaten to make use of any force, violence, or restraint, or inflict or threaten the infliction by himself or by or through any other person of any temporal or spiritual injury, damage, harm, or loss...
Page 160 - Act annexed, or as near thereto as the Circumstances of the Case will admit...
Page 158 - ... and the same may be according to the form in the Schedule (A) to this Act annexed, or to the like effect ; and for such certificate the company may demand any sum not exceeding the prescribed amount, or if no amount be prescribed then a sum not exceeding two shillings and sixpence.
Page 116 - ... to or for any voter, or to or for any person on behalf of any voter, or to or for any other person in order to induce any voter to vote, or refrain from voting...
Page 117 - Parliament, or the vote of any voter at any election; 5. Every person who shall advance or pay or cause to be paid, any money to or to the use of any other person with the intent that such money or any part thereof shall be expended in bribery at any election...
Page 36 - Are you the same person whose name appears as AB on the register of voters now in force for the county of \j>r for the riding, parts, or division of the county of ], or for the city [or borough] of [as the case may be] ? 2.
Page 124 - King George the Second, intituled "An Act for the " more effectual preventing Bribery " and Corruption in the Election of " Members to serve in Parliament.
Page 118 - Expense? incurred for any Meat, Drink, Entertainment, or Provision to or for any Person, in order to be elected, or for being elected, or for the Purpose...
Page 121 - Pounds (to be acknowledged in like Manner as is now required in Cases of Writs of Certiorari awarded at the Instance of a Defendant in an Indictment':, with the Conditions following ; that is to say, that the Prosecutor shall conduct the Prosecution with Effect, and shall pay to the Defendant or Defendants, in case he or they shall be acquitted, his or their Costs.