STATE PAPERS. 



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at the table of the house of lords 

 whilst the house is sitting ; and the 

 peer or peers whose name or names 

 shall be first drawn out by the clerk 

 of the parliament, shall be deemed 

 the peer or peers elected, as the case 

 may be : that any person holding 

 any peerage of Ireland now sub- 

 sisting, or hereafter to be created, 

 shall not thereby be disqualified 

 from being elected to serve if he 

 shall think fit, or from serving, or 

 continuing to serve if he shall think 

 fit, for any county, city, or bo- 

 rough of Great Britain in the house 

 of commons of the united king- 

 dom, unless he shall have been pre- 

 viously elected as above to sit in the 

 house of lords of the united king- 

 dom ; but that, so long as such peer 

 of Ireland shall so continue to be a 

 member of the house of commons, 

 he shall not be entitled to the privi- 

 lege of peerage, nor be capable of 

 being elected to serve as a peer on 

 the part of Ireland, or of voting at 

 any such election ; and that he shall 

 Ije liable to be sued, indicted, pro- 

 ceeded against, and tried, as a com- 

 moner for any offence with which 

 he may be charged : that it shall be 

 lawful for his majesty, his heirs and 

 successors, to create peers of that 

 part of the united kingdom called 

 Ireland, and to make promotions, 

 in the peerage thereof after the 

 union ; provided that no new crea- 

 tion of any such peers shall take 

 place after the union, until three of 

 the peerages of Ireland, which shall 

 have been existing at the time of 

 the union, shall have become ex- 

 tinct ; and upon such extinction of 

 three peerages, that it shall be law- 

 ful for liis majesty, his heirs and 

 successors, to create one ])eer of 

 that part of the united kingdom 

 called Ireland ; and ia like manner 



so often as three peerages of that 

 part of the united kingdom called 

 Ireland shall become extinct, it shall 

 be lawful for his majesty, his heirs 

 and successors to create one other 

 peer of the said part of the united 

 kingdom ; and if it shall happen that 

 the peers of that part of the united 

 kingdom called Ireland, shall, by 

 extinction of peerages or otherwise, 

 be reduced to the number of one 

 hundred, exclusive of all such peers of 

 that part of the unitedkingdomcalled 

 Ireland as shall hold any peerage of 

 Great Britain subsisting at the time 

 of the union, or of the united king- 

 dom created since the union, by 

 which such peers shall be entitled 

 to an hereditary seat in the house 

 of lords of the united kingdom, then 

 and in that case it shall and may be 

 lawful for his majesty, his heirs, and 

 successors, to create one peer of 

 that part of the united kingdom 

 called Ireland, as often as any one 

 of such one hundred peerages shall 

 fail by extinction, or as often as 

 any one peer of that part of the 

 united kingdom called Ireland shall 

 become entitled by descent or crea- 

 tion to an hereditary seat in the 

 house of lords of the united king- 

 dom ; it being the true intent and 

 meaning of this article, that at all 

 times after the union it shall and 

 may be lawful for his majesty, his 

 heirs, and successors, to keep up the 

 peerage of that part of the united 

 kingdom called Ireland, to the num- 

 ber of one hundred, over and above 

 the number of such of the said 

 peers as shall be entitled by descent 

 or creation to an hereditary seat in 

 the house of lords of the united 

 kingdom : that if any peerage shall 

 at any time be in abeyance, such 

 peerage shall be deemed and taken 

 as an existing peerage; and no 



