186 ANNUAL RE G I S T E R, 1800. 



peerage shall be deemed extinct 

 unless on default of claimants to the 

 inheritance of such peerage for the 

 space of one year from the death of 

 the person who shall have been last 

 possessed thereof ; and if no claim 

 shall be made to the inheritance of 

 such peerage, in such form and man- 

 ner as may from time to time be 

 prescribed by the house of lords of 

 the united kingdom before the ex- 

 piration of the said period of a year, 

 then and in that case such peerage 

 shall be deemed extinct ; provided 

 that nothing herein shall exclude 

 any person from afterwards putting 

 in a claim to the peerage so deemed 

 extinct, and if such claim shall be 

 allowed as valid by judgement of the 

 house of lords of the united king- 

 dom, reported to his majesty, such 

 peerage shall be considered as re- 

 vived; and in case any new crea- 

 tion of a peerage of that part of the 

 united kingdom called Ireland shall 

 have taken place in the interval in 

 consequence of the supposed ex- 

 tinction of such peerage, then no 

 new right of creation shall accrue 

 to his majesty, his heirs, or succes- 

 sors, in consequence of the next 

 extinction which shall take place of 

 any peerage of that part of the 

 united kingdom called Ireland: 

 that all questions touching the elec- 

 tion of members to sit on the part 

 of Ireland in the house of commons 

 of the united kingdom, shall be 

 heard and decided in the same man- 

 ner as questions touching such elec- 

 tions in Great Britain now are, or 

 at any time hereafter shall by law be 

 heard and decided, subject never- 

 theless to such particular regulations 

 in respect of Ireland as from local 

 circumstances ths parliament of the 

 united kingdom may from time to 

 time deem expedient : that the qua^ 



lifications in respect of propertj* of- 

 the members elected on the part of 

 Ireland to sit in the house of com- 

 mons of the united kingdom 

 shall be respectively the same as 

 are now provided by law in the 

 cases of elections for counties and 

 cities and boroughs respectively 

 in that part of Great Britain called. 

 England, unless any other provision, 

 shall hereafter be made in that re- 

 spect by act of parliament of the 

 united kingdom: that when his 

 majesty, hisheirs, or successors, shall 

 declare his, her, or their pleasure, 

 for holding the first or any subse- 

 quentparliamentof the unitedking- 

 dom,a proclamation shall issue under 

 the great seal of the united king- 

 dom, to cause the lords spiritual and 

 temporal and commons who are to 

 serve in the parliament thereof on 

 the part of Ireland, to be returned 

 in such manner as by any act of this 

 present session of the parliament of 

 Ireland shall be provided; and that 

 the lords spiritual and temporal and 

 commons of Great Britain shall, 

 together with thelords spiritual and 

 temporal and commons so returned 

 as aforesaid on the part of Ireland, 

 constitute the two houses of the 

 parliament of the united kingdom : 

 that if his majesty, on or before the 

 1st day of January, 1801, on which 

 day the union is to take place, shall 

 declare, under the great seal of 

 Great Britain, that it is expedient 

 that the lords and commons of the 

 present parliament of Great Britain 

 should be the members of the re- 

 spective houses of the first parlia- 

 ment of the united kingdom on the 

 part of Great Britain, then the said 

 lords and commons of the present- 

 parliament of Great Britain shall 

 accordingly be the members of the 

 respective houses of the first parlia- 



