STATE PAPERS. 



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ment of the united kingdom on the 

 part of Great Britain ; and they, 

 together with the lords spiritual and 

 temporal and commons so summoned 

 and returned as above on the part of 

 Ireland, shall be the lords spiritual 

 and temporal and commons of the 

 first parliament of the united king- 

 dom ; and such first parliament may 

 (in that case) if not sooner dissolved, 

 continue to sit so long as the present 

 parliament of Great Britain may by 

 law now continue to sit, if not 

 sooner dissolved : provided always, 

 that until an act shall have passed in 

 the parliament of the united king- 

 dom, providing in what cases per- 

 sonsholding offices or places of pro- 

 fit under the crown in Ireland shall 

 be incapable of being members of 

 the house of commons of the parlia- 

 ment of the united kingdom, no 

 greater number of members than 

 twenty holding such offices or places 

 as aforesaid shall be capable of sit- 

 ting in the said house of commons of 

 the parliament of the united king- 

 dom ; and if such a number of 

 members shall be returned to serve 

 in the said house as to make the 

 whole number of members of the 

 said house, holding such offices 

 or places as aforesaid more than 

 twenty, then, and in such case, the 

 seats or places of such members as 

 shall have last accepted such offices 

 or places shall be vacated, at the 

 option of such members, so as to 

 reduce the number of members 

 holding suchoffices or places to the 

 number of twenty ; and no person 

 holding any such office or place shall 

 be capable of being elected, or of 

 sittinginthe said house, while there 

 are twenty persons hoi ding such of- 

 fices or places sitting in the said 

 l^ouse ; and that every one of the 

 lyrds of parliament of the united 



kingdom, and every member of the 

 house of commons of the united 

 kingdom, in the first and all suc- 

 ceedingparliaments, shall, until the 

 parliament of the united kingdom 

 shall otherwise provide, take the 

 oaths, and make and subscribe the 

 declaration, and take and subscribe 

 the oath now by law enjoined to be 

 taken, made, and subscribed by the 

 lords and commons of the parlia- 

 ment of Great Britain : that the 

 lords of parliament on the part of 

 Ireland, in the house of lords of 

 the united kingdom, shall at all 

 times have the same privileges of 

 parliament which shall belong to 

 lords of parliament on the pai't of 

 Great Britain ; and the lords spiri- 

 tual and temporal respectively on 

 the part of Ireland, shall at all 

 times have the same rights, in re- 

 spect of their sitting and voting 

 upon the trial of peers, as the lords 

 spiritual and temporal respectively 

 on the part of Great Britain ; and 

 that all lords spiritual of Ireland 

 shall have rank and precedency next 

 and immediately after the lords 

 spiiitual of the same rank and de- 

 gree of Great Britain, and shall en- 

 joy all privileges as fully asthelords 

 spiritual of Great Britain do now or 

 may hereafter enjoy the same ; the 

 right and privilege of sitting in the 

 house of lords, and the privileges 

 depending thereon, and particularly 

 the right of sitting on the trial of 

 peers, excepted ; and that the per- 

 sons holding any temporal peerages 

 of Ireland existing at the time of the 

 union, shall, from and after the 

 union, have rank and precedency 

 next and immediately after all the 

 persons holding peerages of the like 

 orders and degrees in Great Britain 

 subsisting at the time of the union; 

 and that all peerages of Ireland, 



