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houfe of lords ; and, in the Cafe of an equality of votes in 
the eleftion of a temporal peer, the clerk of the parlia¬ 
ment fhall determine the election by drawing one of the 
names from a glafs. 
That a peer of Ireland, not defied one of the twenty- 
eight, may (it in the houfe of commons; but, whiltt he 
continues a member of the houfe of commons, he (hall 
not be entitled to the privilege of peerage, nor capable of 
being defied one of the twenty-eight, nor of voting at 
fucli eleflion ; and he (hall be fued and indifled for any 
offence as a commoner. 
That, as often as three of the peerages of Ireland, ex- 
ifting at the time of the union, (hall become extinfl, the 
king may create one peer of Ireland : and, when the peer3 
of Ireland are reduced to one hundred by extinflion, or 
otherwife, exclufive of thofe who (hall hold any peerage of 
Great Britain fubfifting at the time of the union, or cre¬ 
ated of the united kingdom fince the union, the king may 
then create one peer of Ireland for every peerage that be¬ 
comes extincl, or as often as any of them is created a peer of the 
united kingdom ; fo that the king may always keep up the 
number of one hundred Irifh peers, over and above thofe 
who have an hereditary feat in the houfe of lords. 
That queftions refpefling the eleclion of the members 
of the houfe of commons returned for Ireland, (hall be 
tried in the lame manner as queftions refpefling the elec¬ 
tions for places in Great Britain, fubjeft to fuch particular 
regulations as the parliament afterwards (hall deem expe¬ 
dient. 
That the qualifications by property of the reprefenta- 
tives in Ireland, fhall be the fame refpeftively as thofe for 
counties, cities, and boroughs, in England, unlefs fome 
other provifion be afterwards made. 
That all the lords of parliament on the part of Ireland, 
fpiritual and temporal, fitting in the houfe of lords, (hall 
have the fame rights and privileges refpeftively as the 
■peers of Great Britain; and that all the lords fpiritual 
and temporal of Ireland fhall have rank and precedency 
next anil immediately after all the perfons holding peer¬ 
ages of the like order and degree in Great Britain, fub¬ 
fifting at the time of the union ; and that all peerages 
hereafter created of Ireland, or of the united kingdom, 
of the fame degree, (hall have precedency according to 
the dates of their creations; and that all the peers of Ire¬ 
land, except thofe who are members of the houfe of com¬ 
mons, (hall have all the privileges of peers as fully as the 
peers of Great Britain, the rights and privileges of fitting 
in the houfe of lords and upon the trial of peers only 
excepted. 
5. That the churches of England and Ireland be united into one 
jprotcjlant epifcopal church, to be called , The United Church of 
England and Ireland ; that the doElrine and worfhip Jhall be the 
fame ; and that the continuance and prefervation of the united 
church , as the e/lahli/ked church of England and Ireland, Jhall 
be deemed an ejfential and fundamental part of the union ; and 
that, in like manner, the church of Scotland (hall remain 
the fame as is now eftablilhed by law, and by the acts of 
union of England and Scotland. 
6. The fubjefts of Great Britain and Ireland fhall be 
entitled to the fame privileges with regard to trade and na¬ 
vigation, and alfo in refpect of all treaties with foreign 
powers. That all prohibitions and bounties upon the im¬ 
portation of merchandiie from one country to the other 
fhall ceafe. But that the importation of certain articles 
therein enumerated (hail be fubjeft to fuch countervail¬ 
ing duties as are fpecified in the aft. 
7. The finking funds, and the intereft of the national 
debt, of each country, (hall be defrayed bv each fepa- 
rately. And, for the (pace of twenty years after the 
union, the contribution of Great Britain and Ireland to¬ 
wards the public expenditure in each year, (hall be in the 
proportion of fifteen to two, fubjeft to future regulations. 
8. All the laws and courts of each kingdom (hall re¬ 
main the fame as they are now eftahlillied, fubjeft to fuch 
alterations, by the united parliament, as circpmftances 
w. 
may require ; but that all writs of error and appeals fTiatl 
be decided by the houfe of lords of the united kingdom, 
except appeals from the court of admiralty in Ireland, 
which fhall be decided by a court of delegates appointed 
by the court of chancery in Ireland. 
By 44. Geo. III. c. 92, it is enacted, that, where per¬ 
fons, againft whom warrants have been ifl'ued by judges, 
&c. in Ireland for any crime or offence againft the laws 
of Ireland, fhall “efcape, go into, rel'ide, or be,” in Eng¬ 
land or Scotland ; or where any perfons, againft whom 
warrants have been iffued in England or Scotland for 
any offence againft the laws of England or Scotland ref¬ 
peftively, fhall efcape, See. into Ireland ; any juftice of 
peace of the county or place whither or where fuch per- 
fon fhall efcape, &c. fhall indorfe the warrant, and the 
perfon charged may be apprehended in the place where 
fuch warrant is fo indorled, and carried into England, 
Scotland, or Ireland, as the cafe may require, to be then 
proceeded againft according to law. By 45 Geo. III. c. 
92, if the offence is not bailable, the original warrant 
fhall be fo indorfed ; but, if it is bailable, the party fhall 
be bailed in the place where he is apprehended, by dupli¬ 
cate bonds, one to be tranfmitted to the proper officer of 
the place where the warrant was iffued, and the other to 
the court of exchequer in the county where the party is 
bailed ; and the penalty may be levied in the county 
where the bond is taken, on certificate of the breach 
thereof to the exchequer there. No warrant fhall be in¬ 
dorfed, under thefe afts, unlefs ifl'ued, 1. upon an indict¬ 
ment or information found or filed in England or Ireland; 
or 2. criminal letters under fignet of the court of judi¬ 
ciary in Scotland ; or 3. in refpect of fome capital crime 
or felony mentioned in the warrant. By the latter aft, 
fubpeenas in criminal profecutions may beferved in Eng¬ 
land to compel appearance in Ireland, and fo vice verfi. 
LAW, adj. Belonging to law, ufed in proceffes at law. 
LAW (John), a famous financial projeftor, was the 
fon of a goldfmith in Edinburgh, in which city he was 
born about 1681. He was bred to no particular profef- 
fion ; but, having a natural turn to calculation, he made 
himfelf a proficient in numbers, and in the fpeculations 
depending upon them. Whilft a very young man, he ob¬ 
tained the confidence of the king’s minifters for Scotland 
fo far as to be employed to arrange the revenue-accounts, 
which were in great diforder before the union of the two 
kingdoms. For the purpofe of remedying the want of a 
circulating medium in that country, he propofed the ef- 
tablifhment of a bank, which, according to this plan, 
might iffue paper-money to the amount of the value of all 
the lands in the kingdom ; an idea that feems to have 
been the bafis of all his after-projefts ; this, however, 
was too bold a fcheme to be adopted. At the death of 
his father, in 1704, he fucceeded to the (mail eftate of 
Lauriefton, near Edinburgh, of which his mother was 
heirefs. He then commenced fine gentleman, and fnp- 
plied the deficiencies of his income by gaming. In con¬ 
sequence of a duel, in which he killed his antagonift, be 
fled from his country, carrying with him, it is laid, ano¬ 
ther man’s wife. He vifited Venice and Genoa, from 
both which cities he was banifhed as a fharper. He wan¬ 
dered through moft of the towns of Italy, fupporting 
himfelf chiefly by the fuccefs of Angular wagers, in which, 
by his (kill in calculations, he always took care that the 
chances fhould be in his favour. At Turin he propofed 
his financial fyftem to the duke of Savoy, who had too 
much wifdom and regard for his fubjefts to make trial of 
it. He had already made application to the minifters of 
Louis XIV. who had rejected his fchemes ; but the re¬ 
gency of the duke of Orleans was more favourable 
to him. The fondnefs of that prince for fplendid novel¬ 
ties, and the great embarraffment of the public finances, 
caufed his plaufibie projefts to be liftened to. His firft 
operation was the eftablifhment of a general bank, com- 
pofed of 1200 fhares of 3000 livres each. This was 
founded by royal authority in 1716 ; and, by the mode- 
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