11 G. 1. c. 18. 8. 2. London. S. 4. 3 G. 2. c. 8. Norwich. 21 G. 3. c. 54. s. 9. Coventry. Returning officer admitting any person to poll without administering oath, if required For every wilful offence, including the not reading that act immediately after the writ or precept £ £ 100 .. 100 Not delivering a copy of the poll.· 500 Officer not making a return within proper time This includes returns to all writs, but not to precepts. Besides the before-mentioned penalties, the act of 7 & 8 W.3. c. 7. s. 2. declares that the party duly elected, but not returned, may recover double damages; and the 25 G.3. c. 84. s. 13. provides that the returning officer offending against that act may be prosecuted by information or indictment; and sect. 14 declares that the person, who ought, in the opinion of the committee, to have been returned, may bring an action against the officer, and recover double damages. The officer refusing to swear persons before polling, if required, for every such offence Any person offending in the premises shall, for every offence, above all other penalties, forfeit For every refusal to admit the clerk, &c. into prison to take the votes of persons in prison for debt For every refusal to swear persons before polling, if required The officer for admitting persons to poll without being sworn, shall, for every offence, forfeit 50 200 80 500 60 200 50 50 100 The Clerk of the Peace is subject to the following penalties. For every wilful offence against that act including the not keeping a book for registering annuities, or not giving forthwith copies of tificates required, or not attending elections upon notice cer For every offence in neglecting to permit the inspection or to deliver copies of any duplicates, or to attend at the place where the records are kept, or at the election upon notice, and he shall forfeit his office, and not be capable of being appointed to such office for any county The clerk or other officer of towns or boroughs, having the custody of books of freemen, is subject to the following penalties. For wilfully and fraudulently antedating admission of a freeman, for every offence. This extends to any person committing the offence. For every refusal to permit the inspection, and grant copies of the admissions, or to produce them at the election, if demanded For every refusal to permit the inspection, or give copies of the admissions . IRELAND. The Returning Officer is subject to the fol lowing penalties. Unnecessary delay This extends also to deputies. Returning more persons than required L 4 35 G. 3. c. 29. s. 15., 4 G. 4. c. 55. 8.69. 35 G. 3. c. 29. s. 13., 4G. 4. c. 55. s. 68. 35 G. 3. c.29. s. 14., 4G.4. c. 55. s.73. 35 G. 3. c. 29. Bs. 17. & 18. 4 G. 4. c.55. 8.72. 1 G. 4. c. 11. B. 25., 4G. 4. c. 55. s.75. 35 G.3. c. 29. c. 55. s. 62. The deputy is liable for not delivering up his s. 10., 4G.4. poll book when required, or taking the poll when directed to stop, or after his deputation be revoked 35 G. 3. c. 29. S.44. 8.65. $.68. 8.70. Any person. 37 G. 3. c. 47. 8. 6. The Clerk of the Peace for counties generally, For every offence in not keeping any of the And for every offence in not attending at any sessions for the registry of freeholders, or omitting to give copies of poll books For not registering the residence of an inhabitant of a borough, or not giving to the churchwardens a copy of the book, or not keeping the same undamaged memprison not more than 3 years and incapacity hold any of fice under the crown. Any person, not excepting the clerk of the peace and the churchwardens, stealing, destroying, or maliciously altering any of the registry Three years books, or suffering the same to be done, shall suffer ment. Any person unlawfully detaining or refusing 101. and one to deliver up any of the books at the times therein directed. For every book neglected to be delivered in court to the sheriff, previously to the commencement of the poll months im prisonment for every day the same de tained. 500 For every offence in taking more than one shilling for preparing an affidavit. For every offence in not appointing a deputy and an assistant deputy to attend at the poll place, or to have the original affidavits or af firmations of registry endorsed, or to make the due entries in a book, or to cause registry books to be printed and delivered to the clerk of the crown, or to certify in every certificate that the written instrument was stamped according to law. The Chief Magistrate and Clerk of the Peace for counties of cities and towns, are subject to the following penalties. For every offence, if the chief magistrate shall neglect to hold any sessions when required, or if he shall not register the freehold of a person qualified Or if the clerk of the peace shall neglect to attend at any sessions of the peace on notice by a freeholder, or to do any act necessary for the registry of a freehold For every offence in not returning within ten days a copy of the registry of all freeholders from the original registry book, or a true copy of the same from the alphabetical or any or either of the books, within any period to be stated by the freeholder. This is for the same offence as s. 44 of the 35 G. 3. c. 29., omitting the words, copies of poll books. (See last page.) |