Sligo and Cashel Disfranchisement Act 1870
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1870 c. 38 |
| Year | 1870 |
Sligo and Cashel Disfranchisement Act, 1870
(33 & 34 Vict.) CHAP. 38.
An Act to disfranchise the Boroughs of Sligo and Cashel.
[1st August 1870]
W HEREAS representations were made to Her Majesty, in joint addresses of both Houses of Parliament, to the effect that the judges selected in pursuance of the Parliamentary Elections Act, 1868, for the trial of the petitions complaining of undue elections and returns for the boroughs of Sligo and Cashel at the elections of members to serve in Parliament, respectively held for the said boroughs in the month of November one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, had respectively reported to the House of Commons as to the said borough of Sligo that corrupt practices extensively prevailed at the said election, and as to the said borough of Cashel that there was reason to believe that the corrupt practice of bribery did extensively prevail at the said election:
And whereas, in pursuance of such representations, Commissioners were appointed under two several commissions, both dated the twenty-third day of June one thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine, for the purpose of making inquiry into the existence of such bribery and corrupt practices, in pursuance of the Act of Parliament passed in the sixteenth year of the reign of Her present Majesty, chapter fifty-seven, intituled ‘An Act to provide for the more effectual inquiry into the existence of corrupt practices at elections for members to serve in Parliament:’
And whereas the Commissioners so appointed reported to Her Majesty:
(1) (1.) As respects the said borough of Sligo, that corrupt practices had extensively prevailed in Sligo at the elections of the years one thousand eight hundred and sixty, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, and the said election of the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight:
(2) (2.) As respects the said borough of Cashel, that the election of the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty-five was conducted in a corrupt manner on the part of one of the candidates, and that corrupt practices were committed at the said election, and that the said election of the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight was conducted in a corrupt manner on the part of each of the candidates:
And whereas it appears by the report of the said Commissioners as to the said borough of Cashel, that corrupt practices extensively prevailed in Cashel at both the said elections:
Be it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by...
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