OF THE

PRACTICE AT ELECTIONS

OF

Members to Serve in Parliament,

AS REGULATED BY THE

SEVERAL STATUTES IN FORCE IN IRELAND.

With an Appendix

OF

FORMS AND THE MODERN STATUTES.

BY

JOHN WILLIAM CARLETON, Esq.,

ONE OF HER MAJESTY'S COUNSEL.

Sixth Edition.

DUBLIN:

HODGES, SMITH, AND CO., 104, GRAFTON-STREET,
Booksellers to the Hon. Soc. of King's Inns.

1865.

PREFACE TO THE SIXTH EDITION.

THE design of this little book is to enable every person engaged in the proceedings of an Election-as Sheriff, Returning-Officer, Candidate, Agent, Deputy, Justice of the Peace, Poll-Clerk, Check-Clerk, or Constable— to inform himself, in the shortest possible time, of the particular duties he will have to discharge and the liabilities to which he will be exposed.

The numerous alterations introduced since the publication of the Fifth Edition, have rendered it necessary to revise and re-cast the whole work, so as to make the present Edition a clear and accurate epitome of the law as it is at this day.

LOWER LEESON-STREET,

December, 1864.

J. W. C.

TABLE OF CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I.

OF THE PROCEEDINGS FROM THE ISSUING OF THE WRIT TO

THE GRANTING OF THE POLL,

PAGE

1-8

CHAPTER II.

OF THE PROCEEDINGS BETWEEN THE GRANTING AND THE

OPENING OF THE POLL,

9-21

OF THE PROCEEDINGS AFTER THE FINAL CLOSE OF THE POLL, 45-52