Parliamentary Elections Act 1698

II. Recital of 7 & 8 W.III.c.25. § 1.

Officer of the Cinque Ports allowed Six Days for Delivery of Precept.

And whereas by an Act made in the Seaventh and Eighth Yeares of the Reigne of His present Majesty intituled An Act for the further regulating Elections of Members to serve in Parliament and for the preventing irregular Proceedings of Sheriffs and other Officers in the electing and returning such Members It is provided and enacted That the Officer on the Receipt of any such Writt shall within Three Daies after such his. Receipt by himselfe or proper Agent deliver or cause to be delivered a Precept or Precepts to the proper Officer of every Borough Towne Corporate Port or Place within his Jurisdiction to whom the Execution of such Precept doth belong or appertaine which by Experience hath been found too short a time for the performance of the same in the Cinque Ports Be it therefore enacted by the Authority aforesaid That from henceforth the proper Officer of the Cinque Ports shall be allowed Six Daies from the Receipt of such Writt for the Delivery of the Precept according to the Purport of the said Act Any thing in the said Act or any other Law Statute or Usage to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding