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to sit in Parliament, but now any one may be a
member of the House of Commons who can induce a
constituency to return him, except an alien, a minor,
one mentally imbecile, a beer, a clergyman of the
Established Churches of England and Scotland, or
3 priest of the Roman Catholic Church, a judge
other than the Master of the Rolls, a Government
Contractor other than a Ioan Contractor, a bankrupt,
 and persons attainted of treason or felony,
who are as dead in law.
The qualifications of electors, or persons who are
entitled to vote for members of Parliament, ares
generally, being a male of 2p years of age, and
either having property in land or buildings of a
certain amount, or living in a certain settled residence
 for at least 12 months previous to being
registered as a voter. More particularly the qualifi-.
cations are, for voting in a borough, (1) being for 12
preceding months a resident occupier of a dwellinghouse
 within the borough ; (2) having for the same
period occupied lodging of the yearly value of £10;
(3) belonging to certain specified classes of persons,
as (in some cases) that of « freemen.” For voting
in counties the requirements are—

(x) Being a “frecholder” of lands or buildings
 of the yearly value of £2 at least, these lands
or buildings being either occupied by the freeholder,
or, if not, acquired by him through marriage, a
will, or promotion to an office,