Qualification of Commissioners.
II. Provided always, That no Person shall be capable of acting as a Commissioner in the Execution of this Act, except in administering the Oath herein-after mentioned (which Oath any One of the said Commissioners is hereby empowered to administer), unless at the Time of his acting he shall be qualified in Manner herein-before mentioned, and until such Person shall have taken and subscribed an Oath to the Effect following; (that is to say),
The Oath.
‘I A. B. do swear, That I truly am in my own Right, or in the Right of my Wife, in the actual Possession and Enjoyment, or Receipt of the Rents and Profits, of Lands, Tenements or Hereditaments, of the clear yearly Value of Thirty Pounds [or that I am Lessee (or Occupier) of a House, Tenement, or Land, rated or liable to be rated at Thirty Pounds per Annum at the least, by virtue or for the Purposes and] within the Limits of an Act of Parliament, made in the Thirtieth Year of the Reign of King George the Third, intituled, [Set forth the Title of the Act]; and [in the Case of such Occupier as aforesaid] that I am resident within the Limits aforesaid, and am possessed of a Personal Estate of the Amount or Value of Two thousand Pounds.
‘So help me GOD.’
And if my Person, not being qualified as aforesaid, shall act as a Commissioner in the Execution of this Act, he shall for every such Offence forfeit and pay the Sum of Twenty Pounds to any Person who shall sue for the same in any of His Majesty’s Courts of Record, by Action of Debt or on the Case; and the Person so prosecuted shall prove that he is qualified as aforesaid, or otherwise shall pay the said Penalty, without any other Proof or Evidence being given on the Part of the Plaintiff, than that such Person hath acted as a Commissioner in the Execution of this Act.