ields
two hundred pounds a year or upwards, free of all charges; or

(_b._) if personalty yields the same income, or is of the capital
value of four thousand pounds or upwards, free of all charges.

(2.) For the purpose of electing the elective members of the first order
of the Legislative Body, Ireland shall be divided into the electoral
districts specified in the First Schedule to this Act, and each such
district shall return the number of members in that behalf specified in
that Schedule.

(3.) The elective members shall be elected by the registered electors of
each electoral district, and for that purpose a register of electors
shall be made annually.

(4.) An elector in each electoral district shall be qualified as
follows, that is to say, he shall be of full age, and not subject to any
legal incapacity, and shall have been during the twelve months next
preceding the _twentieth day of July_ in any year the owner or occupier
of some land or tenement within the district of a net annual value of
twenty-five pounds or upwards.

(5.) The term of office of an elective member shall be _ten years_.

(6.) In every fifth year thirty-seven or thirty-eight of the elective
members, as the case requires, shall retire from office, and their
places shall be filled by election; the members to retire shall be those
who have been members for the longest time without re-election.

(7.) The offices of the peerage members shall be filled as follows; that
is to say,--

(_a._) Each of the Irish peers who on the appointed day is one of
the twenty-eight Irish representative peers, shall, on giving his
written assent to the Lord-Lieutenant, become a peerage member of
the first order of the Irish Legislative Body; and if at any time
within _thirty years_ after the appointed day any such peer vacates
his office by death or resignation, the vacancy shall be filled by
the election to that office by the Irish peers of one of their
number in manner heretofore in use respecting the election of Irish
representative peers, subject to adaptation as provided by this
Act, and if the vacancy is not so filled within the proper time it
shall be filled by the election of an elective member.

(_b._) If any of the twenty-eight peers aforesaid does not within
_one month_ after the appointed day give such assent to be a
peerage member of the first order, the vacancy s