lectors
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 so
created shall be filled up as if he had assented and
vacated his office by resignation.

(8.) A peerage member shall be entitled to hold office during his life
or until the expiration of _thirty years_ from the appointed day,
whichever period is the shortest. At the expiration of such _thirty
years_ the offices of all the peerage members shall be vacated as if
they were dead, and their places shall be filled by elective members
qualified and elected in manner provided by this Act with respect to
elective members of the first order, and such elective members may b