An Act to enable the Postmaster General to sit in the House of Commons
WHEREAS it has been considered that the Office of Postmaster General is a "new Office or Place of Profit under the Crown" according to the true Intent of the Act passed in the Sixth Year of the Reign of Queen Anne, Chapter Seven, and that the Person holding the same is thereby incapacitated from sitting or voting as Member of the House of Commons, and it is expedient that Provision should be made for enabling the Holder of the said Office to sit in the House of Commons? Be it therefore enacte...