HOW THE KING "DISCHARGES" PARLIAMENT

Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 132, 30 November 1935, Page 27

HOW THE KING "DISCHARGES" PARLIAMENT

In the "Lundon Gazette," in quaint traditional language, is set forth the constitutional procedure for "Dissolving the Present Parliament and Declaring the Calling of Another," says the "Daily Telegraph." The Proclamation by the King is in the following terms: — "GEORGE IV.I. "Whereas We have thought fit, by and with the advice of Our Privy Council, to dissolve this present Parliament wh:i:h stands prorogued to Tuesday, tht: Nineteenth day of November nexi:; We do, for that End, publish this Our Royal Proclamation, and do heresy dissolve the said Parliament accordingly; and the Lords Spiritual ami Temporal, and the Knights, Citizens, and Burgesses, and the Commissioners for Shires and Burghs, of the House of Commons are discharged ftom their Meeting and Attendance on the said Tuesday, the Nineteenth d.iy of November next: And We being desirous and resolved, as soon as may be, to meet Our People, and. to have their Advice in Parliament, do hereby make known to all Our Loving Subjects Our Royal Will and Pleasure to call a. new Parliament. ..." "GOD SAVE THE KING." There follows another Proclamation by the King "in Order to the Electing and Summoning the Sixteen Peers of Scotland." "GEORGE R.I. "Whereas We have in our Council thought fit to declare Our pleasure for summoning and holding a Parliament of Our Unitiid Kingdom of Great Britain and Nor;hern Ireland on Tuesday, the Twenty-Kixth, day of November next ensuing the date hereof: In order therefore, to the.electing and summoning the Sixteen Peers of Scotland who are to sit in the House of Peers in

the said Parliament, We do, by and with the advice of Our Privy Council, issue forth this Our Royal Proclamation, strictly charging and commanding all the Peers of Scotland to assemble and meet at the Palace of Holyrood House, in Edinburgh, on Friday the Fifteenth day of November next at Twelve o'clock noon, to nominate and choose the ■ Sixteen Peers to sit and vote in the House of Peers in the said ensuing Parliament. . . ." Both these Proclamations are "Given at Our Court at Buckingham Palace this Twenty-fifth day of October, in the year of our Lord One thousand nine hundred and thirty-five, and in the Twenty-sixth year of Our Reign." Then comes a short notice signed by Sir Maurice P. A. Hankey, Clerk to the Privy Council, declaring that the King, having dissolved the present Parliament and declared the calling of another, is pleased to order the Lord High Chancellor and the Governor, of Northern Ireland forthwith to "cause writs to be issued in due form and according to law for the calling of a new Parliament, to meet at the City of Westminster on Tuesday, the twenty-sixth day of November next; which writs are to be returnable in due course at' law."

There are two more Notices, signed by Sir Maurice Hankey. The first announces that the King, by and with the advice of his Privy Council, orders that the Convocations of Canterbury and York be forthwith ■ dissolved and calls upon the Lord; High Chancellor to issue the usual Writs for that purpose.

The second announces that the King, in the same manner, orders the Writs to be issued "in due form of Law," for electing new Members ■of the Convocations of the Clergy, the Writs to be returnable on Wednesday, January 22 1936.