Compromise
The Act was a compromise, as it effectively disenfranchised the minor landholders of Ireland, the so-called Forty Shilling Freeholders. The Act raised fivefold the economic qualifications for voting. Starting in the initial relief granting the vote by the Irish Parliament in 1793, any man renting or owning land worth at least forty shillings (the equivalent of two Pounds Sterling), had been permitted to vote. Under the Act, this was raised to ten pounds.
Read more about this topic: Roman Catholic Relief Act 1829
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