In Cases of Detention and Remand. Convening Justice in One or more Detention Cases on £ s. d. the same Day Taking Information of Officer to ground Warrant of Warrant of Detention for One Defendant only For each additional Defendant Convening Justice to hear One or more Cases on same For every Summons to Witnesses when required For each Information exhibited For each Witness examined, where Examination does not exceed Two Folios, and Oath For every additional Folio beyond Two Folios Drawing and engrossing Conviction on Parchment to file, and transmitting same to Clerk of Peace 026 0 0 4 0 060 In Cases where the Parties are proceeded against by Summons. Convening Justices to receive Information in One or more Cases for same Day when required by Complainant Summons for Defendant's Appearance, and Duplicate Each Summons for Witnesses (when required), and For each Witness examined, where Examination does For every additional Folio after the Two first Warrant of Commitment, and Copy for Revenue Drawing and engrossing Conviction on Parchment to 9886 7101 2 In Cases where Parties are brought before Justices for Offences Information and Oath to ground Warrant or Summons determinable at Sessions or Assizes. Convening Justices when required 0 2 0 2 Summons to compel Party's Appearance, and Duplicate 0 2233 O 8 Copies ditto for Revenue Solicitor when required, per £ s. d. Folio Warrant of Commitment Recognizance to prosecute and give Evidence 026 - 0 1 0 Recognizance to give Evidence, whatever the Number For each Notice of Recognizance to prosecute or give B. TABLE OF DUTIES referred to in the foregoing Act. CA P. XCI. An Act to provide for the Collection of Rates in the City of [1st August 1849. Dublin. :W HEREAS it is expedient that an Office for the Collection in Schedule of certain public Rates in the City of Dublin should be 'established under due Superintendence and Control:' May it therefore please Your Majesty that it may be enacted; and be it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, That from and after the Tenth Day of Powers of December One thousand eight hundred and fifty the several applotting and Powers, Duties, and Authorities of applotting, levying, and col- collecting Rates lecting the Rates, Cesses, Taxes, and Rents specified in Schedule (A.) to be (A.) to this Act annexed shall cease to be exercised by the vested in ColBodies Politic or Corporate, Boards, Commissioners, or Persons, lector General empowered by any Act or Acts to applot, levy, and collect the of Rates under same, but shall be vested in and exercised by the Collector this Act. General of Rates herein-after mentioned, and shall be performed in the Manner by this Act directed, and not otherwise, anything in such Acts or any of them, or any Law, Statute, or Usage, to the contrary in anywise notwithstanding. General. II. And be it enacted, That it shall be lawful for the Lord Appointment Lieutenant of Ireland, by Warrant under his Hand and Seal, to of Collector appoint from Time to Time such Person as he may think proper to be the Collector General of Rates for the Purposes of this Act, and to remove such Person, and in like Manner to appoint any other Person in his Place; and in case of the Sickness or neces sary Absence of such Collector General it shall be lawful for the said Collector General, with the Approbation of the said Lord Lieutenant, to appoint some other Person to act in the Place of such Collector General; and that the Person who shall for the Collector Time being act as Collector General shall and he is hereby General shall authorized to applot, collect, levy, and receive the Rates, Cesses, applot and and Taxes herein mentioned, and all Arrears thereof, in the Manner by this Act provided. III. And be it enacted, That upon the Death, Resignation, or Removal of any Collector General appointed under this Act, the Balance of Cash for which he shall at that Time have Credit on his Account as Collector General with the Governor and Company of the Bank of Ireland shall, as soon as a Successor shall be appointed to the Office of Collector General, actually vest in such Successor, and shall be immediately transferred to the Account of such Successor, to be applied for the Purposes of this Act; and the Collector General for the Time being is hereby required to issue his Drafts or Orders for all unsatisfied Charges and Demands payable out of the Monies in the Bank, although the same shall have accrued in the Time of any former Collector General. collect Rates, Upon the Death or Removal of the Collector Gene ral, the Balance of Cash at the Bank to be transmitted to his Successor. Upon the Re moval of the IV. And be it enacted, That if any Person, having resigned or having been removed from the Office of Collector General, shall neglect, within Twenty-one Days after Notice for such Purpose, ral his Succes to Collector Gene sor may sue for any Balance remaining in his Hands. Mode of proceeding against the Representatives of a deceased Collector General. to account for and pay to any succeeding Collector General all such Sums of Money as shall remain in his Hands applicable to the Purposes of this Act, it shall be lawful for the Collector General for the Time being in his own proper Name only, or by his Name and Description of Office, to sue for and recover the same from such Person, with Costs of Suit, in any of Her Majesty's Courts of Record at Dublin, by Action of Debt, in which Action it shall be sufficient for such Collector General to declare as for Money had and received to the Use of such Collector General for the Purposes of this Act; and the Defendant in the Action may, at the Discretion of any Judge of such Court, be held to Special Bail in such competent Sum as the Judge shall order; and the Court in which the Action shall be brought may, at the Instance of either of the Parties, refer the Account in dispute in a summary Manner, without Prejudice to such Special Bail, to be audited by any Officer of the Court or other fit Person, who may examine both Plaintiff and Defendant upon Oath (which Oath the said Referee shall have Power to administer); and upon the Report of such Referee, unless either of the Parties shall show good Cause to the contrary, the Court may make a Rule, either for the Payment of such Sum as upon the Report shall appear to be due, or for staying the Proceedings in the Action, and upon such Terms and Conditions as to the Court shall appear reasonable, or the Court may order Judgment to be entered up for such Sum as upon the Report shall appear to be due. V. And be it enacted, That in case of the Death of any Person during the Time that he shall be holding the Office of Collector General, or after he shall have resigned or been removed from such Office, the Collector General for the Time being may, in his own proper Name only, or by his Name and Description of Office, sue for and recover from the Executors or Administrators of such Person deceased all such Sums of Money as shall have been remaining in his Hands applicable to the Purposes of this Act, by an Action of Debt in any of Her Majesty's Courts of Record at Dublin, in which Action it shall be sufficient for the Plaintiff to declare that the Deceased was indebted to the Plaintiff for Money had and received to his Use for the Purposes of this Act, or that the Deceased died possessed of Money had and received for the Purposes of this Act, whereby an Action hath accrued to the Plaintiff to demand and have the same from such Executors or Administrators; and in all such Actions the Defendant or Defendants may plead in like Manner, and avail themselves of the like Matters in Defence, as in any Action founded upon Simple Contracts of the original Testator or Intestate; and the Court may refer the Account in dispute to be audited by any Officer or Person, and may proceed upon the Report of such Referee in like Manner as is herein-before mentioned; and in all Actions to be brought as well as in all Proceedings whatsoever to be instituted or carried on by any Collector General by virtue of this Act, Proof of his acting in the Execution of the Office of Collector General shall be sufficient Evidence of his holding such Office, unless the contrary shall be shown in Evidence by the Defendants in such Actions, or the Parties against whom such Proceedings shall be instituted or carried on. VI. And indemnified for VI. And be it enacted, That the Collector General, his Heirs, Collector Executors, and Administrators, shall be indemnified, out of the General to be Rates and other Monies coming to the Hands of the Collector Acts done in General by virtue of this Act, for all Payments made or Liability the Execution incurred in respect of any Acts which he may do, and for all of his Office. Losses, Costs, and Damages which he may incur in the due Execution of the Powers hereby granted to him. cil to make VII. And be it enacted, That it shall and may be lawful for Lord Lieuthe Lord Lieutenant, by and with the Advice of Her Majesty's tenant in CounPrivy Council in Ireland, to make such Rules and Regulations Rules and Refor the Government of the said Collector General, and of such gulations for Clerks, Collectors, and other Officers as shall be appointed and the Collector employed to assist in the Execution of this Act, as the said General's Office. Lord Lieutenant, with the Advice of the said Privy Council, shall think fit; provided that such Rules and Regulations shall not be repugnant to any Law now in force in that Part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland called Ireland, or inconsistent with the Provisions of this Act. VIII. And be it enacted, That it shall be lawful for the said Salary of ColLord Lieutenant to allow such Collector General a Salary not lector General. exceeding the Sum of Eight hundred Pounds by the Year, payable out of the Monies which he shall so receive; and the said Collector General shall not follow any Profession, Occupation, or Calling, but shall devote his entire Time to the Duties of his Office; and such Collector General for the Time being shall give such Security in such Sum as the said Lord Lieutenant shall direct, such Security to be for the faithful Performance of his Duty as such Collector General under this Act, and for the due Application, and for the Lodgment in the Bank of the Governor and Company of the Bank of Ireland once at least in each Week, of all Monies paid to him under this Act. an Account in IX. And be it enacted, That the said Collector General shall Collector open an Account in the said Bank of Ireland, to be entitled General to open "The Account of the Collector General of Rates in the City of the Bank of Dublin," naming the Collector General for the Time being therein, Ireland. and shall be governed, as to the Manner in which such Accounts shall be kept, prepared, and exhibited for Audit, and in every other respect where the same are not inconsistent with the Provisions of this Act, by such Rules and Regulations as shall be issued in that respect from Time to Time by the Lord Lieutenant with the Advice of the Privy Council aforesaid; and, in case the said Lord Lieutenant shall so direct, such Accounts shall be audited by the Officer who shall be from Time to Time by Warrant authorized by the said Lord Lieutenant to audit and declare the Accounts of the several Treasurers of Counties and Counties of Cities and Towns, under and by virtue of the Provisions of an Act passed in the First Year of the Reign of Her present Majesty, intituled An Act to provide more effectual 7 W. 4. & Means to make Treasurers of Counties and Counties of Cities 1 Vict. c. 54. in Ireland account for public Monies, and to secure the same, or of any Act or Acts amending the same. X. And be it enacted, That the said Governor and Company Bank of Ireland of the Bank of Ireland shall and they are hereby required to open and keep an Account for each of the Bodies Politic or Corporate, each Tax, &c. Boards, to keep a separate Account for |