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GENERAL No. 42.-FORM of MEMORIAL from a Board of Guardians to the Commissioners, to take Land under and for the Purposes of 11 & 12 Vic. c. 25.

No. 42. Memorial of Guardians to take Land.

11 & 12 Vic. cap. 25, sec. 1.

Union.

To the Commissioners for administering the Laws for Relief of the Poor in Ireland. WE, the undersigned, being Guardians of Union, in pursuance of the provisions of an Act passed in the twelfth year of Her present Majesty, entitled, "An Act to extend the powers given by former Acts for purchasing or hiring land, in connexion with or for the use of Workhouses in Ireland, and for providing for the Burial of the Poor," do hereby memorialize you, the Commissioners for administering the Laws for Relief of the Poor in Ireland, to hire or purchase-in addition to the quantity of land authorized by law before the passing of the above Act to be purchased or hired for the site of a workhouse, or to be occupied therewith, or for the site of a fever ward, or for a cemetery, or other purpose such further quantity of land, not to exceed twentyfive statute acres, as may be deemed necessary, for the purpose of being cultivated for the enployment of children or persons under the age of sixteen, being inmates of the Workhouse in the said Union, and for the further purpose of thus instructing such children in an improved system of the cultivation of land.

Witness our hands hereunto subscribed, at the respective dates hereunder written.

Signatures of Guardians.

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Clerk, for the time being, of the

Union, certify that the foregoing are the signatures of a majority of the whole number of Guardians of the said Union.

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ADDENDA.

“THE Jurors Act (Ireland)," and "The Local Government (Ireland) Act," were passed during the printing of this volume, but too late for insertion in their appropriate place. The provisions of those Acts, and of "The Sanitary Act, 1868," and "The Sanitary Loans Act, 1869," both of which are incorporated with "The Local Government (Ireland) Act," are given below, so far as they affect the duties of Boards of Guardians or their officers, or the administration of the Sanitary Laws by Boards of Guardians.

34 & 35 VIC.

c. 71,

JURIES ACT

1871.

34 & 35 VIC. CAP. 71.

(IRELAND), EXTRACTS from the " Act to amend and consoli date the Laws relating to Juries in Ireland," passed 14th August, 1871.

Short Title.

Extent of

Act. Interpre tation of terms.

1. This Act may be cited for all purposes as "The Juries Act (Ireland), 1871."

2. This Act shall extend to Ireland only.

3. In the construction and for the purposes of this Act (if not inconsistent with the context or subject-matter), the following words shall have the respective meanings hereinafter assigned to them, that is to say,—

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County" shall include "county of a city," "county of a town," and "the city and county of Londonderry :"

"Court" shall mean and include each of the Superior Courts at Dublin, and every Court of Assize, Nisi Prius, Oyer and Terminer and Gaol Delivery, every general Sessions of the Peace, every Civil Bill Court, and every Recorder's Court:

"Judge❞ shall include every Justice and Com-
missioner of Assize, Nisi Prius, and Over
and Terminer and Gaol Delivery, every
Chairman of the Civil Bill Court, and also
every Chairman of Justices presiding at
general Sessions of the Peace for any county,
and every Recorder, and also every person
duly appointed and acting as deputy for any
of the Judges aforesaid:

"Sheriff" shall include Under-Sheriff:
'Juror" shall mean male persons only:
"Barony" shall include half-barony or other

division of a barony, and in counties of cities
or counties of towns shall mean wards.

c. 71.

8. The Clerk of the Peace of every county in 34 & 35 VIC. Ireland, except the county of the city of Dublin, JURIES ACT shall, within one week after the first day of July in (IRELAND), every year, issue and deliver his precept, in the Clerk of

1871.

to Clerks of

Form A set forth in the third Schedule hereto Peace to annexed, to the Clerk of each poor law union issue precept wholly or partly included within such county, Unious. requiring each such Clerk of poor law union to prepare and return to such Clerk of the Peace, on or before the first day of August next ensuing, a complete and true list for each barony of such county within his union of all men between the ages of twenty-one and sixty years (except those exempted or disqualified by this Act from being returned or serving on juries) residing in such county, rated either in their own names or as members of a co-partnership in the then last rate made in the said union for the relief of the poor in respect of lands, tenements, or hereditaments situate in such barony within such included union, of the net annual value fixed for such county in the fourth Schedule to this Act, and also to perform and comply with all other the requisitions in the said precept contained; and such Clerk of the Peace shall annex to every such precept a printed copy of the second Schedule of this Act, and shall cause a sufficient number of forms to be printed, according to the Form B set forth in the third Schedule hereto annexed, and shall issue and deliver with the said precept a sufficient number of the said forms for the use of the persons by whom the same are to be filled up and returned as hereinafter directed.

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9. Forthwith after the receipt of such precept Clerks of from the Clerk of the Peace, the Clerk of every return lista. poor law union shall (after due inquiry, which he is hereby required to make with the assistance of the respective Collector or Collectors of Poor Rate within his union, and which assistance

Sec. 10 relates to the city of Dublin, and requires the precept to be given to the Collector-General instead of to the Clerk of the Union.

c. 71,

(IRELAND), 1871.

34 & 35 Vic. every such Collector or Collectors is and are JURIES ACT hereby required to give for such purpose,) prepare, in alphabetical order of surnames, and consecutively numbered, a complete and true list for each barony of such county within his union, in the Form B set forth in the third Schedule hereto annexed, of the names of all men between the ages of twenty-one and sixty years (except those exempted or disqualified by this Act from being returned or serving on juries) residing in such county and rated as aforesaid in respect of lands, tenements, or hereditaments of the net annual value specified in such precept, situate in such barony, with their Christian names and surnames written at full length, and with the true or last known place of abode, and the title, quality, calling, or business, and the net annual value and place of the rated lands, tenements, or hereditaments of each such man, and shall inscribe the same in the proper columns of the said forms, and shall, on or before the first day of August next ensuing the receipt of such precept as aforesaid, deliver the said forms with the said list so inscribed therein, and with the declarations at the foot or end of the said list, in the said form set forth, signed respectively by the Collector or Collectors by whose assistance such list shall have been prepared, and by the said Clerk of Union; and such list, when prepared and delivered as aforesaid, shall be called the "General List of Jurors" for the barony of the county for which the same shall have been prepared.

Revision of

"General Lists of

12. The Clerk of the Peace of every county in Ireland shall, between the eighth day of September Jurors" and and the twenty-fifth day of October inclusive, in cial Jurors every year, bring the several "General Lists of by Parlia Jurors" and "Lists of Special Jurors" for each vision Courts. barony of the county so furnished to and made

"Lists of Spe

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out by him as aforesaid, before the Court (or one of the Courts) at which the register of Parliamentary voters for such barony shall be revised, and of the time and place of holding such Court every such Clerk of the Peace shall cause public

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