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c. 47, EVICTED POOR PROTECTION ACT, 1848.

thereof, or otherwise,) shall, except so far as 11 & 12 Vic. may be necessary to enable the Sheriff or his Officer to effect an Entrance thereto, pull down, demolish, or unroof, in whole or in part, or cause to be pulled down, demolished, or unroofed, in whole or in part, such Dwelling House or Building used as a Dwelling House, whilst such Person or any of his Family shall be actually within the same, shall be guilty of a Misdemeanor.

Act

to

Ireland, and

ings on the

Crown.

8. And be it enacted, That all the Pro- Provisions of visions in this Act contained, shall apply, and to apply shall be construed to apply, to all the Estates Property in and Possessions of the Crown in Ireland, and to Proceedto all Proceedings taken on behalf of Her part of the Majesty, under the Authority of the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury, or the Commissioners of Woods and Forests, or the Clerk of the Quit Rents, for recovering the Possession of any Part of such Crown Estates, whether by Writ of Intrusion, Ejectment, or otherwise, in as full and ample a Manner and subject to all the Enactments herein contained and made applicable in respect to all private Parties recovering the Possession or proceeding to recover the Possession of other Lands, not being the Property of the Crown.

9. And be it enacted, That in the Con- Interpretastruction of this Act, where the Subject or tion of Act. Construction shall not be repugnant, Words importing the Singular Number shall extend to and include the Plural, and Words importing the Masculine Gender shall include Females as well as Males.

amended, &c.

10. And be it enacted, That this Act may Act may be be amended or repealed in the present Session of Parliament.

12 & 13 VIC. c. 4.

VICE-GUAR

DIANS ACT, 1849.

Commission

discontinue Vico-Guar

dians and order Elec

dians at any

Time.

12 & 13 VICT. CAP. 4.

An Act to amend the Laws relating to the Appointment of Vice-Guardians of Unions in Ireland.

[9th March, 1849.]

[THIS Act, after reciting the power given to the Commissioners by the 1 & 2 Vic. c. 56, and the 10 Vic. c. 31, to dissolve Boards of Guardians, and appoint paid Officers to carry into execution the provisions of those Acts, authorized the continuance in office of paid Officers in Unions which had been dissolved before the preceding 25th of March, until the 1st of November, after the passing of the Act. These provisions are consequently now obsolete, and the only provision of the Act which continues in force is the following:-1

RE-ELECTION OF BOARDS OF GUARDIANS.

§ 3. And be it enacted, That it shall be lawers may ful for the said Commissioners at all Times", in any Case in which the Board of Guardians of a Union shall have been heretofore or shall tion of Guar be at any Time hereafter dissolved, and in which paid Officers shall have been or shall be appointed as aforesaid, to issue an Order under their Seal directing the Discontinuance in Office of such paid Officers and the Reelection of a Board of Guardians; and on the Issue of such Order under the Seal of said

a Under the previous Acts there was no provision for re-electing Guardians after the dissolution of the Board in any Union, at any other period than March-the ordinary time for the Annual Election of Guardians (§ 20, 26 of 1 & 2 Vic. c. 56, pp. 12, 19).

e. 4,

DIANS ACT, 1849.

Commissioners, such Election of a Board of 12 & 13 Vic. Guardians shall take place according to the VICE-GUARDirections of the said Commissioners, and all the Powers and Authorities of such paid Officers shall cease and determine at the Time fixed for that Purpose in the Order of the said Commissioners.

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§ 1. WHEREAS it is expedient to amend the Laws in force for the more effectual Relief of the destitute Poor in Ireland: Be it therefore 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 Rules for for the Purpose of charging the Expense of expense of Relief to any Electoral Division, every Person according to making Application for Relief shall, after the Residence of passing of this Act, be deemed to have been resident in such Electoral Division in which during the Period of Three Years next immediately before his Application for Relief he shall have been longest usually resident, whether by usually occupying any Tenement

■ Previous provisions on this head, in § 44 of 1 & 2 Vic. c. 56 (p. 32), § 12 of 6 & 7 Vic. c. 92 (p. 115), and § 12 of 10 Vic. c. 31 (p. 131). See also further provisions in 25 & 26 Vic. c. 83, § 1 (p. 216).

Relief

applicants.

c. 104,

LAW

FURTHER

AMENDMENT

Аст,

12 & 13 Vic. situate, or by usually sleeping, within such IRISH POOR District: Provided always, that where any such Person shall not have occupied a Tenement or slept within any such Electoral Divi1849. sion for at least Twelve Months in the whole during the said Period of Three Years, the Expense of the Relief of such Person shall in such Case be borne by and charged against the whole Union in which he or she is relieved; provided also, that where any Person chargeable to any Electoral Division shall have received Relief, and shall cease to be relieved, and shall thereafter within the Period of Twelve Months again begin to receive Relief, such last-mentioned Relief shall be chargeable on the Electoral Division to which such Person was in the first instance chargeable; provided also, that the Cost for the Relief of destitute Poor who shall not have resided in the Union where such Relief is given for the last Three Years next previous to receiving such Relief, shall be charged and chargeable according to the Provisions of an Act passed in the Tenth Year of Her present Majesty, intituled An Act make further Provision for the Relief of the destitute Poor in Ireland.

Dissolution or alteration

DISSOLUTION OR ALTERATION OF UNIONS.

2. And be it enacted, That so much of an Act passed in the Second Year of Her provisions in present Majesty's Reign, intituled An Act for

of Unions: Repeal of

1 & 2 Vic.

.. 56.

the more effectual Relief of the destitute Poor in Ireland, as authorizes and empowers the Commissioners therein mentioned, in case of

a 10 Vic. c. 31, § 12 (p. 131). Section 13 of 6 & 7 Vic. c. 92 (p. 115), provides an Appeal against the decision of a Board of Guardians charging a pauper to an Electoral Division, in the same manner as Appeals may be had under 1 & 2 Vic. c. 56, § 106, and 2 Vic. c. 1, § 9.

c. 104,

LAW

AMENDMENT

ACT,

1849.

ers to issue

ment of Ac

any altera

Union or
Electoral

Division

a total or partial Dissolution of any Union, 12 & 13 VIC or other Alteration of the Limits thereof, to IRISH POOR ascertain the proportionate Value of any FURTHER Property to any Townland, and the proportionate Amount of the Liabilities chargeable to any Townland affected by such Alteration, and to fix the Amount payable to or from any Townland so affected, and to direct the Manner of paying, securing, and applying the Sums so payable, and the raising of the same, be repealed, except as to anything heretofore done or now pending under the said Act; and that, from and after the passing of this CommissionAct, it shall be lawful for the Commissioners Order for for administering the Laws for the Relief of the Adjustthe Poor in Ireland, and they are hereby counts on required, in all Cases wherein any Change tion of the shall be made, under the Provisions of the limits of a said Act, in the Boundaries of any Union or Electoral Division, to make such Order under their Seal as to them shall appear necessary, for the Adjustment of the Liabilities of such Union or Electoral Division existing at the Time of Change, and the proportionate Share thereof to be borne by any Townland or Townlands affected by such Change, and likewise for indemnifying any Union, Electoral Division, or Townland for any Loss or Exchange of Property occasioned by such Alteration of Boundaries, and for charging on any such Union, Electoral Division, or Townland, the Value of any Property or Share thereof acquired or taken in Exchange by reason of such Alteration, and the Expense of such Indemnification as aforesaid; and the Commissionsaid Commissioners shall be empowered to ers may order direct, if they shall see fit, the levying of any Rates to be Sum which it shall be necessary to raise for necessary for

1 & 2 Vic. c. 56, § 16 (p. 9).

Special

the above

purpose.

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