STATEMENT showing the Value of the Qualification for the Office of Elected Guardian as fixed by the Poor Law Commissioners under the 19th section of the 1 & 2 Vic., c. 56.

NOTE. In those cases where more than one sum is set opposite to the name of a union, the Commissioners have, under the authority of the 6th section of the 12 & 13 Vic., c. 104, fixed different qualifications for different electoral divisions. The particulars are always set forth in the notice of the election which is issued annually.

STATEMENT showing the Value of the Qualification for the Office of Elected Guardian, &c.—continued.

70

Security of officers,

721

Continuance in office and suspension of officers: Supply of

vacancies,

722

Duties of the Clerk to the Guardians,

724

Duties of the Treasurer,

728

Duties of the Collectors of Rates,

728

Duties of the officers of the workhouse,

730

Duties of Relieving Officers,

730

Duties of Warden,

732

Duties with respect to the audit of Accounts,

733

Explanation of terms,

733

FORM (A.)-Requisition for an extraordinary meeting of Guardians, . 734

Guardians, .

(B.)-Notice of Clerk convening an extraordinary meeting of

734

(C.)-Notice of change of period, time, or place of meeting,
(D.)-Notice of an adjourned meeting of Guardians,

734

735

SCHEDULE.

GENERAL ORDER amending the general regulations of 19th January,
1852, so far as relates to the appointment and continuance in
office of Collectors of Poor Rates,
GENERAL ORDER relating to the relief of orphan and deserted children
out of the workhouse,
GENERAL ORDER amending the general regulations of 19th January,
1852, so far as relates to the qualification for the office of Medical
Officer of a workhouse,

GENERAL ORDER extending the provisions of the Order of 10th October, 1862, relating to the qualification of Medical Officers of workhouses,

GENERAL ORDER amending the general regulations of 19th January, 1852, so far as relates to the qualification for the office of Medical Officer of a workhouse,

Instructions to Clerks of Unions as to the annual preparation of the list of ex-officio Guardians,

735

736

738

741

744

746

GENERAL ORDER

FOR REGULATING THE

MEETINGS AND PROCEEDINGS

OF

BOARDS OF GUARDIANS IN IRELAND,

AND THE

APPOINTMENT AND DUTIES OF UNION OFFICERS.

REGULA-
TIONS:

To the GUARDIANS OF THE POOR of the several GENERAL Unions named in the Schedule hereunto annexed, and the OFFICERS of such Unions; to 19 JAN. 1852. the CLERK or CLERKS to the JUSTICES of the PETTY SESSIONS held for the Division or Divisions in which the Townlands and Places comprised within the said Unions are situate, and to all others whom it may concern.

RESCINDING OF FORMER ORDERS.

WE, the Commissioners for administering the Laws for Relief of the Poor in Ireland, in pursuance of the authorities vested in us, by an Act passed in the second year of the reign of Her Majesty, Queen Victoria, intituled, "An Act for the more effectual relief of the destitute poor in Ireland," and by the other Acts in force for the relief of the poor in Ireland, and amending the said Act, do hereby rescind so much of every Order heretofore issued by the Poor Law Commissioners, or the Commissioners for administering the Laws for Relief of the Poor in Ireland, to the several unions named in the schedule hereunto annexed, and now in force, as is in any way affected or altered by the Regulations herein contained, except so far as the same may have authorized the making of any contract not yet