DECLARATION of GUARDIANS, &c. WE do declare the several Particulars specified in the respective Columns of the above Rate to be true and correct, so far as we have been able to ascertain them, to which End we have used our best Endeavours. T J. J. T &c., &c. A. B., Clerk of the Union. a § 65 (p. 47). This Form of Rate, and the Form of Declaration at foot thereof are now superseded, the provisions relating to them having been repealed by the 10th sec, of 6 & 7 Vic., c. 92, and other provisions made in lieu thereof, in accordance with which the Form of Rate has been prescribed by a General Order of the Commissioners, dated 9 September, 1850 (Part III.) ~ 2 VIC. c. 1, IRISH POOR RELIEF 2 VICT. CAP. 1. AMENDMENT An Act to amend an Act of the First and Аст, 1839. 1&2 Vic.c.56, § 51. Second Year of Her present Majesty for the more effectual Relief of the destitute Poor in Ireland. [15th March, 1839.] TOWNLANDS. § 1. WHEREAS by an Act passed in the last Session of Parliament, intituled An Act for the more effectual Relief of the destitute Poor in Ireland, it is amongst other things enacted, that it shall be lawful for the Poor Law Commissioners from Time to Time, by Order under their Seal, to unite such and so many Townlands as they may think fit to be an Union for the Relief of the destitute Poor; to declare $ 16. any Union to be dissolved, or any Townland or Townlands to be added to or separated from $ 18. such Union; to divide any Union into Electoral Divisions for the Election of Guardians, and to alter any Division from Time to Time as they may see fit, so nevertheless that in making or altering such Division no Townland shall be divided: and Provision is thereby further made for the Election of Guardians 80-88. for every Electoral Division; for the Relief of the destitute Poor resident in such Electoral Divisions, and the charging of the Expense of 61-78. such Relief thereon; and for making and levying Rates within every such Electoral Divi ,, § 17-20, $41-44. 2 VIC. c. 1. AMENDMENT ACT, 1839. Places not Townlands: sion: And whereas the Boundaries of many IRISH POOR Townlands are not accurately known, and RELIEF Places exist which are not Townlands, or not known as Townlands; and Doubts have been entertained whether the Provisions of the said Doubts as to Act can be applied to such Townlands and known as Places; and it is expedient that such Doubts should be removed: Be it therefore declared and 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 the said recited Provisions, and all other Pro- to visions of the said Act in any way relating to Townlands, shall be construed to extend and apply to every Place in Ireland, whether known as a Townland or not. WARDS. Irish Poor extend to Relief Act Ireland. every Place with a exceeding constituted Divisions; divided into the Election 2. And be it enacted, That where in the Towns, &c. Abstract of the Accounts of the Population Population taken by Authority of Parliament under an 10,000, Act made in the Fifty-fifth Year of the Reign may be of King George the Third and the several Electoral Acts amending the same, the Population of and may any City, Borough, or Town, and the Suburbs be subthereof, shall be stated to exceed Ten Thou- Wards for sand,—or where the Population of any other of Guardians. Place shall be so stated to exceed Ten Thousand and the Area of such Place shall not exceed Three Miles for every Ten Thousand Persons,-it shall be lawful for the said Commissioners to constitute such City, Borough, or Town, and the Suburbs thereof, or such other Place, or any Part or Parts thereof respectively, an Electoral Division for the Purposes of the said Act; and, for the Purpose of conducting the Election of Guardians, from 2 VIC. c. 1. Time to Time, to divide such Electoral Division IRISH POOR AMENDMENT Аст, RELIEF into such and so many Wards, and to alter the same as they may see fit, and to determine and alter the Number of Guardians to be elected by the Rate-payers in every such Ward. 1839. Places may be declared for purposes of the Act. TOWNLAND BOUNDARIES. 3. And be it enacted, That it shall be Townlands lawful for the Commissioners, by Order under their Seal, to declare any Place not known to the said Commissioners as a Townland or Townlands to be, for the purposes of the said Act, a Townland. Boundaries declared by the Purposes 4. And be it enacted, That in every Case in which the Boundaries of any Townland, or of any Place declared by the Commissioners to be a Townland, shall not be determined of the Act. and made known to the Commissioners, it shall be lawful for the said Commissioners, by Order under their Seal, to declare, for the Purposes of the said Act, the Boundaries of such Townland or Place; and the Boundaries so declared shall accordingly be deemed and taken to be the Boundaries of such Townland or Place, until the true Boundaries thereof shall be lawfully ascertained and made known to the Commissioners and until they shall have revoked such Order. At Elections of Guardians, to have votes, Scale, in any ELECTION OF GUARDIANS. 5. And be it enacted, That in the ElecRate-payers tion of Guardians under the provisions of the according to said Act, every Rate-payer" who under the last Division in Rate made in any Union, shall have paid or which they contributed or be liable to pay or contribute Rate in respect of Property in any Electoral Division, shall have a Vote or Votes in the Election of Guardians in such Electoral Divi pay Rate. a For definition of "Rate-payer," see § 80 of 1 & 2 Vic. c. 56 (p. 57). sion, according to the Scale of Votes provided 2 Vic. c. 1, by the said Act". LOANS FOR PRELIMINARY EXPENSES. IRISH POOR 1839. exceeding be borrowed previous to of a Rate. 6. And whereas, under the said Act, cer- Sums not tain Expenses may be incurred in and about £200 may the Election of Guardians, in making Rates, to defray Surveys, and Valuations, and in other respects, Expenses before any Rate can be levied or collected the levying for the defraying of such Expenses; be it enacted, That, for the Purpose of defraying any Expenses to be incurred in carrying the Provisions of the said Act into execution previous to the levying of a Rate in any Union, it shall be lawful to borrow and charge upon the first Rate to be made and levied in such Union under the Provisions of the said Act, a Sum not exceeding Two Hundred Pounds, with Interest thereon. CONVEYANCES OF LAND, &c. made in the 7. And be it enacted, That all Convey- Conveyances ances or Assignments on the Purchase or Sale Form set of any Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments, forth in the by the Poor Law Commissioners, under the be valid." Provisions of the said Act", may be made according to the Form set forth in the Schedule hereunto annexed", or in such other Form or Forms as the Poor Law Commissioners shall from Time to Time direct, or as near thereto as the Number of Parties, the Nature of the Interests, and the Circumstances of the Case, will admit; and such Conveyances shall be valid and effectual in the Law, without Livery of Seisin being made, or any Bargain and Sale to vest Possession being executed or recited or referred to, and without being 1 & 2 Vic. c. 56, § 81 (p. 58). See 1 & 2 Vic. c. 56, § 35-40 (pp. 25-30). • Page 100. F |