Compendium of the Irish Poor Law: Containing the Acts for the Relief of the Destitute Poor in Ireland and Various Statutes Connected Therewith: Including the Medical Charities Act; Vaccination Acts; General Valuation Acts; Sanitary Acts; Acts for the Registration of Births, Deaths, and Marriages; Acts Relating to the Removal of Irish-born Poor from England and Scotland, &c., &c.,: Also the General Regulations Issued by the Poor Law Commissioners, with Instructional Circulars and Forms

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A. Thom, 1872 - Poor laws - 1131 pages

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Page 412 - means the Act of the session of the eleventh and twelfth years of the reign of Her present Majesty, chapter forty-three, intituled " An Act to facilitate the performance of the duties of justices of the peace out of sessions within England and Wales, with respect to summary convictions and orders...
Page 946 - Ireland may, at their discretion, with the consent of the commissioners for administering the laws for relief of the poor in Ireland...
Page 628 - ... on the trial of any issue joined or of any matter or question, or on any inquiry arising in any suit, action, or...
Page 412 - All powers given by this Act shall be deemed to be in addition to and not in derogation of any other powers conferred by Act of Parliament, law, or custom...
Page 385 - parochial" shall mean and include and extend to every parish and every extra-parochial place, and every township or village within which overseers of the poor are separately appointed under the provisions of an act passed in the thirteenth and fourteenth years of the reign of his late Majesty King Charles the Second, intituled " An Act for the better Relief of the Poor of this Kingdom...
Page 857 - And whereas by an act passed in the fourth year of the reign of her Majesty, intituled " An Act to regulate Railways...
Page 192 - ... shall enter into a recognizance before some justice of the peace, with sufficient securities, conditioned to try such appeal...
Page 338 - ... at any time before issue joined, to pay into court such sum of money as he shall think fit, and thereupon such proceedings shall be had as in other cases where defendants are allowed to pay money into court.
Page 755 - Second years of the reign of her present Majesty, Queen Victoria, intituled "An Act for the more effectual Relief of' the Destitute Poor in Ireland...
Page 392 - Questions arising at any meeting shall be determined by a majority of votes of the members present ; and in case of an equality of votes the chairman shall have a second or casting vote.

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