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THOS. NOBLE.

CReIND JURY PRESENTMENTS OF
IRELAND.

(Ordered, by the Horse of Commons, to be printed,
Jells 19, 1822.]
THIRD REPORT.

The Select Committee appointed to consider what provisions
it may be rspedient to establish fur Regolstiun of the
Graad Jury Preserdmrais of Ireland, is order to render
the Levies made uoder that authority more equal, and for
as impartial and comet distribution of the Ts:ratios thus
imposed over the lands to be assessed, upon a scale pro-
portioned to their value; and to report their opinions and
observations thereupon from tome to lime to the Howse;
and so whom several Reports, Petitions, and Papers, pre-
sented to the House in the years 1815 and 1816, and in the
peseta Session of Parlainem, were referred; and who
were empowered to numbs, into the state of the laws regu.
luting Grand Joey Presentments, and to suggest such
alterations therein as may tend to lessen the expeuse with.
out diuWaialsing the efficacy of such provisions—hove made
farther progress in the matters to them referted,and agreed
upon the fallowing Report:—

That it has appeared to you► Committer, high'y esseelial
to obviate amid guard against the recurreace of abases, which
have in sure time one iaalance occurred by t►e insolvency
of count eee rs within • few years, sad the incompe-
(entry or eon-liability of their sureties to make good she defi-
ciency is their account; by reason of the insufficiency of
the existirg proviaious of the law to efl.ct this highly neces-
sary object.
Your Committee, therefore, sad in order to consolidate
and reader effectual the statutory emiactmenta for this per.
pose, venture to recriminated to she adoption of the House,
in place of the existsag regulatioes respecting the office of
County Treasurer, the folio. lug peurriabsas
That the election of Treasurer upon any y which
may occur by death or othrrwise, shell be held, upon one
south's notice to he Kirin by t►e S. aviary so the Grand Jury
in the Gazelle, and also in the newspaper (ilfaey) published
within the comity for which such election is to be held :

That the qualification of property of the Joslitre of the
Peace, who shall be eutitled to vote on such election, shall
be the same as is now required by she 58th George 111. c. 67,
(or Magistrates, who are empowered thereby le consider uf,
■nd determine on, proposals fee making and repairing roads,
and the execution of public works; p►ovided that we► qua.
lificat.on shall arise frum property within she county:
That the meeting competent to make such election shall
consist of seven Magistrates in counties, and five In cities and
towns, so goalies d at she least ; and that the azniur Magis-
trate shall preside in such meeting

That pa pessou be compete,. to 611 such office of comity
treasur.r who, at the time of his election, shall nut make
oath that he is pu di of properly, is his own right, to
the full amount of the security which he is personally re.
qu'red to give by law, according ho the Schedule hercuoto
cl, upon his node:taking site care of county tree-
, sod that sorb property is over and above his just
debts, sad of all charge by acttlettieut or otherwise there.
situ, :

Thal it shall not be lawful fur any person now being
treasurer for any county, city, or ass:se town i• l eland, or
hereafter to be elected is such office, to act as such, after
the Ord day of Jemmy 11813, role** he shall have pro.
dueed to the Magistrates assembled at Michaelmas sessions,
11121, in the ease of existing tiessurers, or at the session
next ensuing after the diction of such as shall be hereafter
appointed (if such wssio• shall take place at a period not
less than one mouth after such rid-doe, or otherwise at ihe
following session or assizes, as the case may lie), the uppro.
bath,n of the validity of the securities to be given by such
treasurer sad his sureties, to the amount of the sums sped.
Ged is the Schedule d to this Report, testified by the
oplaion in writing of the Attorney or SolicitorGenerat, or
a King's Serjeaal, signif)ing their examination into and ap.
probation thereof; and (wither, that the said t and
his said sureties, not less than two nor more than four its
number, AO bare enteric' into retool:ince to the Kiag
conditioned for the due performance of his office, and for
duly accounting for all monies received by him or account
of such county, city, or assize town. A certificate of the
due performance whereof, signed by the Chairman of the
Magistrates so assembled at session, shall be laid before the
Judge and the Grand Jury on the first slay of the next ensu-
ing assizes, together with the wicognixancre
That such reeogoi ball be deposited and duly re-
corded is the Court of Exchequer, and shall have priority
over all other &btu of such treasurer and of his sureties,
which shall be contracted or entered into after their ackuow-
ledging the said recognizance, in like mauner is would lake
place in the case of any collector or other receiver of the
revenue of the Crows.

Your Committee recommend that It be enacted, That
every treasurer be obliged to keep his office open in the as.
size town, two days before the commencement and ten days
after Ilse close of every assizes, fur the tionsaction of busi-
men, during six boars at the least In every day; and that
She baronial collectors be obliged to pay into the I ter at
his office, two days before the commencement of the nas.zra,
the amount of tWa assessments intt meted to their colleettoo,
on pain of forfeiting all claim to their poundage upon such
ossessmeuic

That no treasurer shall compound for any sum to be
raised on the public, nor ►hall make soy deductions frum
any sums paid by him to my peraun, but such as he shall
duly account for; and that be shall be obliged to lay his
accounts before she Grand Jury on the first day of the
assizes, duly made up for ex4mlnsiio• : That II he shall
uffeud herein, or neglect to make up his accounts as above,
or refuse or neglect to make up the amount wf all such
queries as shall have been discharged without fee or reward►
incept the salary provided by the Schedule to this Report,
or any dedwcsioa In lbe way of discount ; or if any person
shall art as treasurer without his security bailie approved
as aforesaid, or without Ft/duties a certificate from the pro-

per offierr, that his 'cruelty hag betm • duly recurde.i is the
Coon of Exebtqurr in %reload, after the production of arch
recognisance to the Judge of assise and Grand Jury al the
•111021., as before mentioued, ►e shall be fisted by the Jufto
of amine is any sum not exceeding nee Mouthed pounds,
and shall be Isy him dismissed from such office of ties.
and be thenceforth rendered incapable of ►oldie(
such office:

That an accurate ab►tract of the accounts of every
treasurer, slating all his receipts and poyments from the
preceding assizes, with the balance in the hands of such
t eeeeeeeee at the crounsenecrnent of such account, be printed
and prefixed to the copies of undischarged coterie', when
printed after rich assize., with the lull balance of the
public money then is the hands of such treasurer, stated at
the foot thereof:

That on high or chief emistabte or sub•eonsiable of polies
.bait be hereafter appointed by any Greed Jury, to be the
collector of say public mosey to be raised within any such
county or any division thereof; and Shot no collector or any
public money, who shall have been or shall be appointed by
any Grand Jury, shall be removed or displaced by any sob.
seri:teat Graud Jury, unless (.Jr seasonable cause abewa i■
open Court, and allowed by the Judge at she assizes :
'That the salaries allotted so she several treasurer by all
Rchedule hereuates annexed, be deemed and liken to be is
full compensation for all duties to be performed by them and
expenses incurred therein; and that no Grand Jury be em.
powered to present fur any other or larger lam to be paid
to them nee that account. .

Your Committee lake leave to represent to the House.
that they have been thus particular in the details submitted
by this Report. from their anxious desire July to provide fur
the exact and faithful boo of a trust su highly im-
portant to the public interests.
19th Jsuer lett