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support of the poor in Ireland shall be subject to the direction
and controul of the Commissioners.
4. The Commissioners are to issue general rules, which
rules are not to take effect for forty days after their promul-
gation. The King in Council may disallow them, in which
case they will be of none effect.
5. All general rules arc to be submitted to Parliament one
week after the commencement of each Session.
6. All orders of the Commissioners are to be carefully for-
warded to the Magistrates and Board of Guardians in each
district.
7. The rules are to be open to the inspection of the rate-
payers, who are to be allowed to copy them, or to be furnished
with copies of them upon the payment of a trifling sum, stated
in the Act.
8. Boards of Guardians obliged, under severe penalties to
carry into operation the notices of the Commissioners for the
revocation of previous orders.
9. The Commissioners empowered to depute their authority.
10. The names of all Assistant-Commissioners to be pub-
lished in the London Gazette.
11. The Commissioners may vary or revoke the powers de-
legated by them at their pleasure.
12. By virtue of the power delegated to them, the As-
ristant-Commissioners may administer oaths, and compel evi-
dence to be given under their sanction. Should individuals
object to swear, they must sign a declaration which shall be
regarded as an oath.
13. All persons convicted of giving false evidence, or of
subscribing false declarations, to suffer the pains and penalties
of perjury. Persons refusing to be examined to be deemed
guilty of a misdemeanour.
14. The Commissioners and their assistants, may allow the
reasonable expenses of witnesses.
15. The Commissioners, by their order, may declare any
district in Ireland, without reference to existing civil or eccle-
siastical divisions, a Union for the relief of the poor under
this Bill.
16. They may also, when they please, by their order, alter
nr dissolve such Union ; but not to the prejudice of persons
who may have entered into contracts.
17. In every Union there must be a Board of Guardians.
18. Under certain circumstances, of which the Commis-
sioners arc to be the judges, the election of Boards of Guar-
'Hans may be temporal ily postponed.
19. The Commissioners may divide the Unions into elec-
toral districts.
20. The Commissioners are to fix the number of Guardians
:or each Union. No person in holy orders, or being a regular
Minister of any religious denomination, eligible to serve as a

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Guardian.
21. The Guardians to be elected annually. Day of election
the 25th of March.
22. Guardians eligible to be re-elected.
23. When vacancies occur in the Boards, from the death or
disqualification of Members, the rest are empowered to act as
if there was no vacancy.
24. Every Justice of the Peace, not being a Stipendiary
Magistrate, an Assistant-Barrister, or in Holy Orders, is to be
ex-officio a Guardian of the Poor.
25. The ex-officio Guardians of an Union are not to exceed
one-third the Guardians elected by the rate-payers.
26. If any district refuse to elect Guardians, or if the Guar-
dians, or any one of them, refuse to act, the Commissioners
may appoint Guardians for the year, and so on from year to
year, without regard to the will of the rate-payers.
27. Where the Guardians refuse to act, or act negligently,
the Commissioners may appoint officers to discharge their
functions, and also grant them a fixed salary to be paid out of
the rates.
28. Boards of Guardians, Bodies Corporate for the time
being, and therefore enabled to sue and be sued. Commis-
sioners and their Assistants entitled to attend all meetings of
Boards, but not to vote.
29. Boards only to meet by orders of Commissioners. The
signature of three Guardians to give validity to all contracts.
30. No Guardian is to exercise any power, or enter into any
contract, but at meetings of Boards, at each of which three
members, at least, must be in attendance.
31. The acts of Boards Lot v;tiated by subsequent discc-
veries, or proofs of defect of title.
32. 33. 34. Paid officers to be appointed and dismissed at
the pleasure of the Commissioners only. Their salaries to be
paid out of the rates.
35. All property belonging to hospitals and other charitable
institutions in Iceland, to be vested in the Commissioners.
36. The Commissioners may order any number of work-
houses to be built, or may rent buildings capable of being con-
verted into workhouses. They may rent or purchase laud
for each workhouse, but the quantity must not exceed twelve
acres. They may borrow money for such purposes, and
charge it with interest upon the rates. They may also com-
pel the Guardians to furnish them with whatever they may
consider necessary for the maintenance and employment of the
poc r.
37. Guardians, Trustees, Executors, Committees, and Cor-
porations, may dispose of any property held by them in trust,
if the same shall be required by the Commissioners.
38. The provisions of the 7th Geo. IV. c. 74, entitled, "An
Act for consoliditing and amending the laws relating to
prisons in Ireland," are to extend to the acts of tho Cons-

missioners.
39. The sale of property to the Commissioners is not to
be vitiated by a subsequent discevcry of a defect of title.
40. The Lords of the Treasury are empowered to permit
barracks to be converted into workhouses.
41. The Comeiissieners authorized to sell workhouses, and
the lands appertaining thereto, when useless. The purchase-
money to be applied to the purchase of other tenements fur the
use of the poor.
42. When the Commissioners declare a workhouse fit for
the reception of the peer, the Guardians are to exercise their
own discretion in receiving into it objects of charity.
43. A Clergyman of the Established Church, a Catholic
Priest, and a Dissenting Minister, are to be appointed, if ne-
cessary, to perform religious duty in each workhouse. The
Commissioners are to allow each a fixed salary.
44. No inmate of a workhouse is to be compelled to attend
a religious worship of which he does not conscientiously ap-
prove.
45. The Board of Guardians in each Union to appoint a
Warden to look after and bring the destitute poor to the work-
house, and to report from time to time upon the state of desti-
totion in his own district.
46. When the Commissioners declare any workhouse fit
for the reception of poor, all local or other acts for the regu-
lation of hospitals or other charitable foundations within the
limits of that union are henceforth repealed.
47. AU hospitals, infirmaries, and asylums are to be subject
in all things to the control of the Commissioners.
48. All Justices of the Peace are empowered to visit work-
-1 houses and asylums, and to prosecute to conviction all persons
refusing to obey the orders of the Commissioners.
1 49. Neither the Commissioners nor the Guardians are to
employ any money raised under this Act to the use of the Poor
in any way not therein distinctly specified.
50. All husbands and wives are bound to maintain their
children, legitimate, or illegitimate, until they shall have at-
tained the age of fifteen years. In the cases of husbands and
wives, the one is bound to maintain the illegitimate children
of the other respectively. Where the mother is unmarried,
she is to be held chargeable for the maintenance of the bas-
tard, if under her care.
51. Relief given to wives and children is to be considered
as relief given to those morally bound to maintain them.
52. The relief may be given by the Commissioners by way
of loan, the amount of which shall be recoverable by the
Union from the individual to whom it is given.
53. The wages of all persons to whom relief has been given
by way of loan may be attached in default of payment, and
the whole amount recovered by regular weekly instalments to
be paid into the hands of the Guardians by the master or em-
ployers.
54, 55. All persons deserting their families, running away
from the workhouses, guilty of a gross breach of the regular
discipline, or begging in any Union where the Guardians are
willing to receive them as inmates of the workhouse, are
liable to imprisonment in the common gaol for a month ; and
for a second offence three months.
56. The individuals offending as stated above may be af-
prehended by any persons. All constables bound to appre-
hend every such-offender.
57. Persons suspected may be apprehended, by virtue of a
warrant signed by any Justice of the Peace.
58. Money or effects found upon offenders to be employed
in defraying the expenses of their prosecution.
59. The Boards of Guardians empowered to levy rates.
60. The following hereditaments are rateable under thin
Act, viz.:-
All lands, buildings and opened mines ; all tithes and
compositions or rents in lieu of tithes ; all commons and rights
of common, and all other profits to be had, received or taken
out of any land (except rents-seek and rents-charge, he-
riots and services) ; all rights of fishery and rights to run-
:ring water or water power ; all canals, navigations and
rights of navigation, and rights of way and other rights or
easements over land, and the tolls levied in respect of such
rights and easements ; all tolls, traverse and thorough, and
the tolls of fairs and markets ; except all churches, chapels,
and other buildings exclusively dedicated to religious wor-
ship, and all burial-grounds and cemeteries ; all infirmaries,
hospitals, charity-schools, and other buildings exclusively de-
dicated to charitable purposes, and all buildings, lands, and 1
hereditnments dedicated to public purposes, but where any '
private profit or use shall be directly derived from any heredi.
taments hereby excepted, the person deriving such profit or
use shall lee liable to be rated as an occupier according to the
annual value of such profit or use.
61. The rates to be made upon an estimate of the net
yearly value of the prCperty rated.
62. The rates arc to b' carefully entered in a book to be
signed by the Guardians Mon: any attempt is made to collect
them.
63, 64, 65. Existing surveys and valuations, where found
sufficient, arc to be followed. Where objected to, the re-
medy to be provided by the Commissioners. The cost of
new surveys to be made chargeable upon the rates.
66. Guardians hound to give notice where the valuation
may be inspected by persons possessing rateable property four-
teen days before the rate is fixed.
67. Guardians bound to give notice of the amount of the
rates fixed before they arc levied. All persons to be allowed
to take copies of the rates fixed without charge or hindrance.
68. The rates to be paid by the actual occupiers of pro-
perty.
69. Rates recoverable with costs from persons refusing to
pay them.
70. Persons paying in rent the net annual value of their
property to deduct half the rate from the rent ; and to deduct
the whole where the rent shall not exceed Si. yearly.
71. The subletters of land are to deduct the amount of
rate from the rent paid by them in the same proportion as the
under-tenant or cuttier.
72. The receipts for rate to be a legal tender in part of
payment of rent.