Metropolitan Poor Act (1867) Amendment. sequent Act shall, with interest thereon, be charged upon and paid off out of the common fund of the district. 10. The twenty-fourth section of The Poor Law Amendment Act, 1868, shall apply to the auditors appointed under the authority of The Metropolitan Poor Act, 1867. 11. The guardians of any union or parish and the managers of any school or asylum district may, with the consent of the Poor Law Board, purchase, hire, or otherwise acquire and fit up and furnish one or more ships to be used for the training of boys for the sea service, and every such ship shall be deemed to be a school or asylum, as the case may be, within the meaning of The Metropolitan Poor Act, 1867, and the several Acts therein referred to as "the Poor Law Acts" respectively. 12. Where the guardians of any union or parish provide a dispensary for their union or parish, it shall not be necessary that a dispensary committee shall be appointed for such dispensary unless the guardians apply to the Poor Law Board to issue an order for that purpose, and the Poor Law Board issue such order accordingly. 13. If the guardians provide a place for the dispensing of medicines for the relief of the sick poor of the union or parish, or of a district therein, under the authority of any other Act than The Metropolitan Poor Act, 1867, they shall, if required by the Poor Law Board to do so, provide a proper room at such place where the medical officer of such union or parish, or of the district comprising such place, may see such of the sick poor as attend there for advice, and every medical officer of the union, parish, or district, as the case may be, shall, personally or by his authorized substitute, attend at that place during the times to be fixed for this purpose by the said guardians with the approval of the Poor Law Board. 14. If the guardians of any union or parish, after being required by the said board to provide a dispensary under The Metropolitan Poor Act, 1867, or under the authority of any other Act, neglect or refuse to comply with such requisition, no repayment shall be made from the metropolitan common poor fund to the guardians of such union or parish in respect of any medicine or medical or surgical appliances supplied by them to the poor of the union or parish, or in respect of the salaries of the medical officers of such union or parish, until the guardians provide a dispensary in conformity with the requisition of the Poor Law Board, from which time the right to such repayment shall again accrue. 15. No expenses of vaccination shall be repaid out of the said fund which shall have been incurred without the authority or without the approval of the Poor Law Board. 16. It shall be lawful for any board of guardians, with the consent of the Poor Law Board, to enter into arrangements with any public general hospital or dispensary situate within the limits of the parish or union for which the said board act, to receive and treat pauper patients on terms to be arranged between the board Metropolitan Poor Act (1867) Amendment. of guardians, with the sanction of the Poor Law Board, and the authorities of the hospital or dispensary, as the case may be. same class from other unions and parishes. 17. The guardians of any union or parish may, with the Guardians may approval of the Poor Law Board, set apart any ward or portion provide in their of their workhouse for the reception of particular classes or workhouses for the maindescriptions of poor persons, and provide separate maintenance tenance of parand treatment for them therein, subject to such regulations as the ticular classes said board may at any time order or approve of, and may, with of poor, and their consent, receive and maintain therein any poor person of the receive therein same class or description chargeable to any other union or parish poor of the upon such terms as shall be mutually agreed upon by the respective boards of guardians; and every such poor person so received into such workhouse shall, while therein, be treated in all respects in like manner, and be subject to the same regulations and liabilities as the other poor persons of the same class or condition, and shall be deemed to be chargeable in the first instance to the common fund of the union or to the parish in whose workhouse such poor person shall be received; provided that the abiding of such poor person in such workhouse shall in all other respects be attended with the same legal consequences as if such workhouse had been situated within the union or parish from which such poor person shall have been sent. mon poor fund. 18. The compensation payable to any officer of a union or Compensations parish who shall be deprived of his office by reason of the parish to be charged being added to or taken from a union, or the union being dissolved on the metroor altered, and any compensation awarded by the Poor Law Board Politan comunder section one of this Act, shall be paid by the guardians of such one of the parishes or unions affected by the addition, alteration, or dissolution, as the Poor Law Board may by order direct, and shall be repaid to such guardians out of the metropolitan common poor fund. Provision as to computing time of service of officers. 19. In computing the time of the services of any officer of a union or parish who shall be deprived of his office by reason of the parish being added to or taken from a union, or the union being dissolved or altered, any period during which such officer shall have been in the service of a vestry, district board, or other parochial board of the same parish shall, with the consent of such vestry, district board, or other parochial board, be included. 20. So much of the twenty-ninth section of The Metropolitan 30 & 31 Vict. Poor Act, 1867, as authorizes the use of any asylum for the sick c. 6. s. 29. or insane for the purposes of a medical school, is hereby repealed. repealed. 21. The cost of the maintenance and instruction of orphan or Maintenance deserted children placed out by the guardians of any parish or of orphans union, with the consent of the Poor Law Board, shall be repaid to the guardians from the metropolitan common poor fund. 22. When the boundaries between any two parishes are irregular or inconvenient, it shall be lawful for the vestries of such parishes to enter into an agreement to re-adjust such boundaries, and such agreement shall be submitted to the Poor Law Board for their approval, and such board shall, if they think fit, by an order under seal, confirm such agreement, and shall make such regulations for charged to common fund. Readjustment of boundaries between two parishes by agreement of vestries. Interpretation clause. Application. Short title. Metropolitan Poor Act (1867) Amendment. the adjustment of the rights and liabilities of the parishes affected by the said order as the nature of the case shall in their judgment require. 23. The term "common fund of the district" shall mean the fund raised by contributions from the unions and parishes forming the district assessed on and contributed by them in conformity with the provisions of The Metropolitan Poor Act, 1867, and words in this Act shall be construed in like manner as in The Metropolitan Poor Act, 1867, and The Poor Law Amendment Act, 1834, and subsequent Acts amending and extending the same, and the provisions contained in the said several Acts and not repealed shall, so far as they shall be consistent herewith, be extended to this Act. 24. This Act shall, except where otherwise provided, apply to the metropolis only. 25. This Act may be cited and described for all purposes as The Metropolitan Poor Amendment Act, 1869. CHAP. 64. 7 & 8 G. 4. c. 75. 9 G. 4. c. 38. 2&3 W. 4. c. 127. 6 & 7 W. 4. c. 80. An Act to appoint additional Commissioners for executing WHEREAS an Act was passed in the seventh and eighth years of the reign of His Majesty King George the Fourth, 3 & 4 W. 4. c. 95. intituled "An Act to appoint Commissioners for carrying into "execution several Acts granting an aid to His Majesty by a "Land Tax to be raised in Great Britain, and continuing to His Majesty certain duties on personal estates, offices, and pensions in England:" 1 & 2 Vict. c. 57. 7 & 8 Vict. c. 79. 11 & 12 Vict. c. 62. 16 & 17 Vict. c.111. 20 & 21 Vict. c. 46. 26 & 27 Vict. c.101. 29 & 30 Vict. c. 59. 30 & 31 Vict. c. 51. Persons named in a schedule signed by the Clerk of the House of Commons to be ad ditional commissioners. 66 And whereas several Acts have since been passed appointing additional Commissioners for carrying those Acts into execution: And whereas it is expedient to appoint additional persons to put in execution the several Acts for granting an aid to Her Majesty by a Land Tax in Great Britain, and several other Acts for continuing or granting to Her Majesty rates and taxes: Be it therefore 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, as follows: 1. The several and respective persons named in a schedule signed by and deposited with the Clerk of the House of Commons shall and may and are hereby empowered and authorized (being duly qualified) to put in execution the said Acts, and all the clauses, powers, matters, and things whatsoever therein contained, as Commissioners in and for the several and respective counties, shires, and places in England and Wales in the said schedule severally and respectively mentioned and expressed, as fully and effectually as if they had been named with the other Commissioners in the said recited Act passed in the seventh and eighth Land Tax Commissioners. Dublin Freemen Commission. years of the reign of His Majesty King George the Fourth; and on the passing of this Act the said schedule shall be printed in the London Gazette, which shall be sufficient evidence of such schedule for all purposes whatsoever. WHI СНАР. 65. c. 125. An Act for appointing Commissioners to inquire into the existence of corrupt Practices amongst the Freemen Electors of the city of Dublin. [9th August 1869.] HEREAS the Right Honourable William Keogh, one of the judges of the Court of Common Pleas at Dublin, appointed under and by virtue of the provisions of The Parliamentary 31 & 32 Vict. Elections Act, 1868, to try the matter of a certain petition complaining of the undue election of a member to serve in Parliament for the county of the city of Dublin at the election holden for the said county of the city of Dublin on the eighteenth day of November one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, did, in pursuance of the provisions of the said Parliamentary Elections Act, 1868, at the conclusion of the trial of the said matter report to the Right Honourable the Speaker of the House of Commons that he had reason to believe that corrupt practices had extensively pre• vailed amongst the freemen voters at the said election for the said county of the city of Dublin; and that, save as respecting the said freemen, corrupt practices had not been shown to have extensively prevailed, nor was there any reason to believe that corrupt practices had extensively prevailed at the said election: And whereas it is expedient that an inquiry should be made by Commissioners, to be specially appointed for that purpose, as to the existence, nature, and extent of corrupt practices amongst the freemen electors of the said city of Dublin, and into the conduct of all persons aiding in or abetting such corrupt practices: Be it therefore 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, as follows: 1. Hugh Law, Esquire, one of Her Majesty's counsel, Charles Commissioners Henry Tandy, Esquire, one of Her Majesty's counsel, and William appointed. O'Connor Morris, Esquire, barrister-at-law, shall be Commissioners for the purpose of making inquiry into the existence, nature, and extent of corrupt practices amongst the freemen electors of the said city of Dublin, and into the conduct of all persons aiding in or abetting such corrupt practices. 2. The said Commissioners shall have all and every the powers, Powers of authorities, and privileges, and the proceedings in relation to and Commissioners. upon such inquiry shall be had and taken in all respects as if the said Commissioners had been appointed under the provisions of the Act of the fifteenth and sixteenth years of Victoria, chapter fifty-seven, and all and every the provisions of the said Act, and of all and every Acts or Act altering or amending the same Dublin Freemen Commission. Militia Pay. Act to be construed as one with 25 & 26 Vict. c. 103. and 27 & 28 Vict. c. 39. Short title. Extent of Act. 18 & 19 Vict. c. 120. Definitions. "Metropolis:" (except where such alteration or amendment affects the expenses of the inquiry), so far as the same are consistent herewith, shall apply in all respects for the purposes of this Act. CHAP. 66. An Act to continue and amend an Act to defray the charge CHAP. 67. An Act to provide for Uniformity in the Assessment of [9th August 1869.] WHEREAS it is expedient to provide for a common basis of value for the purposes of government and local taxation, and to promote uniformity in the assessment of rateable property in the metropolis: Be it 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, as follows: Preliminary. 1. The Union Assessment Committee Act, 1862, is in this Act referred to as "the principal Act;" and the principal Act, and The Union Assessment Committee Act, 1864, (amending the same,) shall for the purposes of this Act, and so far as is consistent with the tenor thereof, be incorporated with this Act; and the expression "this Act" in the principal Act, and any expression referring to the principal Act which occurs in the said Act amending the same, or in any other Act or document, shall, as regards places to which this Act extends, be construed to mean the principal Act as incorporated with this Act. 2. This Act (including the Acts incorporated herewith) may be cited as The Valuation (Metropolis) Act, 1869. 3. This Act shall extend only to unions and parishes not in union, which are for the time being either wholly or for the greater part in value thereof respectively situate within the jurisdiction of the Metropolitan Board of Works appointed under The Metropolis Management Act, 1855. 4. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires, The term "metropolis" means the unions and parishes to which this Act extends: |