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who after the expiration of such licence shall wilfully neglect
for three days to deliver the same to the said commissioners,
and also every person who shall use or wear or detain any
ticket, without having a licence in force relating to such
ticket, or who shall, for the purpose of deception, use or
wear or have any ticket resembling or intended to resemble
any ticket granted under the authority of this act, shall for
every such offence forfeit a sum not exceeding forty shillings;
and it shall be lawful for the commissioners, or for any
person employed by them for that purpose, to prosecute any
person so neglecting to deliver up his licence or ticket, at
any period within twelve calendar months after the expira-lings.
tion of the licence; and any constable or peace officer, or
any person employed for that purpose by the commissioners,
may seize and take away any such ticket, wheresoever the
same may be found, in order to deliver the same to the said
commissioners.

15. That whenever the writing on any ticket shall become obliterated or defaced so that the same shall not be distinctly legible, and also whenever any ticket shall be proved to the satisfaction of the said commissioners to have been lost or mislaid, the person to whom the licence relating to any such ticket shall have been granted shall deliver such ticket (if he shall have the same in his possession,) and shall produce such licence to the said commissioners, and such person shall then be entitled to have a new ticket delivered to him, upon payment of a sum of two shillings, to be applied as aforesaid: provided always, that if any ticket which shall have been proved as aforesaid or represented to have been lost or mislaid shall afterwards be found, the same shall forthwith be delivered to the said commissioners; and every person into whose possession any such ticket as last aforesaid shall be or come who shall refuse or neglect for three days to deliver the same to the said commissioners, and also every person licensed under the authority of this act who shall use or wear the ticket granted to him after the writing thereon shall be obliterated, defaced, or obscured so that the same shall not be distinctly legible, shall for every such offence forfeit the sum of forty shillings.

16. That every person who shall forge or counterfeit, or who shall cause or procure to be forged or counterfeited, any licence or ticket by this act directed to be provided for the driver of a hackney or other carriage as aforesaid, or for the driver or the conductor of a metropolitan stage carriage or omnibus, and also every person who shall sell or exchange or expose to sale or utter any such forged or counterfeited licence or ticket, and also every person who phall knowingly, and without lawful excuse (the proof whereof shall lie on the person accused,) have or be possessed of such forged or counterfeited licence or ticket, knowing such licence or ticket to be forged or counterfeited, and also every person knowingly and wilfully aiding and abetting any person in committing any such offence as aforesaid, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and being thereof convicted shall be liable to be punished by fine or imprisonment, or by both, such imprisonment to be in the common gaol or house of correction, and either with or without hard labour, as the court shall think fit; and any person may detain any such licence or ticket, or for any constable or peace officer, or any person employed for that purpose by the said commissioners, to seize and take away any such licence or ticket, in order that the same may be produced in evidence against such offender, or be disposed of as the said commissioners shall think proper.

17. That every proprietor of a hackney or other carriage as aforesad, and of every metropolitan stage carriage or omnibus, who shall permit and employ any licensed person to act as the driver or conductor thereof, shall require to be delivered to him and shall retain in his possession the licence of such driver or conductor while such driver or conductor shall remain in his service; and in all cases of complaint where the proprietor of a hackney or other carraige as aforesaid, or of a metropolitan stage carriage or omnibus, shall be summoned to produce the driver or conductor of such carriage before a divisional justice of the peace, he shall also produce the licence of such driver or conductor, if at the time of receiving the summons such driver or conductor shall be in his service; and if any

driver or conductor complained of shall be adjudged guilty of the offence alleged against him, the justice of the peace before whom he shall be convicted shall in every case endorse upon the licence of such driver or conductor the nature of the offence and the amount of the penalty inflicted; and every proprietor who shall neglect to require to be delivered to him and to retain in his possession the licence of any driver or conductor during such period as such driver or conductor shall remain in his service, or who shall refuse or neglect to produce such licence as aforesaid, shall for every such offence forfeit a sum not exceeding forty shil18. That it shall be lawful for any such divisional justice to hear and determine all matters of complaint between any proprietor of a hackney or other carriage as aforesaid, or metropolitan stage, carriage or omnibus, and the driver or conductor of the same respectively, and to order payment of any sum of money that shall appear to be due to either party for wages or for the earnings in respet of any such carriage, or on account of any deposit of money, and to order com. pensation to the proprietor in respect of damage of loss which shall have arisen through the neglect or default of any driver or conductor to the property of his employer intrusted to his care, or in respect of any sum of money which such proprietor may have been lawfully ordered by a divisi. onal justice of the peace to pay, and which has been actually paid pursuant to such order, on account of the negligence or wilful misconduct of his driver or conductor, and to order such compensation to either party in respect of any other matter of complaint between them as to such justice sball seem proper; and any money ordered to be paid as afore. said may be recovered in like manner as any penalty under this act.

19. That it shall not be lawful, either in any court of law or before any divisional justice of the peace, to enforce the payment of any sum of money claimed from any driver or conductor by any proprietor on account of the earnigns any hackney carriage or other carriage as aforesaid, or metropolitan stage carriage or omnibus, unless under an agreement in writing which shall have been signed by such driver or conductor in the presence of a competent witness; and no such agreement shall be liable to any stamp duty.

20. That when any licensed driver or conductor shall leave the service of any proprietor, such proprietor shall, upon demand thereof, return to him his licence: provided always, that if the said proprietor shall have any complaint against the said driver or conductor it shall be lawful for such proprietor to retain the licence for any time not exceed ing twenty-four hours after the demand thereof, and within that time to apply to the police court of the district in which the said proprietor shall dwell, for a summons against him ; and the said proprietor, at the time of applying for the summons, shall deposit the licence with the clerk of such police court or divisional justice; and in case any proprietor who, upon demand thereof, shall have refused or neglected to deliver to any driver or conductor his licence, shall not within twenty-four hours, exclusive of Sunday, or any day on which the police court shall not sit, apply for such summons, and deposit the licence as aforesaid, or shall not appear to prosecute his complaint at the time mentioned in the summons, it shall be lawful for such driver or conductor to apply at the same police court, or to some divisional justice as aforesaid, for a summons against such proprietor; and upon hearing and deciding the case, the justice, if he shall think there was no just cause for detaining the licence, or that there has been needless delay on the part of the proprietor in bringing the matter to a hearing, shall have power to order the said proprietor to pay such compensation to the said driver or con ductor as the said justice shall think reasonable; and payment of such compensation shall be enforced in the same manner as any penalty may be enforced under the sad recited act of the fifth year of her Majesty's reign; and the justice shall cause the licence to be delivered to the said driver or conductor, unless any misconduct shall be proved against him, by reason whereof the justice shall think that such licence shall be revoked or suspended; and so long as any proprietor shall neglect to apply for such summons and deposit the licence, after demand thereof, any divisional justice

the peace may, in like manner, from time to time, order ompensation to be paid by him to the same driver or conactor; and no proprietor shall, under any pretence, or by rtue of any claim whatever, retain beyond the time aforeaid the licence of his driver or conductor.

21. That it shall be lawful for any such divisional justice of the peace before whom any driver or conductor shall be onvicted of any offence, whether under this act or any other ct, if such justice, in his discretion, shall think fit, to reoke the licence of such driver or conductor, and also any ther licence which he shall hold under the provisions of this act, or to suspend the same for such time as the justice shall hink proper, and for that purpose to require the proprietor, driver, or conductor in whose possession such licence, and the ticket thereunto belonging, shall then be, to deliver up he same; and every proprietor, driver, or conductor, who, being so required, shall refuse or neglect to deliver up such icence and any such ticket or either of them, shall forfeit, o often as he shall be so required and refuse or neglect as foresaid, a sum not exceeding forty shillings; and the jusice shall forthwith send such licence and ticket to the comnissioners, who shall cancel such licence, if it has been reoked by the justice, or if it has been suspended shall at the -nd of the time for which it shall have been suspended redeliver such licence, with the ticket, to the person to whom twas granted.

22. That every driver or conductor authorized by any proprietor to act as driver of any hackney or other carriage as foresaid, or as driver or conductor of any metropolitan stage arriage or omnibus, who shall suffer any other person to act as driver of such hackney or other carriage, or as driver or conductor of such metropolitan stage carriage or omnibus, without the consent of the proprietor thereof, and also every person, whether duly licensed or not, who shall act as driver or as conductor of any such carriage, without the consent of the proprietor thereof, shall forfeit the sum of forty shillings; and every driver or conductor charged with such offence, who, when required by a divisional justice of the peace so to do, shall not truly make known the name and place of abode of the person so suffered by him to act as driwer or conductor without consent of the proprietor, and also he number of the ticket of such person (if licensed), shall be liable to a further penalty of forty shillings; and it shall e lawful for any police constable, without any warrant for hat purpose, to take into custody any person unlawfully cting as a driver or as a conductor, and to convey him beore any divisional justice of the peace, to be dealt with acording to law, and also, if necessary, to take charge of the arriage and every horse in charge of such person, and to eposit the same in some place of safe custody until the same an be applied for by the proprietor.

23. That every driver of a hackney carriage or other cariage as aforesaid, or driver or conductor of a metropolitan tage carriage or omnibus, who shall be guilty of wanton or urious driving, or who by carelessness or wilful misbehaviour hall cause any hurt or damage to any person or property, eing in any street or highway, and also every driver or conHuctor who, during his employment, shall be drunk, or shall make use of any insulting or abusive language, or shall be uilty of any insulting gesture or any misbehaviour, shall, or every such offence, forfeit a sum not exceeding forty Shillings; or it shall be lawful for the justice before whom uch complaint shall be brought, if in his discretion he shall hink proper, instead of inflicting such penalty, forthwith to commit the offender to prison for any period not exceeding two calendar months, with or without hard labour, as the justice shall direct; and in every case where any such hurt or damage shall have been caused, the justice, upon the hearEng of the complaint, may adjudge as and for compensation o any party aggrieved as aforesaid a sum not exceeding five pounds, and may order the proprietor of the hackney carriage or metropolitan stage carriage, the driver or conductor of which shall have caused such hurt or damage, forthwith to pay such sum, and also such costs as shall have been incurred, and payment thereof may be enforced against such proprietor as any penalty or sum of money may be recovered under and by virtue of this act; and any sum so paid by the proprietor shall be recovered in a summary way before a justice of the

peace from the driver or conductor through whose default such sum shall have been paid upon proof of the payment thereof, or the justice may, in the first instance, adjudge the amount of such compensation to be paid by the driver or conductor. to the party aggrieved.

24. That where there shall be more than one proprietor of any hackney or other carriage or metropolitan stage car. riage or omnibus it shall be sufficient in any information, summons, order, conviction, warrant, or any proceeding under this act, or the 37 Geo. 3, to name such proprietors, and to describe and proceed against him as if he were sole proprietor.

25. That all complaints under this act may be heard and all penalties recovered by one or more justices as in the 5th Vic., and any divisional justice may, under this act, or the 37th Geo. 3, or any act amending same, or any rules or bye. laws amending the same, lessen the penalty or time of imprisonment.

26. That this act may be amended or repealed by any act to be passed in this session of parliament.

CAP. CXIV.

An Act to prevent District Auditors from taking Proceedings in certain Cases. [4th September, 1848.]

CAP. CXV.

An Act to vest in Her Majesty the Property of the Irish Reproductive Loan Fund Institution, and to dissolve the said Institution. [4th September, 1848.] Sec. 1. Funds of the corporation to vest in her Majesty. Such funds to be applied to charitable purposes in certain counties in Ireland.

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apply certain sums in payment of debts, &c. and compensations to officers.

Act not to release trustees from liabilities.

County trustees or local committees, &c acting under them, to have the powers of recovery of monies as under charitable loan society acts.

In such cases, certificate of three trustees to be evidence, in lieu of certificate under corporate seal. Issuing of certificate to be signified at a meeting of

the trustees.

List of loans and securities to be deposited with clerk of the peace within three months.

County trustees, on receiving back loans advanced to local committees, to notify the same to the clerk of the peace.

10. Penalty on persons giving false certificate under this

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'Whereas great distress prevailed in Ireland in the year 1822, and a committee of relief raised a sum of three hun'dred and eleven thousand and eighty-one pounds, five shillings, and seven pence, by subscription, for the suffering poor; and the said charitable association was subse'quently carried on or superintended by such committee, or the board of directors under the name or style of "The Irish Reproductive Loan Fund Institution ;" and whereas by an act passed in the sixth and seventh years of the ' reign of her Majesty, intituled, An Act to consolidate ⚫ and amend the Laws for the Regulation of the Charitable 'Loan Societies in Ireland, certain things were enacted; and whereas the business of the said corporation cannot be continued with advantage to the public, and the said corporation have therefore agreed to surrender their charter, and that their funds and property and the debts owing to them should be vested in her Majesty, to be applied as hereinafter mentioned.' be it enacted, that all

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the funds and property of the said corporation, and all funds and property vested in, and all debts due to any members, agents, or trustees of the said corporation, on behalf of the said corporation, subject as hereinafter mentioned, and also all funds and property of the said corporation vested in or under the control of any of the said local trustees or local committees or associations acting under them, or of any societies in connexion with the said corporation, and also all debts and sums of money due to the said corporation from any persons or person whomsoever, shall immediately after the psssing of this act be vested in her Majesty, and shall and may be sued for and recovered in the name of her Majesty, her heirs or successors, or by and in the name of any person or persons appointed for that purpose by the Commissioners of her Majesty's treasury, or any three or more of them, by any such proceedings as may by law be adopted or used for recovering debts or demands due to any Loan Society in Ireland, freed however from the limitation as to amount recoverable in the said recited acts contained, or by such other proceedings at law or in equity as might have been adopted or used by the said corporation for recovering such debts, funds, property, and sums of money respectively in case this act had not been passed.

said charity or any portion of the funds under the control and management of the said corporation, except such vouchers, accounts, and papers as the commissioners of Her Ma jesty's treasury, or any three or more of them, shall think fit to leave in the possession of the trustees and local associa tions as being necessary to enable such trustees and local associations to collect the funds intrusted to them respectively; and upon such transfer, payment, and delivery the said corporation, and all the present and former governors and members thereof, and all the several persons who were at any time members of the committee of relief or charitable association in London previously to the date of the charter aforesaid, or of the board of directors of the said charitable association in London, and their respective estates, shall be fully released and discharged from all claims and demands and all liability whatsoever by or to Her Majesty's treasury, or any persons or person whatever, for or in respect of any matter or thing whatsoever connected with or relating to the said corporation, or the said committee of relief or charitable association, or the funds or property of the said corporation, or any funds or property whatever at any time vested in or received by the said committee of relief or charitable association, or any members or member, officers or servants thereof, or for or in respect of any matter in anywise connected with the premises.

2. That any such funds or monies belonging to the said corporation which have been or may be paid over to her Majesty's treasury, and all such other monies as which 4. That nothing herein contained shall release the trus under this act shall be recovered or received from any party tees in the said several counties in Ireland from any liability or parties in Ireland, shall be applied and disposed of for in respect of the moneys intrusted to them respectively out such charitable purposes or objects applied and disposed of of the funds vested in the governors of the said corporation, for such charitable purposes or objects of public utility not and any obligation to collect and enforce payment thereof, otherwise provided for in whole or in part by local rate or and of the accumulations thereof, as such trustees respecassessment, including the instruction in and the promotion tively would have been subject to, in case this act had not of agricultural science, in the several counties of Leitrim, been passed; and the commissioners of her Majesty's treaSligo, Roscommon, Mayo, Galway, Clare, Limerick, Tip. | sury, or any three or more of them, may from time to time perary, Cork, and Kerry, in Ireland, as the Lord Lieute- appoint any person or persons to collect and receive from dant or other Chief Governor of Ireland, with the consent such trustees, or from the party or parties liable to pay of her Majesty's treasury, or any three of them, shall the same, such of the monies hereby vested in her Majesty direct and appoint, but so that the sums already recovered, as may be payable by such trustees or other parties respecand hereafter to be recovered from each such county of the tively; and the said local committees, associations, or monies originally appropriated thereto, as shewn in the other borrowers shall continue liable to the said trustees in Schedule (D.) to this act annexed, and profits which have the same manner and to the same extent as if this Act had accumulated or may hereafter accumulate thereon, shall be not been passed, and the bye laws and regulations made, applied to such purposes within such respective county; established, or continued under the authority of the said provided that the sum of five thousand pounds, which as charter, so far as the same are consistent with this Act, appears by accounts laid before parliament was specifically shall continue to be obligatory on the said trustees and the appropriated for the establishment of an agricultural school said local committees or associations respectively, in the of industry in the province of Munster, shall be received same manner and to the same extent as if this act had not out of the said fund to be applied in aid of local funds for passed, but no further, but so nevertheless that no monies the establishing an agricultural school or schools in that recovered or received by the said trustees or the said local province, in such manner as the Lord Lieutenant of Ire- committees or associations shall be re-issued or again adland, with the approval of the Lords of the Treasury, vanced on loan, except such amounts or portions of the shall direct, such sum to be applied, so far as possible, in sums repaid as may be sanctioned by the governors of the aid of contributions locally collected for the same purpose. said corporation within three months from the passing of 3. That the said corporation, within three calendar months this act, or may be hereafter sanctioned by the Commis after the passing of this act, may apply so much of the said sioners of her Majesty's treasury, or by such person or sums, mentioned in the said schedule (A.) as now constitut-persons as the commissioners of her Majesty's treasury ing the fund appropriated for defraying expenses as aforesaid, as shall be necessary, in paying the debts, liabilities, and expenses of the said corporation, and such compensations to persons now or heretofore employed by or under the said corporation, or the said association before the incorporation thereof, as the said corporation shall think reasonable, which said compensations may be made either by payment of sums of money, or by the purchase of annuities, or otherwise; and the said corporation shall within the said three calendar months deliver to the commissioners of Her Majesty's treasury the bond mentioned in the said schedule, or such amount of principal and interest as shall have been paid thereon, and transfer and pay over to the said commissioners the balance of the several sums of stock and money mentioned in the schedule (A.,) or of other the sums of stock and money which at the time of the passing of this act shall form the property of the said corporation, exclusively of so much of the said balances or sums of mo Ley, and of the money owing on the said bond, which shall not have been realized by the said corporation, together with all vouchers, books, accounts, and papers now under their control and custody, and relating in any way to the

may appoint to receive the monies hereby vested in her Majesty.

5. That notwithstanding the dissolution of the said corporation, any of the said county trustees in Ireland, or any local committees, associations, or parties acting under any of the said trustees in Ireland having lent monies before the passing of this act, by virtue or in respect of connexion with the said Irish Reproductive Loan Fund Institution, or by virtue or in respect of Connexion with any of the said county trustees thereof, or having lent monies after the passing of this act, with the sanction of the governors of the said corporation, within such three months as aforesaid, or with the sanction of the commissioners of her Majesty's treasury, or of such person or persons as they may appoint to receive the monies hereby vested in her Majesty, may use and exercise the powers, authorities, rights, and remedies contained and provided in any act or acts for the regulation of charitable Loan Societies in Ireland for the recovery of monies, and subject to like provisions or any means or remedies provided by law for the recovery of debts, unless the proceedings for the recovery of such monies shall at any time be directed

sy the said Commissioners of her Majesty's treasury to be
uspended.
6. And whereas by the 6 & 7 Vic. and 7 & 8 Vic. such
* certificate as in the said acts mentioned is made evidence
of the facts therein certified:' be it enacted, that from
and after the passing of this act a certificate given in the
form prescribed in the schedule marked (B) to this act an-
nexed, signed by any three persons professing to be trustees
of the funds heretofore belonging to the said corporation in
and for the county in which any such local committee, asso-
eiation, or party acting under the said trustees shall have
lent such monies or taken any securities, shall be evidence
in like manner and be of like force as a certificate under the
corporate seal of the said corporation would have been under
the said recited acts or either of them, and it shall not be
necessary to prove that any person signing such certificate
as a trustee shall be a trustee as aforesaid,

the discharge of such debt or advance as mentioned in any such certificate marked (B.) in the said schedule annexed to this act; and such clerk of the peace, on receipt of such notification, shall forthwith notify the same in writing to the commissioners of Her Majesty's treasury, and also to the justices of the peace at the petty sessions for the district or districts next adjoining the place where such local committee, association, or party has been acting as aforesaid.

10. That any person not being a trustee, who shall as a trustee sign any such certificate as aforesaid, and any such trustee or trustees as aforesaid giving any false certificate under this act, or not giving notice as aforesaid to the respective clerk of the peace of the payment and discharge of any such loan or advance made to any such local committee, association, or party acting under such trustees, shall be liable to forfeit four times the amount of the sum specified in such certificate, one half to the informer, and the other half to her Majesty, and to be recovered by action of debt, bill, plaint, or information, or by proceedings in a summary way before any justice or justices of the peace, in like manner and subject to like provisions as any penalty or forfeiture may be recovered under the 6 & 7 Vic.

7. That all trustees of the funds heretofore belonging to the said corporation who shall give any certificate under the provision herein-before contained shall forthwith after giving every such certificate convene a meeting of the trustees according to the bye-laws regulating such meetings, and shall notify to such meeting the issuing of such certificate, and shall transmit to the commissioners of her Majesty's trea- 11. That if any trustee or trustees, or any member or sury a duplicate or copy of such certificate, signed by the members of any local committee or association or party trustees who shall have issued the same, and by the chair-acting under any such trustees as aforesaid, shall proceed man of such meeting; and the commissioners of her Majes- to recover any moneys lent out by them respectively beyond ty's treasury may from time to time cause a list, description, the amount of the aggregate sum advanced to them by any or specification of the trustees of the funds heretofore vested such county trustees as aforesaid, and the accumulations by in the said corporation, and of the associations or loan so- the profits derived from the interest, fines, and charges cieties or institutions heretofore established in Ireland by or paid thereon by borrowers thereof, and for such purpose in connexion with the said corporation, who shall remain in shall use any certificate or other evidence of connexion with possession of any money heretofore belonging or acruing the said corporation, or any such certificate of a trustee or from the monies belonging to the corporation, and vested in trustees as in this act provided, every such trustee or trusher Majesty by this act, to be sent to the secretary to the tees or member of a local committee or association or party loan fund board in Dublin; and such list, description, or so offending, shall forfeit the amount of such demand so specification so sent shall have the same force and effect as sought to be recovered, and shall likewise be subject to the the list, description, or specification which by the said act further penalty of four times the amount of such demand, of the sixth and seventh years of the reign of Her present one half thereof to be paid to the informer, and one half to Majesty was required to be sent by the said Irish reproductive Her Majesty, and such penalty to be recovered in the manloan fund institution to the said secretary of the loan fund ner herein-before provided as to penalties above mentioned; board in Dublin, provided that such penalty hereby inflicted shall not exonerate such party or parties from any penalties he or they may incur to be paid to the loan fund board in Ireland.

8. That within three months after the passing of this act all such trustees as aforesaid in and for any county, and all such local committees, associations, or other parties acting under any such trustees, holding securities for any such funds or moneys lent as aforesaid, except such as shall have been lent by the trustees to associations or to parties to re-lend, shall and are hereby required to deposit with the clerk of the peace for such respective county duplicate lists of all such loans and securities, and the amount then due thereon respectively, according to the form marked (C.) in the schedule annexed to this act; and the said trustees, local associations, or other parties acting under such trustees as aforesaid, making loans after the passing of this act, with the sanction of the governors, or of the said commissioners of Her Majesty's treasury, or with the sanction of the parties who may be appointed as aforesaid by the said commissioners, shall and are hereby required to transmit to the clerk of the peace, within seven days from the granting of such loans, according to the same form, so far as the same is applicable; and all such duplicate lists as aforesaid shall be duly certified by the inspector to such trustees; and in every case such clerk of the peace is hereby required to take charge of and retain one of such lists, and to transmit the other of such lists, within two days after the receipt thereof, to the commissioners of Her Majesty's treasury: provided always, that all loans and moneys to be recovered in manner herein-before provided shall be included in such lists as aforesaid respectively.

9. That when any such county trustees as aforesaid shall have advanced any such funds or moneys as aforesaid to any local committee, association, or party acting under them, for the purpose of re-lending the same, and shall have received back from such local committee, association, or party the moneys so advanced, the said trustees shall, within forty-eight hours after the receipt thereof, notify in writing to the clerk of the peace of such county such receipt, and

12. That it shall be lawful for the said commissioners of Her Majesty's treasury, out of the moneys vested in Her Majesty by this act, to allow any secretaries or other persons heretofore employed by the said trustees such allowance in respect of length of service or other meritorious cause, and also to pay to such persons as may be from time to time employed by or with the sanction of the said commissioners, in collecting, managing, and applying, or otherwise in relation to the funds hereby vested in Her Majesty, such salaries or allowances as the said commissioners shall think fit.

13. That after the expiration of three calendar months from and after the passing of this act the said corporation of the Irish reproductive loan fund institution shall be dissolved to all intents and purposes whatsoever.

14. That an annual account showing the receipts and disbursements under this act shall be made up to and for the 31st of December in every year, and shall be laid before both houses of Parliament within ten days of their next sitting by the lords commissioners of the treasury.

16. That this act shall be deemed a public act, and shall be taken notice of as such in all courts whatsoever. 16. That this act may be amended or repealed by any act to be passed in this session of parliament.

SCHEDULES to which the foregoing act refers.

SCHEDULE (A.)

Funds and Property of the Irish Reproductive Loan Fund
Institution, exclusively of balances due from the several
County Trustees in Ireland.

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