tance than Six

VI. And be it enacted, That whenever the whole of any If Electoral Electoral Division or Divisions is situated at a greater Distance Division be at than Six Miles from the Place of Meeting of the Board of a greater DisGuardians of the Union of which such Electoral Division or Miles from Divisions may form Part, it shall be lawful for the Commis- Place of Meeting of Guarsioners, on the Application of the Board of Guardians, to form such Electoral Division or Divisions into a District, and to direct the said Guardians from Time to Time to appoint a Committee of their Members to receive Applications of poor Persons requiring Relief in such District, to examine into the Cases of such poor Persons, and to report to the said Guardians thereon.

dians, it may be
formed into a

District for
Purposes of

Relief.

provisional

VII. And be it enacted, That every Relieving Officer so Relieving Offiappointed as aforesaid shall have Power to give provisional cers may give Relief in any Case of sudden and urgent Necessity, either by Relief until an Order of Admission to the Workhouse or Fever Hospital of the next Meetthe Union, provided there be Room therein respectively, and by ing of the conveying any destitute poor Person thereto if necessary, or by affording such poor Person immediate and temporary Relief in Food, Lodging, Medicine, or Medical Attendance, until the next Ordinary Meeting of the Board of Guardians, at which Meeting he shall report the Case, and the Nature and Cost of the Relief so afforded, in such Form and Manner as the Poor Law Commissioners shall prescribe, and after such Report shall give no further Relief, otherwise than by Direction of the Board of Guardians in the Case so reported; and the Guardians of the Union shall furnish the Relieving Officers with the necessary Funds for affording Relief in manner aforesaid, and for the Relief of those destitute poor Persons to whom Relief shall be granted by the Board of Guardians, at such Times and in such Manner as the Poor Law Commissioners shall determine and direct.

Relief to Hus

VIII. And be it enacted, That all Relief given under this Relief to Wife Act to a Wife or Child shall be considered as given to the or Child to be Person who under the Provisions of the first-recited Act shall band or Parent, be liable to maintain such Wife or Child; and the Child of any as the Case poor Person relieved under this Act shall be subject to the same may be. Liability in respect of such Relief as in respect of any Relief granted under the above-recited Act passed in the Second Year of the Reign of Her present Majesty.

IX. And be it enacted, That no Relief given under the Relief not to be Authority of this Act shall be given from the Poor Rates of given out of the any Union to any Person not being within the Union when so it is charged. relieved.

Union to which

Quarter of an

X. And be it enacted, That from and after the First Day Occupiers of of November next after the passing of this Act no Person who more than a shall be in the Occupation of any Land of greater Extent than Acre not the Quarter of a Statute Acre shall be deemed and taken to be deemed to be a destitute poor Person under the Provisions of the first-recited destitute. Act, or of the Acts amending the same, or of this Act; and if any Person so occupying more than the Quarter of a Statute Acre shall apply for Relief, or if any Person on his Behalf shall

apply

How Cost of
Out-door
Relief shall be
charged.

What to constitute Resi

dence in Electoral Division.

Assistance to
Emigration.

apply for Relief, it shall not be lawful for any Board of Guardians to grant such Relief, within or out of the Workhouse, to any such Person.

XI. And be it enacted, That, for the Purpose of charging the Relief afforded out of the Workhouse under the Provisions of this Act, the Poor Law Commissioners shall cause to be printed, and shall furnish to every Clerk of an Union in Ireland, a Register Book, to be called "The Out-door Relief Register," in a Form similar to the Workhouse Register prescribed by the first-recited Act, in which the Clerk of the Union shall register, together with the other Particulars in the said Form required, the Name of the Electoral Division in which every Person relieved under this Act, out of the Workhouse, shall have been resident at the Time of his beginning to receive such Relief; and all the Provisions of the said Acts now in force for the Relief of the destitute Poor in Ireland, which determine the Circumstances under which any Person shall be deemed to have been resident in an Electoral Division, and the Manner of charging the Expence of the Relief of Persons stated in the Register to have been so resident in some Electoral Division, and of Persons not stated in the Register to have been so resident, and all the Provisions of the said Acts which relate to the Production of the Register at every Meeting of Guardians for their Approval, Examination, and Correction, and the signing and countersigning of the same, and all Provisions of the said Acts which relate to the Power of appealing against the Decision of the Board of Guardians touching the Description of the Residence of any Person in the said Register, and to the Costs which may be incurred in such Appeal, shall extend and apply to the Out-door Relief Register to be kept as aforesaid under the Provisions of this Act, and to the Persons relieved under this Act out of the Workhouse, and to the Manner of charging the Expence of the Relief so afforded to such Persons under this Act, and to the Decisions of the Board of Guardians touching the Description of the Residence of any Person in the Out-door Relief Register.

XII. And be it enacted, That for the Purpose of charging the Expence of Relief to any Electoral Division no Person shall after the passing of this Act be deemed to have been resident in such Electoral Division, unless during the Three Years before his Application for Relief he had occupied some Tenement within such Division for Thirty Calendar Months, or, if he had not so occupied some Tenement, had usually slept within such Division for the Period of Thirty Calendar Months.

XIII. And be it enacted, That if it shall be proved to the Satisfaction of the Board of Guardians at any Time that any Occupier of Land within such Union, rated at a net annual Value not exceeding Five Pounds, shall be willing to give up to his Landlord his Right and Title, and the actual Possession of the said Land, whether held under Lease or as Tenant at Will, and to emigrate together with all Persons who may be dependent upon him for their Support and Maintenance, and

that

that such Occupier shall have been approved by Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies, or such Person as he may appoint for that Purpose, as a fit and proper Person to be admitted as an Emigrant, and that the immediate Lessor of such Occupier is willing, upon the Emigration of such Occupier and his Family, and upon the Surrender of the Land occupied by him, to forego any Claim for Rent which he may have upon the said Occupier, and also to provide Two Thirds of such fair and reasonable Sum as shall be required for the Emigration of such Occupier and his Family, then and in such Case it shall be lawful for the Board of Guardians of such Union, if they shall think fit, upon Payment to them of such last-mentioned Sum, to charge upon the Rates of the Electoral Division in which such Person shall be resident, and to pay, in addition to such Sum, in such Manner as shall be directed by the Poor Law Commissioners, in aid of the Emigration of such Occupier and his Family, any Sum not exceeding One Half of the Sum contributed and paid by such immediate Lessors as aforesaid, notwithstanding that any Sum or Sums so charged and paid may exceed in any One Year One Shilling in the Pound on the Rates of such Electoral Division, and notwithstanding that such Occupier and his Family may not be nor have been Inmates of the Workhouse of such Union.

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XIV. And whereas by an Act passed in the Seventh Year Extension of of the Reign of Her present Majesty, intituled An Act for 6&7 Vict. c. 92. the further Amendment of an Act for the more effectual Relief

of the destitute Poor in Ireland, Provision is made for assisting

any poor Person who is and has been for Three Months an Inmate of the Workhouse of any Union to emigrate, and it is expedient to extend the said Enactment to Persons not being and not having been Inmates of any Workhouse for the Period of Three Months;' be it therefore enacted, That all the Provisions in the said Act which relate to the Emigration of poor Persons who are and have been for Three Months Inmates of any Workhouse shall also extend and apply to destitute poor Persons not being or not having been Inmates of any Workhouse, and to Persons having been Inmates of a Workhouse for a less Period than Three Months; provided that all Persons so assisted to emigrate shall have been approved as fit and proper Emigrants by Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies, or such Person as he may appoint for that Purpose.

how to be charged.

XV. Provided always, and be it enacted, That all Expences Expences of incurred in aid of the Emigration of any Occupier and his Fa- Emigration mily, under the Provisions of this Act, shall be charged to the Electoral Division in which the Land occupied by such Occupier is situated; and no Expences incurred in aid of the Emigration of any Occupier and his Family, or any destitute poor Person, under the Provisions of this Act or any of the Acts for the Relief of the destitute Poor in Ireland, shall be deemed to be Expences incurred for the Relief of the Poor.

XVI. And whereas it is expedient to increase the Number Ex-officio <of qualified Justices which, according to the Provisions of the Guardians not [No. 22. Price 2d.]

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to exceed the ⚫ said

Number of

elective Guardians.

Unions may be
altered without

Consent of
Guardians.

The Poor Law
Commissioners

may dissolve a
Board of Guar-
dians, on De-

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XVII. And whereas by the said first-recited Act it is pro'vided that no Dissolution or Alteration of a Union shall take place or be made unless a Majority of the Guardians of the Union affected by such Change shall consent thereto in Writing, and it is expedient to amend the said Enactment as herein-after is provided;' be it enacted, That it shall be lawful for the Poor Law Commissioners, as and when they shall see fit, to dissolve or alter any Union or Unions in Ireland, and from the Townlands comprised in such Unions to form such other Union or Unions as to them shall appear fitting and expedient, and that so much of the said Act as requires the Consent of a Majority of the Guardians of a Union to any Dissolution or Alteration thereof shall be repealed: Provided nevertheless, that all the other Provisions of the said Act which relate to the Dissolution or Alteration of Unions, and to the Adjustment of the Sums thereupon to be paid or received by any Union or Townland affected by such Alteration, shall extend and apply to the Case of any Union which shall be dissolved or altered, or formed anew under the Provisions of this Act.

XVIII. And whereas by the first-recited Act it is provided, that in case regular Meetings of the Board of Guardians of any Union shall not be holden at the Times enjoined by the Orders of the Poor Law Commissioners, or in case through

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the Default of the Guardians the Duties of such Board of fault, without 'Guardians shall not be duly and effectually discharged accord- any intermeing to the Intention of the said first-recited Act, the Com- diate Election. missioners shall declare such Board of Guardians to be dis

6 solved, and shall order a fresh Election of the Guardians of such Union; and in case the Guardians elected at such fresh Election shall not hold regular Meetings at the Times enjoined by the Orders of the Commissioners, or in case through the Default of such Guardians the Duties of such Board of Guardians shall not be duly and effectually discharged according to the Intention of the said first-recited Act, then the • Commissioners may appoint such and so many paid Officers as they may think fit to carry into execution the Provisions of the ⚫ said Act, and from Time to Time revoke and determine such Appointments: And whereas it is expedient for the more prompt and effectual Execution of the Acts now in force for the Relief of the destitute Poor in Ireland, and of this Act, to ⚫ amend the above-recited Provision as herein-after is provided;' be it enacted, That from and after the passing of this Act, in case regular Meetings of the Board of Guardians of any Union shall not be holden at the Times enjoined by the said Commissioners, or in case through the Default of the Guardians the Duties of such Board of Guardians shall not be duly and effectually discharged according to the Intention of the several Acts which now are or hereafter shall be in force for the Relief of the destitute Poor in Ireland and of this Act, it shall be lawful for the Poor Law Commissioners to dissolve the said Board of Guardians, and the said Commissioners shall thereupon at once, and without ordering such fresh Election of the Guardians as in the said Act is provided, appoint such and so many paid Officers as they may think fit, to carry into execution the Provisions of the said Acts and of this Act; and all the Provisions of the first-recited Act which relate to the Powers, Duties, and Salaries of such paid Officers appointed by the Commissioners after a fresh Election of the Board of Guardians as aforesaid, and to the Security to be given by such paid Officers, and to their Continuance in Office, shall extend and apply to the Powers, Duties, and Salaries of such paid Officers as shall be appointed by the said Commissioners under this Act, without ordering a fresh Election of the Board of Guardians, and to the Security to be given by such Officers, and to their Continuance in Office respectively.

XIX. And whereas by the said first-recited Act it is pro- As to the Pervided, that the Poor Law Commissioners shall take order for formance of Religious Serthe due Performance of Religious Service in Workhouses vice in Workin Ireland, and for appointing fit Persons to be Chaplains for houses. that Purpose;' be it enacted, That it shall be lawful for the said Commissioners, if they shall think fit, to provide a Chapel, or to direct that a suitable Apartment of the Workhouse shall be specially appropriated for the Religious Worship of any Denomination of Christians being Inmates of the Workhouse, and to make such Orders and Regulations for securing and regulating

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