Licensing justices."

"Register of licenses."

"Clerk to the licensing justices."

a similar license has not theretofore been granted, or, if granted, has been annulled or has not been in force during the preceding six months:

The term "licensing justices" shall mean as to licenses granted in pursuance of certificates granted at quarter sessions, and as to renewals or transfers of such licenses, the justices or authority empowered to grant such certificates at quarter sessions, and as to other licenses, excise licenses, and wholesale beer dealer's licenses the justices or justice empowered to grant certificates for the same respectively:

"Register of licenses" shall mean the list or register directed to be kept by this Act:

The term "clerk to the licensing justices" shall mean the person who keeps the register of licenses.

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SCHEDULE A.
Form of Notice.

To the Clerk of the Peace for the county [or city or town] of

Take notice, I have obtained a [license, early-closing license, or six-day license, as the case may be] to sell spirits, beer, and cider by retail up to the

day

of

18, and I require you to enter my name and the description of my house in the Register of Licenses as follows:

Christian name of trader.

Surname of same.

Place of abode of same.

Description or sign of house and premises.

Name of townland [or in cities, towns, or villages, name of street and number therein].

Petty sessions district where house situate.

Christian name of owner of house.

15 & 16 Vict. c. 63.

17 Vict. c. 8. 23 Vict. c. 4.

CHAPTER 70.

AN ACT to amend the Law relating to the Valuation of Rateable Property in in Ireland.

[7th August 1874.]

HEREAS by an Act passed in a session of Parliament held in the fifteenth and sixteenth years of the reign of Her present Majesty, chapter sixty-three, and one other Act passed in the seventeenth year of the reign of Her said Majesty, chapter eight, and one other Act passed in the twenty-third year of the reign of Her said Majesty, chapter four, various provisions were made for the annual revision of the valuation of rateable property in Ireland, and for payment of the expenses thereof, and it is expedient to amend said Acts as herein-after mentioned:

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:

The Lords

of Treasury to fix salaries and

Commissioners

allowances.

1. THE Commissioner of valuation, and all other persons acting in the execution of the said Acts, shall, anything in the said Acts, or any of them, to the contrary notwithstanding, be paid out of moneys to be voted by Parliament such salary and allowances for travelling and other expenses as the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury shall think fair and reasonable and from time to time direct, and shall be entitled to such superannuation or other allowance, and upon such conditions as are provided by the Superannuation Act, 1859, for persons who shall have served in an 22 Vict. c. 26. established capacity in the permanent civil service of the State.

portions of

mentioned in

schedule.

2. EACH County shall repay to the said Commissioners, in respect of the Counties to expense of such annual revision incurred from and after the first day of July repay the one thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, the annual sum stated in expense of relation to such county in the schedule to this Act annexed; said sum to be annual revision presented and levied by the respective grand juries for each county, in equal moieties, at the spring and summer assizes in each year, save in the county of Dublin, in which county the annual amount to be repaid shall be presented by the finance committee in one sum at the usual time for making presentments for said county, and shall be levied by equal moieties in each year.

present.

3. THE grand juries of the respective counties in Ireland, and the finance Grand juries to committee for the county of Dublin, shall and they are hereby required (without application to presentment sessions) to present, levy, and raise in manner aforesaid the respective sums stated in the schedule to this Act annexed as payable by each county; and in case the grand jury of any county, or the finance committee of the county of Dublin, shall refuse or neglect to make any such presentment, the judge or judges presiding at the assizes or presenting term at which such grand jury or finance committee shall have so refused or neglected, or at any subsequent assize or presenting term, shall order the amount to be placed on the levy, and raised as if the same had been duly presented; and when and so soon as any sum so presented or ordered as aforesaid shall be levied and raised, the same shall be paid over by the treasurer of each county to the supply account of Her Majesty's Paymaster General at the Bank of Ireland, or shall be brought to the public account in such other manner as the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury may from time to time direct.

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title of Act.

5. THIS Act shall take effect from the first day of July one thousand eight Commencehundred and seventy-four, and may be cited for all purposes as the Valuation ment and short (Ireland) Amendment Act, 1874; and the unrepealed portions of the said recited Acts, and this Act, shall be construed and be deemed and taken as one Act.

SCHEDULE.

Showing the ANNUAL SUMS payable by COUNTIES from and after the 1st July 1874 in respect of ANNUAL REVISION.

AN ACT to explain and amend the Fines Act (Ireland), 1851, and for other purposes relating thereto.

[7th August 1874.]

14 & 15 Vict. WHEREAS by section ten of the Fines Act (Ireland), 1851, provisions

c.

were made for the estreat of recognizances, and doubts have arisen as to whether the said provisions extend to sureties as well as to principal parties, and it is expedient to remove the said doubts:

And whereas quarterly and monthly returns of proceedings in petty sessions, and of the appropriation of fees, fines, and penalties, are now by law required to be made by clerks of petty sessions in Ireland, and by reason of such monthly returns such quarterly returns are unnecessary, and it is expedient that the same should cease to be made:

And whereas it is expedient to make provision for the recovery of penalties and with respect to offences in certain cases:

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. THIS Act may be cited for all purposes as the Fines Act (Ireland), 1851, Short title. Amendment Act, 1874, and the said Act and this Act may be cited together for all purposes as the Fines Acts (Ireland), 1851-1874.

2. It is hereby declared that the provisions of section ten of the Fines Act (Ireland), 1851, extend and authorise the assistant barrister, recorder, or chairman therein mentioned, whenever he orders that any recognizance which shall have been entered into by any person or persons as surety or sureties for any principal party shall be forfeited, in such order to state with respect not only to such principal party but also to such surety or sureties the amounts of such forfeiture, and to direct a warrant or warrants to issue to levy such amounts respectively from such surety or sureties in like manner as other penal sums are directed to be levied by the said Act.

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Meaning of

section 10 of

Fines Act (Ire

land), 1851,

explained.

town of

4. EVERY penalty recovered in respect of offences committed within the Application of limits of the Galway Town Improvement Act, 1853, against section twelve of the Licensing Act, 1872, as applied to Ireland, shall be applied as follows:- Galway. One half of such penalty shall go to the informer, and the remainder to the 35 & 36 Vict. town commissioners, and if the town commissioners be the informers, they shall be entitled to the whole of said penalty.

c. 94.

Mode of recovering penalties, &c. in certain cases.

5. WHERE by any Act now in force or hereafter to be passed it is enacted that penalties, offences, or proceedings thereunder may be recovered, prosecuted, or taken in a summary manner, and no further provision with respect thereto is contained in such Act, then such penalties, offences, and proceedings shall be recoverable, may be prosecuted, or taken with respect to the police district of Dublin metropolis, subject and according to the provisions of any Act regulating the powers and duties of justices of the peace for such district, or of the police of such district; and with respect to other parts of Ireland, before a justice or justices of the peace sitting in petty sessions, subject and according to the provisions of the Petty Sessions (Ireland) Act, 1851, and any 14 & 15 Vict. Act amending the same.

c. 93.

CHAPTER 73.

AN ACT to amend the Law relating to the Payment to and Repayment by the
Commissioners for the Reduction of the National Debt of Moneys
received in and to the accounts relating to the Post Office Savings Bank.
[7th August 1874.]

WHEREAS by the Post Office Savings Banks Act, 1861, it is enacted that 24 & 25 Vict.

all moneys deposited with the Postmaster General in pursuance of that Act" shall forthwith be paid over to the Commissioners for the Reduction of the National Debt, and all sums withdrawn by depositors, or by parties legally authorised to claim on account of depositors, shall be repaid to them "out of the said moneys, through the office of Her Majesty's Postmaster General," and by the said Act the moneys remitted to the said Commissioners are required to be invested in manner in the said Act mentioned:

And whereas the practice has been to pay out of the moneys deposited with the Postmaster General the sums withdrawn by depositors, and to pay over the balance to the Commissioners for the Reduction of the National Debt for investment by them:

c. 14. s. 5.

Construction

and short title

of Act.

Explanation of s. 5. of

24 & 25 Vict.

c. 14. as to payment of money to the

And whereas doubts have arisen whether the said practice is authorised by the said Act, and it is expedient to remove such doubts :

And whereas it is expedient to extend the time for laying before Parliament the accounts under the said Act:

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. THIS Act shall be construed as one with the Act of the session of the twenty-fourth and twenty-fifth years of the reign of Her present Majesty, chapter fourteen, intituled "An Act to grant additional facilities for depositing small savings at interest, with the security of the Goverment for due repayment thereof" (in this Act referred to as the principal Act), and together with that Act may be cited as the Post Office Savings Banks Acts, 1861 and 1874, and each Act may be cited as the Post Office Savings Banks Act of the year in which it was passed.

2. SECTION five of the principal Act shall be deemed to authorise and always to have authorised the payment out of moneys deposited with the Postmaster General in pursuance of the principal Act, of the sums withdrawn by depositors under that Act, and the payment over of the balance only to Commissioners the Commissioners for the Reduction of the National Debt; and the said Commissioners may keep uninvested such portion of the said balance as is National Debt. required to repay to the Postmaster General the expenses mentioned in section fifteen of the principal Act.

for the Reduction of the

Accounts to be laid before Parliament.

The regulations made in pursuance of the principal Act by the Postmaster General with the consent of the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury may provide for the time and mode at and in which such balance is to be ascertained, and such expenses are to be paid or repaid.

3. AN annual account of all deposits received and paid under the authority of the principal Act, and of the expenses incurred during each year ended the thirty-first of December, together with a statement of the total amount due at the close of the year to all depositors, shall be laid by the Postmaster General before both Houses of Parliament not later than the last day of April in every year, and the balance sheet mentioned in section nine of the principal Act shall be laid before both Houses of Parliament at the same time.

5 & 6 Vict. c. 123.

8 & 9 Vict

c. 107. 8. 23.

CHAPTER 74.

AN ACT to amend the Law respecting certain Receipts and Expenses connected with Private Lunatic Asylums in Ireland. [7th August 1874.] THEREAS under the Private Lunatic Asylums (Ireland) Act, 1842, and

the Act amending the same, the moneys received for licenses to keep a private lunatic asylum in Ireland are required to be paid by the clerks of the peace to the inspectors of lunatics, and to be accounted for by such inspectors, and certain expenses are directed to be paid out of such moneys, and in case of a deficiency out of the Consolidated Fund, and it is expedient to make other provision with respect to the said moneys and expenses: