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the third overt act, in each count was averred to be a printing and not a publication; and, lastly, in neither of these counts was there any averment of a contemplated rebellion or treasonable design. The court overruled the demurrer. This indictment, it will be observed, was not open to the objection for repugnancy that had been made successfully to the preceding one.

The prisoner pleaded, Not Guilty, and a jury being about to be sworn, he, through his counsel, challenged the array, and shewed for cause that the panel had been arrayed unfavourably to the prisoner. That the majority of the jurors of the city of Dublin were Roman Catholics, whereas the jury panel as returned, consisted of a large preponderance of Protestants, and he offered evidence to the triers appointed to try the challenge, of the religion of the jurors, which the court held to be inadmissible. The triers found against the challenge. The prisoner then challenged every juror whose age exceeded sixty, or who resided in the county, having only a place of business within the city.

The jury sworn to try the issue having disagreed, were finally discharged, leaving this case, already so unprecedented in length, to be brought under the consideration of another jury.

THE open expression by the Premier, a few days since, of his conviction that the law of settlement had worked badly in England, and that any law impeding the circulation of labour would be attended with very injurious consequences to Ireland, led us to hope, that the necessity of such an enactment would not have been involved in the proposition he was about to submit to the Committee of Inquiry into the Irish Poor Law-a proposition for the relief of Irish pauperism.

The plan he has proposed, however, exhibits no indication that any such conviction existed in the mind of its framer; it is based on the principle that, to 25 per cent. on the valuation, property should support its poverty-that when this limit has been reached, the neighbourhood shall be taxed in aid, to 10 per cent., and that when these united supplies have been exhaused-and not till thena national rate of 2 per cent. shall be resorted to. Other subsidiary provisions are suggested,-one exonerating any increase in the value of property resulting from expenditure of capital, from liability to poor rate, for from seven to ten years; and another exonerating lands which have lain waste for a year from arrears of poor rate. It is compounded of the two rival systems,-based on limited and extended areas of taxation,-and is open to many of the objections to which these systems are exposed, besides to others, and serious ones, peculiarly its own. It has, however, some advantages to recommend it, and which we shall proceed, in the first place, to consider.

The most important of these consists in fixing the maximum to which taxation can reach. This will do much to remove the present objection entertained by substantial parties to undertake the cultivation of land in the distressed districts; it will enable landlords to calculate what rent they should demand, and tenants what rent they could

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afford to pay for land; though in future lettings at least, in the poorer parts of Ireland-it will probably have the effect of throwing the whole weight of the poor rate-and that at its maximum on the proprietor, as farmers will naturally take this maximum rate into consideration when posing for land, and calculate on paying only the difference between the letting value and this maximum; and landlords are not now-and probably will not be for some time-in a position to contest the point with solvent bonâ fide bidders. We do not object to the limit at which the tax is fixed; and we think that if by sacrificing, even perma nently, one-fourth of their incomes, proprietors could save the other three-fourths, they should, under present circumstances, be very well satisfied indeed.

The suggestion to exonerate improvements on land, during seven or ten years, from taxation for poor rate, is also a very valuable one; outlay will be encouraged, and thus the quantity of employment given be increased; and this, in our opinion, is a much more rational method of restoring the country, than by endeavouring to force men, by legisla tion, to do what a regard for their own interests should compel them.

Clearly, however, as we see these beneficial tendencies of the plan, and highly as we value the importance of the suggestions noticed above, we cannot shut our eyes to the disadvantages under which it labours, or which will follow from it, as necessary consequences.

The most important of these consequences we apprehend to be a law of settlement for paupers. It is is quite evident that this must be a necessary consequence; for the only advantage expected to follow from the part of the plan which limits the area of taxation, is, that proprietors will undertake the profitable employment of their poor, when they will have these only to maintain, and their protection must consist in keeping the paupers from other divisions within their own divisions. If paupers were allowed to wander from one division to another, then the proprietor who gave most employ. ment would attract most paupers, and the proprietor would be best off who exerted himself least. If there is any benefit to be derived from this part of the plan, it will be by individualizing responsibility; and this must lead to a law of settlement, with all its pernicious consequences.

A second objection consists in taxing, for the benefit of the county generally, those very classes which have suffered most and are least able to bear the pressure.

The failure of the staple article of food,-that great calamity which has fallen on this country,-is the great cause of Ireland's present distress. By this calamity the small holders of land, who occupy the great extent, especially of the poor districts, have been either extinguished altogether, or redu ced to the brink of ruin. Their landlords rank next in the scale of suffering, whilst mortgagees and other incumbrancers, and owners of property, not connected with land, have, comparatively speaking, not suffered at all. Those three classes represent the whole property of the country. It is admitted on all sides that circumstances call for measures

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different from those hitherto adopted. The country is sinking, and some great and combined effort must be made to rescue it. Who, then, are called on to make this effort? The owners of property, which has not suffered from the universal and repeated failure of the national food? They, whose resources are unimpaired, and whose energies are unexhausted? By no means. The struggling, the almost ruined occupier of a few acres of land, the landlord whose incumbrances remain to their full amount, but whose means of meeting his engagement are cut off by the ruin of the small farmers; who, in some instances, are in a prison, and in many others are with difficulty keeping without its walls. These are the parties who are called upon to make this exertion-these are they, on whom the government plan casts the onus of supporting a sinking country; and yet these two classes, who are thus about to be crushed under this enormous and disproportionate weight, are the sole manufacturers of our wealth-the sole hope of our prosperity-the moving power, without which the machine of society would soon cease to work. The law imposing an income-tax in England provides that, persons possessing property of less than £150 a year— which in Ireland would be considered a respectable income-shall be protected from its operation; while in Ireland an almost diametrically opposite rule is adopted, and only those who are in reality least able to pay, are taxed for the benefit of the whole country.

The two first objections we mentioned before; the third has the merit of being peculiarly the consequence of the plan of the Premier. It follows from that part of it, which proposes, that property which has lain waste for a year, shall be exonerated from the arrears of poor rate. Here is a most convenient loop hole contrived for the escape of idle or indolent proprietors, and one which, if passed into law, we have no doubt will be taken advantage of. Properties in the distressed parts of Ireland are at this moment, to a great extent, waste; any substantial tenants who survived the horrors of 1846 and 1847 | having gone away on the re-appearance of the blight in 1848-for these waste tracts, whenever the former tenants were valued at under £4 annually in the rate books-the proprietors have been held liable, and have been in many instances compelled to pay poor rates. What will be their conduct under the altered circumstances of their position? Will they raise or borrow money, and by employing the paupers endeavour to render these waste tracts productive? Not at all; for then they would cease to be waste tracts, and the proprietors would be liable to poor rate for them. What, then, will be their course? They will not only not cultivate, or attempt to cultivate these waste lands, but will render waste every acre, to the rate on which they would otherwise be liable. They will argue, that it will be better that their properties should be unproductive, than that they should be ruined by, perhaps, a fruitless exertion to provide employment for their resident poor, from any contribution to whose support they will be exonerated by merely letting their lands lie waste; that they will lie bye till the storm blows over, either by the starving

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down of the population, or by some other means; that the law providing that these waste lands should be free from arrears of poor rate-the very best position in which they could hold untenanted lands would be in a waste state, as thus they would be in a condition to be let immediately to any tenant who might offer, and which, in the meantime, would be no incumbrance. Here, then, we have a direct premium on idleness-an idleness, too, to be indulged in, at the expense of the neighbouring divisions, or at the expense of the country generally.

In another particular, likewise, this plan seems by no means satisfactory. It is proposed that no rate in aid shall be called for by any electoral division, till 5s. in the £1 is first collected on itself. Now suppose-and the hypothesis is not an extravagant one-that some divisions will not be able to pay this 5s. in the £1, will the rate in aid be refused in that instance? Or suppose further, that the union cannot pay 5s. in the £1, will the national rate of 6d. in the £1 be refused? Perhaps Lord John intends to pursue the course he proposes to adopt in the commencement, namely, levying the national rate first, and calling for the others as they may be found wanting. And, indeed, some such intention as this is apparently shadowed out in his proposal of exonerating waste lands from arrears of poor rate.

Much reliance is placed on the new arrangement to be founded on the report of Commissioners for Inquiry into the number and boundaries of Poor Law Unions and Electoral Divisions in Ireland.” In their report, however, after pointing out the object they have sought to obtain, viz., the “ placing the country, and each part of it, in a position which shall best combine the interest of the labouring class with that of the employers of labour," and that it "was to be found in such a change of boundary, and, in many cases, in such a reduction of area of the present electoral divisions, as shall give every practicable advantage to the zealous improver, without unduly restricting the field of the labourer's employment," the Commissioners have, after all the attention they have been able to bestow on the subject, and the peculiar means of information which they possessed, only been able to report that they "hoped to find it practicable to have in each district such an amount of labour as was necessary for its improvement, having regard to the peculiar capabilities it might possess, without making the divisions so large as to prevent the influence of each proprietor and occupier from being usefully exerted, as well by the force of example, with its valuable operation on public opinion, as by the more direct means of labour afforded; and this we had every reason to suppose could be accomplished with such regard to the boundaries of property, as at least to prevent any part of an estate from being severed from the other parts, unless they were outlying or detached."

That these hopes must have been disappointed in very many cases, is the necessary result of the manner in which the property of one proprietor is found scattered in small portions over very wide districts in many parts of the country. We know

one district in the Ballina union which hitherto was comprised in two electoral divisions, and which the Commissioners propose to re-arrange into thirteen; and, minute as are these subdivisions, and anxious as the Commissioners were to "prevent any part of an estate from being severed from the other parts," one proprietor has property in twelve out of these thirteen divisions, and among the thirteen divisions there is not one which does not embrace the properties of five, or six, or more, different proprietors. In fact there is no arrangement, save that of throwing the same property, though scattered over a wide space, into one electoral division for itself and which the Commissioners regard as impracticable-by which this property, or the other properties in these divisions, could be more satisfactorily condensed.

In fine, the plan has the merit of pleasing nobody, though it apparently was intended to please all. For ourselves, we confidently expect that Lord John's sixpenny national rate will rapidly increase, and, as Aaron's rod swallowed up the rods of the Egyptian magicians, so that it will swallow up in the end the union rate and the electoral rate, leaving no trace of that part of his plan based on individualizing responsibility, but the pernicious consequences of the law of settlement.

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72. And whereas doubts are entertained whether, when a judgment affects lands in Ireland, and when the person entitled to such judgment is willing to release a portion such lands in order to the sale thereof, or otherwise, he can grant such release without nullifying the effect or va lidity of such judgment upon the residue thereof, or any other property which it is intended should remain subject 'to such judgment: and whereas it is expedient that such doubts be removed: be it enacted, that the release of any portion of lands in Ireland from any judgment shall not operate or be construed to extend or operate so as to nullify or in any manner to affect the validity and force of such judg. ment as regards the residue of such lands, or any perty not specially released from such judgment, but that such judgment shall continue to affect such residue or other property, nothwithstanding such release, in like manner, and with the like powers to enforce payment of interest and principal, and to all intents and purposes, as if such deed of release had not been executed.

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73. That in the mouth of February in every year, or, if the next meeting of parliament, a return shall be laid before parliament be not sitting, then within fourteen days after both houses of parliament, showing the total amount or quantity in statute acres of all lands sold under the provisions of this act during the year ending the thirty-first day of De cember then last past, together with a statement of the tota shown in the proceedings,) the total amount of incumbranannual rent of such lands (so far as the same shall have been ces which affected such lands at the time of the applications for the sale thereof respectively under this act, the total amount of purchase money for the same, together with the total amount of all such law costs incurred as shall have been

paid out of such purchase money, and of all other charges and expenses which may have been paid or deducted from the proceeds of such sales under the order of the court.

74. That in citing this act in other acts, and in legal instruments, it shall be sufficient to use the expression "The Irish Incumbered Estates Act."

75. That this act shall, except so far as the special provi sions of the same otherwise require, extend only to Ireland, and may be amended, altered, or repealed by any act to be passed in this session of parliament.

CAP. XLIX.

An Act for regulating the sale of beer and other liquors on
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70. That any incumbrancer not being the first incumbran cer on any land or on any lease of land in Ireland, who shall be desirous of exercising the powers given to a first incumbrancer under this act, and for that purpose shall be willing to redeem the prior incumbrance, or all the prior incumbrances if more than one, may apply by petition in a summary way to the court for liberty so to redeem such prior incumbrance or incumbrances; and the court, upon such petition, may make such order and give such directions in all respects as might have been made or given in a suit by An Act to provide additional funds for loans for drainage

Cap. L. An Act to empower the Commissioners of Her Majesty's woods to remove the colonnade in the Regent's Quadrant. [14th August, 1848.]

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and other works of public utility in Ireland.
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such petitioning incumbrancer for redemption of such prior incumbrance or incumbrances; and in case the amount which shall be owing to any incumbrancer whose incumbrance shall be sought to be redeemed shall not be admitted or agreed Sec. 1. Treasury may cause to be issued a further sum not

upon, the court, upon payment into court by the petitioner of the money due on such incumbrance, may order that the petitioner shall, for the purposes of all proceedings in court under this act, and for the purposes of sales without the order of the court under this act, stand in the place of the owner of such incumbrance, without prejudice to the rights of the petitioner and of the incumbrancer whom he shall seek to redeem, upon taking the account of the incumbrance : provided, that it shall not be lawful upon any such petition to question the validity or title of any such prior incumbrance.

71. That no petition shall be presented for confirming and carrying into execution a contract for sale or for a sale by order of the court under this act by any assignee of any bankrupt or insolvent debtor, without the consent thereto of the major part in number and value of the creditors assembled at a meeting duly convened for that purpose first had and obtained: provided that where any such petition shall have been presented without such consent having been.

exceeding 945,000l. to the commissioners of public works in Ireland. Sums issued not to exceed the sum actually paid into the Exchequer under provi sions of 9 & 10 Vict. cc. 1. 107. and 10 § 1. Vict. c. 87.

2. Sums issued to be applied for loans for completion of public works commenced under 9 & 10 Vict.cc. 11 107., and for promotion of drainage and other works of public utility.

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Powers, &c. of 10 & 11 Vict. c. 106, to extend to

Power to treasury to postpone commencement of pay ment of annuities under 10 & 11 Vict. c. 87. Power to treasury to convert annuities into others of longer or shorter duration of equal value.

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6. If Grand Jury shall not make application at Summer Assizes for conversion of annuities, clerk of the peace may call special sessions, at which jus tices may make application.

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7. Provision where occupation of premises may be changed.

8. Act may be amended, &c.

'Whereas an act was passed in the 9 & 10 Vict. c. 85, and whereas another act was passed in the 9 & 10 Vict. c. •168, and whereas an act was passed in the 10 & 11 Vict. c. 106, and whereas under the authority of an act of the 7 W. 4, & 1 Vict. c. 21, and of an act passed in the said session ' of parliament holden in the 9 & 10 Vict. c. 1, and also of another act passed in the 9 & 10 Vict. c. 107, and of an act of the 10 & 11 Vict. c. 10, sundry advances were made by the commissioners of public works in Ireland for the ⚫ purpose of affording relief by means of employment on public works: and whereas, under the conditions on which these advances where made, and under the provisions of an act of the 10 & 11 Vict. c. 87, one moiety of the advances 'made under the two last-recited acts, with interest, was 'made re-payable by half-yearly instalments: and whereas by various presentments made at the Spring and Summer Assizes 1847, and at the Spring or Summer Assizes 1848, in different counties in Ireland, several sums are payable into the Exchequer in respect of the advances herein-before ⚫ mentioned, and whereas certain of the works commenced under the two lastly above-recited acts of the ninth and tenth years of Her Majesty are unfinished: and whereas it is ex'pedient to complete the same, and also to carry on works of river drainage under the act passed 9 & 10 Vict. c. 4, ⚫ and the other acts recited therein, and also of carrying on other works in Ireland:' be it enacted, that the commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, may cause to be issued from time to time as they may find necessary during the three years next ensuing the 5th of April, 1848, out of the consolidated fund, any sum or sums of money not exceeding the sum of £945,000, to be placed to the credit of the commissioners for the reduction of the national debt: provided that the total sum issued from the consolidated fund under this act shall not exceed the sum paid into the Exchequer under the act of the 1 Vict. c. 21, the act of the 9 & 10 Vict. c. 107, the said act of the same years "to facilitate the employment of the labouring poor for a limited period in the distressed districts in Ireland," and the said act of the last session of parliament "to facilitate the recovery of public monies advanced for the relief of distress in Ireland by the employment of the labouring poor."

2. That all the monies placed to the credit of the commissioners for the reduction of the national debt shall be held subject to the disposal of the commissioners of public works in Ireland, for the purposes of any loans which the said commissioners may think fit to make for the completion of pub.

lic works commenced under the 9 & 10 Vict. cc. 1, 107, and for the extension and promotion of drainage, and for any other works in respect of which, under any of the acts herein-before mentioned, or any other acts, loans are authorized to be made by the said commissioners of public works in Ireland out of the funds provided by parliament for that purpose, and for the purposes of any other loans which the said commissioners of public works in Ireland may, by any act or acts hereafter to be be passed, be authorized to make for the execution of works of public utility in Ireland.

3. That all the powers, of what nature or kind soever, contained in the firstly herein-recited act of the last session of parliament, and the acts recited therein, and in any act authorizing loans to be made for the extension and promotion of drainage and other works of utility in Ireland, shall extend to this act, and to the loans hereby authorized to be made.

4. And whereas by the said act of the 10 & 11 Vict. c. 106, it is provided, that the sums chargeable under the 'said act on the several baronies, &c., with interest up to the first day of March, 1818, shall be ascertained by the ⚫ commissioners of public works in Ireland, and for every £100, there shall be paid an annuity of £12, and so 'on in proportion for any lesser sum during the period ' of ten years; and such annuity shall be charged upon 'the barony, half barony, electoral division, part of an 'electoral division, district, county of a city, county of a town in respect of which the said commissioners shall certify the same to be due; and such au nuity

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'shall be payable by two instalments in each year, one 'at each successive Assizes, or in the case of the county of Dublin at the successive periods limited for the payment of the respective moieties of grand jury cess for such county, until twenty instalments shall have been paid, the first of 'the same being payable at the Summer Assizes, and in the case of the county of Dublin at the period limited for the payment of the first moiety of grand jury cess after 'the presenting term of the year 1848, and provided that 'the whole sum may be paid off in one payment in any case where the grand jury shall think fit to make a presentment 'for that purpose; and it is further provided, that the said ' commissioners shall issue certificates to the secretaries of 'the several grand juries of the total sum so to be repaid, ⚫ and of the annuity by which the repayments are to be made, ' and that each secretary shall lay such certificate before the grand jury of the county, county of a city, or county of a town to which the same shall relate, at the Spring Assizes, and in the case of the county of Dublin at the presenting term of 1848, each grand jury, without any application to 'presentment sessions, may present the total sum of principal ' and interest specified in such certificate: And whereas the 'said commissioners of public works in Ireland have, previous to or at the Spring or Summer Assizes, and in the case of the county of Dublin to the presenting term of 1848, 'certified to the secretaries of the grand juries of the several 'counties, counties of cities, and counties of towns, in Ireland, the total compound sum to be paid in each barony,

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half barony, electoral division, part of electoral division, 'district, county of a city and county of a town respetively, ' and the instalment of annuity which is to be paid for that purpose at the next and every succeeding Assizes until 'twenty such instalments are paid: and whereas it may be expedient to postpone the payment of the said annuity, and by reason of the unequal proportions of the annual payments chargeable on the several counties and divisions of counties ' it may be expedient that the re-payments should be made in some cases by annuities of longer duration, and in others of shorter duration, than ten years:' be it enacted, that the commissioners of Her Majesty's treasury, may direct the treasurer of any county, or county of a city or county of a town, in Ireland, in which the snm or sums certified by the said commissioners of public works shall have been previously presented, or in case of the county of Dublin the finance committee of the same county, to postpone the payment of the first instalment of each such annuity until the Spring Assizes of 1849, and in the case of the county of Dublin until the presenting term in the year 1819, and thereupon all the provisions of the said last-recited act in relation to the annuity or annuities in such respective county, county of a city or county of a town, shall be construed and take effect as if the first instalment thereof had been made payable at such Spring Assizes and presenting term.

5. That the commissioners of Her Majesty's treasury, upon application by the grand jury of any county, or county of a city, or county of a town, in Ireland, or by the justices assembled at a Special Sessions to be summoned as hereinafter directed, in which the sum or sums so certified by the said commissioners of public works shall have been presented, to authorize the conversion of the annuity charged on such county, county of a city or county of a town, or the portion of such annuity chargable on any barony, half barony, electoral di vision, or district, under the certificate and presentment in this behalf, or into an annuity of a shorter or longer duration in no case exceeding twenty years, provided the value at the time; of the conversion shall be equal to the value at the same time of the annuity or portion of annuity charged or chargeable as aforesaid, or such instalments thereof as aforesaid, or portion thereof, such respective values to be calculated on the basis on which such an annuity of twelve pounds for ten years as aforesaid was taken as equal to a sum of one hundred pounds; and all the powers, authorities, or provisions contained in the last-recited act which relate to the presentment, raising, levying, and paying of the annuities to be presented by the grand juries under that act shall extend to the annuities sanctioned under this act: provided that with respect to the limitation of the total sum to be issued under this act, all postponed payments, and payments of substi

tuted annuities under the postponement and conversions hereby authorized, shall be deemed payments under the provisions of the last-recited act.

6. That in case such application shall not have been made by the grand jury of any county, &c. at the Summer Assizes of this present year, and it may be expedient that such application should be made previous to any levy, the clerk of the peace of any such county, county of a city, or county of a town, and he is hereby required within two days after the receipt of a written requisition of the treasurer of such county for that purpose, may call a Special Sessions of the Peace to be held on or previous to the first day of October of this present year, to be held at the county or assize town (giving six days notice thereof to the justices of such county) and the justices then and there assembled may make such ap. plication as aforesaid.

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7. And whereas by the said recited act of the last session of Parliament, intituled, An Act to facilitate the Recovery of Public Monies advanced for the Relief of Distress in Ireland by the employment of the labouring Poor, it is ⚫ amongst other things enacted, that any such sum of money to be from time to time raised and levied off any barony, half barony, electoral division, part of an electoral division, ⚫ district, county of city or county of a town, as in the said act provided, shall be charged upon, and levied upon, the ⚫ occupiers of and other persons rateable in respect of lands and hereditaments within such barony, half barony, elec⚫toral division, part of an electoral division, district, county of a city or county of a town respectively, and rated under the then last preceding rate or rates made, under the pro⚫ visions of an act passed in the 1 & 2 Vict. and the several ⚫acts amending the same, and shall be payable by the res⚫pective rate-payers who under the said last preceding rate 'or rates shall have paid or contributed or been liable to pay or contribute rate in respect of property in such barony, half batony, electoral division, part of an electoral division, ⚫ district, county of a city or county of a town; and any such sum of money shall be applotted, assessed, and levied by the respective high constable or collector of grand jury cess ⚫ for or in such barony, half barony, or place as aforesaid as 'a poundage assessment equally upon the net annual value of the several lands and hereditaments within such barony, half barony, electoral division, part of an electoral division, district, or county of a city or county of a town respectively, rated as aforesaid, as such net annual value shall have been stated in such last preceding rate or valuation as 'aforesaid:' and be it enacted, that where any rate-payer or rate-payers shall have ceased to occupy the rateable property, all and every sum and sums of money to be so raised and levied under the said provision of the said act, and all and every sum and sums of money which shall be raised and levied under or in consequence of the postponement of payment and conversions of annuities hereby authorized, or any of them, shall be paid by the person or persons in the actual occupation of the lands and hereditaments on which such sum or sums respectively shall be assessed at the time of the assessment thereof, and in the default of any such person or persons, from the person or persons in the actual occupation of the same lands or hereditaments from whom such sum or sums shall be demanded, subject to such provisions as to deduction from rent as in the said act of the first and second years of the reign of Her present Majesty contained, so far as the same shall be applicable.

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

(To be continued.)

JAMES WHITESIDE, Q.C.

Anne Twibill,
Plaintiff,
Thomas Benison,
John Benison, and
another,

Defendants.

CHANCERY.

PURSUANT to the Decree made in this Cause, bearing date "the 22d day of June, 1848, I hereby require all Creditors of Richard Ben. ison, deceased, in the pleadings in this cause named, and all persons having charges and incumbrances affecting the lands of Dulargy, and the tenement and premises in Ravensdale, heretofore used as a Bleach Mill, called the little Engine Concern, situate in the Lordship of Ballymascanlan, Barony one undivided fourth part of the lands of Bally worken and Drumnakelly, of Lower Dundalk and County of Louth, and the said Richard Benison's situate in the Barony of O'Neiland East, and County Armagh, being the lands and premises in the pleadings in this cause mentioned, to come in before me at my Chambers on the Inns Quay, in the City of Dublin, on or before the 16th day of April, 1849, and proceed to prove the same, otherwise they will be precluded from the benefit of the said Decree, Dated this 20th day of February, 1849. EDWARD LITTON. Charles Gaussen, & Co., Plaintiff's Solicitors, 72, Eccles-street, Dublin.

IN CHANCERY.

Thomas Kemmis, Esq.
Plaintiff.

Sir Richard Nagle, Bart.

Dame Mary Bridget Nagle,
George Pilkington,
John Ennis,
Luke M'Donnell ; and

Defendants.

PURSUANT to the Decree of

Her Majesty's High Court of Chancery, made in this cause, bearing date the 17th day of April, 187, I will, on MONDAY, the 23rd day of APRIL next, at the hour of One o'clock in the Afternoon, at my Chambers, on the Inns Quay, in the City of Dublin, SET UP and SELL to the highest and best bidder, all that and those the LANDS commonly called the DONORE ESTATE, in the County of Westmeath; that is to say, the Manor or reputed Manor of Danure, otherwise Donore, Coolfin, Ballinlabane, Ballinlahave, otherwise Ballin. lavin, Hospitalstown, Skehane, Garry-cloone, Thenlemore; and also all Tolls of the Fairs and Patterns of Donore; and also that part of the Lands that part of Donore called the Green House Farm, and the Customs and of Ballinlahave, called the Red House Farm; and also the Lands of Spittlestown and its sub-denominations; also the Town and Lands of Bally. brickogue, otherwise Rosemount, Killachunney, otherwise Killacunney, Capperakirk, Ballynegall, and part of Ballintubber, Cloghlah, and Brack neherla, otherwise Bracknehowla; and also the Town and Lands of Agha brak, Carne, Killare, Gibbstown, and part of Cloghenna, Cloonerina, Streamstown, Killinagh, Ardvana, Garthy, and the House and Offices of Jamestown-all situate in the County of Westmeath, or a competent part thereof, for the purposes in said Decree mentioned.

Dated this 27th day of February, 1849,

EDWARD LITTON,

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