PUBLIC HEALTH ACT, 1848 (11 & 12 Vic. c. 63):

Extracts from,

PUNISHMENT:

Of pauper for refusing to be lodged and maintained in work-
house, or absconding therefrom while his wife or child is
maintained therein,

For refusing to work, drunkenness, or insubordination,
For disobedience to the rules of the Commissioners, or other
misbehaviour in workhouse,

For introducing spirituous or fermented liquors into the
workhouse,

Page

468

43

43

43

43

For deserting or wilfully neglecting to maintain wife or child,
For begging in any public place,

148

148

For going from the union in which resident to some other union

Statement showing the value fixed as the qualification for the

12, 14

Persons in holy orders and regular ministers of any reli-
gious denomination,

Persons who have been convicted of felony, fraud, or per-
jury, or who have been adjudged liable to forfeiture for
being concerned in contract for supplying the workhouse,
Paid officers engaged in the administration of the laws for
relief of the poor or under the Medical Charities Act,
Persons who having been paid officers shall have been dis-
missed within five years previously,

RATEABLE HEREDITAMENTS:

Description of, .

Provision as to rating unoccupied buildings,

Rent receivable for property which is exempt from rating,

RATE BOOK:

After signature, to be evidence of the truth of particulars con-

To be open for inspection fourteen days before the making of the rate,
Names of occupiers for whom the immediate lessor is primarily

liable to be inserted,

To be produced in case of controversy as to right or qualifica-
tion of any person to vote or act under the Municipal Cor-
porations Act,

May be inspected and extracts taken by registered voters and
claimants to be registered,

Entitled to vote in election of Guardians,

Joint rate-payers-proportion of votes,

May appoint proxy to vote in respect of property not in their
actual occupation,

Not entitled to vote in election of Guardians in respect of pro-
perty not in their actual occupation, or to give additional vote
in respect of beneficial interest until they shall have lodged a
statement of particulars of claim,

61, 121,

Claim to vote not to continue in force more than five years,
Not to vote in respect of a greater amount of rent than the
rateable value of the property,

Not incompetent witnesses in proceedings for penalties under
the Act,

May vote in any electoral division or ward in which they have
paid or are liable to rate,

RATES:

Raised under the Act, not to be applied to any purpose not ex-
pressly provided for, .

To be made by Guardians,

Regard to be had, in making, to the amount chargeable to each

electoral division,

Exemptions from,

57

58

96, 232

44

44

45, 286

To be a poundage-rate on the net annual value,
Notice of having been made to be given before being levied,
Persons affected by rate may take copies or extracts,
Payable to Collector by occupier, and on his default by subse-
quent occupier,

46

50

Warrants for the collection of to be issued by the Guardians to
the Collectors,

Deduction to be made by occupier from his rent on account of
rate paid by him,

Deduction to be made on account of rate by a person receiving
rent, and also paying rent in respect of rated premises,
Deduction to be made from tithe on account of,
How to be recovered after the expiration of two months,
Where the person paying rent and costs is not primarily liable,
he may deduct the whole amount from his rent,
Receipt for to be accepted by rent-receiver as money,

54, 185

54

56

56

No deduction for to be made from rentcharge by way of jointure
or for lives,

57

To be payable notwithstanding appeal, until quashed or
amended,

82

To be made on immediate lessor instead of the occupier, for
tenements not exceeding £4 annual value,

.

How recoverable when immediate lessor rated,
On houses let in separate apartments or lodgings,
Commissioners may prescribe form in which to be made,
Mode of signing and allowance,

101, 333, 388

102, 337, 381

105

113

113

Index.

Page

197

RATES-continued.
To be made in respect of rent receivable for property exempt
from rating, to the extent of one-half the poundage rate, 184, 286
In proceedings at Quarter Sessions relating to rates, clerical
errors or irregularities may be amended by the Barrister,
Proceedings by civil bill against immediate lessor for the
recovery of rates to be taken before the Assistant Barrister
for the county wherein the rated premises are situate,
On unoccupied buildings,

To be made according to final lists furnished by Commissioner
of Valuation,

197

225

270,272

289

Not to be affected by omission to give notice under Valuation
Acts, or by error in valuation,
Guardians may make such departure from the valuation lists,
not affecting value, as may be necessary to enable them to
make a valid rating,
Buildings used exclusively for science, literature, or the fine
arts, exempted,

Lighthouses and property of Lighthouse Authorities and Board
of Trade, used for the service, exempted,
Deduction from rent payable for tithe-rentcharge,

In the borough of Dublin to be collected by Collector-General,
In Dublin may, in case of change of occupancy, be apportioned
between the original and the subsequent occupier,

292

314

318

319

320

336

May be made by Burial Board for defraying the expenses of
the execution of Burial Grounds Act,

571

Forms in which rates are to be made,

955

Forms and mode in which notices of the preparation and making
of rates are to be published,

865

Form of notice to be given when a rate is prepared, and before

Form of notice to be given when rates have been made,

868

Books to be provided for making entries of descriptions of

persons admitted to workhouse,

To be kept by Master of the workhouse,

To be produced at every meeting of the Guardians,

Form of,

Out-door Relief Register to be kept by Clerk of the Union,
Form of,

A separate register to be kept of persons claiming to pay cost
of maintenance in hospital, and Constabulary patients,
Books to be provided by Registrar-General and furnished to
Registrars for registering births and deaths, .
Error in register of birth or death-how to be corrected,
Abstract of the number of births and deaths registered to be laid

Indexes of registers of births and deaths to be kept, searches
allowed, and certified copies given on payment of fees,

327

Page

REGISTER-continued.

Books to be provided by Registrar-General for registering marriages, 535
Error in marriage register-how to be corrected,
Abstract of the number of marriages registered to be laid

annually before Parliament,

Indexes of register of marriages to be kept, searches allowed,

and certified copies given on payment of fees,

Of burials in ground provided by Burial Board,
Of claims to vote in the election of Guardians,
Forms of register of claims to vote,

REGISTER OFFICE:

534

641

541

570

644

665-669

According to a plan to be approved by the Registrar-General,
to be provided and upheld by the Guardians of each union,
May, with the sanction of the Poor Law Commissioners, be in
some part of the workhouse,

312

512

Board of Guardians may borrow money as a charge on the rates
for providing register office,

512

REGISTRAR:

The Medical Officer of the dispensary district to be,

If unwilling to accept or disqualified, the Guardians to appoint,
When there are two medical officers the Guardians to appoint
one of them,

On ceasing to be Dispensary Medical Officer to cease to be Registrar,
If Medical Officer does not accept the office or is disqualified,
and the Guardians neglect to appoint, the Lord Lieutenant
may appoint,

To appoint a deputy,

Transfer of books, &c., on death or removal of Registrar,
To reside in his district,

To make quarterly returns of entries of births and deaths to
Superintendent Registrar,

To allow Register Book of births and deaths in his keeping to
be searched, and to give certified copies of entries on payment
of fee,

Payment to for entries of births and deaths,

Registrars of births and deaths to be Registrars of marriages,
May appoint a deputy,

To allow Register Book of marriages in his custody to be
searched, and to give certified copies of entries on payment

513

513

513

513

514

514

514

515

527
528

542

542

To register certified cases of successful vaccination,

554

To give notice at, or immediately after the registration of birth,

of the requirement of vaccination,

555

Payment to for registering vaccination,

556

506

REGISTRAR-GENERAL:

To be appointed by Lord Lieutenant,

May, subject to the approval of the Lord Lieutenant, appoint
an assistant, who may act as Registrar-General in case of his
illness or absence,

To transmit yearly abstract of births and deaths registered to
Lord Lieutenant, to be laid before Parliament,

REGISTRAR-GENERAL-continued.

To pay fees to Superintendent-Registrar for certified copies of
registers of births and deaths,

Page

528

To pay fees to Superintendent-Registrar for certified copies of
registers of marriages,

542

To provide books and forms for carrying the provisions of the
Compulsory Vaccination Act into effect,

556

Certificate of cause of death to be given by medical attendant,
Mode of registering marriages, .

524

537

REGISTRATION OF BIRTHS AND DEATHS ACT (26 Vic. c. 11),

505

535

30

REGISTRATION OF MARRIAGES ACT (26 & 27 Vic. c. 90),
RELIEF:

Guardians to provide in workhouses,

Cost of to be charged against electoral divisions according to
residence,
32, 115, 130, 175, 216

After three years from declaration of workhouse, cost of may,
by agreement, be borne by electoral divisions in common,
Given to a wife or child considered as given to the person liable
to maintain such wife or child,

By way of loan,

Given to the husband of a woman having separate property,
declared to be a loan, and the cost recoverable from such
woman,

To pensioners,

Guardians to provide for certain classes, either in or out of the
workhouse, as shall appear fitting in each individual case, and
for other classes of destitute poor persons in the workhouse, .
In case of want of room in the workhouse, or of fever or infec-
tious disease therein, Commissioners may authorize out-door
relief in food to other classes than those above mentioned,
Commissioners to make regulations as to the manner of adminis-
tering out-door relief,

33

40, 129
40, 716

40
40, 609

124

125

126, 144

May be given provisionally by Relieving Officer in case of sudden
and urgent necessity,

128

Not to be given, under the 10 Vic. c. 31, to any person not
within the union when relieved,

129

May be given temporarily by Relieving Officer in case of per-
sons who become destitute by reason of eviction,
Names of persons relieved to be entered in a book under the
head of townlands in which they have last resided, to be open
to inspection,

Weekly statement of number of persons relieved and chargeable
to the union-at-large and to each electoral division to be
posted on workhouse door,
Not to be given to any person in the occupation of more than
the quarter of an acre of land, except in the workhouse,
To destitute poor deaf and dumb or blind children, in asylums,
To poor persons (not destitute) affected with fever or other dan-
gerous contagious disease,

192

193

218

116

117