c. 69, TARY VOTERS ACT, 1850. Revision 13 & 14 Vic. the Clerk of the respective union, or his deputy, PARLIAMEN to be appointed as aforesaid, shall attend the Court of Revision to be holden for every such city, town, or borough; and the said Clerk of the union, or such deputy as aforesaid, respectively, shall answer upon oath all such questions as the Assistant Barrister may put to them or any of them, and produce all documents, papers, and writings in their possession, custody, or power touching any matter necessary for revising the list Courts in Collectors of Rates shall attend Revision Courts, if required. Officers may be fined by non-attend ance. of voters. 50. And be it enacted, That at each Court of Revision holden in or for any such county, city, town, or borough every Assistant Barrister shall have power to require any Collector of poor's rates, or other officer or person having the custody of any such rate, or any such Collector for the past year, to attend before him at any Court to be by him holden in pursuance of this Act, and they shall attend accordingly, and answer upon oath all such questions as may be put to them. 66. And be it enacted, That any Collector of Barrister for poor rates, or Clerk of a union, or other officer or person having the custody of any such rate or rate book as herein-before mentioned for the then current or any past year, who shall wilfully refuse or neglect, when duly required by summons under the hand of any Assistant Barrister, to attend before such Barrister at any Court to be holden as aforesaid, according to the exigency of such summons, shall, upon proof before him of the service of such summons, be liable to pay by way of fine, for every such offence, a sum of money not exceeding five pounds nor less than twenty shillings, to be imposed by and at the discretion of the said Barrister holding any such Court as aforesaid. Clerks of 67. And be it enacted, That any Clerk of any union who shall wilfully refuse or neglect to make out or verify as hereby required, or to transmit, any list, copy of the register, or return which he is by this Act required to make out, verify, and transmit, or who shall wilfully and without reasonable cause omit the name of any person entitled c. 69, TARY VOTERS ACT, 1850. to be inserted in such list, copy of the register, or 13 & 14 Vic. return, or who shall wilfully or without reasonable PARLIAMENcause insert in such list, copy of the register, or return, the name of any person not entitled to be inserted in such list, copy of the register, or return, or who shall wilfully refuse or neglect, by himself or his deputy, to attend with and produce, at any Court for revising the list of voters which he is hereby required to attend, the rate or rate books or compared copies which he is hereby required to produce thereat, or who shall be wilfully guilty of any other breach of duty under or in the execution of this Act, shall for every such offence be liable to pay by way of fine a sum of money not exceeding five pounds nor less than twenty shillings, to be imposed by and at the discretion of the Assistant Barrister holding any Court for the revision of any list of the barony or division of a barony, or the city, town, or borough, for which such officer is required to act as aforesaid: Provided always, that nothing herein contained as to any fine as aforesaid shall affect or abridge any right of action against any Clerk of a union, or other person liable to any fine as aforesaid, or any liability, civil or criminal, which such Clerk of a union, or other person may incur under or by virtue of this Act. into allow annual tion to Clerks this Act. 73. And be it enacted, That the Guardians of Guardians of the Poor of each union shall by an order make such annual allowance out of the rates to the Clerks remuneraof the union as a compensation for the duty hereby of unions for imposed upon them as the said Guardians shall duties under think proper; but no such order shall be acted on, or any payment made thereunder, until the same shall be approved of by the Poor Law Commissioners, and the payment sanctioned by them. 109. And be it enacted, That the respective Collector of poor rates shall attend in person, or by a sufficient deputy duly appointed by him by writing under his hand, at some place in each barony (of which he shall give public notice) within the union or part of the union whereof he is Collector, in each year after one thousand eight hundred and fifty one during the first day of July Collector of poor rates, or deputy, &c., shall attend to receive poor rates. c. 69, 13 & 14 VIC. (not being Sunday), and during the three next PARLIAMEN- preceding days, exclusive of Sunday, or if the first VOTERS ACT, day of July be Sunday then during the four next TARY 1850. Penalty for return of payments, and for other offences. any preceding days in each such year, for the purpose of giving receipts for poor rate to any persons requiring the same, and paying the amount of poor rate then payable by them; and the respective Collector of poor rate or a sufficient deputy for him as aforesaid shall in like manner attend at a place (of which he shall give public notice) in every such city, town, or borough as aforesaid within the union or part of the union of which he is Collector, (as regards each year after one thousand eight hundred and fifty-one) during the first day of July (not being Sunday), and during the three next preceding days, exclusive of Sunday, or if the first day of July be Sunday then during the four next preceding days in each year for the like purpose; and if such Collector of poor not making rates shall not return to the Clerk of the respective union the names and descriptions of the persons who shall have paid their poor rates, and a statement of the sums respectively paid by them, within the space of two days after the first day of July in any year after one thousand eight hundred and fifty-one, or if any such Collector shall neglect or refuse to give his assistance to the Clerk of the respective union as by this Act required in or for the making out the return or list of rated occupiers or the copy of the register in any year for the purposes of this Act, or shall wilfully and without reasonable cause give any false information which may lead to the omission of, or the entering of an objection to the name of any person entitled to be inserted in such list, or to the insertion of the name of any person not entitled to be inserted therein, such Collector shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding ten pounds, to be recovered summarily before any Justice of the Peace, and levied by distress. Occupiers of land or premises valued at £12 in counties, or 110. And be it enacted, That it shall be lawful for any person who shall occupy any lands, tenements, or hereditaments rated under the Acts for the more effectual relief of the destitute poor in c. 69, TARY be rated. Ireland at a net annual value of twelve pounds 13 & 14 Vic. or upwards, in any electoral division in any county, PARLIAMEN or eight pounds or upwards in any city, town, or VOTERS ACT, borough in Ireland, in which there shall be a rate 1850. for the relief of the destitute poor, and whose name £8a in towns, shall have been omitted from such rate, to present may claim to to the Guardians of the union a claim to be rated in respect of such premises, and such claim shall be in writing, and signed with his name; and upon such occupier so claiming, and actually paying or tendering the full amount of the rate or rates (if any) then due in respect of such premises, the Guardians of the union shall insert the name of such occupier in such rate in respect of such premises as aforesaid; and in case such Guardians shall neglect or refuse so to do such occupier shall, for the purposes of this Act, be deemed to have been rated in respect of such premises in the rate in respect of which he shall have claimed to be rated as aforesaid. [§ 111 provides that no person shall be entitled to be registered in any year who shall within twelve calendar months next preceding the 20th day of July in the current year, have received relief under the Acts for the more effectual relief of the destitute poor in Ireland.] [The 116th section of the Act repealed the provisions of the 1st section of 6 & 7 Vic. c. 92, in regard to the rating of immediate lessors in lieu of the occupiers of premises in the electoral divisions comprising the boroughs of Dublin, Cork, Limerick, Belfast, and Waterford, the net annual value of which did not exceed eight pounds, and provided in lieu thereof, that in those electoral divisions the rate should be made on the immediate lessor in cases where the net annual value was under eight pounds; but by the 19th section of "The Representation of the People (Ireland) See note on § 32, (p. 375). The words "More than four pounds" are to be substituted for the words "Eight pounds." In regard to premises within the municipal district of the city of Dublin the claim is to be served on the Collector-General and the tender of payment of the rate made to him. See 16 & 17 Vic. c. 58, § 5 (p. 382). c. 69, PARLIAMEN TARY 13 & 14 Vic. Act, 1868," (31 & 32 Vic. c. 49,) this last-mentioned provision is repealed, and it is provided that the rate shall be made on the immediate lessor in the electoral divisions in question (as elsewhere) in cases where the valuation does not exceed four pounds.] VOTERS ACT, 1850. 16 & 17 VIC. c. 58, REGISTRATION OF VOTERS (COUNTY OF DUBLIN) ACT, 1853. Removal of doubts respecting rate city of Dublin. 16 & 17 VICT. CAP. 58. An Act to authorize the Appointment of Barristers § 5. And whereas doubts have arisen as to whether the books of the Collector-General of rates books in the in the city of Dublin, or the books of the Boards of Guardians of the North and South Dublin Unions of the said city, are the rate books contemplated by the said Act of the thirteenth and fourteenth years of the reign of Her present Majesty, and it is expedient to remove such doubts: Be it therefore enacted, That the books of the said Collector-General of rates shall be deemed and taken to be the rate books contemplated by the said last-mentioned Act as regards all portions of the city compre hended within the municipal district of the said city, and that the tender or payment of the poor's rate by the said Act directed to be made, and the notice of claim to be rated, in like manner directed to be served upon the said Guardians, shall, in respect of any property situated within the municipal district of the said city, in future be made to and served upon the said Collector-General of taxes, either in person or through the Clerk in the public office of the said Collector-General, in manner as directed by the said Act. |