GENERAL ORDER, DATED 9TH SEPTEMBER, 1850, PRESCRIBING THE FORMS IN WHICH RATES ARE TO BE MADE. 9 SEPT. 1850. To the GUARDIANS OF THE POOR of the several FORMS OF RATE BOOKS: Unions named in the Schedule hereunto anGENERAL nexed; to the CLERK or CLERKS to the JUSTICES ORDER OF of the PETTY SESSIONS held for the Division or Divisions in which the Townlands and Places comprised within the said Unions are situated; and to all others whom it may concern: We, the Commissioners for administering the Laws for Relief of the Poor in Ireland, send greeting. a WHEREAS in pursuance of the provisions of the Acts in force for the relief of the destitute poor in Ireland, and of an Act passed in the thirteenth year of the reign of Her present Majesty, Queen Victoria, intituled, "An Act to authorize further advance of money to certain distressed poor law unions, and to make provision for the repayment of advances made and authorized to be made to poor law unions and other districts, in Ireland," we, the Commissioners for administering the Laws for Relief of the Poor in Ireland, by a certain General Order under our Seal, bearing date the twenty-eighth day of June last, did prescribe the Forms in which rates should thereafter be made in the several unions in Ireland, and the particulars which should be contained in the rate-books of the same, and we did direct that a note should be placed in the first page of every such rate-book, for the guidance of the Clerk of the Guardians, containing among other things instructions as to the rating of immediate lessors RATE BOOKS: FORMS OF of rateable property the net annual value of which shall not exceed £8, in electoral divisions situate wholly or in part in certain boroughs, under the provision contained in the first section of an Act passed in the Session of Parliament held in the sixth and seventh years of the reign of Her present Majesty, intituled, "An Act for the further Amendment of an Act for the more effectual Relief of the destitute Poor in Ireland: And whereas so much of the said provision in the last-recited Act contained as relates to the said boroughs has been repealed by an Act passed in the Session of Parliament held in the thirteenth and fourteenth years of the reign of Her Majesty, intituled, "An Act to amend the Laws which regulate the Qualification and Registration of Parliamentary Voters in Ireland, and to alter the Law for rating Immediate Lessors of premises to the Poor Rate in certain Boroughs ;" and it has been by the said Act enacted among other things as follows: "That whenever from and after the passing of this Act the net annual value of the whole of the rateable hereditaments in any electoral division situated wholly or in part in any of the boroughs of Dublin, Cork, Limerick, Belfast, or Waterford, occupied by any person or persons having no greater estate or interest therein than a tenancy from year to year, or holding under a lease or agreement, leases or agreements, made after the passing of the said last-recited Act, shall be rated for the poor rate under the value of eight pounds, the rate in respect of such property shall, after the passing of this Act, be made on the immediate lessor or lessors of such person or persons; and if at the time of making any such rate the name of the immediate lessor be not accurately known to the persons making the rate, it shall be sufficient to describe him therein as 'the immediate lessor,' with or without any name or further addition, and such rate shall be held to be duly made on him by such description, and shall be recoverable from him accordingly, notwithstanding any error or defect in his name or description, or the entire omission of his name therein :" FORMS OF RATE BOOKS: 9 SEPT. 1850 And whereas it is expedient to amend the said ORDER OF General Order in respect to the note directed to be placed in the rate-books for the guidance of the Clerk of the Union as aforesaid : Now, therefore, we, the Commissioners for administering the Laws for Relief of the Poor in Ireland, acting in pursuance of the powers given to us by the said herein before recited Acts, do hereby order, direct, and declare, that every rate to be made by the Guardians or other officers competent to the making of a rate, in every union named in the Schedule hereunto annexed, shall hereafter be made in one of the Forms hereinafter set forth, as the case may be, that is to say, in all unions or parts of unions not comprised within any of the boroughs named in Schedule A or Schedule B annexed to an Act passed in the fourth year of the reign of Her Majesty, intituled, "An Act for the Regulation of Municipal Corporations in Ireland," or within any other town to which a charter of incorporation may under the said Act be granted, the rate shall be made in the Form No. 1 hereunto annexed; and in all unions or parts of unions comprised within any of such boroughs the rate shall be made in the Form No. 2 hereunto annexed. [FORMS |