CAP. VII. 6 An Act for the temporary Relief of destitute Persons in WHEREAS an Act was passed in the last Session of Parliament, intituled An Act to facilitate the Employ'ment of the labouring Poor for a limited Period in the distressed Districts in Ireland; but by reason of the great Increase of • Destitution sufficient Relief cannot be given according to the • Provisions of the said Act, and it is necessary to make further • Provision for the Relief of the destitute Poor in Ireland for a limited Time: And whereas the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland has appointed certain Persons, by the Title of Commissioners for Relief of Destitution in Ireland:' 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, That the said Commissioners, herein-after called Relief Commissioners, or such Persons as shall be hereafter from Time to Time appointed by the Lord Lieutenant to act as such Relief Commissioners, shall have Authority to superintend the Execution of this Act, and shall appoint, subject to the Approval of the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, a sufficient Number of Persons to be Inspectors, for the Purposes hereinafter mentioned, and also a Secretary, and such Officers and Servants as shall be necessary for the due Exccution of this Act, and may from Time to Time, at their Pleasure, remove any Inspector, Secretary, Officer, or Servant so appointed, and may pay and allow to such Inspectors, Secretary, Officers, and Servants such Salaries, Wages, and Allowances, and defray such other Expences necessarily incurred in the Execution of this Act, as shall be from Time to Time sanctioned by the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury. II. And be it enacted, That the Names of the Persons already appointed Relief Commissioners shall be published in the Dublin Gazette before they begin to act in the Execution of this Act; and whenever any Person shall be hereafter ap pointed, or shall cease to be a Relief Commissioner or Inspector, Notice thereof shall in each Case be published in the Dublin Gazette. III. And be it enacted, That it shall be lawful for the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland to give Orders for the Constitution of a Relief Committee in any One or more Electoral Divisions of an Union formed for the Relief of the destitute Poor in Ireland in which it shall appear to him that this Act should be put in force, and such Relief Committee shall be constituted of such Persons or in such Manner as the Lord Lieutenant, by any General Order or Orders to be from Time to Time published in the Dublin Gazette, or by any Special Order applicable to the peculiar such Committee. peculiar Circumstances of any One or more such Unions or Electoral Divisions, and to be published in the Dublin Gazette, shall from Time to Time direct: Provided always, that the Justices, GuarJustices, resident in such Electoral Divisions, if any, and the dians, &c. to be Guardian or Guardians of the Poor elected for such Electoral Members of Divisions and one of the Inspectors to be appointed as aforesaid by the Relief Commissioners, shall in every Case be constituted Members of such Relief Committee: Provided also, that no Relief ComRelief Committee constituted under this Act shall be continued mittee discontinued after after the First Day of November in this Year, unless for the Nov. 1. Purpose of settling and closing their Accounts. Committees to IV. And be it enacted, That every Relief Committee or Power to Relief Finance Committee constituted under this Act shall appoint so and Finance many Assistants and Servants, and at such Salaries and Allow- appoint Asances, as shall be sanctioned by the Relief Commissioners, on sistants, &c. the Report and Recommendation of the Inspector who is upon Salaries, &c. to such Committee, and all such Salaries and Allowances shall be be charged upon a Charge upon the Rates to be made and levied for the Purposes of this Act. the Rates. Electoral Divi. V. And be it enacted, That whenever this Act shall be put Inspectors of in force in any such Union the Relief Commissioners shall Unions and appoint an Inspector to act for such Union, who shall be sions to be apdeemed to be also the Inspector for each Electoral Division of pointed by such Union, unless it shall appear expedient to the Lord Lieu- Relief Comtenant that an Inspector shall be appointed to act specially for missioners." any One or more such Electoral Divisions, in which Case such Appointment shall be made accordingly. tenant to ap shall be in force. VI. And be it enacted, That it shall be lawful for the Lord Lord LieuLieutenant of Ireland, in every Case in which it shall appear point Finance to him expedient, to appoint, in every Union in which this Act Committees in shall be in force, a Finance Committee, which shall consist of every Union in the Inspector to be appointed as aforesaid by the Relief Com- which this Act missioners for such Union, and of such Justices resident in the Union, or Guardians elected for the Union, or such other Persons as the Lord Lieutenant shall think fit, not being less than Two and not more than Four Persons in addition to such Inspector, and from Time to Time to dissolve any such Finance Committee and appoint another instead thereof, or where an Inspector shall have been specially appointed for One or more Electoral Divisions of an Union it shall be lawful for the Lord Lieutenant to appoint such Finance Committee specially for such Electoral Division or Divisions, and in such Case the Inspector to be appointed specially as aforesaid for such Electoral Division or Divisions shall be a Member of the Finance Committee to be appointed for such Division or Divisions, to be made out VII. And be it enacted, That in every Union in which this Lists of Persens Act shall be in force the several Relief Committees shall from to be relieved Time to Time make out Lists of Persons to be relieved under and Estimates the Provisions of this Act within each Electoral Division for to be prepared which they severally act, according to such Regulations and from Time to Time by Relief Instruc- Committees. B 2 Power to mittee to examine Lists and Estimates, and amend the same if neces sary. Lord Lien Warrant to Guardians to out of Monies raised under 1 & 2 Vict. c. 56. Instructions as shall be from Time to Time issued to them for their Guidance by the said Relief Commissioners, with Estimates of the Sums which shall appear to them to be needed from Time to Time to defray the necessary Expences for the Purchase, Preparation, Distribution, or Sale of Food, and such other Relief as they shall be authorized by any such Regulations or Instructions to afford, and for providing and fitting up the necessary Buildings and Cooking Utensils, and for Payment of the Persons employed in the Purchase, Preparation, Distribution, or Sale of Food and Relief as aforesaid, and shall from Time to Time send every such List and Estimate to the Finance Committee acting for the Union or for such Electoral Division or Divisions, and shall state to the Finance Committee the Time or Times when in their Opinion any such Sum or any Part thereof will be needed. VIII. And be it enacted, That the Finance Committee shall Finance Com- examine such Lists and Estimates, and shall have Authority to revise and amend the same, in any Manner which shall appear to them expedient, and they or Two of them, of whom the Inspector shall be One, shall allow and sign every such amended List and Estimate, and thereupon the Inspector of the Union, or Electoral Division or Divisions, (as the Case may be,) shall report the Amount of each allowed Estimate to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, and the Time or Times when any such Sum or any Part thereof will be needed, and thereupon it shall be lawful for the tenant to issue Lord Lieutenant to cause a Warrant to be issued under the Hand of his Chief Secretary, Under Secretary, or Assistant Secretary defray Expences for the Amount thereof, or such Proportion thereof as the Lord Lieutenant shall approve, directed to the Guardians of the Poor for the Union to which such Electoral Division or Divisions may belong, requiring the Guardians, out of the Monies collected for defraying the Expences incurred in the Execution of an Act passed in the Second Year of the Reign of Her Majesty, intituled An Act for the more effectual Relief of the destitute Poor in Ireland, to pay to such Person as shall be named in the Warrant to receive the same on behalf of the Finance Committee acting for such Union, Electoral Division or Divisions, within a Time or Times to be mentioned in the Warrant, the Sum of Money mentioned therein, such Sum not being greater than the Proportion of the Amount set forth in the Estimate allowed and signed as aforesaid, which shall be specified by any Regulations to be from Time to Time made by the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, and that the Guardians shall pay over the said Sum to the Person mentioned in any such Warrant, within the Time or Times mentioned therein. Guardians to collect the with Poor IX. And be it enacted, That the Guardians of any Union to whom any such Warrant shall be directed shall pay the Sum Money required mentioned in the Warrant, within the Time or Times mentioned therein, out of any Monies in their Hands collected for defraying the Expences of the last-recited Act, or so much of the Sum mentioned in the Warrant as the Monies in their Hands Rates. shall shall amount to; and if there be no such Money in their Hands, or an insufficient Sum, they shall levy the Sum required as a Part of the Rates to be made and levied for defraying the Expences of the last-recited Act, and for that Purpose shall proceed in the same Manner and have the same Powers, Remedies, and Privileges as are provided by the Acts in force for Relief of the destitute Poor in Ireland for levying Money for defraying the Expences of the last-recited Act, and from Time to Time shall pay over the Sums so collected to the Person mentioned in the Warrant; and any Rate made and levied for the Pur- Any Rate made poses of this Act shall be deemed a Rate made and levied for for the Purdefraying the Expences of the last-recited Act, and the same Persons shall be liable, and the same Hereditaments rateable thereunto, and all the Provisions of the Acts in force for Relief of the destitute Poor in Ireland shall apply to the Rates so made and levied as if they were made and levied under the Authority of the last-recited Act, and the Receipt of the Person named in the Warrant shall be a sufficient Discharge to the Guardians for the Sum so paid by them, and shall be allowed as such in auditing and passing their Accounts. Act to be poses of this deemed a Rate made under the last-recited Act. fuse to pay Commissioners Officers to carry the same into execution. X. And be it enacted, That if the Guardians shall refuse or If Guardians wilfully neglect to pay the Sum mentioned in any such Warrant neglect or reout of any Monies in their Hands as aforesaid, or to procure Money authoPayment thereof to be made by any of the Ways and Means rized by this authorized by this Act, or, where such Monies shall be insuf- Act, Poor Law ficient, if they shall refuse or wilfully neglect to make and levy may dissolve such Rate as aforesaid, so that the Sum mentioned in the War- the Board, and rant shall not be paid to the Person mentioned in the Warrant appoint paid within the Time or Times mentioned therein, or if the said Guardians shall fail in any respect duly and efficiently to discharge their Duties in the Execution of this Act, it shall be lawful for the Commissioners appointed for carrying into execution the said Act of the Second Year of the Reign of Her Majesty, to declare such Board of Guardians to be dissolved, and thereupon to appoint such and so many paid Officers as they may think fit to carry into execution the Acts in force for the Time being for the Relief of the destitute Poor in Ireland, and this Act, and from Time to Time to revoke and determine any such Appointment, and from Time to Time as they shall see fit to define and direct the Execution of the Duties of such Officers, and the Amount and Nature of the Security to be given by such of them as the last-mentioned Commissioners shall think ought to give Security, and to regulate the Amount of Salaries payable to such Officers respectively, and the Time and Mode of Payment thereof, and such Salaries shall be chargeable on and payable out of the Rates levied for the Relief of the destitute Poor of such Union, and all Officers so appointed shall continue to hold their Offices during the Continuance of this Act, unless their Appointment shall be sooner revoked and determined by the last-mentioned Commissioners. B 3 XI. And After any Rate made, Notice to be given of the Amount, and when payable, &c. Monies to be paid to Relief Committees or expended in Purchases for them. Charges may be apportioned Union and the between the several Elec toral Divisions, tion of the Lord with the Sanc Lieutenant. Inspector to certify to the Relief Commissioners the XI. And be it enacted, That as soon as may be after making any Rate for the Purposes of this Act, the Guardians shall give Notice in One or more Newspapers usually circulating in the County of the Amount of such Rate, and of the Time when it will be payable and of the Place where the Book containing the Particulars of such Rate may be inspected by the Rate-payers. XII. And be it enacted, That the Sums so paid over to the Person mentioned in any such Warrant on behalf of the Finance Committee of any Union, Electoral Division or Divisions, and also all Sums which shall be raised by voluntary Contributions, shall be either paid over to the Relief Committee of the Electoral Division or Divisions on account of which they were severally demanded, at such Times and in such Manner as shall be directed by any Instructions or Regulations to be from Time to Time issued to them by the Relief Commissioners, or shall be employed by the said Finance Committee, pursuant to the like Instructions and Regulations, in procuring such Food and Necessaries as may be needed by any such Relief Committee, for enabling them most effectually to carry out the Purposes of this Act. XIII. And be it enacted, That the said Relief Commissioners, with the Sanction of the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, shall be empowered from Time to Time to direct whether the whole or any Part of the Sum mentioned in any such Warrant so issued on behalf of any Electoral Division shall be borne by and charged exclusively against such Electoral Division, or whether the whole or any Part, thereof shall be borne by and charged against the whole Union; and the Guardians shall charge the whole Union and the several Electoral Divisions accordingly; and in the Absence of any Directions by the said Relief Commissioners, the whole Sum for which any such Warrant shall issue on behalf of any Electoral Division shall be borne by and charged against such Electoral Division exclusively; and whenever any such Directions shall be made directing that the whole or any Part of any Sum mentioned in any such Warrant shall be charged against the whole Union, such Directions shall be annexed to the Warrant and sent to the Guardians therewith. XIV. And be it enacted, That the Inspector of any such Union or Electoral Division or Divisions shall from Time to Time certify under his Hand to the Relief Commissioners the Amounts to be Amount of the several Sums mentioned in such allowed Estimates, and also the several Amounts for the Levy of which the Guardians shall have proceeded toward making Rates, and the actual Amounts which shall have been paid pursuant to the said Warrants. levied and the Sums paid. Treasury may cause Advances to be made for enabling Relief Commissioners to grant Loans XV. And whereas it is expedient to give Facilities for the Advance of Money on the Credit of Rates which are in course of Collection, or which are to be made;' be it enacted, That it shall be lawful for the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, or any Three or more of them, to cause to be issued, |