REVISE THE GRAND JURY LAWS, IRELAND.
xxxix We further recommend— vi.
Rembbiax,
That tho Finance Committee shall, in the Month of October, in each year,
Mbaspms' declare the sum which it will be necessary to raise off the County at Mode of Appiot-large, for general County purposes, from the 1st of November to the 1st ment:— of May following ; and that they shall make a similar declara¬ tion in tho ensuing Month of April, as to the sum to bo raised from May to November.
That they shall at the same time declare the por¬ tion of the said sum payable by each Barony, and the amount to be paid also by each Barony for Baronial Presentments.
That they shall then applot the whole sum payable by each Barony upon tho several Town lands thereof, according to the annual value of each ; and shall issue a Warrant to each Collector, signed by two of them, and coun¬ tersigned by the Secretary of the Grand Jury, thereby requiring him
&n evy* to levy off each Townland in his District, the sum applotted thereupon, which sum shall be specified in the Warrant or in a Schedule annexed thereto.
That the Collector, so soon as ho shall have received the Warrant, shall, as to any Townland which may comprise more than one tenement, obtain from the Clerk of the Poor Law Union in which it is situated, a certificate of the total value of the tenements comprised therein, according to the Boor Law Valuation.
That ho shall produce the same to the Road Wardens of the District, who shall thereupon calculate by what rate in the pound upon the whole value stated in declaration of Rate the Certificate, the sum applotted upon the whole Townland may be per pound:— raised, and shall declare such Rate forthwith.
That public notice collection.
shall be given of the Rate so declared, and that the amount shall be collected accordingly.
Each Cess-payer would thus have notice of the precise sum in the pound which he was to pay on the value of his holding, as valued under the Poor Law Act, and extortion would bo effectually prevented.
For example : If the value of the Townland as rated under the Poor Law Act, be -£100 a-year, and the portion of the half-yearly ('ess payable out of it b(i £2 10s.,
the rate for tho County Cess would be (id.
in the Pound upon the value of each holding as rated under the Poor Law Act, and so in proportion.
Fever Hospitals and Dispensaries.
Fever Hospitals
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The section of the Poor Rebel Act which wo have already quoted, clearly shows that the Legislature in passing ii intended at a future period to impose upon each Poor Law Union, the duty of providing and supporting such number of Fever Hospitals and Dispensaries as might be necessary for the relief of the Poor therein.
Tho necessity of a general and effective change is made still more apparent by Recommendations the Report of tin* Poor Law Commissioners from which wo have made such full comnLbnL' extracts;—but as we understand that the matter is under the consideration of Report thereon.
Her Majesty's Government, who arc in communication with the Poor Law Authorities, wo deem it unnecessary to enter into any recommendations in detail upon the subject, beyond suggesting that the Lord Lieutenant should be authorized, so soon as the necessary number of Fever Hospitals and Dispensaries shall be established in any Union, to order that no further Presentment shall be made for any such Institution therein.
Lunatic Asylums and County Infirmaries.
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The charge for each Patient in a Lunatic Asylum, or m a County Infirmary, Presentaiiaproposed is now borne by tho County in general to which he belongs, and is raised by modes of support; Presentment, Wo think it should be borno by the Poor Law Union from which «* management.
he comes, and should be provided for out of the Poor Rate.
We also think that the Lord Lieutenant should be authorized to make rules m Council for the government of each Infirmary, as he now is for the government of each Lunatic Asylum—that advances should bo made from the Treasury for the support ot Infirmaries, as advances now are for tho support of Limbic Asylums, and should be repaid by the Poor Law Unions—that both the Lunatic Asylums and Infirmaries should, from time to time, be visited and inspected by; the Poor Law Commissioners or their Assistants, and should bo reported upon m like maimer as other Institutions supported out of tho Poor Rate—and, that the Accounts
