Annual report of the Local Government Board for Ireland for year 1921

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xvi Bonuses to Officers of Local Authorities, etc. 
existing statutory provisions on the subject and the procedure to be followed in connection with applications for regulations fixing new speed limits. 
Under the Order in Council already referred to our powers and duties in relation to motor vehicles were transferred as from the 1st January, 1920, to the Ministry of Transport. 
The yield of the Motor Car Licence Duties levied in Ireland for for the year ended 31st March, 1919, as notified to us by the Postmaster General, was £31,070 12s. 
lid., 
being £2,165 10s. 
2d. 
in excess of the previous year. 
The usual percentage accruing to County and County Borough Councils was duly paid to their credit during the year. 

Bonuses to Officers of Local Authorities. 
We referred in our previous report to the issue of a circular letter to local authorities setting forth the Civil Service Scale of bonuses with a view to ensuring that grants of bonuses by local authorities to their officers should follow a uniform principle. 
During the year two further awards of the Conciliation and Arbi¬ tration Board for Government Employees (Nos. 
84 and 101) were promulgated, and in due course we communicated the scales of bonuses authorised by these Awards to the local author.ties. 

Disposal of Corporate Property. 
No question calling for special remark arose in the course of the year out of the operations of local authorities under this head. 

Public Parks (Ireland) Act, 1869. 
Our attention was drawn by the Belfast County Borough Council to an anomaly created in the provisions of Section 6 of the Public Parks (Ireland) Act, 1869, by the Local Government (Ireland) Act, 1919, which, amongst other things, instituted triennial elections in Urban Districts. 
We accordingly under the powers vested in Us by Section 10 (1) of the Local Govern¬ ment (Ireland) Act, 1919, issued an Order adapting the pro¬ visions of Section 6 of the Public Parks (Ireland) Act, 1869, by the substitution in the Section of the word " meeting " for the word " election." 
County Surveyors and Assistant County Surveyors. 
We approved of the appointment of a County Surveyor in County Galway to fill the vacancy in that County referred to hi our last report. 
In the course of the year vacancies arose in the