Bill to provide for Difficulties in Assessment of Grand Jury Presentments in Cork

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( 4 ) And whereas doubts have arisen with respect to the continuance in force of the said provisions of the said Act of the third year of the reign of King George the Fourth : 

And whereas the Grand Jury assembled at the Spring Assizes in the present year, holden for the county of the city of Cork, made 5 Presentments for divers sums to be levied off the county of the city of Cork, some of such Presentments being for salaries previously due, and works previously executed, and services previously rendered, and others of them being for compensation for malicious injuries committed before the coming into operation in the borough of Cork of the said 10 Act of the third and fourth years of Her present Majesty's reign, whereby part of the liberties of the city of Cork was annexed to the county of Cork : 

And whereas the warrants of the Treasurer of the county of the city of Cork under such Presentments would not extend to that part 15 of the liberties of the city of Cork annexed under the provisions of the said Acts or either of them to the county of Cork ; and it is expe¬ dient that such Presentments shall be quashed, and that other Presentments should be made in manner bereinafter mentioned, in lieu of the Presentments so made at the last Spring Assizes as 20 aforesaid : 

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4, And whereas an Act was made and passed in the Session of Parlia-c<1 * ment holden in the sixth and seventh years of the reign of his late 

Majesty King William the Fourth, intituled, "An Act to consolidate and amend the Laws relating to the Presentment of Public Money 25 by Grand Juries in Ireland," and by reason of doubts with respect to the operation of the said last-mentioned Act, in relation to the city and suburbs of Cork, a large sum, being parcel of the monies directed by the warrants of the Treasurer of the said county of the city of Cork to be levied off the city and suburbs of Cork, remains uncollected : 30 And whereas divers persons who would have been chargeable with public rates, if the last-mentioned Act had not been passed, have neglected to pay the sums applotted upon them respectively, and it is expedient that provision should be made for the levy of such sums: 35 And whereas the valuations of the city, suburbs and liberties of Cork, made under the said recited Acts of the fifty-third and fifty-fifth years of the reign of King George the Third, were made under circumstances and with reference to divisions no longer existing, and are not now applicable to 'the county of the city of Cork as altered under the provisions of the said Acts of the third and fourth years of 

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