Bill to alter and amend Act as relates to Mode of making Tithe Rent-Charge in Ireland liable to Poor Rate Poundage

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(No. 
2.) 

12 July 1848.—1% 
Vict. 

(Ireland.) 

A 

To alter and amend so much of an Act of the First and Second Years of Her present Majesty as relates to the Mode of making Tithe Rent-charge in Ireland liable to Poor-Rate Poundage ; and also to empower the Ecclesias¬ tical Commissioners in Ireland to allow Sums paid for Poor Rate, or County Cess or Poundage, deducted from Ecclesiastical Persons on accounl of Poor Rate, among the Deductions from the Valuation of Ecclesiastical Property directed to be made under an Act of the Third and Fourth Years of his late Majesty, for the Purpose of a certain Tax thereby imposed upon such Property in Ireland. 

[Note.—The 
Words printed in Italics are proposed to be inserted 

in the Committee.] 

^ClR.Q&^S> 
an Act was passed in the Session of Parliament preamble: holden in the first and second years of the reign of Her i&2Vict. 
present Majesty, intituled, " An Act for the more effectual Relief of the Destitute Poor of Ireland :" 

And whereas it is provided and enacted in the said Act, that every person immediately liable to pay Tithe may deduct therefrom, for every pound in value of such Tithe, the entire poundage of every rate made upon the hereditaments out of which such Tithe may arise : 

c. 
56. 

10 And whereas by such deductions as authorized to be made in the 

said Act from Tithe or Tithe Rent-charge by persons liable to pay the same, an undue proportion of rate is thrown upon persons entitled 484. 
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