[33 & U Vict.]
Census (Ireland).
A BILL
EOR Taking the Census of Ireland.
a.d.
1870.
WHEBEAS it is expedient to take the census of Ireland in the
year one thousand eight hundred and seventy-one: Be it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, 5 and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the
authority of the same, as follows: 1.
In this Act,— Interpreta-The term " Lord Lieutenant" shall mean the Lord Lieutenant or
tlon term<?'
other chief governors of Ireland : 10 The terms "chief secretary " and cc under secretary" shall mean
respectively the chief secretary and under secretary to the Lord Lieutenant.
2.
An account of the population of Ireland shall be taken at the Account of time and in the manner herein-after directed.
population
to be taken.
15 3.
Such officers and men of the police force of Dublin metro-By whom
polis, and of the Boyal Irish Constabulary, as the Lord Lieutenant ^Jcnnt shall direct, together with such other competent persons as the taken.
Lord Lieutenant shall appoint to assist therein, shall, upon the eighth day of April and one or more next consecutive days in the 20 year one thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, as the said Lord
Lieutenant shall fix, severally visit every house within such districts as may be assigned to them respectively, and take an account in writing, according to such instructions as may be given to them by the chief or under secretary of the number of persons dwelling 25 therein, and of the sex, age, religious profession, and occupation of
all such persons, distinguishing the persons bom hi the place or parish and county in which they shall be then dwelling; and shall also take an account of the number of inhabited houses and of uninhabited houses and of houses then building within such districts * 30 respectively; and shall also distinguish those parishes and places, or
[Bill 237.]
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