[43 Vict.
] Census (Ireland).
A BILL
TOE 'Faking the Census in Ireland.
ad.
isso.
WHE REAS it is expedient to take the census of Ireland in the
year one thousand eight hundred and eighty-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
tion of terms-other chief governor or governors of Ireland : 10 The terms " chief secretary " and " 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.
tob^tlkeL 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 ^^unt shall direct, together with such other competent persons as the taken.
Lord Lieutenant shall appoint to assist therein, shall, upon Monday the fifth day of April and one or more next consecutive days in the 20 year one thousand eight hundred and eighty-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 who abode 25 therein on the night of Sunday the fourth day of April one thousand
eight hundred and eighty-one, and of the sex, age, religious pro¬ fession, birthplace, and occupation of all such persons; 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
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