To be substituted for Bill
previously delivered.
[50 & .51 Vict.] Distressed Unions {Ireland).
BILL
to
Make better provision for the administration of the Acts A.d. 1887.
relating to the relief of the destitute poor in certain parts
of Ireland, and for other purposes connected therewith.
Be it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and
with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and
Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled,
and by the authority of the same, as follows:
5 1. This Act may be cited as the Distressed Unions (Ireland) Act, Short title.
1887.
2. In the case of any of the poor law unions named in the Appointment
schedule to this Act, it shall be lawful for the Lord Lieutenant,
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upon the application of the board of guardians of the union, from
10 time to time, by warrant, to appoint two persons to be Commissioners
for carrying into effect the purposes of this Act in that union.
An application of a board of guardians under this section shall
state that the board are unable to levy rates sufficient to pay their
existing debts and to make proper provision for the discharge of
15 their duties as such board of guardians.
A Commissioner shall hold office during the pleasure of the Lord
Lieutenant and shall be paid such salary or remuneration, and
shall receive such allowances, as the Lord Lieutenant, with the
consent of the Treasury, may determine.
20 The salary or remuneration and allowances of a Commissioner
shall be defrayed either out of money provided by Parliament, or
out of the poor rate leviable in the union or unions for which he is
appointed, or partly from one source and partly from the other as
the Lord Lieutenant, with the consent of the Treasury, may from
25 time to time direct.
[BiU 307.]
