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Local Government (Ireland) Acts.
on all persons employed, the minimum rates of wages, as varied by the Chain Trade Board and notified in January, 1914, and the minimum rates of wages fixed by the Tailoring Trade Board (Ireland) and notified in February, 1914.
The effect of the obligatory Orders is to make it illegal for wages to be paid at less than the minimum rates fixed, except in the case of time-workers who have obtained special permits from the Trade Board exempting their employment from the operation of the minimum time-rates.
Wo pointed out that the limited opera¬ tion of the rates under Section 7 had terminated and that it will not now be necessary for an employer to give notice to the Trade Board, under that Section, that he is willing that the minimum rates should be obligatory on him, in order to be eligible to receive from a Government Department or local authority a contract involving employment to which the mini¬ mum rates are applicable.
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RiDer Navigation Improvement (Ireland) Act, 1914.
On the 24th November last we issued a circular letter drawing the attention of the County Councils and the County Surveyors of the various Counties to the provisions of the River Navigation Improvement (Ireland) Act, 1914.
This Act empowers County Councils to undertake, construct, and maintain works for the improvement of the navigation of any river in accordance with schemes prepared by the Council of the County concerned and approved by the Board of Works, to acquire land and borrow money for these purposes, to appoint Committees for the carry¬ ing into effect the Act, and to charge and enforce the payment oi tolls in cases where works under the Act have been carried out.
General Cattle Diseases Fund.
In accordance with a certificate furnished by the Department of Agriculture and Technical Instruction for Ireland showing that a sum equivalent to a rating of one farthing in the pound on the net annual value of the property in all Irish administrative counties was required for the purposes of the Diseases of Animals Act, 1894, we made an Order on the 8th February last assessing the amount certified on the several counties and county boroughs in Ireland according to their respective valuations.
By the Diseases of Animals (Ireland) Act, 1914, the maximum amount which may be levied for the purposes of the Act of 1894, has been increased from a poundage of eight pence to a poundage of one shilling on the valuation of property in the administrative counties.
Local Government (Ireland) Act, 1898—Section 66.
During the year we issued the usual certificates under this Section of the sums to be paid to us by the Corporation of the City of Dublin, and by the Council of the County of Dublin,
