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(Ireland.)
PAPERS RELATING TO DISTURBANCES IN THE COUNTY OF LOUTH.
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1.—Copy
of a Proclamation, enforcing the Peace Preservation Act, in certain Baronies of the
County of Lo«<A.
2.—Copy
of a Proclamation, enforcing the Insurrection Act, in certain Baronies of the County
of LoafA.
3,—Copies and Extracts of Letters from the Chief Magistrate of the County of Lswf^, respecting
Outrages committed in that County.
4.—Copy
of a Letter from the Right Honourable Jo/in JWer, to the Right Honourable
.RoiertPeel;
dated Collan, October 30, 1816.
OnZercrf, % The House of Commons, to 6e Printed, 15 Mm/ 1817.
Copy of a Proclamation, enforcing the Peace Preservation Act, in certain Baronies of the County of Zow?//.
BY The Lord Lieutenant and Council of Ireland.
.(Signed)
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WHEREAS by an Act of Parliament passed in the fifty-fourth year of His present Majesty, intituled, " An Act to provide for the better execution of the Laws " in Ireland, by appointing superintending Magistrates and additional Constables in " Counties, in certain cases," it is amongst other things Enacted, That it shall be lawful for the Lord Lieutenant, or other chief Governor or Governors of Ireland for the time being, by the advice of the Privy Council of Ireland, to declare by pro-clamation, that any county, county of a city, or county of a town in Ireland, or any barony or baronies, or half-barony or half-baronies in any county at large, to be therein specified, is or are in a state of disturbance, and requires or require an extraordinary establishment of police.
And whereas it hath sufficiently appeared to Us, that the barony or half-barony of Upper Dundalk, the barony or half-barony of Lower Dundalk, and the baronies of Ardee and Louth in the county of Louth, are in a state of disturbance, and require an extraordinary establishment of police.
Now We the Lord Lieutenant, by and with the advice of His Majesty's Privy Council, by virtue of the said Act and of the powers thereby vested in Us, do by this our Proclamation declare, that the said barony or half-barony of Upper Dun-dalk, the barony or half-barony of Lower Dundalk, and the baronies of Ardee and Louth in the county of Louth, in this part of the United Kingdom called Ire-land, are in a state of disturbance, and require an extraordinary establishment of police.
Given at the Council Chamber in Dublin, the 12th day of March 1816.
(Signed) #"" Doaws, JWa««er*, C,
GOD Save the KING.
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