(Ireland.) A BIL L To enable the Treasurer of the County of Clare to issue his Warrants for the levying of the Presentments made at the Spring Assizes of the Year One thousand Eight hundred and Thirty-one. 5 W 36 Geo. 3. HEREAS by an Act passed in the Parliament of Ireland Preamble: in the Thirty-sixth year of the reign of his Majesty King George the Third, intituled, "An Act for the Amendment of Public Roads, for directing the Power of Grand Juries respecting Presentments, and for repealing several Laws heretofore made for those purposes," it is among other things enacted, that the Treasurer of each County shall, within One Month after he shall have received copies of the Presentments, which copies it is by the said recited Act provided shall be delivered to such Treasurer, issue his Warrants to the 10 several Persons who under the provisions in the said Act contained are to be the Collectors for levying and collecting the Sums to be raised off each Barony or Half Barony, as in the said Act mentioned: AND whereas several Presentments were made at the Spring Assizes held in and for the County of Clare in the month of March One 15 thousand eight hundred and thirty-one, and copies of such Presentments were duly delivered to the then Treasurer of the said County, but such Treasurer has since died without having issued his Warrants pursuant to the provisions of the said Act herein before recited, and another Person has been appointed Treasurer of the said County of Clare, and Doubts have arisen whether such present Treasurer can legally 218. issue Treasurer for the time being to issue his Warrants issue his Warrants on the Presentments aforementioned without authority of Parliament; 5 Be it therefore Enacted, by The KING'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, THAT it shall and may be lawful to and for the Treasurer of the said County of Clare, now or for the time being, and he is hereby authorized and required to issue his Warrants for levying and collecting the Sums to be raised under the several Presentments made at the Assizes held in and for the County of Clare in the month 10 of March One thousand eight hundred and thirty-one, copies whereof may have been delivered to the former Treasurer of said County, and that such Warrants shall be alike valid and obligatory on all Persons and to all intents and purposes as if the same had been issued by such former Treasurer, and that the several Sums directed to be raised under such Warrants of the Treasurer of the said County, now or for the time being, shall be collected, raised, levied and accounted for in like manner, and applied by such Treasurer to the same uses and purposes, as the same might or ought to have been if such Monies had been raised and levied under the Warrants of the former Treasurer of the said County of Clare pursuant to the provisions of the said recited Act; and all SecuTreasurer and rities for the safe custody or application of any County Monies entered. into or which may be entered into by such Treasurer, now or for the time being, and any and every other Person, shall extend to and comprise the Monies raised or to be raised under the Warrants of such Treasurer, now or for the time being, issued pursuant to the provisions of this Act. Securities of other Persons, to extend to Monies raised under this Act. 15 20 |