It is the thirteenth. It recites that "the Relief
Commissioners, with the sanction of the Lord Lieutenant, are empowered
to direct, whether the whole or any part of the sum mentioned ... shall
be borne by and charged exclusively against the Electoral Division, or
whether the whole or any part thereof shall be borne by and charged
against the whole Union; and the Guardians shall charge the whole Union,
and the several Electoral Divisions accordingly."
Here is Union-rating in 1847.
Immediate preparations were made to carry this Act into effect.
Commissioners were appointed; a General Order was issued by the Lord
Lieutenant, and in due time that most potential of documents, a Treasury
Minute, was published.[246]
In virtue of the powers conferred on him, his Excellency, in his General
Order, declared that besides the justices, Poorlaw Guardians and Relief
Inspector; archbishops and bishops of every denomination, the principal
officiating clergy of the three denominations, and the three highest
ratepayers of the district should be members of Relief Committees. Some
further regulations were made to meet such special difficulties as might
arise. In the next place his Excellency defined the duties of Government
Inspectors.
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