An Act to repeal so much of an Act made in the Fifty-fifth Year of the Reign of His late Majesty, for taking an Account of the Population of Ireland, as relates to certain Expences to be incurred under the said Act.
[11 March 1822]
3 Geo. IV. c.5
55 G. 3. 120. So much of recited Act as relates to Copies of Returns repealed. No copies to be paid for, if not completed and charged for before passing this Act. |
WHEREAS by an Act made in the Fifty-fifth Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Third, intituled An Act to provide for the taking an Account of the Population of Ireland, and for the ascertaining the Increase or Diminution thereof it is among other things enacted and provided, that the Clerks of the Peace of the Counties, and Town Clerks of the Counties of Cities and Counties of Towns, wherein the several original Accounts of the Population required by the said Act shall be taken, shall make or cause to be made Copies of such Accounts, together with all Answers and Returns prepared thereupon, and safely keep and preserve such Copies in their respective Offices, and deliver over the same to their Successors in Office respectively; and it is also enacted, that there shall be paid and allowed to the Clerk of the Peace or Town Clerk, for every Return which shall be made, and a Copy thereof lodged in his Office, the Sum of Two Shillings and Sixpence, and also a further Sum not exceeding Sixpence for every Seventy-two Words and Figures contained in every such Return: And whereas great Delays have occurred in the Execution of the said Act, and such Copies have not in many Instances been made, and it is not requisite that such Copies should in future be made, or kept or preserved, in Manner required by the said recited Act: 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 from and after the passing of this Act, so much of the said recited Act as requires or enjoins any Clerk of the Peace or Town Clerk to make or cause to be made, or to keep or preserve, any such Copies, and also so much of the said recited Act as authorizes the Payment or Allowance to any Clerk of the Peace or Town Clerk of the several Sums before mentioned, or either of them, shall be and the same is hereby repealed; and that no Sum or Sums of Money whatever shall be paid or allowed to any Clerk of the Peace or Town Clerk in Ireland, in respect of any such Copies which shall not have been completed and charged for previous to the passing of this Act; any thing in the said recited Act to the contrary notwithstanding. |