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and be it enacted, by the Queen'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, as follows:

SHORT TITLE.

1. This Act may be cited for all purposes as the Edinburgh Public Library Assessment Act, 1887, and where the Acts of 1879, 1882, 1885 and 1887, are referred to in conjunction with this Act they may be cited as the Edinburgh Municipal and Police Acts, 1879 to 1887.

INTERPRETATION OF TERMS.

2. In this Act the following words and expressions shall have the several meanings by this section assigned to them, unless there be something in the subject or context repugnant to that construction, that is to say:

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The expression "the Burgh means and shall include the
Burgh as defined in the Edinburgh Municipal and
Police Acts, 1879 to 1887;

And the words and expressions construed in the Acts of
1879, shall, if and when used in this Act, and when
not inconsistent with the above construction, respec-
tively have the same meanings attached to them as in
the Act of 1879.

PROVISIONS AS TO ASSESSMENT UNDER PUBLIC

LIBRARIES ACTS.

3. The Magistrates and Council, as the authority under the Public Libraries (Scotland) Acts, 1867 to 1884, may, as from the fifteenth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and eightyseven, impose, assess, levy and recover from the persons and property liable therefor the rate authorised to be levied and assessed by and for the purposes of the said Acts, or of any Acts relating to Public Libraries in Scotland in force for the time, as part of the Burgh assessments under and in conformity with the provisions applicable to assessments of the Edinburgh Municipal and Police

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Acts, 1879 to 1887, and with and under the powers, provisions and exemptions as are provided with respect to the assessments leviable under the said last-mentioned Acts: Provided always that such rate shall not exceed the rate authorised by the said Public Libraries (Scotland) Acts, 1867 to 1884, or by any Acts relating to Public Libraries in Scotland in force for the time.

POWER TO BORROW FOR PURPOSES OF PUBLIC LIBRARIES ACTS.

4. The Magistrates and Council, as the authority aforesaid under the Public Libraries (Scotland) Acts, 1867 to 1884, may borrow money for and in connection with the purposes of the said Acts, on the security of the rate authorised by these Acts, or by any Acts relating to Public Libraries in Scotland in force for the time, under and in accordance with the Act of 1879; and the powers and provisions of the Act of 1879, with respect to the borrowing of money, shall be and are hereby made applicable to the money so to be borrowed and to the mortgages, assignations, interest warrants and discharges to be granted in security thereof and to the sinking fund for the repayment of money so borrowed, in the same way and manner as if the money so to be borrowed for the said purposes were borrowed, and the mortgages, assignations, interest warrants and discharges so granted under the authority of this Act had been borrowed or granted under the authority of the Act of 1879, and the sections as to borrowing of money in the Act of 1879 are incorporated herewith, and the powers and provisions therein contained shall be held to apply to the said purposes and to the money borrowed under the authority of this section, as if such sections of the Act of 1879 were for the said purposes re-enacted herein: Provided always, that the money to be borrowed for the purposes of the said Public Libraries (Scotland) Acts, 1867 to 1884, shall not exceed the sum authorised to be borrowed by these Acts, or by any Acts relating to Public Libraries in Scotland in force for the time. APPLICATION OF MONEY BORROWED.

5. The sums which may be borrowed by the Magistrates and Council for the purposes of this Act, shall be applied only to purposes to which capital is properly applicable.

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MANNER OF KEEPING, &c., ACCOUNTS.

6. The Magistrates and Council may, notwithstanding any provision to the contrary contained in the said Public Libraries (Scotland) Acts, 1867 to 1884, cause the accounts of their receipts, payments and liabilities with reference to the execution of the said Acts, to be kept, audited, authenticated and published in the same way and manner, and under the same provisions, as are prescribed in the Act of 1879 with reference to the keeping, making up and publishing of accounts, and also in conformity with the provisions of any public general Act relating to Burgh accounts, and the sections of the Act of 1879 with respect to the said accounts shall be held to be incorporated herewith and be applicable in all respects to the objects and purposes of the said Public Libraries Acts.

COSTS OF ACT.

7. The costs, charges and expenses of and incident to the preparing for, obtaining and passing of this Act, so far as relates to Public Library purposes, shall be paid out of the Burgh assessments, or the money to be borrowed under the authority of this Act.

IRELAN D.

GENERAL NOTE.-Reference may be made to the corresponding sections in the English Acts, but it should be distinctly borne in mind that all amendments of the Irish Acts are set forth here. The principal Act of 1855, wherever it has been amended, is printed half across the page and on the left side, and the amending clauses of later Acts are placed opposite. The Roman numerals refer to the Summary of Acts, page 88 et seq.

PUBLIC LIBRARIES AND MUSEUMS.

18 AND 19 VICT., CAP. 40.

An Act for further promoting the establishment of Free Public Libraries and Museums in Ireland. [26th June, 1855.]

Whereas it is expedient to amend the Act of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Years of Her present Majesty, Chapter one hundred and one, and to give greater facilities for the establishment in Ireland of Free Public Libraries and Museums or Schools of Science and Art(a): Be it therefore enacted by the Queen'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, as follows:

16 AND 17 VICT., CAP. 101, AND SECTION 99 OF 17 AND 18 VICT., CAP. 103. REPEALED.

1. The said Act of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Years of Her present Majesty, Chapter one hundred and one, and Section ninety-nine of the Towns Improvement Act (Ireland), 1854, are hereby repealed; but such repeal shall not invalidate or affect anything already done in pursuance of either of such Acts; and all Public Libraries and Museums established in Ireland under either of those Acts shall be considered as having been established under this Act.

NOTE.

(a) And Schools of Music (see Section 12 and amendment thereof, page 77, and see also Section 9 and amendment, page 75.

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SHORT TITLE.

2. In citing this Act for any purpose whatever, it shall be sufficient to use the expression "The Public Libraries Act (Ireland), 1855 ".

INTERPRETATION OF TERMS.

XIV. THE PUBLIC LIBRARIES ACTS
AMENDMENT Act, 1877, Cap. 54

Section 3. "Ratepayers" shall mean every inhabitant(a) who would have to pay the Free Library assessment in event of the Act being adopted (b).

3. In the construction and for the purposes of this Act (if not inconsistent with the context or subject matter) the following terms shall have the respective meanings herein-after assigned to them; that is to say, "Town" shall mean and include any City, Borough, Town, or place in which Commissioners, Trustees, or other persons have been or shall be elected or appointed under the Act of the Ninth Year of King George the Fourth, Chapter eighty-two, or the "Towns Improvement Act (Ireland), 1854," or any Local or other Act or Acts for paving, flagging, lighting, watching, cleansing, or otherwise improving any City, Borough, Town, or place, for the execution of any such Act or Acts, or superintending the execution thereof, and in which there shall not be a Town Council or other such body elected under the Act of the Third and Fourth Years of Her present Majesty, Chapter one hundred and eight, or any other Charter granted in pursuance of such Act, or any Act passed for the amendment thereof; "Town Commissioners" shall mean the Commissioners, Trustees, or other persons for the time being elected or appointed under any such first-mentioned Acts as aforesaid; "Town Fund" shall mean the Town Fund, or the Rates or Property vested in and under the control and direction of any Town Commissioners, and applicable to the purposes of any such Acts; "Town Rate" shall mean the Rate or Rates authorised to be levied by any such Town Commissioners; "Mayor" shall include Lord Mayor; "Clerk " shall mean, as regards an incorporated Borough, the Town Clerk of such Borough, and as regards a Town in which there shall be Town Commissioners, the Clerk appointed by the Town Commissioners; "Householder" shall mean a male occupier of a dwelling house, or of any lands, tenements, or hereditaments within any Town or incorporated Borough, and entitled for the time being to vote at elections of Commissioners, Aldermen, or Councillors in such Town or Borough.

NOTES.

(a) i.e., whether male or female. See, however, the definition of "householder" in Section 3 of the principal Act.

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