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See the General Note at Top of page 71.

(b) This Act was expressed to be repealed by the Act of 1890, but since it did not extend to Scotland and Ireland the above provision is assumed to be still applicable there. The Act of 1890 has itself been repealed by the Act of 1892.

ACT MAY BE ADOPTED IN ANY INCORPORATED

BOROUGH OR ANY TOWN.

4. The Council or Board of Muni- | XIV. THE PUBLIC LIBRARIES ACTS

cipal Commissioners of any incorporated Borough in Ireland regulated under the said Act of the Third and Fourth Years of Her present Majesty, Chapter one hundred and eight, or any Charter granted in pursuance of such Act, or any Act passed for the amendment thereof, the population of which, according to the

AMENDMENT ACT, 1877, Cap. 54.

Voting Papers.

Section 1. It shall be competent for the prescribed Local Authority in any place or community which has the power to adopt one of the above recited Acts to ascertain the opinions of the majority of the ratepayers, either by the prescribed public meeting, or by the issue of a voting paper to each ratepayer, and the subsequent collection and scrutiny thereof, and any expense in connection with such voting papers shall be borne in the same way as the expense of a public meeting would be borne, and the decision of the majority so ascertained shall be equally binding (b).

then last census thereof, shall exceed five thousand persons, or the Town Commissioners of any Town in Ireland having such a population as aforesaid, may, if they think fit, appoint a time for a public meeting of the householders of the Borough or Town, as the case may be, in order to determine whether this Act shall be adopted for the Borough or Town, and ten days' notice at least of the time, place, and object of the meeting shall be given by affixing the same on or near the door of every Church and Chapel within the Borough or Town, and also by advertising the same in one or more of the news. papers published or circulated within the Borough or Town seven days at least before the day appointed for the meeting; and if at such meeting two-thirds of such persons as aforesaid then present shall determine that this Act ought to be adopted for the Borough or Town, the same shall thenceforth take effect and come into operation in such Borough or Town, as the case may be, and shall be carried into execution, in accordance with the laws for the time being in force relating to the Municipal Corporation of such Borough, or relating to such Town (a).

NOTES.

(a) The limit of population and the majority of two-thirds is not repealed.

(b) See note (a) to Section 3, page 72. There may be a limit in the amount of the assessment (see Section 8, page 75).

See the General Note at Top of page 71.

EXPENSES OF CARRYING ACT INTO EXECUTION IN A BOROUGH OR TOWN TO BE PAID OUT OF THE BOROUGH FUND OR TOWN FUND.

5. The expenses incurred in calling and holding the meeting, whether this Act shall be adopted or not, and the expenses of carrying this Act into execution in such Borough, shall be paid out of the Borough Fund, and in such Town out of the Town Fund; and the Council, or Board of Municipal Commissioners, or Town Commissioners, may levy as part of the Borough Rate or Town Rate, as the case may be, or by a separate Rate to be assessed and recovered in like manner as the Borough Rate or Town Rate, all moneys from time to time necessary for defraying such expenses; and distinct accounts shall be kept of the receipts, payments, and liabilities of the Council with reference to the execution of this Act.

ACCOUNTS TO BE AUDITED AND SENT TO THE LORD LIEUTENANT, &c.; TO BE DEPOSITED AND OPEN

TO INSPECTION

6. Such accounts shall be audited in the same way as all other accounts of such Borough or Town respectively are audited, and the said Council or Board or Town Commissioners shall, within one month after the same shall have been audited, transmit to the Lord Lieutenant or other Chief Governor or Governors of Ireland for the time being a true and correct copy of such accounts; and shall also within the time aforesaid cause a copy of such accounts to be deposited in the office of the Clerk; and the said accounts shall be open to the inspection of all householders of such Borough or Town respectively, and copies thereof shall be delivered to any such householder applying for the same, upon payment of a reasonable charge for the same, to be fixed by the Council or Board or Town Commissioners, as the case may be.

COMMISSIONERS OF TOWNS ADOPTING THIS ACT TO BE INCORPORATED FOR PURPOSES OF ACT.

7. The Town Commissioners of every Town adopting this

See the General Note at Top of page 71.

Act shall for the purposes thereof be a body corporate, with perpetual succession, by the name of "The Commissioners for Public Libraries and Museums for the Town of

County of

in the

," and by that name may sue and be sued, and hold and dispose of lands, and use a common seal.

RATE NOT TO EXCEED ONE PENNY IN THE POUND. MAXIMUM RATE MAY BE LESS THAN ONE PENNY.

8. The amount of the Rate to be levied in any Borough or Town in any one year for the purposes of this Act shall not exceed the sum of One Penny in the Pound,

and in any such Borough shall be assessed, raised, collected, and levied

in the same manner as the Borough Rate, and in any such Town shall be assessed, raised, collected, and levied in the same manner as the Town Rate.

NOTE.

(a) See Note (a) to Section 3, page 73.

XIV. THE PUBLIC LIBRARIES ACTS AMENDMENT ACT, 1877, CAP. 54. Assessment.

Section 2. In addition to the

simple vote "Yes" or "No" to the adoption of the Act, such voting paper may stipulate that its adoption shall be subject to a limitation to

some lower rate of assessment than

the maximum allowed by Act of Parliament in force at the time, and such lower limit, if once adopted, shall not be subsequently altered except by public vote similarly taken (a).

LANDS, &c., MAY BE APPROPRIATED, PURCHASED, OR RENTED FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS ACT.

9. The Council or Board of any Borough and the Town Commissioners of any Town respectively may from time to time, with the approval of Her Majesty's Treasury, appropriate for the purposes of this Aet any Lands vested, as the case may be, in a Borough in the Mayor, Aldermen, and Burgesses, and in a Town in the Town Commissioners, and may also, with such approval,

XV. THE PUBLIC LIBRARIES ACT,

1884.

Section 2. Whereas . . . section nine of the Public Libraries Act (Ireland), 1855, as regards Ireland, provides for the erection of buildings "suitable for Public Libraries, or Museums, or both, or for Schools for Science or Art": and doubts are entertained as to the meaning of those provisions: Now,

See the General Note at Top of page 71.

purchase or rent any lands or any, therefore, it is hereby declared and suitable buildings, and the Council enacted that--or Board and Town Commissioners respectively may, upon any lands so appropriated, purchased, or rented respectively, erect any buildings suitable for Public Libraries or Museums or Schools of Science and Art, or both (b), and may apply, take down, alter, and extend any build

Buildings may under the said sections be erected for Public Libraries, Public Museums, Schools for Science, Art Galleries, and Schools for Art, or for any one or more of those objects (a).

ings for such purposes, and rebuild, repair, and improve the same respectively, and fit up, furnish, and supply the same respectively with all requisite furniture, fittings, and conveniences.

NOTES.

(a) Also Schools of Music (?) see Section 12 and Amendments thereof, page 77.

(b) See the amending Section opposite.

PROVISIONS OF 8 AND 9 VICT., CAP. 18, INCORPO

10.

RATED WITH THIS ACT.

"The Lands Clauses Consolidation Act 1845," shall be incorporated with this Act; but the Council or Board, and Commissioners respectively shall not purchase or take any lands otherwise than by agreement.

LANDS, &c., MAY BE SOLD OR EXCHANGED.

11. The Council or Board and Commissioners aforesaid respectively may, with the like approval as is required for the purchase of lands, sell any lands vested in the Mayor, Aldermen, and Burgesses, or Board, or Town Commissioners respectively, for the purposes of this Act, or exchange the same for any lands better adapted for the purposes; and the moneys to arise from such sale, or to be received for equality of exchange, or a sufficient part thereof, shall be applied in or towards the purchase of other lands better adapted for such purposes.

See the General Note at Top of page 71.

GENERAL MANAGEMENT TO BE VESTED IN COUNCIL OR BOARD, OR TOWN COMMISSIONERS.

LAND) AMENDMENT ACT, 1877,

CAP. 15.

Powers of Principal Act Extended to
Schools of Music.

12. The general management, XIII. THE PUBLIC LIBRARIES (IREregulation, and control of such Libraries and Museums or Schools of Science and Art shall be, as to any Borough, vested in and exercised by the Council or Board, and as to any Town, in and by the Town Commissioners, or such Committee as they respectively may from time to time appoint, who may from time to time purchase and provide the necessary fuel, lighting, and other similar matters, books, newspapers, maps, and specimens of art and science, for the use of the Library or Museum, and cause the same to be bound, or repaired, when necessary, and appoint salaried officers and servants, and dismiss the same, and make rules and regulations for the safety and use of the Libraries and Museums or Schools of Science and Art, and for the admission of visitors.

Section 3. The terms 66 Science and Art" and "Schools of Science and Art" used in the said principal Act shall be deemed to include the Science and Art of Music and Schools of Music respectively; and the Council or Board of any Borough or the Town Commissioners of any Town shall be at liberty to apply such portion as they may deem fit of the rate which they are or may be authorised to levy, under the provisions of the principal Act, towards the maintenance and support of, and payment of the salaries of teachers of a School or Schools of Music, and the purchase of musical instruments, books, and other requisites for the use of such School or Schools.

CONSTITUTION OF THE COMMITTEE OF
MANAGEMENT.

XIII. THE PUBLIC LIBRARIES (IRELAND) AMENDMENT ACT, 1877, CAP. 15.

Section 4. The Committee in which the general management, regulation, and control of such Libraries, Museums, or Schools may be vested under the provisions of the twelfth section of the principal Act, may consist in part of persons not members of the Council or Board, or Commissioners,

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