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1016l. 10s. 3d. expended by mayor, &c. applotted 3 successive
years equally, collected, and paid as received,
the lamps, &c. purchased with part thereof to go in aid of the execution of this act,
like penalties on neglect of applotters,
like power to collect.
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V. And whereas the mayor, sheriffs, and commonalty of the said city of Cork, not having money sufficient in the funds of the said city for the erecting and lighting lamps in the said city and suburbs, did on the credit of the said funds, and in consequence of a clause in the herein before recited act of Parliament, borrow the sum of nine hundred and thirty eight pounds sixteen shillings and seven pence halfpenny at interest at the rate of five pounds for every hundred by the year, which sum they have expended for the purposes aforesaid: and whereas the said mayor, sheriffs, and commonalty have repaid the said sum of nine hundred and thirty eight pounds sixteen shillings and seven pence half-penny together with seventy seven pounds thirteen shillings and eight pence interest due thereon, amounting in the whole to the sum of one thousand and sixteen pounds ten shillings and three pence: be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the applotters to be appointed pursuant to this act shall and may, and they are hereby required, over and above the sums which they are herein before required to applot on the several inhabitants of the said city of Cork and the suburbs thereof, to applot on the said several inhabitants according to their substance the aforesaid sum of one thousand and sixteen pounds ten shillings and three pence, in three equal yearly successive applotments; the said applotments to be collected with the first, second, and third of the said applotments which shall be made after the end of this present session of Parliament for the erecting, lighting, triming, snuffing, cleansing, repairing, and maintaining the lamps of the said city of Cork and the suburbs thereof; and that the said lamp contractor or contractors shall collect and receive the same in manner aforesaid, and shall pay over to the chamberlain of the said city of Cork for the use of the said mayor, sheriffs, and commonalty the said sum of one thousand and sixteen pounds ten shillings and three pence, as he or they shall receive the same under the said three applotments thereof respectively; and that all and singular the lamps, irons, posts, and other furniture thereunto belonging, now in possession of the said mayor, sheriffs, and commonalty of the said city of Cork, and which were purchased with part of the said sum of one thousand and sixteen pounds ten shillings and three pence, shall go in aid of the execution of this act without any sum or sums of money being levied or raised for the. value or purchase of the sale, save the aforesaid sum of one thousand and sixteen pounds ten shillings and three pence; and that every person, who shall be appointed an applotter in manṅer herein before set forth, and shall refuse or neglect to take upon him the office of applotting the said sum of one thousand and sixteen pounds ten shillings and three pence, or shall undertake the same, and omit or neglect the execution thereof, or shall omit or neglect to return the applotment in such manner, and within such time, as herein before is mentioned with respect to the other applotments herein before set forth, shall be liable and subject to such penalties, forfeitures, and punishments, as he would have been liable to, in case he had been guilty of such refusal, neglect, or omission with respect to the other applotments herein before mentioned; and that the aforesaid lamp contractor or contractors shall have the same power and authority, and are hereby required, to collect the said sum of one thousand and sixteen pounds ten shillings and three pence, in the same manner as in case of the other applotted sums herein before mentioned; and that the persons, on whom any part of the said sum of one thousand and sixteen pounds ten shillings and three pence shall be applotted, shall be liable to the payment of the same in like manner, as they are to the payment of the other sums herein before mentioned.
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