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Accounts of Receipts and Disbursements to be kept, audited, and published.
3 & 4 Vict, c. 108.
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XVII. And be it enacted, That the said Treasurer shall, in Books to be kept for that Purpose, enter true Accounts of all Sums of Money by him received and paid, and the Books of Account shall at all reasonable Times be open to the Inspection of any of the Aldermen or Councillors of the said Borough; and such Treasurer shall, before the First Day of February in every Year, transmit to the Lord Lieutenant a Statement of such Receipts and Expenditure, which Statement shall be prepared in such Form and Manner as the said Lord Lieutenant shall direct, and such Account shall refer and be made up to the Audit next before the First Day of January of the Year in which such Account is hereby required to be so transmitted; and all the Accounts, with all Vouchers and Papers relating thereto, shall, in the Months of March and September in every Year, be submitted by the Treasurer of the Borough to the Auditors provided to be elected in pursuance of an Act passed in the Session holden in the Third and Fourth Years of the Reign of Her present Majesty, intituled An Act for the Regulation of Municipal Corporations in Ireland, and to such Member of the Council as the Mayor shall name, in pursuance of the said last-mentioned Act, on the First Day of March in every Year, or in case of extraordinary Vacancy within Ten Days next after such Vacancy, for the Purpose of being examined and audited from the First Day of September in the Year preceding to the First Day of March, and from the First Day of March to the First Day of September in the Year in which the said Auditors were elected and named; and if the said Accounts shall be found to be correct the Auditors shall sign the same; and after such Accounts shall be so examined and audited, in the Month of September in every Year, the Treasurer shall make out in Writing, and shall cause the same to be printed, a full Abstract of the Account for the Year, and a Copy thereof shall be open to the Inspection of every Mortgagee and other Creditor of the said Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Burgesses, by virtue of this Act or the said recited Acts, or any of them, hereby repealed, and to all the Rate-payers of such Borough, and Copies thereof shall be delivered to all such Persons applying for the same, on Payment of One Shilling for each Copy: Provided always, that the said Town Council may award such Salary to the Auditors as, having regard to the Duties hereby imposed on them, to the said Town Council shall seem just and reasonable.
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