Poor Relief (Ireland) Act, 1849

Payment by new union, how to be enforced.

4. If the guardians of any such new union shall refuse or neglect to make the payments according to the terms and at the periods prescribed by the said commissioners as aforesaid, it shall be lawful for the said commissioners to make an order under their seal, requiring such payments to be made by the treasurer of such new union, and thereupon the treasurer of such new union shall pay to the treasurer of the union in whose behalf such order shall have been made the sums specified in the order of the commissioners, at such times and in such portions as shall be prescribed by such order, and the receipt of the treasurer appointed in such order to receive the payments prescribed shall be sufficient discharge to the treasurer of such new union for so much money paid by him, and shall be allowed in auditing and passing his accounts.