Poor Relief (Ireland) Act, 1849

8 & 9 Vict. c. 18. incorporated with 1 & 2 Vict. c. 56, and this Act, for purchase of lands for workhouses.

5. In order to enable the said Commissioners for Administering the Laws for the Relief of the Poor in Ireland to purchase and hire such lands, tenements, and hereditaments as they are by law authorized to purchase and hire for the purpose of providing workhouses in unions, the Lands Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845, shall be incorporated with the Poor Relief (Ireland) Act, 1838, and the Acts amending the same, and this Act: Provided always, that all things by the said first-mentioned Act required or authorized to be done by the promoters of the undertaking may be clone by any two of the said commissioners under their hand and seal.