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On Application of Twenty-one Eight Pound Householders of any Town, Lord Lieutenant may order Mayor, &c. to convene a Meeting to consider the carrying this Act into execution therein.
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IV. Upon the Application of Twenty-one or more Householders of any City or Town in Ireland, each of such Householders occupying a Dwelling House or other Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments within such City or Town, and rated in respect thereof to the Relief of the Poor at a net annual Value of Eight Pounds or upwards, applying that this Act or that specific Portion thereof (described as herein-before provided) may be carried into execution in such City or Town, which Application shall specify the Boundaries proposed for the Purposes of this Act, and a Copy of which Application shall be inserted in the Dublin Gazette and in One or more Newspaper or Newspapers published in such City or Town, and if none be therein published then in One or more Newspaper or Newspapers published nearest to such City or Town, it shall be lawful for the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, One Month after Receipt of such Application, and if he shall approve of such proposed Boundaries, to order and direct that the Mayor or other Chief Magistrate of such Town (being a Corporate Town), or the Chairman of the Municipal Commissioners under the Act of the Third and Fourth Years of the Reign of Her present Majesty, Chapter One hundred and eight, wherever the same shall be in force, or any Two or more Justices of the Peace resident within Ten Miles of such Town, shall convene a Meeting for the Purpose of considering the carrying of this Act into execution, and One of them shall preside thereat, such Orders and Directions to be signified by the Chief Secretary of the Lord Lieutenant, or in his Absence by the Under Secretary; and a Copy of such Orders and Directions, with the Names of the Parties signing the Application for the same, and the Boundaries so approved of shall be inserted, under the Direction of such Chief or Under Secretary, in such Gazette and Newspaper or Newspaper as aforesaid.
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