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Certified Copy of Determination to be transmitted to Lord Lieutenant.
If Lord Lieutenant approve of Determination, Notice of Approbation to be published in Gazette, and Act put in force accordingly.
Notice to state Number of Wards, &c.
In Corporate Towns, Town Council or Municipal Board to be the Commissioners.
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XV. The Person or Persons presiding at such Meeting shall, within One Week, transmit to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland a Copy, certified under his or their Hand, of the Resolution and Determination of such Meeting as aforesaid, and within One Month after such Resolution or Determination shall have been so certified, in case such Resolution or Determination shall be in favour of adopting the Execution of this Act in whole or in part; and in case the Lord Lieutenant shall approve of the same, he shall notify his Approbation thereof to the said Person or Persons, and fix the Number of Commissioners to be elected for carrying this Act into execution in such Town, and cause Notice of such Approbation to be published in the Dublin Gazette; and from and after a Day to be named in such Notice in that Behalf, either the whole of this Act or the Portion thereof so adopted and approved shall be applicable to and in force in such Town; and the Production of a printed Copy of such Gazette containing such Notice shall be deemed and taken to be in all Courts and Places final and conclusive Evidence for all Purposes that all the Proceedings, Acts, Matters, and Things required by this Act to be had or done for the Adoption of this Act in whole or in part were well and sufficiently done, and that the Act is in force in whole or in part, as the Case may be, in the Town to which such Notice relates; and the said Notice shall further state the Number of Commissioners to be elected for carrying this Act into execution in such Town, and the Number and the Boundaries of Wards into which such Town is to be divided; provided that in case of any Borough or Town Corporate in Ireland, the Town Council of such Borough, or the Board of Municipal Commissioners elected under the Provisions of the Act of the Third and Fourth Years of Her present Majesty, Chapter One hundred and eight, wherever the same shall be in force, shall be the Commissioners for carrying this Act into execution therein, where the Adoption of this Act, in whole or in part, shall have been determined on and approved in manner aforesaid; and in such Case no such Statement as last aforesaid of Division into Wards, or of the Number of Commissioners to be elected, shall be contained in such Notice; and the Lord Lieutenant shall appoint some fit and proper Person to divide such Town into Wards, and to determine and set out the Extent, Limits, and Boundary Lines of such Wards, and what Portions of such Borough shall be included therein respectively; and the Copy of the Particulars of such Division, together with the Number of Commissioners assigned as herein-after mentioned to each Ward, shall be forthwith transmitted to the Chief Secretary of the Lord Lieutenant; and if it shall be approved of by the Lord Lieutenant, with the Advice of the Privy Council, shall be published in the Dublin Gazette; and another Copy of such Particulars shall be delivered to the Town Clerk, or such Officer of the Town as the Privy Council may direct, to be by him safely kept among the public Documents of the Town, and such Division shall continue and be in force until the same shall be altered by the Authority of Parliament; and the Person so appointed to divide the Town into Wards shall also apportion among the several Wards of such Town the Number of Commissioners appointed for the Town by the Lord Lieutenant; and in assigning the Number of Commissioners to each Ward, such Person shall, as far as in his Judgment he may deem it practicable, have regard as well to the Number of Persons rated to the Relief of the Poor in each Ward, as to the aggregate Amount of the Sums at which all the said Persons shall be so rated, and such Apportionment of Commissioners shall be subject to the like Approval of the Lord Lieutenant and Privy Council: Provided, that in case the Lord Lieutenant and Privy Council shall not approve of the said Division or Apportionment, the Lord Lieutenant shall remit the same either to the Person originally appointed, or to some other Person, to make a new Division and Apportionment, subject to the like Approval, and so from Time to Time until such Division and Apportionment shall be definitely approved of.
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