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Interpretation of terms.
9 Geo. 4. c. 82.
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45. In the construction of this Act, unless there be anything in the subject or context repugnant to such construction, the word “inhabitant” shall include every one rated to the grand jury cess; the words “town council” and “council” shall include “town commissioners” under the Lighting of Towns (Ireland) Act, 1828, or any trustees or other body empowered by law to make local assessments; “clerk of the guardians” and “clerk” shall be understood to mean and include clerk of the board of guardians of the poor of the union, or other person appointed to act or acting in his stead; and the word “assizes” shall include “presenting term”; and the word “treasurer” shall include “finance committee”; and all provisions and directions in this Act contained relating to counties shall extend to all counties, counties of cities, counties of towns, and towns corporate in Ireland; and all the acts and duties by this Act required to be performed by the several grand juries at the assizes for any county shall and may, in the county of Dublin, be performed at the presenting terms by the grand jury of the said county duly met and impannelled, and in the county of the City of Dublin by the council of the borough of Dublin; and all provisions and directions relating to baronies shall extend to half baronies, and to all other divisions of counties being greater than parishes, and in reference to any county of a city or county of a town shall be deemed to mean and refer to such-county of a city or county of a town; and all provisions and directions relating to parishes shall extend to all chapelries or divisions of parishes or extra-parochial divisions; and all pro-disions and directions relating to townlands shall extend to all vivisions and sub-denominations of lands less than and being comprised within any parish; and the word “tenements” shall include rateable hereditaments; and the word “houses” shall include buildings; and the word “towns” shall include cities; and where any parish or union shall be situate in more than one county or barony, or partly in a county and partly in a county of a city, county of a town, or town corporate, the several parts of such parish shall be valued as a distinct parish in the several baronies or counties, or counties of cities or counties of towns, or towns corporate, to which they shall contribute to the payment of any county cess charges or grand jury rate.
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