Grand Jury (Ireland) Act 1856
| Jurisdiction | Ireland |
| Citation | 1856 c. 63 |
| Year | 1856 |
(19 & 20 Vict.) C A P. LXIII.
[21st July 1856]
'WHEREAS an Act was passed in the Session holden in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Years of Her Majesty's Reign, Chapter Sixty-three, to amend the Laws relating to the Valuation of rateable Property inIreland : And whereas the said Act was amended by an Act passed in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Years of Her Majesty's Reign, Chapter Seven, and by an Act passed in the Seventeenth Year of Her Majesty's Reign, Chapter Eight: And whereas it is expedient to make further Provision for the Applotment of Grand Jury Assessments:' Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, as follows:
I When General Valuation completed, Assessments to be assessed according to final List.
I. When the General Valuation of rateable Property has been or shall be completed in any County inIreland , all Grand Jury Assessments to be made in such County shall be applotted and paid upon and in respect of the Property liable thereto by a Poundage Rate according to the net annual Value of the several Tenements and Hereditaments as set forth in the final List of such Valuation so completed, and when and so often as such Valuation shall be revised under the Laws in force for the Purpose of such Revision, all such Assessments as aforesaid shall thenceforward be applotted and paid upon and in respect of such revised Valuation.
II Tolls of Roads, &c. liable to Poor Rates liable to Grand Jury Rates, &c.
II. All Tolls of Roads, Bridges, Railways, Canals, Gas and Water Works, and all other Hereditaments, Tenements, Premises, and Half Rents, which are liable to Rates for the Relief of the destitute Poor inIreland , shall be liable to the Payment of Grand Jury Rates and County Cess, according to the annual Value thereof or the Amount of Half Rent payable in respect thereof, as the Case may be, as contained in the final Lists of Valuation.
III Applotment to be made by County Treasurer.
III. Such Applotment shall be made by the Treasurer of each County, anything in the Act of the Sixth and SeventhWilliam the Fourth, Chapter One hundred and sixteen, or the Act of the Seventh and Eighth Victoria , Chapter One hundred and six, or any Act amending the said Acts or either of them, to the contrary notwithstanding, and shall be entered in a Book signed by such Treasurer, and by him kept open in his Office at all reasonable Times for public Inspection; and in making such Applotment by such Poundage Rate it shall not be necessary to take into account any smaller Fraction than the One Fourth of a Penny in the Pound; and wherever it should occur that the Poundage Rate has to be applotted on a less Amount of Value than One Pound, it shall not be necessary to take into account any smaller Amount of Value than One Eighth of a Pound; and no Rate or Assessment so made or applotted shall be vitiated or affected by reason of any Excess, Deficiency, or Difference between any Sum or Sums authorized to be applotted or raised and the Sum or Sums actually applotted, provided that the same shall have arisen from such Fraction of One Fourth of a Penny, or from no smaller Value than One Eighth of a Pound being rated.
IV Treasurer to deliver Copy of Applotment to Collectors of County Cess, who shall pay Collections to County Treasurers.
IV. The Treasurer of each County in which the Grand Jury Assessments shall have been applotted under this Act shall, within Two Months after he shall have received from the Clerk of the Crown the Copies of the Presentments of the preceding Assizes, make out and deliver to each Collector a fair Copy of so much of such Applotment as shall relate to the Barony, Division, or other District within which such Collector shall be authorized to collect Grand Jury or County Cess, and shall annex thereto under the Hand and Sal of such Treasurer a Warrant authorizing such Collector to collect and levy the respective Sums in such Copy mentioned, and upon Receipt thereof such Collector shall and may proceed to collect, levy, and enforce Payment thereof, and shall lodge the Amount collected from Time to Time in the County Bank to the Credit of the Treasurer of the County, and shall not at any Time retain in his Hands more than One hundred Pounds, but shall lodge the same in the County Bank with all convenient Expedition; and in all Actions and Proceedings for Recovery of or in relation to any Assessment made or applotted under the Provisions of this Act the original Applotment Book, or the Copy of so much thereof as shall be delivered by any Treasurer to any Collector of Grand Jury or County Cess, shall be received and taken, without further Proof or Oath, asprim facie Evidence of the due making of the Assessment and Applotment therein mentioned, and of the several other Matters and Statements therein respectively contained and set forth; and in the Absence of such Applotment or collecting Book a Copy of such Applotment Book, or of so much thereof as shall relate to the Assessment in question, certified by the Treasurer, shall be in like Manner received and taken as prim facie Evidence of the several Matters aforesaid; and each Treasurer with whom such Applotment Book shall be deposited shall furnish certified Copies thereof or Extracts therefrom to any Person requiring the same, upon being paid One Shilling for the first Seventy-two Words, and Three Halfpence for every succeeding Seventy-two Words contained in such Copy or Extract.
V Grand Jury to present Amount of Expenses of Applotment.
V. When the Treasurer or other Officer of any County, with the Sanction of the Grand Jury, shall have incurred or shall incur any necessary and proper Expenses in making such Applotments, for Payment of...
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