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On application of 21 householders of any city, &c. the lighting of which is not provided for the lord lieutenant may order the mayor, &c. of such city to convene a meeting for the purpose of carrying this Act into execution.
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2. Upon the application of twenty-one or more householders residing in any city, town corporate, borough, market town, or other town, in Ireland the lighting, watching, cleansing, or paving of which is not provided for by or under Act of Parliament, each of such householders occupying a dwelling house or other tenement of the annual value of twenty pounds, or more, it shall be lawful for the lord lieutenant to authorise the carrying this Act into execution, and for that purpose to order and direct that the mayor or other chief magistrate of any such city, town corporate, or borough, or any two or more justices of the peace resident within ten miles of any such borough or market town, or other town, not being a town corporate, shall convene a meeting for the purpose of carrying this Act into execution, and shall preside thereat; such orders and directions to be signified by the chief secretary 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, shall be inserted, under the direction of such chief secretary, in the Dublin Gazette, and in some one or more public newspaper or newspapers published in such city, town corporate, borough, market town, or other town, if any be therein published, and if none be therein published, then and in such case in the newspaper published nearest to such city, town corporate, borough, market town, or other town.
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