Local Government (Ireland) Act, 1871

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Alphabetical list of persons entitled to vote.

27. The clerk to the commissioners, at least fifteen days before the day appointed for the annual election of commissioners in each year, shall make out an alphabetical list of the names of all persons, with their respective residences, entitled to vote at such election in respect of premises within the town as they appear in the rates made for the purposes of the principal Act, and also of all persons entitled to vote at such election in respect of property within the town.

Such list shall be evidence that the persons therein named are entitled to vote at the next annual election for commissioners, and also at any other election for one or more commissioners which may be held before the next annual list is made out.

The clerk to the commissioners shall forthwith cause to be printed copies of the list to be made out by him in every year as aforesaid, and shall deliver a copy of such list to all persons requiring the same, on the payment of the sum of one shilling for each copy, and shall cause a copy of such list to be fixed on or near the outer door of the office of the commissioners, and in some other public and conspicuous situation within the town, on every day during the ten days next preceding the day appointed for the election of the commissioners in each year.

[S. 28 rep. 41 & 42 Vict. c. 52. s. 294.]

Appeal against Rating.