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PART III.
Transitory Provisions.
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Transfer of property to committees of agriculture.
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41.—(1) Upon the commencement of this Act all property, whether real or personal (including choses-in-action) which immediately before the commencement of this Act, is vested in a committee appointed under the Act of 1899 by the council of a county or in such council in relation to or for the purposes of functions, powers, and duties performed by such council through such committee shall, on the commencement of this Act and without any conveyance or assignment but subject where necessary to transfer in the books of any bank, corporation or company, become and be vested in the committee of agriculture for such county.
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(2) Where any property transferred by this section consists of moneys, stocks, shares or securities standing in the books of a bank, corporation or company, such moneys, stocks, shares and securities shall, upon the request of the committee of agriculture to which the same are transferred by this section, be transferred by such bank, corporation, or company into the name of such committee.
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(3) Every chose-in-action transferred by this section may be sued upon, recovered, or enforced by the committee of agriculture to which such chose-in-action is so transferred in its own name and it shall not be necessary for such committee to give notice to the person bound by such chose-in-action of the transfer effected by this section.
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(4) All moneys raised by a rate struck by the council of a county for the service of the year beginning on the 1st day of April, 1930 and which but for this Act would have been paid to the committee appointed under the Act of 1899 by such council and would have been applicable by such committee in relation to or for the functions, powers, and duties performed by such council through such committee shall (so far as such moneys are not paid to such committee before the commencement of this Act) be paid by such council to the committee of agriculture for such county and when so paid applied by such committee of agriculture as if such moneys were moneys raised by such council by means of the agricultural rate.
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