City of Cork Act 1761
CITY OF CORK ACT 1761 | ||
CHAP. XVIII. | ||
An Act for the more easy and equal assessing and applotting all money presented by the grand jury of each assizes to be held for the city, and county of the city, of Cork; and for putting the coaches, chaises, chairs, and sedans, that ply for hire in the said city, under the like regulations, for the benefit of the work-house of Cork, as they are in Dublin; and also for the better regulating the harbour of Cork. | ||
33 G.2. 7. ineffectual: | ||
county of the city of Cork above 96 plow-lands: | ||
grand jury thereof shall present 26 inhabitants applotters of all publick money at assizes; | ||
sworn to applot equally, &c. | ||
mayor to administer the oath without see, and summon applotters. | ||
WHEREAS by an act made in the seventeenth session of his late Majesty King George the second, intituled, An act for the more equal assessing and collecting and assessing of publick money in counties of cities, and counties of towns, hath been found ineffectual and insufficient in several counties of cities for the purpose thereby intended: and whereas the county of the city of Cork is a very large and extensive county, and contains upwards of ninety six plow-lands of uncertain acreage and measure: be it therefore enacted by the King’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, That from and after the first day of June one thousand seven hundred and sixty two the grand jury of each assizes, to be held for said city and county of the said city of Cork, shall present twenty six persons out of the inhabitants of the said city and county, by the name of applotters, for assessing and applotting all publick money, presented to be raised in the said city, and county of the said city, at the said several assizes; and that the said applotters shall severally and respectively make oath on the holy evangelists equally and impartially, according to the best of their skill and knowledge, to applot and assess all publick money, so appointed to be raised; and that the mayor of the said city for the time being may be impowered and required to administer the said oath (for which oath no fees shall be taken) and to summon the said applotters to appear before him to take said oath. |