City of Cork (Improvement) Act 1777
CITY OF CORK (IMPROVEMENT) ACT 1777 | ||
CHAP. XXXVIII. | ||
An Act for the better Regulation of the Police of the City of Cork, and for other Purposes relative to the said City. | ||
valuation and appointment thereby made void, mayor, sheriffs, and common council, may appoint 3 or more of each parish valuators instead of the former, | ||
to ascertain separately yearly value of houses, &c. in each parish. | ||
and take oath at sessions instead of any former. | ||
WHEREAS by an act passed in the eleventh and twelfth years of his present Majesty’s reign, entitled, An act for the regulation of the city of Cork, and for other purposes therein mentioned, relative to the said city, the mayor, sheriffs and common council of the city of Cork, were impowered to appoint valuators for the several parishes therein mentioned for the purposes mentioned in the said act: and whereas some doubts have arisen, whether the valuation, made by the valuators appointed under the said act, was legally made: therefore be it 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 the valuation aforesaid, and the appointment of the said valuators, be annulled and made void, and that it shall and may be lawful to and for the mayor, sheriffs, and common council of the city of Cork for the time being duly assembled or the majority of them, from time to time by order or orders under their hands or the hands of the majority of them to appoint three or more inhabitants of each of the parishes of the said city of Cork, to wit, the parish of Holy Trinity, otherwise called Christ Church, the parish of Saint Peter, the parish of Saint Paul, the parish of Saint Mary Shandon, the parish of Saint Anne, the parish of Saint Finn Barry, and the parish of Saint Nicholas, to be valuators for the making of a valuation or valuations in the room and stead of the valuation before mentioned, and which valuation or valuations, when so made, shall be and stand in the stead and place of the valuation in said act mentioned, and be, enure to and for all and singular the several purposes provided for, declared or intended in and by this and the before mentioned act; and that any three or more of the said valuators, so to be appointed, shall have power and are hereby required to value and ascertain distinctly and separately the yearly value of each dwelling house, outhouse, office, cellar, stable, linney, and yard in each of the said respective parishes, for which they shall be appointed valuators; and that such three or more valuators so to be appointed shall at the quarter sessions, to be held for the county of the said city, take the following oath, or affirmation if a quaker, in lieu or stead of any former oath or oaths or affirmation, viz. | ||
I A. B. do swear, or if a quaker do affirm, that I will to the best of my knowledge, skill, and judgment, execute the office of a valuator in the parish of in and for the parish of in the county of the city of Cork, without favour or affection, malice, or ill will, to any person or persons whatsoever. | ||
with like powers as 7 by said act. | ||
which said oath or affirmation the justices at the said quarter sessions are hereby impowered and authorized to administer; and that such three or more valuators so to be appointed shall have all such powers and authorities in and for their said several and respective parishes, and shall act, do, and proceed in the same manner to all intents and purposes in and for their respective parishes, as the valuators, or any seven or more of them, were impowered and required to act, do, and proceed in and by the said recited, act. |