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Temporary relief to persons dispossessed.
10 & 11 Vict. c. 31. s. 8.
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4. It shall be lawful for persons who shall become destitute by reason of their being dispossessed or removed of or from any dwelling house, or other building used as a dwelling house, by or under such writ, decree, order, or other process as aforesaid, to apply for relief to the relieving officer of the electoral division in which the said land or house shall be situate; and such relieving officer shall, on the receipt of such application, take order for providing shelter for any such applicants, being destitute persons, by an order of admission into the workhouse of the union, if there be room therein, by conveying any such destitute poor person thereto, if necessary, or by affording such destitute poor persons temporary relief in food, lodging, medicine, or medical attendance, until the next ordinary meeting of the board of guardians, at which meeting he shall report the case, and the nature and cost of the relief so afforded, in such form and manner as the Poor Law Commissioners shall prescribe, and after such report shall give no further relief, otherwise than by direction of the board of guardians, in the case so reported; and the guardians shall furnish the relieving officer with funds for affording such relief, in the same manner and subject to the same rules and conditions as are or may be provided for all other relief granted by the relieving officer under and by virtue of the Poor Relief (Ireland) Act, 1847; and it shall be lawful for such guardians, if they shall think fit, to provide every such destitute poor person with relief to the same extent as destitute poor persons permanently disabled from labour, by reason of old age, infirmity, or bodily or mental defect, are by law entitled to relief in Ireland: Provided always, that it shall not be lawful for the guardians to relieve such destitute poor persons after the period of one calendar month from the date of such temporary relief as aforesaid being afforded, except in the manner by which such poor persons could be relieved under the Acts now in force for the relief of the destitute poor in Ireland.
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