"That sub-section (1) stand part of the clause."

The Committee divided :-Ayes 127; Noes 88. (Division List No. 120.)

Amendment proposed-

"Page 47, line 33, leave out sub-section (2).”—(Major Jameson.)

Mr. Serjeant Hemphill

Mr.Field (Dublin, St. Patrick)

Mr. Shee (Waterford, W.) ...

Sir W. Foster (Derby, Ilke-

ston)

Mr. Jordan (Fermanagh, S.)

...

Page 48, line 6, at end, add—' (3) No future officer shall be appointed

by the Local Government Board save after open competitive examination, to
be conducted by the Civil Service Commissioners.'"-(Mr. Vesey Knox.)

DISCUSSION :-

The Committee divided :—Ayes 74; Noes 129. (Division List No. 121.)

Clause 76 added to the Bill.

Clause 77 agreed to.

[May 24.]

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Amendment proposed-

"Page 6, after clause 13, insert the following clause :-

NEW CLAUSE.

"(1) A county council shall annually contribute towards any county

infirmary or fever hospital which is situate in their county or to which,

though situate elsewhere, they are by statute empowered to contribute, and

to any officer thereof a sum not less than was so contributed out of the county

cess in the standard year, or any less minimum which the Local Government

Board sanction.

"(2) Every county infirmary shall be managed, and the admission of

patients thereto controlled, by a joint committee appointed triennially, con-

sisting of such number of members of the corporation of the "governor or

governesses of the infirmary" appointed by the corporation, and of such

number of the members of the county council appointed by the council as the

Local Government Board from time to time fix in the case of each infirmary,

having regard as well to the proportion of the contribution out of the county

cess or the poor rate towards the building and maintenance of the infirmary

as to all the other circumstances of the case; and all powers vested in the

corporation in relation to the infirmary shall be exercised only by the said

committee; and every member of the committee shall have the same power of

recommendation as a governor.

"(3) Where the councils of two or more counties contribute to the same

county infirmary, each of those councils shall be represented on the said

committee.

"(4) The foregoing provisions with respect to the management of a

county infirmary shall extend to every fever hospital which is vested in the

corporation of the "president and assistants of the hospital."

"(5) Where the boundary of a county for which an infirmary or hospital

has been provided is altered by or in pursuance of this Act, the contribution

to be made to such infirmary or hospital shall be a subject of adjustment, and

the Local Government Board in making such adjustment may provide for the

representation of the council of any contributing county upon the said

committee.

“(6) Nothing in this Act shall deprive any existing officer of any in-

firmary or hospital to which this section applies of any privilege enjoyed by

him under any Act, and such officer shall not be removed from his office

except with the consent of the Local Government Board, but, subject as

aforesaid, every officer of the hospital or infirmary may be appointed and

removed by the committee appointed under this section.

"(7) Any county councils may agree for the contribution by one council

to the county infirmary or fever hospital of the other council on such con-

ditions as to the admission to the infirmary or hospital of patients from the

county of the contributing council and the representation of that council on

the committee for managing the infirmary or hospital as may be agreed upon.

"(8) The Charities (Ireland) Act, 1832, and section eighty-one of the

Grand Jury Act, 1836, are hereby repealed."-(Mr. Gerald Balfour.)

DISCUSSION:-

"Line 5, after' sanction.' insert- Where a county is divided by this Act

into a county and a county borough, the county borough shall annually con-

tribute a sum not less than was paid by the cesspayers of the county borough

or out of any rate levied in lieu of cess towards such contribution in the

standard year, or such sum as may bear the same proportion to any less

*{May 24.]

minimum sanctioned by the Local Government Board as the sum so paid bore

to the sum paid by the cesspayers of the county outside the county borough,

and the balance shall be paid by the county council; and the county and the

county borough shall share the representation hereinafter provided for in pro-

portion to their relative contributions.'”—(Mr. Vesey Knox.)

DISCUSSION continued :-

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"Line 5, after 'sanction.' insert-'Where at the passing of this Act

a county infirmary is in course of erection and the amount subscribed is

insufficient to complete the work, it shall be the duty of the county council

to provide for the amount outstanding, either by means of a loan from

the Board of Works or in such way as the council may decide.' ;' -

(Mr. Murnaghan.)

"Line 5, after 'sanction,' insert-' As regards the county of Cork, the

county council, in addition to any contribution made by them towards the

South Charitable Infirmary and County Hospital, situate in the city of Cork,

may, if they think fit, contribute annually towards the North Infirmary and

City of Cork General Hospital, situate in the said city, a sum not exceeding

seven hundred pounds per annum, and the said county council may also

from time to time make such other grants as it may deem expedient to any

other public hospital in the said city; provided always that the total

amount of the contributions made by the said county council towards hos-

pitals and infirmaries shall not exceed the sum of two thousand pounds per

annum."-(Mr. M. Healy.)

"Line 10, leave out members of the county council,' and insert per-

sons.'"-(Mr. Vesey Knox.)

"Line 18, after 'governor,' insert-In the case of the South Charitable

Infirmary and County Hospital, situate in the city of Cork, such joint com-

mittee as aforesaid shall be appointed by the corporation of trustees there-

for, the county council of the county of Cork, and the town council of the

county borough of Cork, in such proportion as the Local Government

Board from time to time fix in manner aforesaid; and in the case of the

North Infirmary and City of Cork General Hospital, such joint committee

as aforesaid shall be appointed by the corporation of trustees therefor, the

town council of the county borough of Cork, and (if so long as the county

council of the county of Cork shall make an annual contribution towards it)

the said county council, in such proportion as the Local Government Board

from time to time fix in manner aforesaid."-(Mr. M. Healy.)

"Line 33, after privileges,' insert salaries and allowances.'

(Sir W. Foster.)

DISCUSSION :-

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602

"Line 41, after 'upon,' insert-'No ecclesiastical person shall, in right

of his dignity or office, be entitled to be a governor or trustee of such

infirmary or fever hospital as aforesaid."—(Mr. M. Healy.)

·

"Line 46, at end, add- ' (8) This section shall not apply to the Waterford

City and County Infirmary."" (Mr. J. Redmond.)

"Line 46, at end, add-'(8) Nothing in this Act contained shall affect

the mode of election of the physicians and surgeons of Meath Hospital and

County Dublin Infirmary who attend and serve the same without fee, salary,

or reward."."-(Mr. Plunkett.)

"Page 7, after clause 15, insert the following clause-(1) The council

of any county may, if they think fit, agree with the Congested Districts

Board for Ireland to take over from that board any marine work in the

county which has been constructed or acquired by such board, and upon any

such agreement the work shall become the public property of the county,

subject, nevertheless, to the payment of con pensation to any person other

than the Congested Districts Board in like manner as if the same had been

taken by the county council under the authority of a provisional order duly

confirmed in pursuance of this Act.

[May 24.]

"(2) Where any marine work becomes vested in a county council under

this section, or is or becomes public property under section sixty-eight of

the Grand Juries Act, 1836, the provisions of the Fisheries (Ireland) Act,

1846, and the Grand Jury Ireland) Act, 1853, relative to maintenance and re-

pair, and as to tolls and rates, and as to by-laws, rates, orders, and regula-

tions and otherwise, shall apply to such work as if it had been constructed

by the Board of Works under the said Act of 1846, and become the public

property of the county under the said Act of 1853.

"(3) The provisions of the said Acts and of this section respecting main-

tenance and repair shall extend to reconstruction.

"(4 For the purposes of this section, marine work' means any harbour,

dock, pier, quay, wharf, beacon, light, or other similar work, and includes

the approaches to any marine work as above defined, and all land and pro-

perty used in connection therewith."-(Mr. Gerald Buljour.)

Question proposed-

"That the clause be read a second time."

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"Page 10, after clause 21, insert the following clause :-

"(1) Where an urban or rural county district in any county contains a

population, according to the last published census for the time being, X-

ceeding 5,000, the chairman of the council for the district shall, unless a

woman or personally disqualified by any Act, be by virtue of his office a

justice of the peace for the county, but, except when sitting in quarter or

general sessions, shall act only within the petty sessional division or

divisions comprising the district, or any part of the district.

(2) The chairman of the council of any urban county district who is

not a justice of the peace under the foregoing provisions of this section shall,

if not a woman or personally disqualified by any Act, be a justice of the

peace in like manner as if he had been appointed by the Lord Chancellor

under section 29 of the Towns Improvement (Ireland) Act, 1854.

666 (3) A chairman, before acting as justice under this section, shall, if

he has not already done so, take the oaths required by law to be taken by a

justice of the peace.

666 (4) The power of the Lord Chancellor, under section 29 of the Towns

Improvement (Ireland) Act, 1854, to select a commissioner to act as justice

of the peace shall cease.

666

(5) Nothing in this section shall apply to a borough.""Mr. Gerald

Balfour.)

DISCUSSION :—

Mr. T. M. Healy

Clause read a second time.

Amendment proposed-

"Line 5, leave out from but' to end of line 8."—(Mr. Dillon.)

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