280 ON THE STATE OF IRELAND. [BOOK III. 



SECTION XVII. 



IN order to effect the several purposes we have stated, we 

 recommend that there shall be powers vested in Poor 

 Law Commissioners, as in England, for carrying into 

 execution ail such provisions as shall be made by law for 

 the relief of the poor in Ireland, and that they shall be 

 authorized to appoint Assistant Commissioners to act 

 under their directions. 



We propose that the Commissioners shall divide Ire- 

 land into relief districts ; that they shall cause the lands 

 of each to be surveyed and valued ; that after the survey 

 and valuation shall have been completed, the person or 

 persons who shall have been employed for the purpose 

 shall make a report to the Commissioners, specifying the 

 names of all proprietors of houses or lands within the 

 district, and of all lessees and occupiers thereof, whether 

 such persons hold directly from the head landlord or not, 

 and the annual value of such houses and lands respect- 

 ively ; that the report be lodged at such place within the 

 district as the Commissioners shall appoint, that public 

 notice be given thereof, and that the same shall stand and 

 be affirmed, and be final and conclusive as to the matter 

 of it, unless objections be lodged thereto before a certain 

 time, to be fixed by the Commissioners ; that if objections 

 be lodged, the same shall be heard by the assistant bar- 

 rister of the county in which the district, or a certain part 

 thereof, shall be situated, at a special sessions to be holden 

 for that purpose ; that he shall have power to vary or 

 affirm the report ; that what he shall do shall be final, 

 unless objections shall be lodged thereto with the clerk of 



