282 ON THE STATE OF IRELAND. [BOOK III. 



SECTION XVIII. 



WE recommend that there shall be a local Board of Guar- 

 dians for each district ; that such Board be elected by the 

 rate-payers ; and that the rate-payers shall be the proprie- 

 tors, lessees and occupiers stated in the surveyor's report 

 as finally settled as aforesaid, and their successors, and 

 that the election shall take place at such time and subject 

 to such regulations as the Poor Law Commissioners shall 

 appoint for the purpose. 



We further recommend that a certain number of the 

 Board do go out each year, and that other persons be 

 elected in their stead, as in the first instance ; and that 

 the list of rate-payers be revised and altered from year to 

 year, as may be necessary from change in occupation or 

 interest in lands. 



We recommend that the Board of Guardians shall have 

 the direction of all such institutions for the relief of the 

 poor within the district as shall be supported by local rate 

 as hereafter mentioned, and that it shall be their duty to 

 cause them to be duly upheld and maintained ; and if any 

 district shall refuse or neglect to elect a Board of Guar- 

 dians, or if the Board elected shall refuse or neglect to 

 act, we recommend that the Poor Law Commissioners 

 shall be authorized to appoint Assistant Commissioners 

 for such district with suitable salaries, and that the per- 

 sons so appointed shall have the powers of a Board of 

 Guardians, and shall be paid their salaries by a rate on 

 the district for which they act. 



