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POOR RELIEF (IRELAND) (NO. 2) ACT 1847 - SECT 19

Power to summon witnesses.

19. The commissioners, or any one of them, and also any such inspector, acting
in execution of the Acts now or hereafter to be in force for the relief of the
poor in Ireland, by summons under the seal of the commissioners, or under the
separate hand and seal of any commissioner or inspector respectively, as the
case may be, may require the attendance of all such persons as they or he
shall think fit to call before them or any of them respectively upon any
matter connected with the execution of this Act, or the administration of the
laws for the relief of the poor in Ireland, at such time and place as shall be
set forth in the summons, and may make inquiry and require returns, and may
administer oaths, and examine all such persons upon oath, and may require and
enforce the production upon oath of books, contracts, agreements, accounts,
maps, plans, surveys, valuations, and writings, or copies thereof
respectively, in anywise relating to any such matter, or when the
commissioners, or any one of the commissioners, or any inspector, shall think
fit, instead of requiring such oath as aforesaid, may require any such person
to make and subscribe a declaration of the truth of the matters respecting
which he shall have been or shall be so examined: Provided always, that no
person shall be required, in obedience to any such summons, to go more than
twenty statute miles from the place of his abode; provided also, that nothing
herein contained shall empower the commissioners, or any commissioner or
inspector, to require the production of the title, or of any papers or deeds
relating to the title, of any lands, tenements, or hereditaments, not being
property vested in the commissioners by this Act.

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