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POOR RELIEF (IRELAND) ACT 1838 - SECT 94

Officers to account.

94. Every guardian, treasurer, or other person having the ..., receipt, or
application of any monies ... for the relief of the destitute poor in any
union, or holding or accountable for any balance or sum of money, or any
books, deeds, papers, goods, or chattels relating to the relief of the
destitute poor within any union, ..., or for the funds, property, rents,
profits, or income of any house of industry or other institution which shall
be liable to become vested in the commissioners under this Act, shall, as
often as the orders of the commissioners shall direct, make and render to the
auditors who may audit accounts under the provision herein-after contained a
full and distinct account in writing, in such form as the commissioners shall
direct, of all monies, matters, and things committed to their charge, or
received, held, or expended by them on behalf of any such union, house of
industry, or other institution, and, if thereunto required by such auditors,
shall verify on oath (which oath every such auditor is hereby authorized to
administer) the truth of all such accounts and statements from time to time
respectively, or subscribe a declaration to the truth thereof, in manner and
under the penalties in this Act provided for parties giving evidence or
refusing to give evidence under the provisions of this Act; and all payments,
charges, and allowances made by any guardian or other person, ..., contrary to
the provisions of this Act, or at variance with any order of the commissioners
made under the authority of this Act, are hereby declared to be illegal, and
shall be disallowed accordingly; and all balances found by any such auditor,
to be due from any guardian, treasurer, or other person ... accountable for
such balances, may be recovered in the same manner as penalties and
forfeitures are recoverable under this Act; Provided nevertheless, that no
such proceeding shall exonerate or discharge the liability of the surety of
any such treasurer, guardian, or other person as aforesaid: Provided also,
that no allowance or disallowance by any auditor shall exonerate or discharge
such guardian or other person liable to account from any penalty or legal
proceeding to which he may have rendered himself liable by having acted
contrary to the orders of the commissioners or to the provisions of this Act.

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