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County Councils.
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A.D. 1886, said premises are situate, for a report that the license of such holder ought not to be removed. The notice shall state the grounds on which the application is intended to be made, same as herein-after mentioned, and such grounds shrll either be-
Contribution by county council
towards maintenance of indoor
poor,
(1.) That the applicant has done some sot, or been guilty of 5 some default, which (renders him an unfit person to hold a license, or
(2.) That the house in respect of which the license is granted is
not duly qualified as required by law.
Provided that, where the holder of a license is a person to whom 10 section nineteen of the Wine and Beerhouse Act, 1860, applies, one of the grounds mentioned in section eight of that Act shall be the only ground upon which the license may be refused.
The notice shall be served on the holder of the license personally. The application to the justices under this section for a report shall 15 be heard in the same manner, as nearly as circumstances admit, as if the same were an information charging as an offence against the holder of the license the matters stated as the grounds for the application.
If the justices disallow the application, no further steps shall be 20 taken in the matter.
If the justices allow the application, the holder of the license in respect of which it is made may appeal to quarter sessions, and quarter sessions shall bear the same, as nearly as circumstances admit, as if it were an appeal from a conviction, and may allow or 25 'disallow the application.
14.—(1.) In the county, a contribution out of the county fund towards the expenses incurred for the indoor paupers of such union to the extent of fourpence a day for every pauper so maintained.
(2.) For the purposes of this section, the expression "indoor 80 paupers" includes all paupers maintained in the workhouse of the union and all children who are maintained out of such workhouse at the expense of the common fund of the union; but excludes children under three years of age, and paupers exceeding the number, which the workhouse is for the time being authorised to 35 contain, and where a pauper has been maintained only for a portion of a day, a proportionate part only of the payment per day authorised by the Act need ho paid.
(3.) Every member of a county council shall have the same right of entering und visiting the workhouse as a justice possesses, 40 and the county council may from time to time appoint a committee
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