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Workhouses to be provided, &c.
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35. The commissioners may, from time to time as they may see fit, build or cause to be built a workhouse or workhouses for any union not having a workhouse, or purchase or hire land of any tenure for the purpose of building the same thereon, and may purchase or hire a workhouse or workhouses, or any building or buildings for the purpose of being used as or converted into a workhouse or workhouses, and in the case of any union having a workhouse or workhouses, or any buildings capable of being converted into a workhouse or workhouses, may enlarge or alter the same in such manner as the commissioners shall deem most proper for carrying the provisions of this Act into execution, and may build, hire, or purchase any additional workhouse or workhouses, or any building or buildings for the purpose of being used as or converted into a workhouse or workhouses, and may purchase or hire any land for building such additional workhouse or workhouses thereon, of such size and description, and according to such plan, and in such manner as the commissioners shall deem most proper for carrying the provisions of this Act into execution, and may also purchase or hire any land not exceeding twelve acres imperial measure, to be occupied with any such workhouse, and may order and direct the guardians of any unions to uphold and maintain any workhouse, and to furnish and fit up any workhouse, and to provide any utensils, instruments, or machinery for setting the poor to work therein; and the guardians of every union are hereby authorized and required to assess, raise, and levy such sum or sums of money for the purposes herein-before specified, as the commissioners shall from time to time direct, as a poor rate, in the manner herein-after provided, or to borrow money for such purposes under the provisions of this Act, and to charge the same, with interest, on the future poor rate of such union; and all lands and buildings so purchased or hired shall be conveyed or taken to the commissioners for the time being, and shall vest in the succeeding commissioners in perpetual succession, in the same manner as herein-before provided concerning workhouses in unions at the time of the declaration thereof.
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