Poor Relief (Ireland) Act, 1838

Register books to be provided by the commissioners.

42. The commissioners shall cause to be printed for the use of every union a sufficient number of register books for making entries of the descriptions of persons admitted into and relieved in the workhouse according to the form in the first schedule to this Act annexed; and in such register books shall be printed upon each side of every leaf the heads of information herein required to be registered respecting the persons so to be admitted and relieved, together with such other particulars as the commissioners may prescribe; and every page of each such book shall be numbered progressively from the beginning to the end, beginning with number One; and every place of entry shall be also numbered progressively from the beginning to the end of the book, beginning with number One; and every entry shall be divided from the following entry by a printed line.