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Accounts to be kept of expences incurred in respect relieved, &c.
After three years guardians may agree that charges shall be borne by electoral divisions in common.
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44. The board of guardians of every union shall cause accounts to be kept of the expense incurred in respect of the persons relieved in any workhouse within such union, and such accounts shall be made up at the end of every six calendar months; and the board of guardians shall charge against the electoral division as formed by virtue of this Act, at the end of such period, the proportion of such expence as shall appear to have been incurred in respect of every person so relieved, who shall be stated in the registry to have been resident within such electoral division; and the expence incurred in respect of every person so relieved and not stated in the registry to have been resident within some electoral division of the union shall be borne by and charged against the whole union: Provided always, that from and after the expiration of three years from the period at which the commissioners shall have declared the workhouse of the union fit for the reception of destitute poor it shall be lawful for the guardians elected for any two or more electoral division within such union, by writing under their hands, to agree that all charges in respect of destitute poor persons resident within such electoral divisions respectively shall thenceforth be borne in common by such electoral divisions; and in such case such agreement, having been first signed by the said guardians, shall be signed and sealed by the commissioners, if after due inquiry made by them they shall approve of the same, and one part thereof deposited with the commissioners, and a counterpart or counterparts thereof, signed by the said guardians and signed and sealed by the commissioners, deposited with the clerk of the peace of the county in which the workhouse of such union shall be situate; and every such clerk of the peace shall and is hereby required, upon the receipt of such agreement, part, or counterpart, to file the same with the records of such county; and from and after the depositing of such last-mentioned agreement or counterpart the same shall be binding upon such electoral divisions, and shall not be revoked or annulled, unless at the desire of the guardians elected for such two or more electoral divisions, and with the consent of the commissioners, or unless the commissioners shall alter any one or more of such electoral divisions, any thing herein-before contained to the contrary notwithstanding.
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