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Public Libraries Acts 1850 and 1853 incorporated with this Act.
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XCIX. That the Public Libraries Act, 1850, and an Act passed in a Session held in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Years of the Reign of Her present Majesty, intituled An Act to extend the Public Libraries Act, 1850, to Ireland and Scotland, shall be incorporated with and read as Part of this Act, and the Chairman of the Town Commissioners for the Time being shall exercise the Powers and perform the Functions appointed by the said recited Acts to be exercised and performed by the Mayor, and the Town Commissioners shall have the Powers thereby conferred on Town Councils; and the Parties entitled to vote under said Act shall in Ireland be the Parties entitled to vote at the Meeting convened for the Adoption of this Act, as herein-before provided; and the Commissioners, when such Acts for the Establishment of Libraries shall be adopted, shall have the general Management, Regulation, and Control of such Libraries, and may from Time to Time purchase and provide the necessary Fuel, Lighting, and other similar Matters, Books, Maps, and Specimens of Art and Science, for the Use of such Libraries.
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