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1896. 16.—(1.) Town commissioners under the Towns Improvement(Ireland) Act, 1864, or any Act incorporating that Act in whole or in part, may, when assessing any rate leviable throughout the whole of their district, divide the rate so as to show the respective portions thereof required for sanitary purposes within the meaning of section two hundred and twenty-seven of the principal Act, and for other purposes.

(2.) Mortgages of rates made by town commissioners under section two hundred and thirty-seven of the principal Act for such other purposes shall be charged upon the portion only of such rates required for those purposes.

(3.) Mortgages of rates made before the passing of this Act by town commissioners under the said section two hundred and thirty-seven for such other purposes shall not be deemed invalid by reason of such mortgages including any portion of such rates required for sanitary purposes only,

17. Section two hundred and forty-eight of the principal Act Audit of shall apply to the accounts of every joint board constituted under accounts, section thirteen of that Act, and the Local Government Board shall ascertain and determine what proportion of the salaries paid to the auditors mentioned in section six of the Local Government Board (Ireland) Act, 1872 should be paid in respect of the audit of the accounts of any such joint board or of any urban sanitary authority, and the amount so ascertained in respect of each such board or authority shall be payable by such board or authority, and shall be paid accordingly to such bank or person as the Local Government Board may direct.

In the application to Ireland of the Infectious Disease Meaning of (Notification) Act, 1889. and the Infectious Disease (Prevention) Act, 1890, the expression "the medical officer of health of the district" shall mean the medical officer of the dispensary district and Provided that where a medical superintendent officer of health is appointed for a sanitary district, the Local Government Board may by order direct that for all the purposes of the said Acts such medical superintendent officer shall be substituted for the medical officer of the dispensary district, and upon the making of such order the said Acts shall have effect in their application to that sanitary district as if such substitution had been made therein.

19. The powers of burial boards as to making additions to any power of burial ground shall extend to a burial ground attached to and contiguous to a place of worship, if the Local Government Board shall be of opinion that such addition is desirable, and, after such burial grounds, inquiry as appears to them to be necessary, shall so order, and the provisions of the one hundred and eighty-fourth section of the principal Act shall apply accordingly.

20. If in the case of any burial ground attached or contiguous to to a Roman Catholic place of worship, the ownership of such burial ground is not vested in any person or persons; corporation,