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ANNO 18 & 19° VIOT. CAP. XL.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 August 2010

Edward Edwards
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An Act for furTher promoting The Establishment of Free Public-Libraries and Museums in Ireland.

[26th June 1855.]

WHEREAS it is expedient to amend The Act of The Sixteenth and Seventeenth Years of Her present Majesty, Chapter One hundred and one, and give greater Facilities for The Establishment in Ireland of free Public Libraries and Museums or Schools of Science and Art: Be it Therefore enacted by The Queen’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with The Advice and Consent of The Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by The Authority of The same, as follows:

  • I. The said Act of The Sixteenth and Seventeenth Years of Her present Majesty, Chapter One hundred and one, and Section Ninety-nine of The Towns Improvement Act (Ireland), 1854, are hereby repealed; but such Repeal shall not invalidate or affect anything already done in pursuance of eiTher of such Acts; and all public Libraries and Museums established in Ireland under eiTher of those Acts shall be considered as having” been established under this Act.

  • II. In citing this Act for any Purpose whatever it shall be sufficient Short Title, to use The Expression “The Public Libraries Act (Ireland), 1855.”

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Memoirs of Libraries
Including a Handbook of Library Economy
 , pp. 829 - 833
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2010
First published in: 1859

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