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Section XXI Lord Lieutenant of Ireland to give Order for Act being given in charge by Judges at Assizes.

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Judges to take Account of Execution of Act, and on Return from the Circuit to inform Lord Lieutenant of Offences, who is yearly to lay the same before the King in Council.

X1 Provided alsoe and it is hereby further enacted That after the Nine and twentieth Day of September in the Yeare of our Lord One thousand six hundred ninety nine the Lord Lieutenant Lord Deputy or Lords Justices for the time being for the Kingdom of Ireland or any of them are hereby required to give Direction in Councill that this Act shall be given in Charge by the severall Judges of the Kingdom of Ireland at all the Assizes that shall be held in that Kingdom to the end that this Act may be strictly put in Execution according to the true Intent and Meaning thereof which said Judges are hereby impowered and required from time to time to take particular Accounts throughout their respective Circuits of the due Execution of this Act and at their Returnes to Dublin at the end of every Circuit shall acquaint the said Lord Lieutenant Lord Deputy or Lords Justices of that Kingdom for the time being in Councill with all Accounts or Informations they shall have soe received of any Breach of the said Act or Negligence or Faults in any of the Officers to whom the Execution of this Act is committed to the end that the said Chief Governors or any of them for the time being may be the better informed and inabled to look to and provide for the strict and punctuall Observation of this Act throughout that Kingdom of which the said Chief Governors or any of them for the time being shall once every Yeare lay a particular Account in Writing under his or their Hands before the King His Heires and Successors in Councill.

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Editorial notes

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Annexed to the Original Act in a separate Schedule.