Boyne Navigation Act 1790

When company have completed navigation to Navan, the works and navigation from Carrick-lock to Drogheda, inclusive of said lock, to be vested in said company for ever;

V. And whereas part of the said river Boyne, that is to say, such part of it as extends from Carrick-Lock above Slane-Bridge to Drogheda, as also certain parts of the same extending from said lock to Trim, had been made navigable at the publick expence, before the passing of the said act, and are now under the controul and direction of publick commissioners, and it is expedient for the completion of the said navigation up to Trim, that the property of the works which have been so made of the publick expence, shall be vested in the said river Boyne company, subject to the regulations and restrictions herein after mentioned; be it therefore enacted, That so soon as the said river Boyne company shall have completed the navigation of the said river Boyne up to the town of Navan in the county of Meath, pursuant to their undertaking aforesaid, the property in the said works, and the navigation aforesaid, from Carrick-Lock down to Drogheda inclusive of the said lock, shall be vested in the said river Boyne company, and their successors, for ever; and that immediately after this act shall pass into a law, the property of said parts or works before mentioned, upon the said river Boyne, between Carrick-Lock aforesaid, and the town of Trim, shall be vested in the said river Boyne company, and their successors, for ever.