General Post Office Dublin (Amendment) Act 1814
GENERAL POST OFFICE DUBLIN (AMENDMENT) ACT 1814 | ||
CAP. LXIII. | ||
An Act to amend several Acts for enabling His Majesty’s Postmaster General of Ireland to purchase Premises for the Enlargement of the General Post Office in the City of Dublin. [27th May 1814.] | ||
48G. 3. c. 48. | ||
49G. 3. C 70. | ||
Postmaster General may contract with Owners for the Purchase of Premises for building a Post Office. | ||
WHEREAS by an Act made in the Forty-eighth Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, intituled An Act to enable His Majesty’s Postmaster General of Ireland to purchase Premises for the Enlargement of the General Post Office in the City of Dublin; and by another Act made in the Forty-ninth Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, to amend the said recited Act of the Forty-eighth Year, certain Powers are given for enabling His Majesty’s Postmaster General to purchase Houses, Buildings, or Ground adjoining or contiguous to the General Post Office in Dublin, for the Purpose of making any Addition to the said General Post Office; and also for purchasing the Ground or Premises whereon the said Post Office and its Appendances and Appurtenances, and all Buildings belonging thereto had been erected and then stood; and it is expedient that the said Powers should be enlarged in Manner here-after mentioned; be it therefore enacted by the King’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, That from and after the passing of this Act, it shall and may be lawful for His Majesty’s Postmaster General of Ireland for the Time being, and he is hereby authorized and empowered to contract with the Owner or Owners, or Proprietor or Proprietors of any House or Houses, or Building or Buildings, or Parcel or Parcels, or Plot or Plots of Ground within the City or County of the City of Dublin, and with the Lessee or Lessees of any such House, Building, or Ground, or with any Trustee or Trustees for any such Owner or Proprietor, or Lessee, or with the Guardian or Guardians, Trustee or Trustees, Committee or Committees, or Assignee or Assignees of any Infant, Feme Covert, Idiot, Lunatic, or Bankrupt respectively, for the Purchase of any such House or Houses, Building or Buildings, Parcel or Parcels, or Plot or Plots of Ground, and for the respective Interests of all such Persons who shall be entitled thereto, to and for the Use of His Majesty, His Heirs and Successors, in order and for the Purpose that a new and more convenient Post Office may be made, erected, and built upon the Scite of such House or Houses, or Building or Buildings, and Ground respectively; subject nevertheless to and under all and singular the Clauses, Powers, Provisoes, Restrictions, Limitations, and Conditions in the said recited Acts, or either of them contained, as fully and effectually to all Intents and Purposes as if all the said Clauses, Powers, Provisoes, Restrictions, Limitations, and Conditions were repeated and re-enacted in this Act, except only so far as the same are altered by this Act; and that all Sales, Grants, and Conveyances by any Person or Persons, or his, her, or their Guardian or Guardians, Trustee or Trustees, Committee or Committees, or Assignee or Assignees of any House or Houses, Building or Buildings, Parcel or Parcels, or Plot or Plots of Ground under this Act, shall have the same Force and Effect to all Intents and Purposes as any Sale, Grant, or Conveyance made or executed under or by virtue of the said recited Acts, or either of them. |