Drainage and Improvement of Land (Ireland) Act, 1866

DRAINAGE AND IMPROVEMENT OF LAND (IRELAND) ACT 1866

CAP. XL.

An Act to authorize a further Advance of Money for the Purposes of Improvement of Landed Property in Ireland. [28th June 1866.]

10 & 11 Vict. c. 32.

12 & 13 Vict. c. 23.

12 & 13 Vict, c. 59.

13 & 14 Vict, c. 31.

13 & 14 Vict. c. 113.

15 & 16 Vict, c. 34.

23 & 24 Vict. c. 19.

25 & 26 Vict, c. 29.

WHEREAS an Act was passed in the Session of Parliament held in the Tenth and Eleventh Years of the Reign of Her present Majesty Queen Victoria, intituled: An Act to facilitate the Improvement of Landed Property in, Ireland; and a further Act was passed in the Session of Parliament held in the Twelfth Year of the Reign of Her said Majesty, intituled An Act to authorize further Advances of Money for the Improvement of Landed Property, and the Extension and Promotion of Drainage and other Works of public Utility, in Ireland; and a further Act was passed in the Session of Parliament held in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Years of the Reign of Her said Majesty, intituled An Act to amend an Act of the Tenth Year of Her Majesty, for facilitating the Improvement of Landed Property in Ireland; and a further Act was passed in the Session of Parliament held in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Years of the Reign of Her said Majesty, intituled An Act to authorize further Advances of Money for Drainage and the Improvement of Landed Property in the United Kingdom, and to amend the Acts relating to such Advances; and a further Act was passed in the said last-mentioned Session of Parliament, intituled An Act to authorize the Transfer of Loans for the Improvement of Land in Ireland to other Land; and a further Act was passed in the Session of Parliament held in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Years of the Reign of Her said Majesty, intituled An Act to extend the Act to facilitate the Improvement of Landed Property in Ireland, and the Acts amending the same, to the Erection of Scutch Mills for Flax in Ireland; and a further Act was passed in the Session of Parliament held in the Twenty-third Year of the Reign of Her said Majesty, intituled An Act to extend the Act to facilitate the Improvement of Landed Property in Ireland, and the Acts amending the same, to the Erection of Dwellings for the Labouring Classes in Ireland; and a further Act was passed in the Session of Parliament held in the Twenty-fifth and Twenty-sixth Years of the Reign of Her said Majesty, intituled An Act to amend and enlarge the Acts for the Improvement of Landed Property in Ireland:

And whereas great Benefit has been derived by means of Loans under the said Acts, and it is expedient to authorize the Advance of a further Sum of Money for the Purposes of the said Acts, and to extend the Objects for which such Loans may be made, and to perpetuate such of the Powers and Provisions of the said Acts as are terminable:’

Be it therefore enacted by the Queenâ’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: