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Tramways may be worked by mechanical power.
23 & 24 Vict. c. 152.
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1. Notwithstanding anything contained in the Tramways (Ireland) Act, 1860, the grand jury of any county may approve of any application for authority to make and maintain a tramway to be worked by a locomotive engine or other mechanical power, and the Lord Lieutenant may make an Order in Council authorizing the making and maintaining of such tramway, subject to such conditions and restrictions as the grand jury or the Lord Lieutenant respectively may think fit to make with respect to the speed at which any train upon such tramway should be moved, or the nature of the traffic to be conveyed on such tramways. The term “grand jury of any county” in this section shall include all and any of the parties or persons mentioned in section thirty-eight of the Tramways Act, 1860, and thereby declared in the cases therein mentioned to be in the place of the grand jury, and having and being subject to all the like rights, powers, and duties.
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