Drainage and Improvement of Lands Amendment Act (Ireland) 1874

DRAINAGE AND IMPROVEMENT OF LANDS AMENDMENT ACT (IRELAND) 1874

CHAPTER 32.

An Act to amend “The Drainage and Improvement of Lands Act (Ireland), 1863.” [16th July 1874.]

26 & 27 Vict. c. 88.

WHEREAS by “The Drainage and Improvement of Lands Act (Ireland), 1863,” the Commissioners of Public Works in Ireland were authorised to advance money in the manner and subject to the conditions in the said Act mentioned, for the purpose of aiding in the completion of works for the drainage and improvement of lands in any district, and the repayment of any money so advanced was to be secured by means of ah annual rentcharge to be payable for the term of twenty-two years, at the rate of six pounds ten shillings for every one hundred pounds charged upon such lands in the manner by the said Act provided:

27 & 28 Vict. c. 72.

And whereas a further Act was passed in the session of Parliament held in the twenty-seventh and twenty-eighth years of Her Majesty, chapter seventy-two, explaining certain provisions contained in the said Act:

28 & 29 Vict. c. 52.

32 & 33 Vict. c. 72.

And whereas the said Acts were amended by “The Drainage and Improvement of Lands Amendment Act (Ireland), 1865,” and by “The Drainage and Improvement of Lands Amendment Act (Ireland), 1869,” and it is expedient further to amend the said Acts:

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: