Inland Navigation Act 1791
INLAND NAVIGATION ACT 1791 | ||
CHAP. XLVII. | ||
An Act to enable the several Grand Juries within the Province of Munster, at their Assizes, to present competent Sums of Money for the Repair of Track-ways along navigable Rivers within their respective Counties, and also to enable the Grand Jury of the County of Kildare, to encrease the Salary of the County Treasurer. | ||
Preamble. | ||
From 20th March 1591, the grand juries in the province of Munster may present sufficient sums to make good or repair towe-paths or track-ways, | ||
towe-paths to be 15 feet wide, to be levied in same manner as moves for repairing paths. | ||
WHEREAS it will much contribute to the cafe and convenience of navigating the rivers of this kingdom, on which boats have been accustomed heretofore to be towed by horses, that the towe-paths and track-ways belonging to the same, should be kept in sufficient repair: be it 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 twentieth day of March, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-one, it shall and may be lawful for the several grand juries within the province of Munster, at the spring or summer assizes in each year, to present such sums of money on their respective baronies in which such trackways are situate, as shall and may be sufficient to make good or repair or widen, such towe-paths and track-ways within the said respective counties; the said towe-paths to be of the full breadth, of fifteen feet at the least, and said presentments to be made, and said money to be levied, raised, and accounted for, under the same regulations and restrictions, as monies to be levied and raised for the making or repairing of roads pursuant to the laws now in being in this kingdom; provided that nothing in this act shall be construed to extend to the repairing the track-ways of canals, or of rivers whereon tolls are paid or payable to corporate companies. |