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WHEREAS by an Act passed in the Parliament of Ireland in the Fortieth Year of His present Majesty’s Reign, intituled An Act for granting to His Majesty the Sum of Five hundred thousand Pounds for promoting Inland Navigation in Ireland, and for the other Purposes therein mentioned, and for authorizing the raising of the said Sum by Loan; it was among other Things enacted, That the Sum of Five hundred thousand Pounds should be, and the same was thereby granted to and vested in His Majesty, to be applied to the general System of Inland Navigation in Ireland, and particularly to the opening a Communication between Dublin and the River Shannon, and to the rendering the Shannon navigable from Lough Allen to the Sea, the said Sum to be raised in Manner directed by the said recited Act; and it is highly expedient for carrying into Effect the Purposes of the said Act, that so much of the said Sum of Five hundred thousand Pounds as has not been appropriated or supplied to the Purposes of the said Act, and as may be sufficient for the Purpose, should be applied in purchasing the Interest of the Limerick Navigation Company in the Navigation and Works now vested in and belonging to the said Company; 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 the Lord Lieutenant or other Chief Governor or Governors of Ireland, to direct the Lord High Treasurer of Ireland or the Commissioners for executing the said Office, to raise and borrow under any of the Powers given by the said recited Act, such Sum and Sums of Money as may be requisite for the Purchase of all the Interest of the said Company in the said Navigation, and to pay and apply such Sum accordingly in such Purchase according to such Orders as the Lord Lieutenant or other Chief Governor or Governors of Ireland for the Time being shall issue for that Purpose, and that immediately upon such Purchase being completed, all Right and Interest of the said Company in the said Navigation shall be transferred, and conveyed to and vested in the Directors of all Works relating to Inland Navigation in Ireland for the Time being, appointed under and by virtue of the said Act; and the said Navigation, and all Tolls and Funds, and all Lands, Tenements, and Hereditaments belonging to the same, shall be and become and remain vested in the said Directors, in like Manner as in and by the said recited Act is directed with respect to Navigations carried on and executed by Means of Public Grants, and with all such Powers and Authorities for carrying and managing the said Navigation as are now vested in the said Limerick Navigation Company, and as by the said recited Act are given to the said Directors with respect to any Navigations by the said Act vested in them, subject nevertheless to the Approbation of the Lord Lieutenant or other Chief Governor or Governors of Ireland for the Time being, and of the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury in such Cases as in the said Act are mentioned and specified.
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Prosecutions how to be brought and defended.
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II. And whereas Difficulties have arisen and may from Time to Time arise in bringing and defending Actions, and in carrying on Prosecutions with respect to Matters entrusted to the said Directors of all Works relating to Inland Navigation in Ireland, under the said recited Act of the Fortieth Year of His Majesty’s Reign, or any other Act, inasmuch as by Law the said Directors must at present in all Cases sue and be sued by their several and distinct Names and Descriptions; be it therefore enacted, That, from and after the passing of this Act, all Actions and Suits to be commenced or instituted by or on Behalf of or against such Directors of all Works relating to Inland Navigations in Ireland, now or hereafter for the Time being, shall and lawfully may be commenced and instituted and prosecuted by or against and in the Name of the Secretary for the Time being of the said Directors, and that all Prosecutions to be brought or instituted by or on Behalf of the said Directors, for Fraud upon or against or for Embezzlement, Robbery of or stealing the Property of the said Directors, or for any other Offence committed against or with Intent to injure or defraud the said Directors, shall and may be lawfully brought or instituted and carried on in the Name of the Secretary for the Time being of the said Directors, and any Offender or Offenders may thereupon be lawfully convicted of any such Offence, and the Death, Resignation, or Removal, or other Act of such Secretary for the Time being, shall not abate any such Action, Suit, or Prosecution.
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