River Poddle Act, 1840

Rates to be made and levied on Castle of Dublin and Cathedral Church of St. Patrick, and on the Houses affected by the Watercourse.

VII. And in order to raise a Fund to carry the Purposes of the said recited Acts and this Act into execution, in lieu of the said Tax, Rate, or Assessment hereby abolished, be it enacted, That the said Commissioners for paving, cleansing, and lighting the Streets of Dublin, and their Successors, shall from Time to Time, as often as they shall find it necessary, after the Commencement of this Act, and they are hereby empowered to impose and levy such Rate, Tax, or Assessment as they shall think sufficient, not exceeding Three hundred Pounds in any One Year, to defray the Expence of carrying the said recited Acts and this Act into execution, upon Her Majesty’s Castle of Dublin and the Precincts thereof, and upon the said Cathedral Church of Saint Patrick, Dublin, and upon all and every the Houses and Tenements situate within the Jurisdiction of the said Commissioners for paving, cleansing, and lighting the Streets of Dublin under which the said Watercourse called the Poddle River runs or shall run, or from whence any Water shall flow through any Sewer or Drain into the said Watercourse, and upon every the Houses and Tenements now built or to be built on the Sides of Streets the Kennels of which Streets empty and discharge themselves directly into the said Watercourse, or into any Sewer or Drain communicating with or leading or running into the said Watercourse; and such Rate, Tax, or Assessment shall be imposed and levied according to and in the Proportions herein-after mentioned; (that is to say,) upon Her Majesty’s said Castle of Dublin and the Precincts thereof a Sum not exceeding one Moiety of the entire Amount of the said Rate, Tax, or Assessment, and upon the said Cathedral Church of Saint Patrick, Dublin, a Sum not exceeding One Twelfth Part of the entire Amount of such Rate, Tax, or Assessment, and upon all and every the Houses and Tenements situate and being as aforesaid, a Sum not exceeding Five Twelfth Parts of the entire Amount of such Rate, Tax, or Assessment.