Public Works (Ireland) (No. 2) Act, 1846

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PUBLIC WORKS (IRELAND) (NO. 2) ACT 1846

CHAPTER LXXXVI.

An Act to extend and consolidate the Powers hitherto exercised by the Commissioners of Public Works in Ireland, and to appoint additional Commissioners.[¹] [26th August 1846.]

The commissioners of public works in Ireland to be commissioners for the execution of the Acts for improvement of the Shannon navigation.

2. The commissioners of public works in Ireland for the time being shall be the commissioners for the execution of the said two last-recited Acts for the improvement of the navigation of the river Shannon; and all the powers, authorities, and privileges, rights, titles, and interests, now or heretofore vested in the commissioners for the execution of the said two last-recited Acts shall vest in and devolve upon and shall be respectively used, exercised, and enjoyed by the commissioners of public works in Ireland for the time being, who shall for the purposes of the said last-recited Acts be and be deemed to be in the place and stead of the persons heretofore being commissioners for the execution of the said two last recited Acts.

[S. 3 rep. 38 & 39 Vict. c. 66. (S.L.R.)]

Power to appoint two additional commissioners of public works.

4. [Recital.] It shall and may be lawful for the Queen’s most excellent Majesty, by warrant or warrants under the royal sign manual, to nominate and appoint, in addition to the said persons so as aforesaid appointed and now acting as commissioners of public works, two persons, who with the said last-mentioned commissioners shall be the commissioners of public works in Ireland as fully and effectually to all intents and purposes as the commissioners of public works in Ireland were and existed before the passing of this Act, and shall be the commissioners for the execution of the said several Acts herein-before recited and of this Act, and also of all other Acts for the execution of which the commissioners of public works in Ireland are commissioners.

Power to remove commissioners, and appoint others in their stead.

Number of commissioners limited to five.

5. It shall and may be lawful for the Queen’s most excellent Majesty to remove either of the said commissioners so to be appointed, or any of the commissioners heretofore appointed under the said first-recited Act. and in like manner to nominate another or others in the stead of the person or persons so removed or in the stead of any of the said commissioners being removed, or dying or resigning: Provided, however, that there shall not be at any one time more than five persons commissioners of public works in Ireland for the execution of the said severally recited Acts, and all other Acts for the execution of which the commissioners of public works shall have been appointed or are the commissioners.

Two of the commissioners may act.

Style of commissioners.

6. All acts, matters, and things which the commissioners of public works are by any of the provisions of the said recited Acts or any of them, or this Act, required or authorized to do or execute shall and may be done and executed by any two of the commissioners of public works for the time being; and the commissioners of public works in Ireland for the time being may hereafter be called, known, and described by the name of “The Commissioners of public works in Ireland.”

[S. 7 rep. 38 & 39 Vict. c. 66, (S.L.R.)]

No obligation, contract, affidavit, &c. taken or made under 1 & 2 Will. 4. c. 33. and amending Acts to be liable to stamp duty.

8. No obligation, contract, agreement, assignment, deed, conveyance, or other instrument whatever, taken or made to or by the said commissioners for the execution of the Public Works (Ireland) Act 1831, or any of the Acts amending the same, nor any affidavit, deposition, certificate, order, or receipt, to be respectively taken or made under or by virtue of the said last-mentioned Acts, or any of them, shall be liable to any stamp duty whatever, any thing in any Act or Acts in force in Ireland to the contrary in anywise notwithstanding.

The Treasury to fix salaries, &c, to appoint additional officers, and to make rules and regulations for discharge of duties by the commissioners of public works.

9. It shall and may be lawful for the Treasury, from time to time to fix and appoint such salaries as they may think fit for the said commissioners of public works, and also to appoint such additional and other officers, clerks, and servants, and at such salaries, as the Treasury may think proper and necessary, and from time to time to dismiss such officers, clerks and servants, and to appoint others in their place and stead, and also to make such orders, rules, and regulations, and from time to time to vary and alter the same, as they the Treasury may think necessary and proper for the full and effectual execution of the provisions of the said recited Acts and this Act, and of the discharge of the duties of the commissioners of public works for the time being thereunder.

[S. 10 rep, 38 & 39 Vict. c. 66. (S.L.R.)]

[¹ Short title, “The Public Works (Ireland) Act, 1846.” See 55 & 56 Vict. c. 10.]