Drainage (Ireland) Act 1847
DRAINAGE (IRELAND) ACT 1847 | ||
CAP. LXXIX. | ||
An Act to continue for a limited Time the Provisions for summary Proceedings contained in an Act of the last Session to amend the Acts for promoting the Drainage of Lands, and for other Purposes; and to amend the said Act. [22d July 1847.] | ||
5 & 6 Vict. c. 89. | ||
8 & 9 Vict. c. 69. | ||
9 & 10 Vict. c. 4. | ||
Provisions for summary Proceedings continued for One Year, &c. | ||
‘WHEREAS an Act was passed in the Session held in the Fifth and Sixth Years of the Reign of Her present Majesty, intituled An Act to promote the Drainage of Lands, and Improvement of Navigation and Water Power in connexion with such Drainage, in Ireland: And whereas the said Act was amended by an Act passed in the Eighth and Ninth Years of the Reign of Her present. Majesty, intituled An Act to amend on Act of the Sixth Year of Her present Majesty, for promoting the Drainage of Lands, and Improvement of Navigation and Water Power in connexion with such Drainage, in Ireland; and also by an Act passed in the Ninth Year of the Reign of Her present Majesty, intituled An Act to amend the of Acts for promoting the Drainage of Lands, and Improvement of Navigation and Water Power in connexion with such Drainage, in Ireland, and to afford Facilities for increased Employment for the Labouring Classes in Works of Drainage during the present Year: And whereas by the last-mentioned Act, after referring to the Failure or Destruction of a Portion of the Potato Crop of the then last Year in Ireland, and to the Distress which might thereby prevail among the Labouring Classes in certain Districts, and to the Expediency of giving for Part of the then present Year increased Facilities for various Works of Utility connected with the Drainage and Improvement of Lands in such Districts, it was enacted and declared, that the Provisions therein-after contained should be called and deemed to be “Provisions for summary Proceedings” under the said Act, and that no Work should be undertaken or commenced under such Provisions for summary Proceedings as to the Execution of which Work the Assents of the Proprietors of Lands, as required by the Provisions of the said Act therein-before contained, should not have been given or obtained before the First Day of August in the Year One thousand eight hundred and forty-seven; and by the same Act it was therein-after provided, that the Commissioners for the Execution of the same should, as therein mentioned, ascertain that the Assent in Writing of the Proprietors, as defined in the said first-recited Act, with the Consent of the Tenants, if any, (as by the said Act required in that Behalf,) of more than One Half in Extent of the Lands to be drained or improved, should have been given to the proposed Works: And whereas, by reason of the Destruction of a large Portion of the Potato Crop of last Year in Ireland, it is expedient, for the Purposes of affording increased Facilities for Employment, to continue for a limited Time the aforesaid Provisions for summary Proceedings, amending the same as herein-after mentioned:’ Be it enacted by the Queen’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 notwithstanding any thing contained in the said last-mentioned Act it shall be lawful to commence or undertake, under the Provisions for summary Proceedings in the same Act contained, any Works by such Provisions authorized as to the Execution of which Works the Assents of the Proprietors of Lands as required by the same Act (subject to the Provisions of this Act) shall be given or obtained at any Time before the Termination of Twelve Months from the passing of this Act, or before the End of the then next Session of Parliament, but no later; and that all the said Provisions for summary Proceedings shall be valid and effectual accordingly for the Purposes of Works to be commenced or undertaken under the Provisions of this present Act. |