Lough Corrib Act, 1850
LOUGH CORRIB ACT 1850 | ||
C A P. CXII. | ||
An Act to vest in the Commissioners of Public Works in Ireland certain Works and Rights of the Lough Corrib Improvement Company, and to compensate such Company for the same. [15th August 1850.] | ||
1 & 2 W. 4. c. 57. | ||
5 & 6 Vict. c. 105. | ||
5 & 6 Vict. c. 89. | ||
Lough Corrib Company not to proceed with their Works. | ||
‘Whereas by an Act passed in the Second Year of King William the Fourth, intituled An Act to empower Landed Proprietors in Ireland to sink, embank, and remove Obstructions in Rivers, it was enacted, that when any Persons should be desirous of undertaking the Execution of the Works provided for by that Act, and should, in manner and upon and after the Observance and Performance of the Preliminaries therein-after directed, make Application to the Lord Lieutenant or other Chief Governor or Governors of Ireland for the Time being, it should be lawful for the said Lord Lieutenant or other Chief Governor or Governors of Ireland, if he or they should so think fit, to issue a Commission authorizing and constituting such Persons Undertakers for the Execution of such of the Works provided for by that Act as might be included in such Application, or any of them; and in the said Act are contained Provisions forming such Persons, and their several and respective Successors, Executors, Administrators, and Assigns, into a Joint Stock Company, by such Name as therein mentioned: And whereas by a Commission issued by their Excellencies the Lords Justices of Ireland, bearing Date on or about the Twenty-fourth Day of December One thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight, after reciting, amongst other things, that it had been represented to the said Lords Justices that the several Persons therein-after named had agreed to form themselves into a Company for the Improvement of Lough Corrib in the Counties of Galway and Mayo, and the Lands contiguous thereto, the said Lords Justices did, by virtue of the said recited Act, authorize and constitute certain Persons therein named Undertakers for the Execution of the Works therein mentioned and referred to: And whereas an Act was passed in the Sixth Year of Her present Majesty, to amend the said Act of the Second Year of King William the Fourth: And whereas the Company of Undertakers formed under the said Commission have been since called and known by the Name of “The Company of Undertakers for the Improvement of Lough Corrib,” in the Province of Connaught: And whereas the said Company proceeded to execute certain Works in and by the said first-recited Act and the said Commission authorized, but failed to comply with the Provisions of the said recited Acts, and have long since discontinued and are unable to complete the said Works: And whereas the Commissioners of Public Works in Ireland, acting under the Authority of an Act passed in the Sixth Year of Her 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 of the Acts amending the same, have taken the necessary Steps, and have now made considerable Progress in the necessary Works, for the Drainage, not only of the Lands included in the said Commission, but of other Lands contiguous thereto, and also for the Improvement of the Navigation from the Sea at Galway Harbour in the County of the Town of Galway, through the County of Galway, to Lough Carra in the County of Mayo, and also for the Improvement of Mill Power of the several Mills deriving their Supply of Water from Lough Corrib, and all denominated by the said Commissioners “The District of Loughs Corrib, Mask, and Carra,” in the County of the Town of Galway, and Counties of Galway and Mayo: And whereas a free Grant has been made by Parliament of a Moiety of the estimated Expense of completing the said Navigation, the other Moiety of such last-mentioned Expenses being charged on the County of the Town of Galway and certain Portions of the Counties of Galway and Mayo respectively: And whereas the several Works which have been heretofore executed by the said Company under the Provisions of the said first-recited Act, and the Commission issued in pursuance thereof, and which may be made available for the Purpose of the Works of the said Commissioners of Public Works in the District of Loughs Corrib, Mask, and Carra, have been estimated at the Value of Three thousand two hundred Pounds: And whereas certain Lands and Rights in Land within the said District of Lough Corrib have been purchased by the said Company, and it has been represented by the said Company that they paid for such Lands and Rights Sums exceeding the Sum of One thousand eight hundred Pounds, and the Value of such Lands and Rights for the Purposes of the Works of the said Commissioners of Public Works has been estimated at the Sum of One thousand eight hundred Pounds: And whereas the said Company of Undertakers have agreed to transfer to the said Commissioners of Public Works in Ireland the Works which have been executed by the said Company, and also the said Lands and Rights, upon the Payment as herein-after mentioned of the Sum of Five thousand Pounds, being the Amount of the said Sums of Three thousand two hundred Pounds and One thousand eight hundred Pounds:’ Be it therefore 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 from and after the passing of this Act it shall not be lawful for the said Company of Undertakers for the Improvement of Lough Corrib to proceed further in the Execution of any of the Works authorized in and by the said Acts, or either of them, or the said Commission under the said first-recited Act, or in any Manner whatsoever to interfere with or interrupt the Works heretofore executed or hereafter to be executed by the said Commissioners of Public Works in Ireland under the Provisions of the said thirdly-recited Act, or any of the Acts amending the same. |