Drainage (Ireland) Act 1856

Provisions for supplying Vacancies among Trustees.

X. If any Trustee named in or to be elected under this Act die, resign, or refuse or become incapable to act, or be removed, it shall be lawful for the Grand Jury at any Assizes to be holden for the County on behalf of which such Trustee shall have been named or elected to elect another Trustee in his Place; provided, that every Trustee to be so elected shall be seised or possessed of Freehold or Leasehold Lands situate in the County on behalf of which he is elected of the yearly Value of One hundred Pounds or upwards over and above any Rent payable thereout, or shall be Agent to an Estate in such County of the yearly Value of Two thousand Pounds or upwards, or to Two or more Estates in such County of such yearly Value in the whole: Provided always, that the same Power of Appointment and Removal hereby given to the Grand Juries with regard to the Trustees for the Counties of Antrim and Londonderry, shall, as far as One of such Trustees, in the Case of the said Lower Bann Navigation, be exercised by the Town Commissioners of Coleraine.