Public Works (Ireland) Act, 1857
PUBLIC WORKS (IRELAND) ACT 1857 | ||
CAP. XXIII. | ||
An Act to authorize the Commissioners of Public Works in Ireland to sell Mill Sites and Water Power, notwithstanding Final Award, in any Drainage or Navigation District. [10th August 1857.] | ||
5 & 6 Vict.c.81. | ||
‘Whereas an Act was passed in the Session of Parliament holden in the Fifth and Sixth Years 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, which Act was amended by an Act passed in the Session of Parliament holden in the Eighth and Ninth Years of Her Majesty, Chapter Sixty-nine, and an Act passed in the Session of Parliament holden in the Ninth and Tenth Years of Her Majesty, Chapter Four, and an Act passed in the Session of Parliament holden in the Tenth and Eleventh Years of Her Majesty, Chapter Seventy-nine, and by an Act passed in the Session holden in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Years of Her Majesty, Chapter One hundred and thirty, and an Act passed in the Session of Parliament holden in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Years of Her Majesty, Chapter One hundred and ten, and an Act passed in the Session holden in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Years of Her Majesty, Chapter Sixty-two: And whereas under and by virtue of the Provisions of the said firstly-recited Act the said Commissioners are empowered to make and acquire new Sites of Mills and Factories and Water Power, and Premises connected therewith, and to sell the same, with such Rights of Pre-emption to the Owners of the Estates to which the said Sites originally belonged, or to the Owners of the adjoining Estates, as are therein provided, and the Purchase Monies of such Sites and Premises are directed to be applied to such Purposes as are therein set forth: And whereas the said Commissioners, in execution of the Works authorized by the said Acts, have been enabled within certain Districts to make and acquire various new Sites for Mills and Factories upon Parcels of Ground duly taken by them for that Purpose, by virtue of the Powers and Provisions relating to the taking of Lands by the said Commissioners in the said Acts contained, or acquired in the Progress of such Works, and the same and the Water Powers connected therewith have become vested in the said Commissioners for the Purposes aforesaid, and the said Commissioners may hereafter become entitled in like Manner to various other such Sites: And whereas it is not expedient that the making of any Final Award by the said Commissioners, under the Provisions of the said Acts or any of them, should be delayed by reason of the Inability of such Commissioners to sell such Sites and Water Power in connexion therewith, for such Prices as may be adequate to the Value thereof:’ 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, as follows: |