Curragh of Kildare Act, 1870

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CURRAGH OF KILDARE ACT 1870

CHAP. 74.

An Act to confirm the Award under “The Curragh of Kildare Act, 1868,” and for other purposes relating thereto. [9th August 1870.]

31 & 32 Vict. c. 60.

WHEREAS by “The Curragh of Kildare Act, 1868,” it was enacted that three commissioners should be appointed to ascertain and decide, amongst others, the following things; namely,

What (if any) rights of common of pasture, rights of way, or other rights (except the rights of the Crown and public rights of way) exist in, over, or affecting the Curragh, or any part thereof, either by grant, charter, or prescription;

To what persons, and for what terms, estates, or interests, the rights aforesaid respectively belong;

What (if any) are the lands in respect of which the rights aforesaid respectively are exerciseable;

What (if any) compensation should be given to any party whose rights are or may be injuriously affected by the said Act; and

What (if any) public rights of way exist in, over, or affecting the Curragh or any part thereof:

And whereas Henry H. Joy, Esquire, one of Her Majesty’s counsel, Alexander Stewart, Esquire, and Edmund A. Mansfield, Esquire, were duly appointed the Curragh Commissioners in manner provided by the said Act, and are hereafter referred to by the term “the Commissioners:”

And whereas the Commissioners, having given the necessary notices and taken the steps required by the said Act, proceeded in discharge of their duties as by the said Act directed, and in pursuance of the provisions of the said Act did hold meetings at such places and at such times as they considered most convenient for the accommodation of claimants and suitors, and did hold such a number of meetings in the neighbourhood of the Curragh as were sufficient for hearing local claimants:

And whereas, after hearing all claimants and suitors in manner by the said Act directed, the Commissioners did decide upon all claims made before them:

And whereas no appeal was made by any claimant or objector admitted to be heard before the Commissioners:

And whereas the Commissioners thereupon, in manner by the said Act prescribed, did on the thirtieth day of June one thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine duly make their award in duplicate, which award is set forth in the schedule to this Act annexed, and did, in accordance with the provisions of the said Act, on the first day of July one thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine, present one part of the said award to the chief secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, and did deposit the other part with the clerk of the peace for the county of Kildare, and did also publish a copy of such award once in each of three successive weeks next after the making thereof in the Dublin Gazette and in the Leinster Express, a newspaper circulating in the county of Kildare:

And whereas it is provided by the said Act that “the chief secretary to the Lord Lieutenant shall as soon as conveniently may be after the publication of the said award take all necessary steps for the confirmation of the same by Act of Parliament, and that previously to such confirmation the said award shall not be of any validity whatever:”

And whereas it is expedient that the said award should be so confirmed, and further provision made in relation thereto:

May it therefore please your Majesty that it may be enacted; and 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 Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows: