Borough of Drogheda Act 1797
BOROUGH OF DROGHEDA ACT 1797 | ||
CHAP. LVI. | ||
An Act to amend an Act passed in the Thirtieth Year of His present Majesty’s Reign, Entitled, An Act for the Improvement of the Port and Harbour of Drogheda, and the better Regulation of the Police of said Town. | ||
Quays are insufficient, and duties granted by 30 G. 3. are inadequate: | ||
waste ground and strand on East of town, and North of Bayne, would answer for quays and stores: | ||
commissioners appointed by recited act, may purchase strand and ground herein described, | ||
powers vested in foregoing commissioners. | ||
WHEREAS the quays in the port and harbour of Drogheda, are insufficient for the accommodation of ships and vessels resorting thither, and the duties granted by an act passed in the thirtieth year of his present Majesty, entitled, An act for the improvement of the port and harbour of Drogheda, and the better regulation of the police of said town, are inadequate to the purpose of extending the quay walls east of said town: and whereas there is a considerable extent of waste ground and strand on the east of said town, and on the north side of the river Boyne, which has never been applied to the use or benefit of any person whatsoever, and which if walled in would fully answer the purpose of affording quays sufficient for the accommodation of ships and vessels, and for the landing and shipping of goods and merchandize, and a sufficient depth of ground would remain for building houses and stores in front of the said river to the great accommodation of the trade of said town; be it therefore enacted by the King’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 the commissioners appointed by the said recited act, or any seven of them, be empowered to purchase from such person or persons who shall claim the same, and prove their title therein, all that waste strand and ground lying on the North side of the river Boyne, between the town of Drogheda and Green-Hills, in the county of the said town, meared on the North by the Strand road leading from Drogheda to the sea, and extending South to the low water mark of the river Boyne; and that all the powers vested by an act made in the thirty-first year of his late Majesty, King George the second, entitled, An act for making a wide and convenient way, street and passage, from Essex-bridge to the Castle of Dublin, and for other purposes therein mentioned, or by any other act or acts of parliament, explaining, amending, or enlarging the same, in the commissioners therein named, or their successors, shall be and are hereby vested in the foregoing commissioners, or any seven or more of them, for the purpose of purchasing or procuring the said waste strand and ground, and of erecting and building additional quays for the accommodation of ships resorting to said port and harbour, and the trade thereof: and that all and singular the clauses contained in the said acts, or any of them, which may be necessary for carrying the trusts hereby vested in the said commissioners, or any of them, into execution, shall be of as full force and effect touching the said waste strand or ground so to be procured and purchased by the said commissioners, or any seven or more of them, for the purposes aforesaid, and touching the several owners, proprietors and persons interested therein, as if the same were severally and specially enacted hereby in respect to the same. |