Landed Property Improvement (Ireland) Act 1847
LANDED PROPERTY IMPROVEMENT (IRELAND) ACT 1847 | ||
CAP. XXXII. | ||
An Act to facilitate the Improvement of Landed Property in Ireland. [8th June 1847] | ||
1 & 2 W. 4. c. 99. | ||
9 & 10 Vict. c. 1. | ||
9 & 10 Vict. c. 101. | ||
So much of 9 & 10 Vict. c. 101. as authorizes the issuing of 1,000,000l. for Ireland repealed. | ||
‘WHEREAS by an Act passed in the Session of Parliament held in the First and Second Years of the Reign of His late Majesty King william the Fourth, intituled An Act for the Extension and Promotion of Public Works in Ireland, it was amongst other things enacted, that it should and might be lawful for the Commissioners of Public Works acting in execution of the said Act to make Loans and Advances in aid of the Drainage, Embankment, reclaiming, or other Improvement of Land on the Credit of Mortgages, Assignments, or other Assurances of the Estate and Interest, Freehold or Leasehold, on such Land as might be the Subject of such Drainage, Embankment, Reclamation, or other Improvement, upon the Terms and Conditions in the said Act mentioned: And whereas by an Act passed in the Session of Parliament held in the Ninth and Tenth Years of the Reign of Her present Majesty, intituled An Act for the further Amendment of the Acts for the Extension and Promotion of Public Works in Ireland, it was enacted, that it should and might be lawful for the Commissioners of Public Works in Ireland, subject to such Conditions and Restrictions as are therein-after provided, to make any Loan or Advance for the Purposes aforesaid And whereas a further Act was passed in the Session of Parliament held in the Ninth and Tenth Years of the Reign of Her present Majesty, intituled An Act to authorize the Advance of Public Money to a limited Amount, to promote the Improvement of Land in Great Britain and Ireland by Works of Drainage: And whereas it is expedient that so much of the said thirdly-recited. Act as extends to Ireland should be repealed, and that greater Facilities, under proper Conditions and Restrictions, should be given for the Improvement of Lands in Ireland.’ 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 present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same. That so much of the said thirdly-recited Act as authorizes the Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury to issue for Loans to be made under the Provisions of the said Act any Sums of Money not exceeding One million of Pounds for Ireland, and all the Provisions and Powers in the said Act contained relating to Ireland, and to be Commissioners of Public Works in Ireland, shall be repealed, subject to the provisions herein-after contained for continuing under this Act all Proceedings consequent upon any Application for a Loan under the last-recited Act. |