Drainage and Improvement of Lands (Ireland) Act, 1878

DRAINAGE AND IMPROVEMENT OF LANDS (IRELAND) ACT, 1878

CHAPTER 59.

An Act to amend the Law relating to the Drainage and Improvement of Land in Ireland. [16th August 1878.]

WHEREAS by reason of the absence of many proprietors, as well as the omission of others to sign the necessary assents even in case where they do not wish to dissent, unnecessary difficulties have been thrown in the way of the formation of elective drainage districts, under the Drainage and Improvement of Lands Act, Ireland, 1863: And whereas it is expedient to remove these and other difficulties in the way of the formation of such districts:

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: