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Tolls.
5 & 6 Vict. c. 89.
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2.—(1) When a county council have constructed works for the improvement of the navigation of a portion of a river under this Act, they may charge such tolls as may be sanctioned by the Board of Works in respect of the navigation of that portion of the river, or any part thereof, and in respect of the use of any works constructed or acquired by the council for the purposes of the improvement.
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(2) The provisions of section ninety-two (relative to disputes as to the weight or quantity of goods chargeable with tolls), section ninety-four (relative to the posting of lists of rates and tolls), and section ninety-five (relative to the enforcement of payment of tolls) of the Drainage (Ireland) Act, 1842, shall, with the substitution of the county council, and their collectors and officers for the Commissioners and their collectors and officers, apply with respect to tolls chargeable under this Act as they apply with respect to tolls chargeable under that Act.
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(3) All tolls received or recovered by the county council shall be applied in aid of their expenses under this Act, and if the amount so received or recovered in any year exceeds the amount of the expenses of that year, the surplus shall either be carried to a suspense account and applied in aid of the expenses of any subsequent year or, if so directed by the county council, shall be carried to the credit of the fund to which expenses are charged, or, if there are two or more such funds, to the credit of those funds rateably in the proportion in which the funds are charged.
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