Limerick Navigation Act 1771

LIMERICK NAVIGATION ACT 1771

CHAP. XXIV.

An Act to enable the corporation for promoting and carrying on an inland navigation in this kingdom to erect and make a lock adjoining to the long dock of the old quay in the city of Limerick.

The corporation may erect a lock cross the Shannon,

and apply 1500l. of parliamentary grants.

WHEREAS ships cannot at present lie with safety in any part of the river Shannon between the New bridge and the pier adjoining to the long dock of the old quay in the said city upon account of the rapidity of the current and hardness of the ground: and whereas boats can at present pass only at certain times, and then with much difficulty and danger, from any part of the river above Baall’s bridge: and whereas the rapidity of the current between Baall’s bridge and the new bridge is so great, and frequently to do much damage to the new quays on each side of the river, which were erected at the expence of the publick, and if not prevented will probably soon destroy the same; all which circumstances are very injurious to the trade of the said city: and whereas the said several inconveniencies may be remedied by erecting a lock across the said river from the said pier of the said long dock, and making the space between the said lock and the said New bridge a safe and convenient place for ships to lie in: be it 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 it shall and may be lawful to and for the said corporation for promoting and carrying on an inland navigation in this kingdom to erect such lock, as is herein before mentioned, and to apply such part of the money granted to them by parliament, as they shall think proper for that purpose, not exceeding the sum of one thousand five hundred pounds in the whole.