City of Dublin Act 1775
CITY OF DUBLIN ACT 1775 | ||
CHAP. XX. | ||
Every clause relating to extending provisions herein to barony of Donore repealed by 19 & 20 G. 3. c. 44. s. 17. | ||
An Act to explain and amend an act, entitled, An act for paving the streets, lanes, quays, bridges, squares, courts, and alleys, within the city and county of the city of Dublin, and other purposes relative to the said city of Dublin, and other places therein particularly mentioned; and for extending the provisions of the said act to the baronies of saint Sepulchre’s and Donore. | ||
Qualification of commissioners or committee 20l. a year rents of lands; or 300l. personal, | ||
penalty 50l. | ||
to prosecutor, | ||
proof on defendant. | ||
WHEREAS an act was passed in the thirteenth and fourteenth years of his present Majesty, entitled, An act for paving the streets, lanes, quays, bridges, squares, courts, and alleys within the city and county of the city of Dublin, and other purposes relative to the said city of Dublin, and other places therein particularly mentioned: and whereas it would forward the good purposes of said act, that for the future no commissioner or committee-men should have power to act, who shall not in their own right, or in right of their wives, be possessed of a certain property: and whereas a power is given by the said act to the commissioners therein named, or any seven or more of them, to cause all posts; rails, signs, steps, bulks, stalls, holes, pits, show glasses, show boards, jet-out windows, walls inclosing dunghills, as also all steps and doors opening or leading from the foot ways, or carriage ways, into vaults, cellars, or other places, to be removed, filled up, or altered: and whereas it has caused some discontents, that the powers of removing rails from the fronts of houses, and filling up areas, is intrusted to the determination of so small a body as seven commissioners: and whereas some further powers and authorities are necessary to be given, and some further regulations ought to be made, in order to effect the purposes aforesaid: 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 from and after the first day of May one thousand seven hundred and seventy six no person shall be capable of acting as a commissioner or a committee-man in the execution of this act, unless he shall then be in his own right, or in right of his wife, in the actual possession or receipt of the rents of lands, tenements, or hereditaments of the clear yearly value of twenty pounds, or possessed of, or intitled to a personal estate of the value of three hundred pounds; and if any person, not being so qualified, shall presume to act, every such person shall for every such offence forfeit and pay the sum of fifty pounds to any person or persons, who shall sue for the same; to be recovered in any of his Majesty’s courts of record by action of debt or on the case, or by bill, or suit, or information, together with costs of suit, wherein no effoign, protection, or wager of law, or more than one imparlance, shall be allowed, and wherein the proof of qualification shall lie on the person prosecuted; and it shall be sufficient on the Part of the prosecutor to prove, that the person so prosecuted had acted as a commissioner or committee-man in the execution of this act. |