City of Cork Act 1786

CITY OF CORK ACT 1786

CHAP. XXVIII.

An Act for Building n Bridge over the Northern Channel of the River Lee, in the City of Cork, and Suburbs thereof, and for other Purposes relative to the said City.

Preamble.

The persons herein mentioned are appointed commissioners for designing &c. a bridge over the river Lee.

WHEREAS the city of Cork, and the suburbs thereof, are by the extension of commerce considerably encreased, and are likely to encrease; and whereas there is no communication or passage from the country into the said city, on the north side thereof, for goods, cattle, carriages, or travellers, except by one bridge called North-Bridge: be it therefore 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 the may-or, recorder, aldermen, and such of the burgesses as are or shall be of the common council, and also the two citizens representing the said city in parliament, and the common speaker of said city, all for the time being, and the several persons herein after named, to wit, Humphry Crowly, esquire, John Thompson Burgess, John Digby, Richard Perry, and John Pedder of the city of Cork, esquires, doctor John Longfield, William Hare, Cooper Penrose, archdeacon Chambre Corker, George Newsom, John Lapp, Richard Hare, senior, and Pope Gray, esquires, shall be and are hereby appointed commissioners, with full power and authority for designing, making, creating, and building one bridge below the present bridge over the northern branch or channel of the said river Lee, running through the said city and suburbs thereof, and that it shall and may be lawful to and for the said commissioners, or their successors, or any five or more of them, to design, assign, and lay out and appoint in what manner said bridge shall be built, and over what particular part of said river, which appointment, before the same shall be carried into execution, shall be confirmed in a court of Doyer hundred, eight days previous, notice being given by publick posting on the exchange of said city, of holding such court.