General Post Office Dublin Act 1808
GENERAL POST OFFICE DUBLIN ACT 1808 | ||
CAP. XLVIII. | ||
An Act to enable His Majesty’s Postmaster General of Ireland to purchase Premises for the Enlargement of the General Post Office in the City of Dublin [27th May 1807.] | ||
Irish Act 23 & 24 G. 3. | ||
24 G.3.c.6. | ||
Postmaster General of Ireland may contract for the Purchase of Buildings, &c. for making Addition to the General Post Office. | ||
WHEREAS by an Act passed in the Parliament of Ireland, in the Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth Years of the Reign of His present Majesty, for establishing a Post Office in that Kingdom, it was enacted, that as soon as conveniently might be after the passing of said Act, there should be a General Letter Office and Post Office established in some convenient Place within the City of Dublin, with Sub-offices throughout Ireland, from whence all Letters and Packets whatsoever to or from Places within Ireland or beyond Seas, might with Speed and Expedition, be sent, received, and dispatched: And whereas by an Act, passed by the Parliament of Great Britain in the Twenty-fourth Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, intituled, An Act for establishing certain Regulations concerning the Portage and Conveyance of Letters and Packets by the Post, between Great Britain and Ireland, His Majesty’s Post Master General of Great Britain was authorized and empowered to grant and convey to His Majesty’s Postmaster General of Ireland, certain Buildings erected in Dublin and known by the Name of The General Post Office in Ireland: And whereas the said Premises were accordingly duly conveyed by His Majesty’s Postmaster General of Great Britain to His Majesty’s Postmaster General of Ireland: And whereas from the great Increase of Business of the said General Post Office in Dublin, the said Premises are now insufficient for the Purposes of the said Establishment, and it is necessary and expedient to make considerable Additions thereto; 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 it shall–and may be lawful for His Majesty’s Postmaster General of Ireland for the Time being, and he is hereby authorized and empowered from Time to Time to contract with the Owner or Owners, Proprietor or Proprietors, of any House or Houses, Building or Buildings, as Parcel or Parcels, Plot or Plots of Ground adjoining or contiguous to the said General Post Office in the City of Dublin, and with the Lessee or Lessees of any such Owner or Owners, Proprietor or Proprietors, or in case any such Owner or Owners, Proprietor or Proprietors, Lessee or Lessees, shall be an Infant or Infants, with the Guardian or Guardians of any such Infant or Infants, for the Purchase of any such House or Houses, Building or Buildings, Plot or Plots, Parcel or Parcels of Ground, and for the respective Interests of all such Persons who shall be entitled thereto, for the Purpose or making any Addition to said General Post Office. |