Four Courts (Dublin) Extension Act, 1858

FOUR COURTS (DUBLIN) EXTENSION ACT 1858

C A P. LXXXIV.

An Act for enabling the Commissioners of Public Works in Ireland to acquire certain Lands and Houses for the Site of a new Court or Courts, and other Offices and Buildings required for the Public Service, in Extension of the Four Courts in the City of Dublin; and for other Purposes. [2d August 1858.]

Whereas it is expedient to erect a new Court or Courts and other Offices and Buildings adjacent to and in Extension of the Four Courts in the City of Dublin, and to form a new Street in connexion therewith, and certain Lands and Houses situate in the Parish of Saint Michan in the said City would be a suitable Site for the Purposes aforesaid, which Lands and Houses are described in the Schedule to this Act, and delineated on a Plan thereof, of which Copies have been deposited for public Inspection at the Office of the Clerk of the Peace for the County of the City of Dublin: And whereas it is expedient that the Commissioners of Public Works should obtain compulsory Powers for the Purchase of the Estate, Interest, and Rights of all Persons in the said Lands and Houses; but the same cannot be effected without the Authority of Parliament:, May it therefore please Your Majesty that it may be enacted; and be it enacted by the Queen’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, as follows: