Galway Harbour and Port Act 1859

GALWAY HARBOUR AND PORT ACT 1859

CAP. XXVIII.

An Act to amend the Galway Harbour and Port Act (1853). [13th August 1859.]

16 & 17 Vict. c. ccvii.

WHEREAS by an Ant passed in the Session of Parliament holden in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Years of the Reign of Her present Majesty, intituled An Act for making a Pier and Breakwater in the Bay of Galway, and for conferring additional Powers on the Galway Harbour Commissioners, and for other Purposes, it is, amongst other things, enacted, that it should, be lawful for the said Harbour Commissioners to demand and take the Tolls and Rates in the respective Schedules to the said Act annexed: And whereas the Tolls and Rates by the said Act authorised to be levied are, subject to the necessary Expenses of the Repair of the Works of the said Harbour, now paid to a Receiver appointed by the Commissioners of Public Works, and applied, as by the said Act directed, in discharge of a Public Debt due to the said last-mentioned Commissioners: And whereas it is expedient to amend the said Galway Harbour and Port Act, 1853:’ Be it therefore 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: