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‘WHEREAS an Act was passed in the Tenth Year of Her Majesty, intituled An Act to facilitate the Improvement of Landed Property in Ireland; and a further Act of the Twelfth and Thirteenth Years of Her Majesty, Chapter Twenty-three, was passed “to authorize further Advances of Money for the Improvement of Landed Property and the Extension and Promotion of Drainage and other Works of Public Utility in Ireland;” and a further Act of the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Years of Her Majesty, Chapter Thirty-one, was passed “to authorize further Advances of Money for Drainage and the Improvement of Landed Property in the United Kingdom, and to amend the Acts relating to such Advances;” and a further Act was passed in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Years of Her Majesty, Chapter One hundred and thirteen, “to authorize the Transfer of Loans for the Improvement of Land in Ireland to other Land;” and a further Act was passed in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Years of Her Majesty, Chapter Thirty-four, “to extend the Act to facilitate the Improvement of Landed Property in Ireland, and the Acts amending the same, to the Erection of Scutch Mills for Flax in “Ireland;” and a further Act was passed in the Twenty-third Year of Her Majesty, Chapter Nineteen, “to extend the Act to facilitate the Improvement of Landed Property in Ireland, and the Acts amending the same, to the Erection of Dwellings for the Labouring Classes in Ireland;” and a further Act was passed in the Twenty-fourth and Twenty-fifth Years of Her Majesty, Chapter Thirty-four, to extend the Provisions of the Acts to facilitate the Improvement of Landed Property in Ireland, and to further provide for the Erection of Dwellings for the Labouring Poor in Ireland:” And whereas it is expedient to amend and enlarge the Provisions of the said recited Acts in the Manner herein after mentioned:’ 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:
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Power to Commissioners of Public Works to make additional Loans.
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1. That notwithstanding anything in the said Act of the Thirteenth and Fourteenth of Her Majesty, Chapter Thirty-one, to the contrary, it shall be lawful for the Commissioners of Public Works, with the Sanction of the Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury, to make Loans to any Owner of Land in Ireland under the Provisions and for the Purposes of the said recited Acts or any of them, of any Sum or Sums of Money not exceeding in the whole the Sum of Three thousand Pounds to any One Owner, in addition to and over and above any Sum or Sums of Money which the said Commissioners of Public Works may have heretofore advanced or are authorized to advance under the Powers and Provisions of the said recited Acts or any of them.
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Power of Commissioners to make Loans as authorized by 24 & 25 Vict. c. 34. not affected.
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2. Provided that nothing in this Act contained shall affect, lessen, or abridge the Power of the said Commissioners of Public Works to advance Money for the Erection of Dwellings for the Labouring Classes in Ireland, to the Amount specified in and by the said Act of the Twenty-fourth and Twenty-fifth Years of Her Majesty, Chapter Thirty-four, as if this Act had not passed.
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Time for Completion of Works extended.
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3. It shall be lawful for the said Commissioners of Public Works to fix for the Completion of any Works for which Loans may be made under the said recited Acts and this Act such Period, and from Time to Time such further Period within Seven Years from the Date of the first Advance of any Loan under the said recited Acts or this Act, as the said Commissioners may think fit.
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