| |
LOUGH CORRIB NAVIGATION ACT 1874
|
| |
CHAPTER 71.
|
| |
An Act to authorise “The Lough Corrib Navigation Trustees” to dispose of part of the Navigation in the district of Loughs Corrib, Mask, and Curra. [7th August 1874.]
|
| |
WHEREAS an Act was passed in the session of Parliament holden in the nineteenth and twentieth years of Her Majesty, chapter sixty-two, intituled “An Act to provide for the maintenance of navigations made in connexion with drainage, and to make further provision in relation to works of drainage in Ireland:”
|
| |
And whereas under and by virtue of the provisions of the said Act the trustees of any navigation therein mentioned are empowered to dispose of such navigation in manner therein provided:
|
| |
And whereas it is expedient to enlarge the powers of disposal thereby given, so far as the same affect the Lough Corrib Navigation Trustees, as herein-after provided:
|
| |
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:
|
|
|
Power to Navigation Trustees to dispose of navigation.
|
1. It shall be lawful for the Lough Corrib Navigation Trustees, by and with the consent of the grand juries of the counties of Galway and Mayo, and of the county of the town of Galway, signified by resolutions of such grand juries at any assizes, to let or lease, sell, convey, transfer, and assign to any person or persons willing to become tenant of, or to purchase the same, subject to such terms and conditions as the Lord Lieutenant in Council may from time to time direct, all that part of the said navigation consisting of the channel or canal, with the locks, weirs, materials, and other works, with all rights and appurtenances thereunto belonging, situate between Lough Mask and Lough Corrib, or any portion or portions thereof.
|
|
|
Receipts of three or more trustees to be sufficient discharges.
|
2. The receipts of the said trustees under their seal and the hands of any three or more of them for any purchase moneys thereof shall be sufficient discharges for the same, and such moneys shall be paid to the treasurers of the respective counties which or any baronies or townlands in which contributed to the expense of the construction of such navigation, in the proportions in which such counties, baronies, and townlands contributed thereto, to be placed by such treasurers respectively to the credit of their respective counties or such baronies or townlands therein as aforesaid.
|
|
|
Conditions of lease or sale.
|
3. Save as in and by any such lease or conveyance may be provided, the person or persons so leasing or purchasing any portion of said navigation shall not be liable or subject to any of the control, restrictions, or conditions in said recited Act mentioned.
|
