Dublin Science and Art Museum Act, 1884

DUBLIN SCIENCE AND ART MUSEUM ACT, 1884

CHAPTER 6.

An Act to confer further powers upon the Commissioners of Public Works in Ireland of acquiring lands in Dublin for all or any of the purposes of the Dublin Science and Art Museum Act, 1877. [28th April 1884.]

40 & 41 Vict. c. ccxxxiv.

WHEREAS by the Dublin Science and Art Museum Act, 1877, (in this Act referred to as “the Act of 1877,”) the lands of the Royal Dublin Society therein mentioned were vested in the Commissioners of Public Works in Ireland (in this Act referred to as the Commissioners) and the Commissioners were authorised to acquire other lands for the purpose of the erection of a science and art museum in Dublin, and the establishment of a national library in Dublin, and for the other purposes of that Act:

And whereas the Commissioners require further powers of acquiring lands for the purposes of the Act of 1877:

And whereas duplicate plans showing the lands which may be required by the Commissioners for the purposes of the Act of 1877 (in this Act referred to as the prescribed lands) and also a book of reference to such plans containing the names of the owners and lessees, or reputed owners and lessees, and of the occupiers of the said lands, and describing the said lands, have been duly deposited with the respective clerks of the peace for the county of the city of Dublin and for the county of Dublin:

And whereas the prescribed lands cannot be acquired without the authority of Parliament:

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: