Kingstown Township (Transfer of Harbour Roads) Act, 1898

KINGSTOWN TOWNSHIP (TRANSFER OF HARBOUR ROADS) ACT, 1898

CHAPTER 52.

An Act to transfer to the Commissioners of the Township of Kingstown certain Roads and Lands now vested in the Commissioners of Kingstown Harbour, and for other purposes. [12th August 1898.]

WHEREAS the harbour of Kingstown, near Dublin, is maintained out of money provided by Parliament, and is, by virtue of various Acts of Parliament, under the control and management of Commissioners called the Commissioners of Kingstown Harbour, appointed by the Lord Lieutenant:

And whereas the Commissioners of the Township of Kingstown, incorporated by that name by the Township of Kingstown Act, 1869, are the urban sanitary authority of the urban sanitary district consisting of the township of Kingstown:

And whereas the roads and footways, and portions of roads and footways, described in the First Schedule to this Act, and situate within the said urban sanitary district, are the property of the Commissioners of Kingstown Harbour, and are managed and maintained by them:

And whereas it is expedient that the property in and management of the said roads and footways, and portions of roads and footways, should be transferred to and vested in the said Commissioners of the Township of Kingstown, subject to the provisions of this Act and especially to the provisions thereof relating to the transfer of certain parts of these roads and footways to the Dublin Wicklow and Wexford Railway Company:

And whereas the hereditaments described in the Second Schedule to this Act are also situate within the said urban sanitary district, and are vested in the Commissioners of Kingstown Harbour:

And whereas it is expedient that the hereditaments described in the Second Schedule to this Act should also be transferred to and vested in the said Commissioners of the Township of Kingstown for all the estate of the Commissioners of Kingstown Harbour therein, subject to the provisions of this Act:

And whereas the strips of ground described in paragraph 2 of the Second Schedule to this Act are transferred to the Commissioners of the Township of Kingstown, in order to enable them to lay down and complete a road and footpath between Crofton Road and the road at the railway crossing at the end of the West Pier of Kingstown Harbour:

And whereas it is expedient to make such provisions as are contained in this Act with respect to the transfer to the Dublin, Wicklow, and Wexford Railway Company of certain parts of the roads and footways described in the First Schedule to this Act:

And whereas it is also expedient that such further provisions as are herein-after contained should be conferred and made:

And whereas the purposes aforesaid cannot be effected 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 (that is to say):—