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The tolls shall cease after said 21 years, if all expenses he paid:
if there be a surplus remaining, it shall be applied toward improving the city of Cork.
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XLIV. Provided always, and be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That from and after the expiration of twenty-one years, to be computed from the completing and opening the said bridge, the said tolls, and all tolls appointed by virtue of this act, shall cease, and be utterly void, and the passage of such bridge shall be opened and free to all cattle, carriages, and persons whatsoever, in case the monies which shall have been advanced or borrowed oil the credit of said tolls, and the costs, charges, and expenses hereby chargeable and charged on such tolls, shall be then fully paid and satisfied, and if such sums, costs, and expenses, shall not have been then paid, then so soon after the expiration of the said twenty-one years, as the same shall have been so paid; and in case any sum of money or surplus arising from the receipt of the tolls aforesaid, shall at the expiration of the said term of twenty-one years, remain in the hands of the said commissioners, or their successors, after payment of the several costs, charges, and expenses hereby charged and chargeable upon the same, the said surplus shall within one year after the end of said term of twenty-one years, be applied or disposed of to such use or uses for the improving said city and suburbs thereof, as the said commissioners, or their successors, or any five or more of them, by and with the consent of the said court of Dover hundred shall direct and appoint, or in default thereof, said surplus may be sued for and recovered from them by the mayor, sheriffs, and commonalty of said city, who are hereby required to apply said surplus to said purposes.
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