County Dublin Grand Jury Act, 1844

Powers of commissioners of public works on undertaking repair and maintenance of roads.

1 & 2 Will. 4. c. 33.

64. Whenever the said commissioners of public works in Ireland shall, under the provisions of this Act, or of the Public Works (Ireland) Act, 1833, have undertaken the repair and maintenance of any public road, it shall and may be lawful for the said commissioners at all times thereafter to exercise all and every the same powers and authorities which are herein vested in any surveyor or contractor of the said county roads, or otherwise howsoever, or as the said commissioners, by the Act of the sixth of George the Fourth, chapter one hundred and one, intituled “An Act to provide for the repairing, maintaining, and keeping in repair certain roads and bridges in Ireland,” are invested with, as far as the said commissioners may consider the same or any of them necessary for the preservation and good order of such roads, and the removal of all nuisances thereon, as also for the purpose of obtaining materials for such repairs or maintenance which they shall have to undertake.