Grand Jury (Ireland) Act, 1853

Commissioners of Public Works may execute Works of Repair of Harbours, Piers, Quays, &c. in certain Cases.

XI. In case the Lord Lieutenant or other Chief Governor or Governors of Ireland shall signify to the Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury that any such Harbour, Pier, Quay, Landing Place, or other Work which may become the Property of any such County as aforesaid is not kept and maintained in good and proper Repair by the Grand Jury of the County in which any such Work may be situate, or that any sudden Breach or Damage has occurred to any such Work, it shall and may be lawful for the Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury in any such Case, if they think fit, on an Estimate being laid before them by the Commissioners of Public Works or any Two of them, setting forth what Sum will be requisite and necessary from Time to Time for the Repair of any such Harbour, Pier, Quay, Landing Place, or other Work, and stating the Situation of such Harbour, Pier, Quay, Landing Place, or other Work, and of the Repairs required for the same, to direct that any such Sum or Sums of Money required by such Commissioners of Public Works, or any Part thereof, be advanced and paid to such Commissioners out of the growing Produce of the Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, to be applied, under the Directions of the said Commissioners of Public Works, in the repairing of any such Harbour, Pier, Quay, Landing Place, or other Work.