Drainage and Improvement of Lands Amendment Act (Ireland), 1865

Part of Sect. 38. Of first-recitcd Act repealed, and Commissioners of Public Works empowered to advance Monies necessary for the Works.

3. So much of the Thirty-eighth Section of the said first-recited Act as provides that no Issue or Instalment of any Loan or Advance shall be made unless the said Commissioners shall be satisfied that the Drainage Board have previously bonâ fide expended a Sum of Money equal to the Amount of such Issue or Instalment in the Drainage and Improvement of such District, and that in no Case shall any such Loan or Advance be made exceeding One Moiety of the Monies proposed to be expended on the Drainage and Improvement of such District, shall be and the same is hereby repealed; and the said Commissioners of Public Works are hereby empowered (with the Sanction of the Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury, by such Instalments and subject to such Rules and Regulations as the said last-mentioned Commissioners may think proper,) to advance any Sum or Sums of Money which the said Commissioners of Public Works may think necessary and proper for the Execution of the Works in any District, and for defraying the Expenses which the said Commissioners may consider properly connected therewith: Provided that no Second or subsequent Instalment of any such Loan shall be made until it shall have been proved to the Satisfaction of the said Commissioners of Public Works that the preceding Instalment has been properly expended in the Execution of the Works in such District.