Arklow Harbour Act, 1882

Charge upon baronies. Payment to Wicklow Copper Mine Company. Transfer of Harbour to Board.

42 & 43 Vict. c. 77.

1 & 2 Will. 4. c. 33.

3. If the Treasury are satisfied with the security offered by the justices and associated cesspayers of the three baronies or of any of them at such meeting, they may authorise the Board to carry this Act into effect, and to advance out of the moneys placed in their hands by Parliament the sum of fifteen thousand pounds by way of grant, and the sum of twenty thousand pounds by way of loan, and may by order declare the said baronies or some or one of them to be charged with the payment of the said sum of twenty thousand pounds, and interest. In case the justices and associated cesspayers of one only of the said baronies have agreed to charge the rates of the barony with the payment of the loan, the order shall declare that barony only to be charged. In case the justices and associated cesspayers of more than one barony have agreed to charge the rates of the baronies with the payment of specified portions of the loan, the order shall apportion the charge upon the same baronies accordingly. The barony or baronies declared by such order to be charged with any payments shall by virtue of this Act become charged with such payments accordingly.

All sums declared by the Treasury to be charged upon any barony shall be repayable within such period as the Treasury may at their discretion determine, at such rate of interest as the Treasury have fixed for loans to which section two of the Public Works Loans Act, 1879, applies; and otherwise upon the same terms and conditions as apply to loans made by the Board for purposes like to the purposes of this Act, under the Public Works (Ireland) Act, 1831.

The Board may, upon being so authorised, out of any moneys placed in their hands by Parliament, lodge in the Bank of Ireland to the credit of the Wicklow Copper Mine Company the sum of five thousand pounds.

On such lodgment being made all the said harbour of Arklow, and the lands, piers, quays, wharves, and buildings thereof, or in any manner connected therewith (in this Act referred to as the harbour), as the same are delineated in red in the tracing now deposited in the office of the Board in Dublin, and to which the seal of the Board has been affixed (subject, however, to the reservation herein-after contained), and all rights and easements connected therewith, shall be and the same are hereby transferred to and vested in the Board of Works for the purposes herein-after mentioned; discharged from all estates, rights, titles, charges, and incumbrances whatsoever of the Wicklow Copper Mine Company, and of every other person, other than those of Her Majesty.

Provided, however, that the tramways, turntables, and weighing houses belonging to the Wicklow Copper Mine Company in connexion with the harbour, existing at the time of the passing of this Act, shall remain vested in the Company, with the exclusive right to use the same.

[S. 4 (as to works for improving the harbours) rep. 61 & 62 Vict. 22 (S.L.R.)]