Shannon Navigation Act, 1839

Commissioners to hold Meetings, and employ Officers and others, with Approval of the Treasury.

XV. And be it enacted, That the said Commissioners may meet and sit from Time to Time in such Place or Places as they shall find most convenient, with or without Adjournment; and that all Acts, Matters, and Things which the said Commissioners are by this Act authorized to do or execute may be done or executed by any Two or more of them; and that they shall and may, with the Approbation of the Commissioners of the Treasury, appoint and employ such Secretary, Engineers, Officers, and other Persons as they shall think necessary, and that all and every the Persons so employed may from Time to Time be dismissed at the Pleasure of the said Commissioners, and any other Person or Persons be appointed in his or their Stead; and it shall and may be lawful for the said Commissioners to allow to such Persons so employed by them as aforesaid such reasonable Salary and Salaries, Pay, or Reward as to such Commissioners may seem meet, with the Consent and Approbation of the said Commissioners of the Treasury.