Shannon Navigation Act, 1839

Commissioners to ascertain the Person interested in any Sums awarded, and the Proportions in which the same should be paid.

XX. ‘And whereas the Awards made by the said Commissioners under the said recited Act fix and determine what Sums respectively should be paid for the Purchase of or as Compensation for the Injury to certain Lands, Tenements, and Hereditaments, and other Matters and Things, in the said Awards respectively named or described as of an Estate in Fee, without specifying the Person or Persons entitled thereto or interested therein or the Value of their respective Shares or Interests, or the Amount of Compensation due to them severally, and it is expedient that Provision should be made for the more cheap and easy Determination of such Matters, and for the Adjustment of the Rights of the several Parties interested therein;’ be it therefore enacted, That it shall and may be lawful for the Commissioners for the Execution of this Act, and they are hereby authorised and empowered, to inquire and determine what Companies, Corporations, or Persons have any and what Estate, Right, Title, or Interest in or to any Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments, or other Matters or Things, respectively named or described in any Award made as aforesaid, or in or to any Charge, Lien, or Incumbrance thereon respectively, and also in what Proportions the Sum or Sums of Money mentioned in such Award shall be paid to such Companies, Corporations, or Persons for such their respective Estates, Rights, Titles, and Interests, and what Abatements (if any) shall be made in the Rents payable out of the Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments named or described in such Award, or any Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments held in conjunction therewith; and the said Commissioners shall and may in each such Case give Judgment, and shall and may in each such Judgment name or describe the Companies, Corporations, or Persons (if known to the said Commissioners) to whom respectively the Sum or Sums mentioned in each such Award shall be paid, and in what Proportions the same shall be paid to such Companies, Corporations, or Persons, and the Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments, or other Matters or Things, naming or describing the same, in respect of which such Sum or Sums have been awarded, and also what Abatements (if any) shall be made in the Rents payable out of the Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments named or described in such Award, or any Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments held in conjunction therewith: Provided always, that a Notice fixing the Time and Place of holding each such Inquiry shall be published in the Dublin Gazette, and in some Newspaper which shall be printed or circulated in the County in which such Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments, wholly or in part, are situated, Ten Days at least previous to the Day fixed for holding such Inquiry.