Drainage (Ireland) Act 1842

Accounts to be laid before Parliament.

CXXIX. And be it enacted, That the said Commissioners shall cause detailed Accounts in Writing of the Proceedings under this Act, and of the several Sums received by them as such Commissioners, and of the Sums expended by them, and the Mode of such Expenditure, and of the several Works made or in progress under this Act, to be made up to the Thirty-first Day of December in each Year; and such Account shall be laid before both Houses of Parliament within Thirty Days thereafter if Parliament be then sitting, or within Thirty Days after the First Meeting of Parliament subsequent to the Thirty-first Day of December; and the said Commissioners shall, as often as they shall be required so to do by the Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury, transmit to the said Commissioners of the Treasury like Accounts made up to such Period as the said Commissioners of the Treasury shall direct.