Sea and Coast Fisheries Fund (Ireland) Act, 1884

SEA AND COAST FISHERIES FUND (IRELAND) ACT 1884

CHAPTER XXI.

An Act to provide for the better administration of the Fund under the control of the Trustees to aid the Sea and Coast Fisheries of Ireland; and for other purposes in relation thereto. [3rd July 1884.]

[Preamble recites that certain moneys, which are in this Act referred to as the Sea and Coast Fisheries Fund, being the residue of a larger sum collected by public subscription for the relief of distress in Ireland in the year 1822, are now vested in trustees known as the Trustees to aid Sea and Coast Fisheries of Ireland, and are held by such trustees upon trust to apply the same for promoting and encouraging the Coast Fisheries in Ireland, and that under 37 & 38 Vict. c. 86, the Irish Reproductive Loan Fund is held by the Commissioners of Public Works in Ireland upon trust to dispose of the same by way of loan for the purposes of the said Act, and is appropriated among the counties enumerated in the schedule to the said Act in the proportions specified in that schedule, and that certain of the said counties in the said schedule abut upon the sea, and others do not, and that the purposes of 37 & 38 Vict. c. 86 include in the case of the counties so abutting on the sea certain purposes, in the said Act referred to as fishery purposes, and such fishery purposes, or some of them, are similar to those provided for by the trust of the said Sea and Coast Fisheries Fund, and that the counties so abutting on the sea as aforesaid for which provision has been made by 37 & 38 Vict. c. 86 are herein-after referred to as the endowed counties, and that it is expedient that the Commissioners of Public Works in Ireland should have power to administer the said Sea and Coast Fisheries Fund, when transferred to them, by way of loan for such fishery purposes as are referred to in 37 & 38 Vict. c. 86, in all or any of the counties of Ireland which abut upon the sea (in this Act referred to as “the maritime counties”), but that the said Commissioners should nevertheless in so administering the said fund have regard to the benefits conferred on the endowed counties by the Irish Reproductive Loan Fund, and should, so far as is consistent with justice, to the extent of such benefits give a preference to the maritime counties which are not so endowed.]