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ACT OF UNION (IRELAND) 1800

ACT OF UNION (IRELAND) 1800 - LONG TITLE

An Act for the Union of Great Britain and Ireland.{1} >The
parliaments of Great Britain and Ireland have resolved to concur in
measures for uniting the two kingdoms: B|WHEREAS in pursuance of His
Majesty's most gracious recommendation to the two houses of
parliament in Great Britain and Ireland respectively, to consider of
such measures as might best tend to strengthen and consolidate the
connexion between the two kingdoms, the two houses of the parliament
of Great Britain, and the two houses of the parliament of Ireland
have severally agreed and resolved, that in order to promote and
secure the essential interests of Great Britain and Ireland, and to
consolidate the strength, power, and resources of the British empire,
it will be adviseable to concur in such measures as may best tend
to unite the two kingdoms of Great Britain and Ireland, into one
kingdom, in such manner, and on such terms and conditions, as may
be established by the acts of the respective parliaments of Great
Britain and Ireland. >said parliaments have agreed upon following
articles: A>[I.] A ND whereas in furtherance of the said resolution,
both houses of the said two parliaments respectively have likewise
agreed upon certain articles for effectuating and establishing the
said purposes in the tenor following: 4A RTICLE F IRST
[{13}and such writs and the returns thereon respectively being
returned into the crown office in Ireland, shall from thence be
transmitted to the crown office in England|, and be certified to
the house of commons in the same manner as the like returns have
been usually, or shall hereafter be certified, and copies of the
said writs and returns attested by the chancellor{12}, keeper, or
commissioners of the great seal of Ireland for the time being,
shall be preserved in the crown office of Ireland, and shall be
evidence of such writs and returns, in case the original writs and
returns shall be lost]. >Recited bill shall be part of this act.
A>IX. T HE said bill so herein recited, be taken as part of this
act, and be deemed to all intents and purposes incorporated within
the same: .$$#

INLAND NAVIGATION ACT (IRELAND) 1800

INLAND NAVIGATION ACT (IRELAND) 1800 - LONG TITLE

An Act for granting to His Majesty the Sum of Five Hundred
Thousand Pounds for promoting Inland Navigation in Ireland, and for
the other Purposes therein mentioned, and for authorizing the raising
of the said Sum by loan.{1} N>> Ss.I IX rep. by SLR (I) 1879 >On
what conditions aid out of public money may be given to complete
or alter a canal. A >X. A ND no aid out of any public money
shall be given for making any new canal or works, or altering or
completing any canal already begun, or any works relating thereto, .
. . unless the scheme thereof shall have been laid before the said
directors, and approved of by them, nor unless the same shall have
been approved of by the lord lieutenant or other chief governor or
governors of Ireland, and by three of the commissioners of His
Majesty's treasury{2}; and no memorial, proposal, or offer for making
any new canal or works, or for altering or completing any canal or
works already begun, shall be laid before the lord lieutenant or
other chief governor or governors of Ireland, or the lords
commissioners of His Majesty's treasury{2}, by the said directors,
unless the person or persons who shall make any such application,
shall have observed and complied with all the regulations and
conditions in this act prescribed to be done in such case.
>Proposals for making or altering canals, or improving navigation of
rivers, shall be accompanied by descriptions herein directed. Notice
in Belfast Gazette and other papers, &c. A>XI. A ND when any
proposal for making or improving a navigable canal, or making or
improving the navigation of a river, or for altering the line of
any canal specified in any act of parliament, shall be presented to
the said directors, a description of the line of such intended
canal or navigation, and the land through which the same is
intended to be carried, shall be laid before the said directors
therewith; and that one month at the least previous to the
presenting of such proposal, notice shall be given by advertisement
in the [{3}Belfast Gazette], . . . and in some country newspaper,
if any such newspaper shall be published in any county or town
through which such line is proposed to be carried, or in the next
adjoining county where any newspaper is published, if no newspaper
be published in the county through which it is to pass, then by
advertisement to be posted on the door of the court or
session-house of the county through which such canal is intended to
pass, specifying the baronies through, to, and near which
respectively such canal is intended to be carried; and that a
schedule be presented with such proposal, stating the tolls and
duties intended to be taken on such canal or navigation and before
any such proposal shall be presented, such notice as aforesaid shall
be given to the treasurer of every county through which such
navigation is intended to pass, one month before the same shall be
presented to said directors. >Estimates to be annexed to proposals,
and an account of subscriptions, &c. XII. A ND when any such
proposal shall be presented, an estimate shall be annexed thereto of
the expence of such undertaking, signed by the person or persons
making the same, specifying whether any and what aqueducts, locks,
or bridges are to be made, with their separate expence, and an
account of the money subscribed for carrying the said work into
execution, and the names of the subscribers, with the sums severally
subscribed by them, or if the expence of such work is not intended
to be defrayed by subscription, then an account of the manner |in
which the expence of the same is proposed to be supplied, and a
copy of every proposal, and of the several matters aforesaid
required to be presented with or annexed to the same, be at the
same time transmitted or presented to the lord lieutenant or other
chief governor or governors of Ireland for the time being, and to
the said lords commissioners of his Majesty's treasury{2}. >Deposits
and payments shall be forfeited when default is made. A>XIII. A ND
where the making or improving of any navigable canal, or the making
or improving of the navigation of any river, shall be undertaken by
subscribers, who shall agree to defray the whole or part of the
expence of such works; all deposits and payments of instalments made
by them respectively shall be forfeited, in case default shall be
made in the payment of the whole of the sums by them respectively
subscribed to be paid, if the same shall be demanded. >Particulars
to be stated by persons desirous of obtaining a charter. A>XIV. A
ND when any persons proposing to make any of the works aforesaid,
shall be desirous of obtaining a charter, to enable them more
effectually to carry on or perfect the same, all the particulars
desired to be granted in such charter, shall be stated to the said
directors, in order that they may report upon the same to the lord
lieutenant, or other chief governor or governors of Ireland, and to
the said lords commissioners of the treasury{2}. >Powers of
corporation created by charter, to make bye laws. A>XV. A ND the
members of any corporation so created by charter, or any seven or
more of them, shall have power to make bye laws, provided the same
are not contrary to the laws of the land, and provided the same
shall be approved of by the lord chancellor{4}, or any two of the
chief judges of Ireland. >When undertakers are created a body
corporate, they shall have same powers as were vested in canal
corporation, and as are herein recited. A>XVI. A ND whenever the
undertakers of any such works shall be constituted and created a
body corporate for carrying on any navigation, they shall be
invested with all such powers, privileges, advantages, and authorities
for carrying on the same, and off-branches therefrom, as were before
vested in the corporation for promoting and carrying on inland
navigation, and as now vested in any company for making any canal
in this kingdom, and for enabling them to purchase and summon
juries for valuing lands, houses, tenements, and hereditaments, except
orchards, the produce whereof is not intended for public sale,
yards, gardens, lawns, walled deer-parks, and planted avenues, as may
be necessary for completing such navigations, and making wharfs,
quays, store-houses, market-houses, locks, basons, docks, and other
conveniences as to them shall seem necessary, and may be enabled to
hold such lands, tenements, and hereditaments as they so purchase;
and every such corporation shall be invested with like powers to
take, turn, and draw into such navigation, and off-branches, waters
of all rivers, rivulets, lakes, and brooks, necessary for carrying
on the aforesaid works, and supplying them with water, first making
compensation as by the said acts is required to owners and
proprietors of mills, or bleachgreens, damaged by such works, or by
carrying off such waters, and to all other persons injured in their
property thereby; provided that all valuation of lands and houses,
and other property be made according to the real value of such
lands and houses, and other property bore on the day on which
notice shall have been given in the [{3}Belfast Gazette], of the
intention of making and carrying on such canal; provided that
nothing herein contained shall prevent any such corporation from
purchasing any garden, orchard, yard, lawn, walled deer-park, or
planted avenue, or any part thereof, by agreement with the
proprietors thereof, provided that if such canals shall not be
carried into execution within such time as shall be limited by the
said directors, there shall, in such case, be a new valuation at
the request of such owners and proprietors as aforesaid. >Corporation
may purchase lands and houses to amount of #500 a year. A>XVII. A
ND every such corporation shall be capable in law to purchase any
lands and houses, besides those to be used for said navigations, to
the annual amount of five hundred pounds and no more, and to grant
and demise the same. >Rates herein af