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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


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