Majesty, and of the said Act now in recital, all Places locally 'situate or included within the Boundaries of any of the said 'Boroughs therein mentioned, or any Ward thereof, as defined ' under the said last-mentioned Act, shall, from and after the Time when the said Act now in recital should come into opera'tion as therein-after mentioned, be deemed and taken to be Part 'or Parts of the County of the City or County of the Town ' of such Borough respectively, or of such Ward thereof respectively, and of no other County: And whereas Doubts have ' arisen whether, upon the true Construction of the said Acts, all 'such Places so locally situate or included within the Bound'aries of the said Borough of Dublin as defined under the said Act for the Regulation of Municipal Corporations in Ireland, are to be deemed and taken to be Part or Parts of the County of 'the City of such Borough for all Purposes of Civil and Criminal Jurisdiction and other Purposes: Be it therefore declared and enacted, That upon the true Construction of the said Acts in this Provision mentioned all such Places locally situate or included within the Boundaries of the said Borough as defined under the said recited Act for the Regulation of Municipal Corporations in Ireland, now are and shall be deemed and taken to be Part or Parts of the County of the City of such Borough, and of no other, City; for all Purposes of Criminal Jurisdiction and also of Civil Jurisdiction of the Superior Courts of Common Law in Dublin, and for all other Purposes whatsoever: Provided always, that nothing but Parliaherein contained shall alter or affect the County of Dublin, or mentary Boundthe County of the City of Dublin, or the Boundaries thereof, for aries not to any Purposes of Parliamentary Representation, or for any Purpose relating thereto; and that where it shall be necessary for any Purpose of such Representation to describe any Residence or Premises or Place, in any Oath, Affidavit, or Document, or otherwise, as within the County of Dublin or the County of the City of Dublin, such Residence, Premises, or Place may be described as within the Parliamentary Boundaries of the County of Dublin or the County of the City of Dublin respectively. Places within the Boundaries of Borough of Dublin to be Part of the be affected. XXIII. And be it enacted, That this Act may be amended or Act may be repealed by any Act to be passed in this present Session of amended, &c. Parliament. SCHEDULE to which the foregoing Act refers. Rates, Cesses, or Taxes. 1. For Paving and Lighting. 2. For watering the Streets. 3. Wide Street Tax, or any Rate for widening or improving the Streets, or any Improvement Rate that may by any Act or Acts be substituted for the Three Taxes or Rates hereinbefore mentioned or any of them. 4. Grand Jury Cess, or any Cess, Applotment, or Rate raised or levied for fiscal Purposes of a like Nature within the Borough of Dublin. 5. Police Tax or Rate. 6. Borough Rate. 7. Poor Rates. Bb 2 САР. CA P. LXXXVI. 1 & 2 Vict. c. 56. 5 Vict. Sess. 2. c. 9. 9 & 10 Vict. c. 80. 11 & 12 Vict. c. 51. An Act to provide additional Funds for Loans by the Public issued under 11 & 12 Vict. Purposes of such Loans as therein mentioned: And whereas it is 'expedient to provide additional Funds for Loans for the Purposes 'for which Loans may be made under the said Act of the Second 'Year of Her Majesty' Be it enacted, therefore, by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, That Monies autho it shall be lawful for the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Trea- rized to be sury, or any Two or more of them, from Time to Time during the said Term of Three Years, to cause to be issued out of the c.51. to Com. growing Produce of the said Consolidated Fund, and placed to the missioners of Credit of the Commissioners for the Reduction of the National Public Works Debt, to the Account opened and continued at the Bank of Eng- in Ireland may land under the said Acts of the Sixth and Tenth Years of Her be issued to Majesty under the Title of "The Commissioners for the Reduc- Loan Commis"tion of the National Debt on account of the Public Works Loan sioners for "Fund," for the Purpose of being applied by the said Public Loans under Works Loan Commissioners for Loans under this Act, such Part this Act. as the said Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury may think fit of the Money which under the said Act of the last Session of Parliament might be issued out of the said Consolidated Fund and placed to the Account in such Act mentioned: Provided always, that the Sums issued under this Enactment and under the said Act of the last Session of Parliament shall not together exceed the Amount which for the Time being might be issued under such Act. Public Works 50,000l., may be advanced for Loans. II. And be it enacted, That it shall be lawful for the Com- Further Sum, missioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, or any Two or more of not exceeding them, to direct the Issue, out of the growing Produce of the Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, of any Sum or Sums of Money not exceeding in the whole Fifty thousand Pounds, such Sum or Sums to be placed to the Credit of the Commissioners for the Reduction of the National Debt, to the said Account intituled "The Commissioners for the "Reduction of the National Debt on account of the Public Works "Loan Fund," and to be applied by the said Public Works Loan Commissioners for Loans under this Act: Provided always, that Sum advanced the Sums to be issued as last aforesaid shall not exceed the not to exceed Amount of the Sums which after the passing of this Act may be Sum received in Repayment from Time to Time received in Repayment of like Loans here- of past Loans. tofore made by the said Public Works Loan Commissioners. may make Loans for building Workhouses, &c. in like III. And be it enacted, That it shall be lawful for the said Commissioners Public Works Loan Commissioners, out of the Monies authorized to be applied by them for Loans under this Act, to make Loans for building Workhouses in Ireland, and for the other Purposes for which Loans may be made under the said Act of the Second Manner as Year of Her Majesty, and the Loans to be made under this Act previous Loans. shall be made in the like Manner, and subject to the like Conditions and Provisions, as Loans for the same Purposes may be made out of the Monies now authorized to be applied by the same Commissioners for such Loans. IV. And be it enacted, That this Act may be amended or repealed by any Act to be passed in this Session of Parliament. Act may be amended, &c. 6 G. 4. c. clx. 9 G. 4. c. ciii. 7 & 8 G. 4. c. liii. 9 G. 4. c. cvii. Acts in Schedule continued till CA P. LXXXVII. An Act to continue certain Turnpike Acts in Great Britain for limited Periods, and to make certain Provisions respecting Turnpike Roads in England. [1st August 1849.] WHEREAS it is expedient to continue for limited Times the Acts herein-after specified, and to amend the general 'Laws in England relating to Turnpike Roads:' Be it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, That every Act now in force for regulating, making, amending, or repairing any Turnpike Road in Great Britain which will expire on or before the End of the next Session of Parliament shall be continued until the First Day of October in the Year One thousand eight hundred and fifty, and to the End of the then next Session of Parliament, except an Act of the Sixth Year of King George the Fourth, intituled An Act for making and maintaining a Turnpike Road from Brompton and Earles Court in the Parish of Saint Mary Abbotts Kensington in the County of Middlesex, to communicate with the Road called Fulham Fields Road at North End in the same County, and for making another Turnpike Road_to_communicate therewith from the High Road from London to Fulham in the said County, and an Act passed in the Ninth Year of King George the Fourth, intituled An Act for making and maintaining a Turnpike Road from North End to Hammersmith Bridge, both in the County of Middlesex, and an Act of the Eighth Year of King George the Fourth, intituled An Act for more effectually repairing and maintaining the Road from Whitby to Middleton in the County of York, and an Act of the Ninth Year of King George the Fourth, intituled An Act for more effectually repairing and maintaining several Roads leading from Lymington in the County of Southampton, and the Road to Wilverley Post in the New Forest, and except as herein-after mentioned. II. And be it enacted, That the Acts mentioned in the Schedule to this Act annexed shall continue in force until the First Day of 1st Nov. 1850. November in the Year One thousand eight hundred and fifty, and no longer, unless Parliament shall in the meantime continue the same respectively. Sinking Fund for Discharge of Money here after borrowed. When Fund amounts to 2001. it may be applied to reduce Debt. III. And be it enacted, That in every Case in which the Trustees or Commissioners of any Turnpike Road shall hereafter borrow, charge, or secure any Sum or Sums of Money on the Credit of the Tolls arising on such Road, such Trustees or Com. missioners shall, out of the Tolls of such Road, and in priority to all other Payments thereout, except the Interest on any such Monies as aforesaid, and on any other Monies remaining owing on the Security of the said Tolls, set apart a Sum of Five Pounds per Centum per Annum on the Amount of Money so borrowed, charged, or secured; and when and so often as the Sums so set apart as aforesaid shall amount to the Sum of Two hundred Pounds, the Trustees or Commissioners of the Road out of the Tolls of which such Sum has arisen shall, at any General Annual or or other Meeting of such Trustees or Commissioners, apply such Sum in the Payment of a proportionate Part of the Monies borrowed, charged, or secured as aforesaid, and then remaining unpaid, to the Creditors on the Tolls of such Road, and shall, Twenty-eight Days at least before such General Annual or other Meeting, cause Notice to be given of such Meeting, and of the Purposes thereof, so far as the same relate to the Application of the said Sum, in some Newspaper usually circulated in the County or Counties in which such Road is situate; and at such Meeting such Trustees or Commissioners shall apply such Sum, or a Portion thereof, (as the Case may require,) in or towards the Discharge of Monies owing on the Security of the Tolls of such Road, to the Creditor who shall, by Proposal in Writing transmitted to the Clerk of such Trustees or Commissioners before such Meeting, have offered to accept the lowest Composition in respect of such Monies, and shall apply the Surplus (if any) of such Sum, after Payment to such Creditor as aforesaid, or a Portion of such Sum, (as the Case may require,) in or towards the Discharge of Monies owing on the Security of the said Tolls, to the Creditor who by Proposal as aforesaid shall have offered to accept the next lowest Composition in respect of such Monies, and so in like Manner until the Sum shall be exhausted; and if Two or more Creditors by Proposals as aforesaid shall have offered to accept an equal Rate of Composition, it shall be lawful for such Trustees or Commissioners to determine by Lot the Preference between or amongst such Creditors, or to pay such Composition rateably between or amongst such Creditors, as such Trustees or Commissioners think fit; and if there be no such Proposal as aforesaid, or there be any Surplus of the Sum after applying the same, so far as may be necessary, in or towards the Discharge of the Monies to which such Proposals as aforesaid relate, such Trustees or Commissioners may apply the said Sum rateably amongst the Creditors, or may pay the same to such of them as may be determined by Lot, as such Trustees or Commissioners think fit. IV. And be it enacted, That it shall be lawful for a Mortgagee in Mortgagee in possession of any Toll Gate or Bar set up or erected on any Turn- possession may pike Road to let to farm the Tolls of such Gate or Bar, in like let Tolls. Manner as the Trustees or Commissioners of any Turnpike Road may let to farm the Tolls of the Gates on such Road, and for that Purpose to exercise all the like Powers as such Trustees or Commissioners might exercise for a like Purpose; and all Contracts and Agreements to be made or entered into for the farming or letting the Tolls of such Road, signed by such Mortgagee, shall be as good, valid, and effectual as a Contract or Agreement for farming or letting the Tolls of any Turnpike Road signed by the Trustees or Commissioners of such Road or Two or more of them. V. And whereas an Act was passed in the Fourth Year of King William the Fourth, intituled An Act requiring the 3&4 W. 4. c. 80. annual Statements of Trustees or Commissioners of Turnpike 'Roads to be transmitted to the Secretary of State, and after'wards laid before Parliament; but by reason of the Failure of Trustees to hold their Annual Meetings such annual Statements are in many Cases not made and transmitted as by the said Act directed? Be it enacted, That where in any Year the Bb 4 Clerk to TrusTrustees tees, &c. to |