Poor: And whereas another Act was passed in the Fifth Year of the Reign of Her present Majesty, intituled An Act 5&6 Vict. c. 9. to authorize the Advance of Money out of the Consolidated

Fund to a limited Amount, for carrying on Public Works and

Fisheries, and Employment of the Poor, and to amend the Acts authorizing the Issue of Exchequer Bills for the like Purposes: And whereas another Act was passed in the Ninth and Tenth Years of the Reign of Her present Majesty, intituled An Act 9&10 Vict. c.80. to authorize the Advance of Money out of the Consolidated Fund

for carrying on Public Works and Fisheries, and Employment of the Poor: And whereas sundry Advances or Loans have "been made by the Commissioners of the said recited Acts for the Purposes in the same Act specified, and great Benefits have been derived therefrom: And whereas Applications have been made to the said Commissioners by the Great Southern and Western Railway Company for the Advance or Loan of the Sum of Five hundred thousand Pounds, by the Waterford and Kilkenny Railway Company for the Sum of Eighty-three ⚫ thousand Pounds, and by the Dublin and Drogheda Railway Company for the Sum of Thirty-six thousand Pounds; and it is deemed expedient to make further Advances of Money out of the Consolidated Fund for the Purposes of such Loans: Be it therefore 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 for Power to Treathe Purposes of such Advances or Loans as aforesaid the Com- sury to charge missioners of Her Majesty's Treasury of the United Kingdom dated Fund, and of Great Britain and Ireland for the Time being are hereby em- direct the Issue powered, by Warrant under the Hands of any Three or more of thereout of them, to charge the Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (after providing for all preceding Charges, but having Preference of all future Charges), and to direct the Issue or the Payment thereout to the Account of the Commissioners for the Time being for the Reduction of the National Debt of a Sum or Sums of Money not exceeding Six hundred and twenty thousand Pounds.

the Consoli

620,000l.

have the same

Act.

II. And be it enacted, That all and every the several Powers, &c. of Clauses, Powers, Authorities, Provisoes, Enactments, Direc- recited Acts to tions, Regulations, Restrictions, Privileges, Priorities, Advan- Force as if retages, Penalties, and Forfeitures contained in the said recited enacted in this Acts or any of them shall not be affected by any Act or Acts of Parliament passed or to be passed, save so far as the same may be therein and thereby altered, varied, or repealed by express Reference to the said recited Acts or this Act; and all and every the said several Clauses, Powers, Authorities, Provisoes, Enactments, Directions, Regulations, Restrictions, Privileges, Priorities, Advantages, Penalties, and Forfeitures, so far as the same can be made applicable and are not varied by this Act, shall be taken to extend to this Act, and to every thing to be done in pursuance of this Act, and as if such Clauses, Powers, Authorities, Provisoes, Enactments, Directions,

Regula

Act may be amended, &c.

3&4 Vict. c.108.

3&4 Vict. c.109.

10 & 11 VICT. Regulations, Restrictions, Privileges, Priorities, Advantages, Penalties, and Forfeitures were herein repeated and set forth. III. And be it enacted, That this Act may be amended or repealed by any Act to be passed during the present Session of Parliament.

CAP. LXXIV.

An Act to provide for the Repayment of Sums due by the County of the City of Limerick for Advances of public Money for the Improvement of the Navigation of the River Shannon. [22d July 1847.] WHEREAS by the Provisions of an Act passed in the

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Session of Parliament holden in the Third and Fourth Years of the Reign of Her present Majesty, intituled An Act for the Regulation of Municipal Corporations in Ireland, and of another Act passed in the same Session, intituled An Act to annex certain Parts of certain Counties of Cities to adjoining Counties, to make further Provision for Compensation of Officers in Boroughs, to limit the Borough Rate, and to continue for a limited Time An Act to restrain the Alienation of Corporate Property in Ireland,' certain Alterations were made in the Boundaries of the County of the City of Limerick as then existing, and of the ancient Liberties thereof, and certain Parts or Portions thereof which before the passing of said Act ⚫ formed a Part of said County of the City of Limerick are not included within the Boundaries defined under the said first⚫ mentioned Act as the Boundaries of the Borough of Limerick, ⚫ and said Parts and Portions so excluded from the said County ' of the City of Limerick are by the said secondly-mentioned Act made, for all the Purposes of Grand Jury Presentments and of Criminal Jurisdiction, and also of Civil Jurisdiction of the Superior Courts of Common Law in Dublin, Part of the County of Limerick: And whereas under the Provisions of an Act passed in the Session of Parliament holden in the Fifth and Sixth Years of His late Majesty King William 5&6 W.4.c.67. the Fourth, intituled An Act for the Improvement of the Navigation of the River Shannon, and of another Act passed in the Session of Parliament holden in the Second and Third Years 2&3 Viet. c. 61. of the Reign of Her present Majesty, intituled An Act for the Improvement of the Navigation of the River Shannon, the said County of the City of Limerick as originally bounded and defined became liable to repay to the Commissioners of 'Her Majesty's Treasury the Sum of Two thousand three hundred and fifty-eight Pounds Eighteen Shillings and Elevenpence Three Farthings for Principal, and a Sum for Interest which, when computed up to the Twenty-eighth Day of February in the Year One thousand eight hundred and fortyeight, will amount to the Sum of Five hundred and eleven Pounds Three Shillings and Four-pence as and for the Proportion of the said County of the City of Limerick as originally

bounded

bounded and defined towards the Repayment of Monies issued and advanced to the Commissioners for the Improvement of the River Shannon under the Authority of the said last-mentioned Act, for the Purposes thereof, as appears by the Certi'ficate of the said Commissioners acting in the Execution of the said Act: And whereas by a certain Award duly made pur6 suant to the said Act of the Third and Fourth Years of Her 'present Majesty, secondly above recited, it was determined that the Parts, Portions, or Precinct of the County of the City of Limerick annexed under and by virtue of the said last-mentioned Act to the County of Limerick should contribute Four Fifths, and that the Borough of Limerick as ' now defined by the said first-mentioned Act should contribute One Fifth Part, of the Debts due by the said County of ⚫ the City of Limerick as originally bounded and defined: And ⚫ whereas such Proportions appear to be just and reasonable for the Apportionment of the said Principal Sum and Interest upon the said Borough and the said Districts so constituting Part of the County of the City of Limerick as originally bounded and defined, and now added to the said County of • Limerick as aforesaid; and it is expedient that Provision • should be made at the Spring Assizes of the Year One thou• sand eight hundred and forty-eight for the Payment of the whole of the said Sum of Five hundred and eleven Pounds Three Shillings and Four-pence which will be then due for Interest as aforesaid, according to the Proportions aforesaid, and also for the Repayment, according to the like Proportions, of the said Principal Sum of Two thousand three hundred and fifty-eight Pounds Eighteen Shillings and Eleven-pence Three Farthings, with the further Interest thenceforth to accrue on the Balances of the Principal thereof from Time ⚫ to Time remaining unpaid, by Twelve equal Instalments, which ⚫ said Principal Sum, apportioned according to such Proportions • as aforesaid, is calculated to amount to the respective Sums ⚫ herein-after mentioned in that Behalf:' Be it therefore 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 the said Borough or County of Borough or the City of Limerick as now constituted shall be and be deemed County of the and are hereby declared to be liable to pay the Sum of Four City of Limehundred and seventy-one Pounds Fifteen Shillings and Nine- annexed to the pence Halfpenny, with Interest, as herein-after mentioned, as County of and for the Share and Proportion of the said Borough towards be liable to the the said Principal Sum of Two thousand three hundred and respective Profifty-eight Pounds Eighteen Shillings and Eleven-pence Three portions as Farthings so due to the Commissioners of Her Majesty's tioned of the Treasury, and to pay the Sum of One hundred and two Debt due to the Pounds Four Shillings and Eight-pence as and for the Share Treasury in reand Proportion of the said Borough towards the said Sum of spect of the ImFive hundred and eleven Pounds Three Shillings and Four- the River Shanpence so due and computed for Interest as aforesaid; and that non.

the

rick, &c. now

Limerick shall

herein men

provement of

The Grand Juries of the County of the City and of the County of Limerick shall at the Spring Assizes of 1848

present their

respective Pro portions of Interest to be

raised and paid forthwith; and their respective Proportions of

the Principal, with further Interest, to be

raised and paid by Twelve In

stalments.

the Parts, Portions, or Precinct aforesaid annexed to the County of Limerick as aforesaid shall be and be deemed liable to pay and contribute the Sum of One thousand eight hundred and eighty-seven Pounds Three Shillings and Two-pence Farthing; with Interest, as herein-after mentioned, as and for the Share and Proportion of the said Parts, Portions, or Precinct towards the said Sum of Two thousand three hundred and fifty-eight Pounds Eighteen Shillings and Eleven-pence Three Farthings so due to the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury for Principal as aforesaid, and to pay and contribute the Sum of Four hundred and eight Pounds Eighteen Shillings and Eightpence as and for the Share and Proportion of the said Parts, Portions, or Precinct towards the said Sum of Five hundred and eleven Pounds Three Shillings and Four-pence due to the said Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury for Interest as aforesaid.

II. And be it enacted, That the Grand Jury for the County of the City of Limerick as now constituted and the Grand Jury for the County of Limerick respectively shall and they are hereby required at the Spring Assizes of the Year One thousand eight hundred and forty-eight to be held for the said County of the City of Limerick, and County of Limerick respectively, to present to be raised off the said Borough or County of the City of Limerick as now constituted, and off the Parts, Portion, or Precinct which, formed Part of said County of the City of Limerick, but are now annexed as aforesaid to the said County of Limerick respectively, the aforesaid Sums of One hundred and two Pounds Four Shillings and Eight-pence and Four hundred and eight Pounds Eighteen Shillings and Eight-pence, to which they are hereby respectively declared liable as aforesaid, for Interest, and to be paid to the said Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury; and the said Grand Jury for the County of the City of Limerick, at the Spring Assizes in the Year One thousand eight hundred and forty-eight, shall and they are hereby required, without Application to Presentment Sessions, to present the said Principal Sum of Four hundred and seventy-one Pounds Fifteen Shillings and Nine-pence Halfpenny, together with a Sum calculated at the Rate of Thirteen Pounds Ten Shillings per Centum on the said Principal Sum, as and for the Interest at Four Pounds per Centum per Annum which would accrue on such Principal Sum whilst such Principal Sum should be in progress of Payment, by Twelve equal Instalments, such compound Sum of Principal and Interest to be paid to the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury in Twelve equal Instalments, and to be raised and levied off the said County of the City of Limerick as now constituted, the first of such Instalments to be paid at the Summer Assizes in the Year One thousand eight hundred and forty-eight, and each of the other Instalments to be paid successively at each of the succeeding Assizes for the said County of the City of Limerick, until the whole of such Twelve Instalments shall have been fully paid off; and the said Grand Jury of the County of

Limerick

Limerick at the Spring Assizes in the Year One thousand eight hundred and forty-eight shall and they are hereby required, without Application to Presentment Sessions, to present the said Principal Sum of One thousand eight hundred and eighty-seven Pounds Three Shillings and Two-pence Farthing, together with a Sum calculated at the Rate of Thirteen Pounds Ten Shillings per Centum on the said last-mentioned Principal Sum, as and for the Interest at Four Pounds per Centum per Annum which would accrue on such Principal Sum whilst such Principal Sum should be in progress of Payment, by Twelve equal Instalments, such Compound Sum of Principal and Interest to be paid to the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury in Twelve equal Instalments, and to be raised and levied off the Parts, Portion, or Precinct aforesaid now annexed to the County of Limerick, the first of such Instalments to be paid at the Summer Assizes in the Year One thousand eight hundred and forty-eight, and each of the other Instalments to be paid successively at each of the succeeding Assizes for the said County of Limerick, until the whole of such Twelve Instalments shall have been fully paid off; and in all such Cases, and also in case the Grand Jury of the County of the City of Limerick or County of Limerick shall neglect or refuse to make said Presentments or any of them, the Treasurer for the Time being of the said Borough or now County of the City of Limerick and the Treasurer for the Time being of the said County of Limerick respectively shall and they are hereby respectively required, without further Presentment or Authority in that Behalf, to insert respectively in their Warrants to be issued after the said respective Spring Assizes of the Year One thou sand eight hundred and forty-eight for the levying of public Money off the said County of the City of Limerick and County of Limerick respectively, the Amount of the Sums hereby respectively directed to be raised and paid for Interest as aforesaid, and also to insert respectively in such their Warrants to be issued after the Spring Assizes of the Year One thousand eight hundred and forty-eight, and the several succeeding Assizes, the Amount of the respective Instalments of Principal and Interest hereby directed to be raised and paid as aforesaid, when and as the same shall be leviable respectively under this Act, in addition to the other Monies to be levied after each such Assizes; and any such respective Sums, when raised and levied as aforesaid, shall be paid over by such respective Treasurer to such Bank or Person and in such Manner as the said Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury shall direct.

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III. And whereas under the Provisions of the said recited The Precincts Acts of the Fifth and Sixth Years of His late Majesty's to be liable to of Limerick not Reign and of the Second and Third Years of Her present the Proportion Majesty's Reign the County of Limerick as originally bounded payable by the and defined became liable to repay to the Commissioners of County, but Her Majesty's Treasury a certain Sum for Principal and In- shall be credit'terest, as the Proportion of the said County of Limerick ed with the towards the Repayment of Monies advanced to the Com- Amount already [No. 39. Price 2d.] • missioners

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such Precincts

paid.