Provisional Orders.

District, and that the proprietors of two third parts in value of the lands in A.D. 1877. the proposed district are in favour thereof, and have subsequently to the date of the report of the said inspector assented thereto in writing:

Now, therefore, in pursuance of the power given to us by the said Acts, we, 5 the Commissioners of Public Works in Ireland, do, by this Provisional Order under our common seal, constitute the area in the said petition and report, and the boundaries and extent of which are set forth within yellow lines on the map to which we have caused our common seal to be attached (and which map is deposited in the Office of Public Works in Ireland), a separate Drainage 10 District by the name of "The Laracor Drainage District."

And we do declare that the lands to be purchased for the proposed works in said district (subject to such alterations and deviations therefrom as we, the said Commissioners, may hereafter sanction) are the lands in that behalf shown and set forth in the said map and the schedule thereto annexed, marked with 15 the letter B, and also sealed with our common seal.

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And we, the said Commissioners of Public Works, do, by this our Order, order and direct that the time for the completion of the necessary works in the said district shall be limited to the first day of September which will be in the year one thousand eight hundred and eighty.

And we do further, by this our Provisional Order, make the following regulations with respect to the Drainage Board:

That the Drainage Board for the said district shall consist of nine members : That the following persons shall be the members of the first Drainage. Board; viz.,

Robert Fowler, of Rahinston;

O'Connell Loughnan Murphy, of Breemount House ;

Lattin Thunder, of Kingston Lodge, Navan;

John Wilkinson, of Curtistown;

Walter J. Goodman, of Freffans;

John Yourell, of Phillistown;

Hugh G. Hanbury, of Somerstown, Laracor;

Alexander Shirley Montgomery, of Kilmor House, all in the county of
Meath; and

Patrick Sweetman, of Longtown, in the county of Kildare,, Esquires:
That the first meeting of said Board shall be summoned by notice under
the hands of any two or more of the said Board, published in the Dublin
Gazette and some newspaper generally circulated in the said district, at least
fourteen days next before the day of meeting:

That the qualification of any subsequent member of the said Board shall be 40 that he shall be the proprietor (as defined by the said Act of 1863, and the Acts referred to therein or incorporated therewith,) of not less than twenty acres of land situate within the area of the said district, or the land agent for the time being of a person being a proprietor as aforesaid of not less than one hundred acres of land situate within the area of said district, and acting as 45 receiver of the rents and profits of such lands :

That the members of the first Board shall vacate their offices on the first

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A.D. 1877. Thursday in September in the year following the date of this Provisional
Order:

That the electors for members of the Drainage Board shall be the persons
in that behalf mentioned in the said Act of 1863: Provided always, that no
such elector shall be entitled to vote or exercise any privilege as such unless 5
the lands of which he is the proprietor, or some portion thereof, shall be rateable
on account of the works in the district, and he shall have previously paid
all rates or arrears of rates which may be payable by him in respect of any
drainage rate for the aforesaid district:

In witness whereof we, the said Commissioners of Public Works in Ireland, 10
have hereunto caused our common seal to be affixed, this fifth day of
February one thousand eight hundred and seventy-seven.

ARRANGEMENT OF CLAUSES.

Clauses.

1. Power to the Secretary of State in Council of India to raise any sum not exceeding 5,000,0007.

2. Bonds may be issued under the hands of two members of the Council, and countersigned by Secretary of State.

3. Debentures may be issued.

4. As to payment of principal and interest on debentures. 5. Debentures transferable by delivery. Coupons by delivery. 6. Bills may be issued.

7. Description, currency of, and interest on bills.

8. Capital stock and annuities may be created and issued.

9. Transfer books of such capital stock and annuities to be kept.

10. Annuities deemed personal estate.

11. The whole amount charged on revenues of India not to exceed 5,000,0007.

12. Power to raise money for payment of principal money.

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Securities, &c. to be charged on revenues of India.

14. Provisions as to composition for stamp duties on India bonds. extended to bonds and debentures under this Act.

15. Forgery of debentures and bills to be punishable as forgery of East India bonds.

16. Returns to be prepared half-yearly of moneys raised on loan, and presented to Parliament.

17. Saving powers of the Secretary of State in Council.

18. Stock created hereunder to be deemed East India stock.

19. Sect. 3., &c. of 33 & 34 Vict. c. 93. extended to capital stock created under this Act.

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Enable the Secretary of State in Council of India to raise A.D. 1877. Money in the United Kingdom for the Service of the Government of India.

WHEREAS the exigencies of the public service in India require

that the Secretary of State in Council of India should be enabled to raise money in the United Kingdom on the credit of the revenues of India:

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, as follows:

State in

exceeding

1. It shall be lawful for the Secretary of State in Council of Power to the 10 India, at any time or times after the passing of this Act, to raise Secretary of in the United Kingdom, for the service of the Government of India, Council of any sum or sums of money not exceeding in the whole five millions India to raise of pounds sterling, of which two millions five hundred thousand any sum not pounds sterling may be raised by the creation and issue of capital 5,000,000. 15 stock bearing interest, or annuities, bonds, debentures, or bills, or partly by one of such modes and partly by another or others, and the whole or any portion of the remaining two millions five hundred thousand pounds sterling may be raised by the creation and issue of bonds, debentures, or bills, but not by the creation and issue of 20 capital stock bearing interest, or of annuities.

under the

hands of two members of the Council,

2. All bonds issued under the authority of this Act may be issued Bonds may under the hands of two members of the Council of India, and be issued countersigned by the Secretary of State for India, or one of his under secretaries, or his assistant under secretary, and shall be for 25 such respective amounts, payable after such notice, and at such rate or rates of interest as the said Secretary of State in Council may think fit.

and countersigned by Secretary of State.

3. All debentures issued under the authority of this Act may be Debentures issued under the hands of two members of the Council, and counter- may be

issued.