Bridges (Ireland) Act 1875

• Jurisdiction: Ireland
• Citation: 1875 c. 46
• Year: 1875

Bridges (Ireland) Act, 1875

(38 & 39 Vict.) CHAPTER 46.

An Act to amend an Act passed in the Session of Parliament held in the Thirtieth and Thirty-first Years of the Reign of Her present Majesty, intituled ‘An Act to afford further Facilities for the Erection of certain Bridges in Ireland.’

[2d August 1875]

W HEREAS an Act was passed in the session of Parliament holden in the fourth and fifth year of the reign of ^{His late Majesty King William the Fourth}, intituled ‘An Act for the more effectually providing for the erection of certain bridges in Ireland,’ which Act was amended by another Act passed in the session of Parliament holden in the second and third years of the reign of ^{Her present Majesty}, intituled ‘An Act to extend and amend the provisions of the Acts for the extension and promotion of public works in Ireland; and for the recovery of public moneys advanced for the use of counties, parishes, and other districts in Ireland, on the faith of grand jury presentments and parochial assessments,’ and under the provisions of the said Acts, grand juries of counties were empowered to co-operate for making and improving bridges situate between such counties:

And whereas by an Act passed in the session of Parliament held in the thirtieth and thirty-first years of the reign of Her present Majesty, chapter fifty, the said Acts were amended and facilities were afforded for the purchase or taking of any property in any bridge or ferry, or in the tolls thereof, which might be necessary for the purposes of the said Acts, and for making presentment for the moneys requisite therefor:

And whereas by section twenty-six of the said last-mentioned Act, after reciting that ‘in cases where a bridge or ferry is situate wholly within the limits of a county or county of a city, it is expedient to enable the grand jury of any neighbouring county or county of a city to co-operate with the grand jury of any such first-mentioned county or county of a city for any of the purposes of the recited Acts and of this Act,’ it was enacted ‘that it shall be lawful for the grand jury of such neighbouring county or county of a city, upon and after application made and approved at presentment sessions for the county at large, to consent to co-operate with the grand jury of any such first-named county or county of a city for the purposes aforesaid, and to signify such consent by a resolution entered on the record of its proceedings, and thereupon all the provisions of the...