The Dublin and Blessington Steam Tramway (Committee of Management) Order, 1927

• Jurisdiction: Ireland
• Year: 1927
• Citation: IR SI 109/1927

STATUTORY RULES AND ORDERS. 1927. No. 109.

THE DUBLIN AND BLESSINGTON STEAM TRAMWAY (COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT) ORDER, 1927.

WHEREAS by the Dublin and Blessington Steam Tramway Order, 1887 (hereinafter generally called the Order of 1887), the Dublin and Blessington Steam Tramway Company (hereinafter called the Company) were authorised to construct, maintain and work, subject to the provisions of the said Order, and of the Acts incorporated therewith, a tramway from Terenure, in the County of Dublin, to Blessington, in the County of Wicklow, and the presentments and resolutions of the Grand Juries of the Counties of Dublin and Wicklow respectively set out in the 1st Schedule to the said Order, were thereby confirmed so far as they relate to the charge to be defrayed by the baronies and places in the respective presentments and resolutions specified for the payment of dividends at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum upon the paid up capital of the Company as limited by the said Order, and so far as they relate to the liability of the same baronies and places respectively to provide for the completing, working and maintaining of the undertaking.

AND WHEREAS by Section 40 of the Order of 1887 it is provided that if at any time the baronies have been called upon to pay and have continued to pay during a period of not less than two years any money for maintaining or working the undertaking, the undertaking and all the property of the Company connected with it shall become the property of the and Grand Jury of the County in which such barony is situate, subject to any liabilities affecting such undertaking or property, and that the Lord Lieutenant may thereupon order that such Grand Jury or in the case of Dublin the Finance Committee of such Grand Jury, shall appoint a Committee of Management for the purpose of the undertaking, with such powers and duties as he may direct.

AND WHEREAS by Section 41 of the Order of 1887 it is provided that every Committee of Management appointed as aforesaid shall be constituted in such manner, and shall have such power with reference to the undertaking as the Lord Lieutenant may order ; and that the Grand Jury shall from time to time present in advance or otherwise such sums as the Committee so appointed may estimate or report to be necessary for the purposes for which the Committee has been appointed, to be levied off the said baronies, or parts thereof, as the case may be, in the same proportion as their guarantee or dividends; and that the members of the Committee shall be paid by the Grand Jury, out of moneys to be levied off the same baronies and places, such remuneration as the Lord Lieutenant may by general or special Order prescribe ; and that the Committee of Management shall apply the sum so presented in such manner as the Order of the Lord Lieutenant may prescribe; and that pending the appointment of a Committee of Management the Lord Lieutenant may direct the County Surveyor of the respective counties, or either of them, to do all such matters and things as a Committee of Management might do if appointed, during such period as the Lord Lieutenant may direct.

AND WHEREAS in pursuance of the Order of 1887 the Company have constructed, maintained and worked the said tramway.

AND WHEREAS certain parts of the baronies of Rathdrum, Uppercross, and Newcastle, in the County of Dublin, and of the barony of Lower Talbotstown, in the County of Wicklow, which were, by virtue of the said presentments and resolutions of the Grand Juries of the Counties of Dublin and Wicklow chargeable with the payment of dividends upon the paid up capital of the Company subject to the terms and conditions mentioned in the said presentments and resolutions, and with the payment of such sums as should be required for completing, working and maintaining the undertaking have been called on to pay and have paid during a period of not less than two years, namely, in respect of the four half-years ending on the 30th day of June, 1914, the 31st day of December, 1914, the 30th day of June, 1915, and the 31st day of December, 1915, respectively, money for the maintenance and working of the undertaking.

AND WHEREAS by the Dublin and Blessington Steam Tramway (Interim Management) Order, 1916, the management and control of the undertaking and property of the Company was vested, subject to the provisions of the Order in recital, in the County Surveyor of the County of Dublin for the time being, pending the determination of certain questions arising in an action in the Chancery Division of the High Court of Justice in Ireland in which the County Wicklow Council were the plaintiffs and the Company and the County Dublin County Council were the defendants, and until the Lord Lieutenant should otherwise order.

AND WHEREAS under the provisions of the Ministry of Transport Act, 1919 (9 & 10 Geo. V. ch. 50)...