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upon the undertaking and security of such person to pay his proportion of the amount of such costs when taxed, and upon such other terms (if any) as to such Court shall seem fit, and such. costs shall be taxed accordingly; and such attorney or solicitor shall have such and the like remedies against all parties chargeable with such costs as in the case of costs incurred for business done in such Court respectively, and taxed, ascertained and certified in pursuance of the order of such Court respectively.

And be it Enacted, That in the construction of this Act (except 10 where the nature of the provision or the context of the Act shall exclude such construction), the word "Land" shall extend to all arable, pasture or otherwise profitable, and to all waste uncultivated land, whether bog land, land periodically flooded or covered with water, or otherwise wholly or partially unproductive, and shall also ex15 tend to messuages, tenements, mills, weirs and other hereditaments corporeal or incorporeal, and any estate or interest therein, and any undivided part thereof, and any charge or incumbrance thereon; and the word "River" shall extend to all rivers, lakes, canals, streams and estuaries; and the words "Person or Persons," and the 20 words" Proprietor or Proprietors," shall extend to all bodies politic, corporate or collegiate, and also all bishops, parsons and other ecclesiastical persons, as to lands held by them in those respective characters, and to any number of persons associated together as a company or partnership; and the word "Counties" shall extend and be applied to 25 all counties, counties of cities and counties of towns; and every word importing the singular number only, shall extend and be applied to several persons or things as well as one person or thing; and every word importing the plural number shall extend and be applied to one person or thing as well as several persons or things; and every word importing 30 the masculine gender only, shall extend and be applied to a female as well as a male.

Provided, and be it Enacted, That nothing in this Act contained shall authorize the said Commissioners or any trustees elected hereunder, or any other person, to construct or erect any pier, quay, 35 wharf, jetty, breast or embankment in or adjoining to any public harbour, or any river immediately communicating therewith, so far as the tide flows up the same, without the previous authority and consent of the Lord High Admiral, or the Commissioners for executing the office of Lord High Admiral of the United Kingdom, to be for that 40 purpose signified in writing under the hand of the Secretary of the Admiralty for the time being.

162.

And be it Enacted, That this Act may be amended or repealed by Act may be any Act to be passed in the present Session of Parliament.

altered.

SCHEDULE

TO WHICH THIS ACT REFERS.

BY the Justices and Associate Cess-payers at the Presentment Session held

at

on

in the county of

for the barony (or half barony or county at large)

of [here state the name of the barony or county for which the Presentment Sessions are held].

WE declare that we approve of the works proposed to be made for making navigable or improving the navigation of [state the river, &c.] and described in the report, schedules, maps, plans and estimate deposited with the Clerk of the Peace of the county of by the Commissioners for carrying into effect an Act passed in the year of the reign of Her present Majesty, intituled, [here state the title of this Act], and laid before us and we further agree and consent that the proportion of the costs and expenses of so much of the said works as shall relate to such navigation which shall be assessed upon the barony (or half barony or county) of townlands thereof, under the provisions of the said Act, shall be raised off the said barony (or half barony or county) or townland or townlands respectively.

or any townland or

Signed on behalf of the said Presentment Session.

A. B.,

Chairman of the said Presentment Session,

Drainage (Ireland).

A

BIL L

[AS AMENDED BY THE COMMITTEE]

To promote the Drainage of Lands, and Improvement of Navigation and Waterpower in connexion with such Drainage, in Ireland.

(Prepared and brought in by

Lord Eliot and Mr. Solicitor General for Ireland.)

Ordered, by The House of Commons, to be Printed,
20 May 1842.

[Price 9 d.]

252.

Under 12 oz.

In Committee on the "Bill to promote the Drainage of Lands, and Improvement of Navigation and Water-power in connexion with such Drainage, in Ireland."

Clause 7, line 26, After "and" insert "it shall be lawful for any such Grand Jury"

31, After "deposit," insert "or deposits "

"

Clause 9, line 43, After "examine" insert" on oath or otherwise
Clause 12, line 4, After "the" omit "owners" and insert "reputed

proprietors'

10, After "any" insert "such"-and after "apply"
omit "to such presentment so to be made
11, Omit "under this Act, and" and after "traverse"

omit "thereof"

Clause 23, line 14, After "years" omit "either absolute or"

Clause 24, line 22, After "proprietor," insert "the assent of”—and

after "be" (lines 22, 23) omit "considered

the proprietor" and insert “taken into account in respect"

lines 23, 24, After "lands" omit "for the purpose of assenting under the provisions of this Act"

Clause 52, Marginal Note, After "making" omit "such”—and after