Lighting of Towns (Ireland) Act, 1828

Streets, &c. to be lighted by gas or oil, by contract or otherwise.

46. It shall be lawful for the commissioners for the execution of this Act, in any city, town corporate, borough, market town, or other town, and they are hereby authorized and empowered, to direct and cause the several streets, squares, lanes, and passages, within such city, town corporate, borough, market town, or other town, to be lighted in such manner as such commissioners shall judge proper, either with oil or gas, and to contract with any company or companies of proprietors, or any body corporate, or any other person or persons, for that purpose; and also to order lamp posts to be erected in the streets, and lamp irons to be fixed on the walls of houses and other buildings, and from time to time to alter and remove the same, as such commissioners shall judge proper.