Drainage (Ireland) Act 1842

Proceedings at Meeting.

XVII. And be it enacted, That at the Time and Place named in such Notice as aforesaid the said Commissioners shall attend, and shall have Power to adjourn from Time to Time, or hold such new Meeting, as they may find necessary, and shall inquire into the Correctness of the Schedules containing the Names of such Proprietors and Occupiers as aforesaid, and shall hear all such Objections as shall have been or shall then be made by any Person or Persons interested in said Lands or River, or any Persons on his or their Behalf, as to any Omission or Misdescription in such Schedules, or any Name improperly inserted therein, and shall hear all such other pertinent Objections as shall have been or shall be then and there made by such Person or Persons to the Schedules, Maps, Plans, Sections, and Estimate which shall have been made under the Provisions herein-before contained; and the said Commissioners shall also hear and inquire on Oath or otherwise, into all such Objections, by any of the Persons aforesaid, to the said proposed Works, as shall have been or shall then and there be made, and also all Objections to the stated Value of the Land, or to the stated probable Increase in such Value, as the same shall have been respectively set forth in the said Schedules, and also into all such Objections as shall have been made, or shall then and there be made, by or on behalf of the Owner, Lessee, or Occupier, or other Person interested in any Mill or Factory likely to be affected by any thing proposed to be done by the Commissioners under any of the Provisions of this Act, and after having considered all such Objections as aforesaid they shall cause such Alterations (if any) as they may deem expedient to be made in the said Schedules, Maps, Plans, Sections, and Estimate, and shall sign the same; and the said Commissioners shall receive and hear all such Evidence as may be offered to them in relation to the several Matters aforesaid, and shall give to the Persons present at such Meeting full Information respecting the Nature and Extent of the proposed Works, and shall take or receive the Assents in Writing of the Proprietors of the Lands comprised in such Schedules to the Execution of the proposed Works; and such Schedules, Maps, Plans, Sections, and Estimates, so signed by the said Commissioners, and the Assents which shall be given, shall be preserved by the said Commissioners in their Office in Dublin, and a Copy thereof shall be deposited with the Clerk of the Peace of each County wherein such Works are proposed to be executed, and shall be open to public Inspection at all reasonable Times, on Payment of a Fee of One Shilling, and shall, when required by the Secretary of the Grand Jury of any such County, be produced for Inspection at any Presentment Session to be held within such County.