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Provisions for summary Proceedings.
No Works shall be undertaken under following Provision, unless Assents be obtained before 1st August 1847.
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XLV. ‘And whereas by reason of the Failure or Destruction of a Portion of the Potato Crop of the last Season in Ireland there is Reason to apprehend that in certain Districts great Distress may, during the ensuing Spring and Summer, prevail among the labouring Classes of the Population; and it is expedient, with a view to alleviate such Distress, by Provisions of a more summary Nature than herein-before contained, to give for Part of the present Year increased Facilities and Powers for commencing without Delay and carrying on various Works of Utility connected with the Drainage and Improvement of Lands in such Districts, whereby remunerative Employment may be afforded to the labouring Classes;’ be it therefore enacted and declared, That the Provisions herein-after contained shall be called and deemed to be “Provisions for summary Proceedings” under this Act, and that no Work shall be undertaken or commenced under such Provisions for summary Proceedings as to the Execution of which Work the Assents of the Proprietors of Lands, as required by the Provisions of this Act herein-before contained, shall not have been given or obtained before the First Day of August in the Year One thousand eight hundred and forty-seven.
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