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Power to Trustees to make Byelaws for regulating Management, &c
Power to impose Fines, &c. for Offences against Byelaws.
As to Approval of Byelaws.
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XXXII. It shall and may be lawful for the said Trustees and they are hereby authorized and empowered, from Time to Time and at all Times hereafter, to make such Byelaws as to them shall seem meet and proper for regulating the Conduct and Management of the Business of the said Trustees, and Conduct of all Officers, Workmen, and Servants employed by them, and for the well and orderly using and preserving the Navigation of which they are Trustees and the Off-branches thereof respectively, and the Banks, Basins, Reservoirs, Tunnels, Locks, Sluices, and all other Works thereto respectively belonging, and for regulating the passing and re-passing of all Ships, Boats, Lighters, Barges, and other Vessels, and the carrying of all Goods, Wares, Merchandise, and Commodities which shall be navigated or conveyed thereon respectively, and for the orderly Behaviour of all Seamen, Boatmen, Watermen, Bargemen, and others who shall navigate such Ships, Boats, Barges, Lighters, and other Vessels upon such Navigation or the Off-branches thereof, or who shall be employed in carrying or conveying any Goods, Wares, Merchandise, or Commodities thereon, and for the Superintendence, Management, and Conservation of the said Navigations and Off-branches thereof respectively in all other respects whatever, and from Time to Time to alter or repeal all or any of such Byelaws, and to make others, and to impose such Fines and Penalties upon all Persons offending against any of such Byelaws as to the said Trustees shall seem reasonable, not exceeding the Sum of Five Pounds for any One Offence, any such Fine or Penalty to be recoverable on summary Conviction; which said Byelaws shall be reduced into Writing, and sealed by the said Trustees, and printed and published; and such of the same as shall subject any Person not being an Officer or Servant of the said Trustees to any Fine or Penalty shall be painted on Boards, and hung up and affixed and continued in some Place at or near which any Rates or Tolls shall be collected under this Act, and in such Places as to the said Trustees shall seem fit, and shall from Time to Time be renewed as often as the same or any Part thereof shall be obliterated or destroyed; and such Byelaws shall be binding upon and shall be observed by all Persons whatsoever, and shall be sufficient in all Courts of Law or Equity to justify all Persons who shall act under the same; provided that such Byelaws be approved of by a Judge of One of Her Majesty’s Superior Courts of Record in Dublin.
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