Drainage (Ireland) Act 1856

Power to include in Award Lands formerly covered with Water.

XXXVII. ‘And whereas by means of the Works of the Commissioners of Public Works in Ireland, under the Act of the Session holden in the Fifth and Sixth Years of Her Majesty, Chapter Eighty-nine, and the Acts since passed amending the same, the Waters in certain Rivers and Lakes have been lowered so as to make Land formerly covered with Water profitable to the Proprietors thereof, and Doubts may exist as to the Power of the said Commissioners to include such Lands in their final Award, and charge the same with a Proportion of the Expense of the Works in the District in which such Lands so made profitable are situate:’

It shall be lawful for the said Commissioners of Public Works in and by their final Award in any District to include any such Lands which may have been previously to the Commencement of the Works of the said Commissioners covered with Water and unprofitable, and to charge such Lands and the Proprietors thereof with a fair Proportion of the Expenses incurred by the said Commissioners in the Execution of the Works within any such District, in the same Manner as the other Lands within any such District.