Public Works (Ireland) Act, 1831

Treasury may suspend or abrogate powers of commissioners, &c.

97. Whenever the Treasury shall think fit that the powers of the said commissioners for the execution of this Act should cease and determine, or that the making and issue of Exchequer bills under the provisions thereof should be suspended, it shall and may be lawful for the Treasury, and they are hereby authorized and empowered, to direct the commissioners for the execution of this Act, and the said commissioners for the execution of this Act are hereby authorized and required, to publish and declare, by advertisements to be inserted in the Dublin Gazette and such newspapers as the Treasury may appoint, that, at and from such period as may be in that behalf determined upon and appointed, the said commissioners for the execution of this Act will cease, either altogether or for a time, as may be directed by the Treasury, to receive applications for loans, grants, and advances under this Act, and to execute and perform other the powers and authorities in respect thereof vested in them by this Act; and all the powers and authorities of the said commissioners for the execution of this Act for the loan or advance or grant of money shall wholly cease and determine, or be suspended for a time, according to the tenor of such notice as aforesaid; and thereupon the said commissioners for the execution of this Act shall with all convenient speed make up and close their accounts and transactions, and deliver or cause to be delivered up to the Treasury, or such person or persons as the Treasury, in writing, shall nominate and appoint, such accounts, and all and every the bonds, mortgages, deeds, books of account, papers, and writings, of what nature or kind soever, in possession or under the control of the said commissioners for the execution of this Act, or any of their officers, touching or relating to any security or securities whatsoever taken by them the said commissioners for the execution of this Act, for any loan or loans advanced, or grant or grants made by them under the powers and authorities of this Act, together with the minutes of the proceedings of the said commissioners for the execution of this Act, and all books, papers, and writings in any manner relating thereto.