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Commissioners under 1 & 2 Will. 4. c. 33., on application of postmaster general, and with consent of lord lieutenant, to cause post roads to be repaired.
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61. [1]
[Recital of expediency of speedy repair of roads on which mails are carried.] It shall be lawful for the commissioners acting under and in execution of an Act passed in the first and second years of the reign of his present Majesty, intituled “An Act for the extension and promotion of public works in Ireland,” upon the application of his Majesty’s postmaster general, setting forth and describing the line of any such road or the portion of any such road which may stand in need of repair, by and with the consent of the lord lieutenant, to cause such road, or such portion thereof as shall be described in such application, and any or every bridge, arch, or pipe, gullet or wall thereon, to be put forthwith into good and sufficient repair accordingly, under the superintendence of the county surveyor in every county except the county of Dublin and county of the city of Dublin, and in each of those counties under the superintendence of a surveyor appointed by them; and upon the application of the said commissioners, setting forth what sum will be requisite and necessary from tiine to time for the purposes aforesaid, it shall and may be lawful for the lord lieutenant to direct by his warrant that the sum or sums of money so required by the said commissioners shall be advanced and paid to the said commissioners out of the produce of the consolidated fund of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, to be applied under the directions of the said commissioners in manner aforesaid.
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