Landed Property Improvement (Ireland) Act 1847

In Cases where Commissioners receive any Dissent, they shall call a Meeting and hear Objections.

XX. And be it enacted, That in all Cases in which the said Commissioners of Public Works shall receive any such Dissent or Objection as aforesaid in Writing within such Period as aforesaid (unless such Dissent or Objection shall be withdrawn) they shall, on a Day not sooner than One Week from the Day limited by such Notice for the Transmission of such Dissent or Objection as aforesaid, to be stated in such Notice, or to be fixed by some subsequent Notice to be published as aforesaid, call a Meeting at their Office in Dublin or elsewhere of all Persons claiming to be interested in the said Lands, and of such other Persons as the said Commissioners may think fit to summon (and which Meeting, as well as every other Meeting to be held under this Act, may be held and presided over by any one of the said Commissioners, who shall have Power from Time to Time to adjourn such Meeting to such Time and place as they may think proper), and hear and inquire into such Objections and, Dissents, and all such other Matters and Things as shall be then and there brought before them, and shall and may receive any Evidence touching or pertinent to the same, upon Oath or otherwise, as by Law authorized; and in such Case, or in case no Dissent or Objection shall be received as aforesaid (in which Case no Notice of Meeting need be given), and if the said Commissioners shall be satisfied that it will be beneficial to all Persons interested in the Land to which such Application shall relate that such Loan should be made, the said Commissioners shall make such Order under their Common Seal in the Premises as to the said Commissioners shall seem fit with respect to the making of such Loan, or the Execution of the proposed Works; and every such Order shall be in Writing under their Common Seal, and shall contain the Name of the Lands to be charged with such Loan, the Name of the Memorialist, the Amount of the Loan (if any) proposed to be made, and such other Matters as the said Commissioners may think proper.