Dublin Improvement Act 1849

Power to rate and assess public Buildings;

and dead Walls and void Spaces of Ground, &c.

CXVII. ‘And whereas certain public Buildings within the City of Dublin have been heretofore rated and assessed towards paving, lighting, and cleansing the Streets of the said City, and it is expedient that they should continue to be rated for such Purposes under the Provisions of this Act:’ Be it therefore enacted, That it shall be lawful for the Council and they are hereby required, when and at such Times as the before mentioned Rates and Assessments shall be made, to rate and assess for the Purposes aforesaid all Colleges, Halls, Theatres, Docks, Courts of Law, and all other public Buildings whatsoever, or Buildings occupied for public Purposes, save as herein-after excepted, situate in or fronting to or along the Side or Sides of any Street Square, Lane, or other public Place or Passage within the Jurisdiction of the Council, in manner following; (that is to say,) to rate and assess all Colleges, Halls, Theatres, Docks, Courts of Law, and other public Building or Buildings used for Public Purposes, at a Rate not exceeding One Shilling by the Year for every Square Yard of the Ground fronting to or on the Side of such Colleges or other Buildings aforesaid, and contained between every such College or Ground, or the Ground belonging to such College or Building, and the Centre of any Street, Lane, or Passage to which it adjoins or fronts; and in case any such College or Building as aforesaid, or the Ground thereto belonging, shall be situated at any of the Quays, Docks, Squares, or Streets built upon one Side only, that then such College or Building shall be rated and assessed as aforesaid, according to the Number of Square Yards of the Ground lying between such College or Building and the Wall, Railing, or other Inclosure of such Quay, Dock, Square, or Streets built upon one Side only; and to rate and assess all dead Walls and void Spaces of Ground adjoining to or on the Side or Sides of any Street, Lane, Quay, Court, Square, Alley, or other public Passage within the said Limits (save as aforesaid), although such dead Wall should enclose a Yard or Garden belonging or adjoining to any House or Tenement, for every Yard Running or Lineal Measure of such dead or void Space of Ground adjoining to or along the Side of such Street or Passage as aforesaid, at such respective Rate or Rates, Assessment or Assessments, as to the Council in their Discretion shall seem proper; provided that no Rate or Assessment so to be made in any such Case or Cases as last aforesaid shall exceed in the Year the Rate of Three Shillings for every such Yard Running Measure of such dead Wall or void Space (save as aforesaid) within the aforesaid Limits.