Dublin Improvement Act 1849

Power to purchase Lands.

LX. And be it enacted, That, subject to the Provisions of this Act, it shall be lawful for the Council to agree with the Owners of any Lands within the Limits of this Act which they may require for the Purpose of opening and making more convenient Communications, Ways, or Streets, and of widening, improving, altering, or diverting any existing Ways or Streets, or for other the Purposes of this Act, for the absolute Purchase of any such Lands, or such Parts thereof as they shall think proper, and the Lands so purchased shall be laid into the said Ways or Streets, or otherwise appropriated for the Purposes aforesaid as the Council shall think fit, and all such Ways or Streets, when and as soon as the same shall be so formed, widened, or improved, shall be deemed public Streets or Ways.