Commissioners of Public Works (Ireland): thirty-seventh report with appendices

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1868-69J COMMISSIONERS OF PUBLIC "VTOEKS, IRELAND. 

Sanctions for Grants. 

By Act 1 & 2 Wm. 
4, c. 
33, for Public Works, By Act 1 Vic, c. 
21, for Public Works, . 
By Act 1 & 2 Vic, c. 
88 (portion of £50,000), appropriated to G-rants for Public Works, By Act 6 & 7 Vic, c. 
44, for Public Works, By Act 9 Vic, c. 
1, in aid of Relief Works, By Act 9 & 10 Vic, c 103, do. 
By Act 2 <fe 3 Vic, c 61, in aid of the Improvement of the Shannon Navigation, ..... 
By Act 9 Vic, c. 
3, for Piers and Harbours, By Act 10 <& 11 Vic, c 75, for do., 
Eor Navigation in connexion with Drainage, Act 5 & 6 Vic-, 

89 

£ s. 
50,000 0 50,000 0 4,000 21,000 

0 0 

0 0 50,000 175,000 

0 0 

0 0 

50,000 40,000 

0 0 

0 0 

s. 
a. 

125,000 0 0 

225,000 0 0 290,717 0 0 

90,000 0 0 141,073 0 0 871,790 0 0 

LOANS. 
The advances made during the past year under-the Public "Works and Land Improve¬ ment Loan Acts, as will be seen by the statements in the Appendix, amount to £116,075. 
This sum has been applied under the Board's general control to the following purposes, 

Loans. 

VIZ. 

Public Works' Loans— £ 

For River Drainage Works, 26 and 27 Vic, c. 
88, . 
. 
22,095 „ „ Maintenance, 824 

„ Fishery Piers, 9 Vic, o. 
3, 305 

„ Balbriggan Harbour. 
120 

„ 

Labourers' Dwellings, 29 & 30 Vic, c 44, . 
. 
. 
414 

„ 

New Bridge at New Ross, 27,094 To Counties for Roads, &>c, ....... 

250 

Land Improvement— 

For thorough Drainage, Farm Buildings,Labourers' Dwellings, Planting, Fencing, &c, . 

51,102 64,973 £116,075 Detailed reports of most of these services appear in the subsequent pages of this report, Applications have been latterly made to us by the Grand Juries of several Counties, for loans for making roads and bridges and other useful public works. 
Since the passing of the Act 16 and 17 Tic. 
cap. 
136, in the year 1853 (which enabled counties, for the first time, with the approval'of this Board, to borrow from private sources), we have discontinued, b r lordships' instructions, to make any advances to Grand Juries. 
Seeing, however, the obstructions thrown in the way of useful public works by a rigid adherence to this rule we represented the difficulties Grand Juries had to contend with m procuring, ,rom private parties the funds for those works that were too costly to be charged and levied on the cesspayersin one or two years; and your lordships have been pleased to authorize us to resume the practice of making loans to counties on Grand Jury Presentments, under the 1 and 2 Wm. 
IV., 
cap. 
33, when it shall be shown to our satisfaction that the work is of such a permanent character as that the cost may fairly be extended over a number of years not exceeding ten. 
The Ee-payments for the year ended 31st March, 1869, on the various Loan Acts m~ ttusted to the Board's management, amount to £179,172. 
This sum is generally collects I by half-yearly instalments, and considering that it involves upwards of 6,000 applications to proprietors of land and others, resident in all parts of the country, it is satisfactory to be able to state, as indicating to some extent the prosperity of the country, that the re¬ payments as a whole are made with great punctuality, viz.— 

£ Public Works, 7,566 Arterial Drainage, . 
50,912 Labouchere Drainage, 10,284 Land Improvement, 109,887 

178,649