1905-1906.]
COMMISSIONERS OF PUBLIC WORKS, IRELAND.
35
Arbitrations under "The Railways (Ireland) Acts" (1851, 1860, 1864).
14 & 15 Vic, c.
70; 23 & 24 Vic, c 97; and 27 & 28 Vic, c.
71.
Arbitrations have been applied for and Arbitrators appointed in the following Strabane and Letterkenny Railway Company—Lands required under the Strabane, Raphoe and Convoy Act, 1903, and under the Strabane, Raphoe and Convoy (Extension to Letterkenny) Act, 1904.
Fishguard and Rosslare Railways and Harbours Company—Lands required under the Fishguard and Rosslare Railways and Harbours Act, 1903.
Inquiries into Tramway Projects.
23 & 24 Vic, c.
152; 24 & 25 Vic, c.
102; 34 & 35 Vic, c 114 ; 39 & 40 Vic.
c.
65 ;
44 and 45 Vic, c.
17; and 46 & 47 Vic, c.
43.
Inquiries were held into the following Schemes, and Reports were made on the engineering merits of the projects :—
Lucan and Leixlip Tramway.
Limerick Tramways.
Land Improvement Act, 1864 ; Limited Owners' Residences Acts, 1870, &c.
27 & 28 Vic, c.
113 ; 34 & 35 Vic, c.
84 ; 40 & 41 Vic, c.
31.
No Provisional or Absolute Orders have been made under these Acts during the year.
APPENDIX C.
LOANS.
Class (I.).—Loans
secured on Undertakings.
Labourers' Dwellings in Towns and Housing of the Working Classes.
Nos.
7 and 8 in Abstract, p.
56.
Labouring Classes' Dwellings (Ireland) Act, 1866 (29 & 30 Vic*, c.
44), and the
Housing of the Working Classes Acts, 1885, 1890, and 1893 (48 & 49 Vic, c 72; 53 and 54 Vic, c 70, and 56 and 57 Vic, c.
33).
The amount of loans sanctioned under the Act of 1866 while it continued operative, i.e.,
to the close ofthe year 1884-85 was £281,334.
The number of dwellings erected was 3,416.
The rate of interest charged was 4 per cent.
During the year under report 6 applications, amounting in all to £46,714, have been received for loans under the Housing of the Working Classes Act, 1890.
Of these applications 4, representing £5,700, were made by Urban District Councils, and 2, amounting to £41,014, by public companies or private individuals The loans sanctioned— 5 in number, representing £45,625—may be similarly divided into 3 for £4,950 to Urban District Councils, and 2 for £40,675 to companies and private individuals.
The loans to Urban District Councils are made under the provisions of the Public Health Acts, and are generally for the erection of working class lodging houses.
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