Abandonment of Water Workings
Abandonment BELFAST WATER NOTICE TO OWNERS, &c. Mr. Samuel Jackson North East Division Carrickfergus JOHN REA, Solicitor, 80 Donegall Street, Belfast. MARTIN & LESLIE, 27 Abingdon Street, Westminster. ABANDONMENT No. 77 Townland of North East Division To Samuel Jackson North East Division Parish of St. Nicholas otherwise Carrickfergus and County of the Town of Carrickfergus BELFAST WATER Belfast, 5th December, 1878. Sir, I beg to inform you that application is intended to be made to Parliament in the ensuing Session for an Act, under the above name or short title, to confer further powers on the Belfast Water Commissioners, whereby it is proposed, among other purposes, to authorise the Commissioners to abandon or relinquish the construction of so much of the aqueduct, tunnel, conduit, or line of pipes or syphons (No. 10) authorised by, and described in, Section 5 of the Belfast Water Act, 1874, as will be rendered unnecessary by the construction of the open or closed conduit, watercourse, or line of pipes (No. 21) proposed to be constructed under the powers of the said intended Act; and also to abandon or relinquish the construction of the short cut or tunnel (No. 14) authorised by and described in the said Section 5 of the said Act of 1874, for which works so proposed to be relinquished or abandoned it was intended to take certain lands, in which I understand you have an interest. I am, Sir, Your obedient Servant, JOHN REA. Note.- The following Standing Orders regulate the time and mode of presenting Petitions in opposition to Bills:- Standing Order 92 of the House of Lords. "No petition praying to be heard upon the merits against any Local Bill or Provisional Order Confirmation Bill, originating in this House, shall be received by this House, unless the same is presented by being deposited in the Private Bill Office before three o'clock in the afternoon on or before the seventh day after the day on which such Bill has been read a second time." Standing Order 93 of the House of Lords. "No petition praying to be heard upon the merits against any Local Bill or any Provisional Order Confirmation Bill brought from the House of Commons shall be received by this House, unless the same be presented by being deposited in the Private Bill Office before three o'clock in the afternoon on or before the seventh day on which such Bill has been read a first time." Standing Order 129 of the House of Commons. "No Petitioners against any Private Bill, or any Bill to confirm any Provisional Order or Provisional Certificate, shall be heard before the Committee on the Bill unless their Petition shall have been prepared and signed in strict conformity with the Rules and Orders of this House, and shall have been presented to this House by having been deposited in the Private Bill Office, in the case of Private Bills, not later then ten clear days after the First Reading of such Bill; and in the case of Bills to confirm any Provisional Order or Provisional Certificate not later than seven clear days after the Report of the Examiner on such Bill, except when said Petitioners shall complain of any matter which may have arisen during the progress of the Bill before the said Committee, or of any proposed Additional Provision, or of the Amendments as proposed in the filled-up Bill deposited in the Private Bill Office,"Close