Proprietor as aforesaid of not less than One hundred Acres of Land situate within That the Members of the First Board shall vacate their Offices on the First Thursday In witness whereof, we, the said Commissioners of Public Works in Ireland, have here- Office of Public Works, Dublin. E. HORNSBY, (L.S.) PART 3. DRAINAGE AND IMPROVEMENT OF LANDS ACT (IRELAND), 1863, In the Matter of BALLYNACARRIG DRAINAGE DISTRICT, in the King's County and WHEREAS certain Proprietors of and Persons interested in the Lands adjoining the Ballynacarrig River, on or about the Twelfth Day of January One thousand eight hundred and sixty-four, presented their Petition to the Commissioners of Public Works in Ireland, under the Provisions of "The Drainage and Improvement of Lands Act (Ireland), 1863," accompanied by the proper Schedules, Maps, Plans, Sections, and Estimates, together with other Particulars and Information, as required by the said Act, showing, by Reference to the said Maps, the Boundaries and Area of the proposed Drainage District, and stating the Exigencies rendering the Formation of such Drainage District necessary, and praying that the said Lands within the proposed District should be constituted a separate Drainage District under the Provisions of the said Act: And whereas the said Commissioners referred the same to Samuel U. Roberts, Esquire, Civil Engineer, an Inspector duly appointed under the said Act: And whereas all Notices and Inquiries required by the said Act have been duly given and made, and the said Inspector has duly reported to us the said Commissioners, in Writing, the Result of his Inquiries, and we, the said Commissioners, have duly considered the same, and no Objections to the Report of the said Inspectors have been made to us, and all Preliminaries required by the said Act to precede the making of this Provisional Order having been performed and complied with, we, the said Commissioners of Public Works in Ireland, upon Consideration of the Premises are satisfied of the Propriety of constituting the proposed separate Drainage District, and that the Proprietors of Two Third Parts in Value of the Lands in the proposed District are in favour thereof, and have subsequently to the Date of the Report of the said Inspector assented thereto in Writing: Now, therefore, in pursuance of the Power given to us by the said Act, we, the Commissioners of Public Works in Ireland, do, by this Provisional Order, under our Common Seal, constitute the Area in the said Petition and Report, and the Boundaries and Extent of which are set forth within Yellow Lines on certain Maps to which we have caused our Common Seal to be attached (and which Maps are deposited in the Office of Public Works in Ireland), a separate Drainage District, by the Name of "The Ballinacarrig Drainage District:" And we do declare that the Lands to be purchased for the proposed Works in said District (subject to such Alterations and Deviations therefrom as we the said Commissioners may hereafter sanction) are the Lands in that Behalf shown and set forth in the said Maps and the Schedule thereto annexed, marked with the Letter B., and also sealed with our Common Seal: And we the said Commissioners of Public Works do, by this our Order, order and direct that the Time for Completion of the necessary Works in the said District shall be limited to the First Day of June which will be in the Year One thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven. And And we do further by this our Provisional Order make the following Regulations with respect to the Drainage Board: That the Drainage Board for the said District shall consist of Six Members: 1. Colonel Thomas Bernard of Castle Bernard in the King's County; 2. Colonel John Head Drought of Letty Brook, King's County; 3. Henry Stuart Johnston of Ratoath in the County of Meath, Esquire ; That the First Meeting of the said Board shall be summoned by Notice under the That the Qualification of any subsequent Member of the said Board shall be, that That the Members of the First Board shall vacate their Offices on the First Thursday In witness whereof, we, the said Commissioners of Public Works in Ireland, have Office of Public Works, Dublin. PART 4. E. HORNSBY, (L.S.) DRAINAGE AND IMPROVEMENT OF LANDS ACT (IRELAND), 1863, 26 & 27 Vict. c. 88. and 27 & 28 Vict. c. 72. In the Matter of the SIX MILE BRIDGE DRAINAGE DISTRICT, County of Clare. WHEREAS certain Proprietors of and Persons interested in the Lands upon and adjacent to the Owenogarney River and Tributaries, on or about the Twenty-second Day of March One thousand eight hundred and sixty-four, presented their Petition to the Commissioners of Public Works in Ireland, under the Provisions of the Drainage and Improvement of Lands Act (Ireland), 1863, accompanied by the proper Schedules, Maps, Plans, Sections, and Estimates, together with other Particulars and Information required by the said Act, showing, by Reference to the said Maps, the Boundaries and Area of the proposed Drainage District, and stating the Exigencies rendering the Formation of such Drainage District necessary, and praying that the said Lands within the proposed District should be constituted a separate Drainage District, under the Provisions of the said Act: And whereas the said Commissioners referred the same to Samuel U. Roberts, Esquire, Civil Engineer, an Inspector duly appointed under the said Act: And whereas all Notices and Inquiries required by the said Act have been duly given and made, and the said Inspector has duly reported to us, the said Commissioners, in Writing, the Result of his Inquiries, and we, the said Commissioners, have duly considered the same, and have also considered an Objection to the said Report made on behalf of Thomas Arthur, Esquire, a Lunatic: And whereas all Preliminaries required by the said Act to precede the making of this Provisional Order have been been performed and complied with: And whereas we, the said Commissioners of Public Works in Ireland, upon Consideration of the Premises, are satisfied of the Propriety of constituting the proposed separate Drainage District, and that the Proprietors of Two Third Parts in Value of the Lands in the proposed District are in favour thereof, and have subsequently to the Date of the Report of the said Inspector assented thereto in Writing: Now, therefore, in pursuance of the Power given to us by the said Act, we, the Commissioners of Public Works in Ireland, do, by this Provisional Order, under our Common Seal, constitute the Area in the said Petition and Report, and the Boundaries and Extent of which are set forth within Yellow Lines on the Map to which we have caused our Common Seal to be attached (and which Map is deposited in the Office of Public Works in Ireland), a separate Drainage District, by the Name of "The Six Mile Bridge Drainage District; and we do declare that the Lands to be purchased for the proposed Works in such District (subject to such Alterations and Deviations therefrom as we the said Commissioners may hereafter sanction) are the Lands in that Behalf shown and set forth in the said Map and the Schedule thereto annexed, marked with the Letter B., and also sealed with our Common Seal: And we, the said Commissioners of Public Works, do, by this our Order, order and direct that the Time for Completion of the necessary Works in the said District shall be limited to the First Day of October which will be in the Year One thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight. And we do further by this our Provisional Order make the following Regulations with respect to the Drainage Board: That the Drainage Board for the said District shall consist of Eight Members: That the following Persons shall be the Members of the First Drainage Board, viz.: 1. Maurice Ŏ'Connell of Kilgorey, 2. William Bentley of Hurlston, 3. Richard Bentley of Doon House, 4. John Gabbet of Castle Lake, 5. Charles George O'Callaghan of Ballinahinch, 6. John Wilson Lynch of Belvoir, 7. Richard Robert Studdert of Coolreagh, and all in the County of Clare, Esquires; 8. John Brown of the Crescent in the County of Limerick, Esquire ; That the First Meeting of the said Board shall be summoned by Notice under the Hands of any Two or more of the said Board, published in the Dublin Gazette and some Newspaper generally circulated in the said District at least Fourteen Days next before the Day of Meeting: That the Qualification of any subsequent Member of the said Board shall be, that he shall be the Proprietor (as defined by the said Act and the Acts referred to therein or incorporated therewith) of not less than Twenty Acres of Land situate within the Area of the said District, or the Land Agent for the Time being of a Person being a Proprietor as aforesaid of not less than One hundred Acres of Land situate within the Area of said District, and acting as Receiver of the Rents and Profits of such Lands: That the Members of the First Board shall vacate their Offices on the First Thursday in September in the Year following the Date of this Provisional Order: That the Electors for Members of the Drainage Board shall be the Persons in that Behalf mentioned in the said Act: Provided always, that no such Elector shall be entitled to vote, or exercise any Privilege as such, unless the Lands of which he is the Proprietor, or some Portion thereof, shall be rateable on account of the Works in the District, and he shall have previously paid all Rates or Arrears of Rates which may be payable by him in respect of any Drainage Rate for the aforesaid District. In witness whereof, we, the said Commissioners of Public Works in Ireland, have hereunto caused our Common Seal to be affixed, this Second Day of March One thousand eight hundred and sixty-five. Office of Public Works, Dublin. E. HORNSBY, (L.S.) CA P. XIV. An Act to make better Provision for the Naval Defence of the Colonies. [7th April 1865.] W WHEREAS it is expedient to enable the several Colonial Possessions of Her Majesty the Queen to make better Provision for Naval Defence, and to that end to provide and man Vessels of War, and also to raise a Volunteer Force to form Part of the Royal Naval Reserve established under the Act of Parliament of 1859 "for the Esta- 22 & 23 Vict. "blishment of a Reserve Volunteer Force of Seamen, and for the Government of the "same," (hereafter in this Act called the Act of 1859,) and accordingly to be available for general Service in the Royal Navy in Emergency : Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, as follows: 1. This Act may be cited as The Colonial Naval Defence Act, 1865. The Term "Colony" includes any Plantation, Island, or other Possession within Her 3. In any Colony it shall be lawful for the proper Legislative Authority, with the approves : (2.) For raising and maintaining Seamen and others entered on the Terms of being bound to serve as ordered in any such Vessel: (3.) For raising and maintaining a Body of Volunteers entered on the Terms of being bound to general Service in the Royal Navy in Emergency, and, if in any Case the proper Legislative Authority so directs, on the further Terms of being bound to serve as ordered in any such Vessel as aforesaid: (4.) For appointing Commissioned, Warrant, and other Officers to train and command or serve as Officers with any such Men ashore or afloat, on such Terms and subject to such Regulations as Her Majesty in Council from Time to Time approves : (5.) For obtaining from the Admiralty the Services of Commissioned, Warrant, and (7.) For making the Men and Officers aforesaid, while ashore or afloat within the Limits c. 40. Short Title. Interpretation. Power for provide Vessels and commission Officers, &c. 4. Volunteers raised as aforesaid in any Colony shall form Part of the Royal Naval Volunteers to Reserve, in addition to the Volunteers who may be raised under the Act of 1859, but, form Part of except as in this Act expressly provided, shall be subject exclusively to the Provisions made Royal Naval as aforesaid by the proper Legislative Authority of the Colony. Reserve. 5. It shall be lawful for Her Majesty in Council from Time to Time as Occasion requires, Power to and on such Conditions as scem fit, to authorize the Admiralty to issue to any Officer of Admiralty to the Royal Navy volunteering for the Purpose a Special Commission for Service in issue Special accordance with the Provisions of this Act. Commissions. 6. It shall be lawful for Her Majesty in Council from Time to Time as Occasion Placing of requires, and on such Conditions as seem fit, to authorize the Admiralty to accept any Offer Colonial Vessel 28 VICT. N for with Men and Officers at Her Majesty's Disposal. As to Services of Volunteers Navy. for the Time being made or to be made by the Government of a Colony, to place at Her Majesty's Disposal any Vessel of War provided by that Government and the Men and Officers from Time to Time serving therein; and while any Vessel accepted by the Admiralty under such Authority is at the Disposal of Her Majesty, such Vessel shall be deemed to all Intents a Vessel of War of the Royal Navy, and the Men and Officers from Time to Time serving in such Vessel shall be deemed to all Intents Men and Officers of the Royal Navy, and shall accordingly be subject to all Enactments and Regulations for the Time being in force for the Discipline of the Royal Navy. 7. It shall be lawful for Her Majesty in Council from Time to Time as Occasion and Officers in requires, and on such Conditions as seem fit, to authorize the Admiralty to accept any Offer for the Time being made or to be made by the Government of a Colony, to place at Her Majesty's Disposal for general Service in the Royal Navy the whole or any Part of the Body of Volunteers with all or any of the Officers raised and appointed by that Government in accordance with the Provisions of this Act; and when any such Offer is accepted such of the Provisions of the Act of 1859 as relate to Men of the Royal Naval Reserve raised in the United Kingdom when in actual Service shall extend and apply to the Volunteers whose Services are so accepted. Delegation of Naval Officer. Not to impose Not to affect 8. The Admiralty may, if they think fit, from Time to Time by Warrant authorize any Officer of Her Majesty's Navy of the Rank of Captain or of a higher Rank to exercise, in the Name and on behalf of the Admiralty, in relation to any Colony, for such Time and subject to such Limitations, if any, as the Admiralty think fit, any Power exerciseable by the Admiralty under this Act. 9. Nothing done under this Act by Order in Council, or by the Admiralty, or otherwise, shall impose any Charge on the Revenues of the United Kingdom without express Provision made by Parliament for meeting the same. 10. Nothing in this Act shall take away or abridge any Power vested in or exerciseable by the Legislature or Government of any Colony. CA P. XV. 24 & 25 Vict. c. 104. Extension of Time for granting fresh An Act to extend the Term for granting fresh Letters Patent for the High WHEREAS it is expedient to extend the Time fixed for granting fresh Letters Patent for the High Courts in India under the Provisions of an Act passed in the Twentyfourth and Twenty-fifth Years of the Reign of Her present Majesty, intituled An Act for establishing High Courts of Judicature in India, and to make further Provision than is in the said Act contained for empowering the Alteration from Time to Time of the local Limits of the said High Courts, and for the Exercise, in Places beyond the Limits of the Presidencies, or Places within and for which such High Courts are established, of the Jurisdiction and Powers conferred by Her Majesty's Letters Patent on the said High Courts:' Be it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, as follows: 1. The Time fixed for granting fresh Letters Patent for the High Courts in India by Section Seventeen of the said recited Act is hereby extended to the First Day of January Letters Patent. One thousand eight hundred and sixty-six. Sects. 10 and 18 of 24 & 25 Vict. c. 104. repealed. 2. Sections Ten and Eighteen of the said Act of the Twenty-fourth and Twenty-fifth Years of Her present Majesty are hereby repealed. Power to the Governor 3. It shall be lawful for the Governor General of India in Council, by Order, from Time to Time to transfer any Territory or Place from the Jurisdiction of one to the Jurisdiction of |