of interest in the meanwhile, payable half-yearly, as by the said lastrecited Act, or any Acts amending the same, is provided with respect to any other advances by way of loan thereunder, any thing in the said last-recited Act, or the other Acts amending the same, requiring a 5 different period of repayment, or a higher or other rate of interest on any loan or advance for any such drainage, embankment, reclamation or other improvement to the contrary notwithstanding : Provided always, That any such loan or advance shall be subject to the several provisions, regulations and enactments in the said last-recited Act, 10 and the other Acts amending the same, contained in relation to any loan or advance thereunder, so far as the same are applicable, and shall not be varied by this Act. of 7. AND whereas by reason of such advances in aid of permanent im Persons under provements of lands, great benefit may be expected to accrue to the legal disability may charge 15 proprietors thereof, and the value thereof to be considerably increased; the Lands imand it is expedient to enable tenants for life, and others having only only secure reparticular estates, and persons under legal disability or incapacity, such Loans to charge money on such estates for the purposes of such im- for Improve provements; BE it therefore Enacted, That it shall and may be 20 lawful for any corporation, lay or ecclesiastical, sole or aggregate, and for the husbands, trustees, committees or attornies of, or for the owners or proprietors of, or any company or companies, or the directors thereof for the time being interested in, any part or parts of any such lands, in or for, or in aid of the drainage, embankment, reclaiming or 25 other improvement of which any such loan or advance shall be agreed to be made by the said Commissioners of Public Works, in pursuance of the said last-recited Act, or the other Acts amending the same, and this Act, being under coverture, minors, lunatics, or beyond the seas, or otherwise incapable of acting for themselves, and to and for every 30 of them for the time being, and to and for the owners and proprietors of all such lands, being tenants in tail or for life, or tenants in tail after possibility of issue extinct, or tenants in dower, and to and for every of them respectively for the time being, by indenture or indentures under their respective hands and seals, from time to time, and to which indenture or indentures One of the said Commissioners shall be 35 an executing party, and before obtaining any advance on account of such loan from the said Commissioners, to charge the said lands with any sum or sums of money which the said Commissioners shall agree to advance or shall advance in or for, or in aid of any such drainage, 40 embankment, reclaiming, or other improvement thereof as aforesaid, and for securing the repayment by instalments of such sum or sums of money which the said Commissioners shall so agree to advance, or shall advance, with interest from the date of the advance thereof, to grant, mortgage, lease or demise, or otherwise subject the said lands unto the said Commissioners of Public Works, or to the Secretary of the said Com to pay missioners in trust for them, either in fee or for any term of years, so and keep down the interest in the meanwhile; and in the case 8. Buch ad. vances to be made by instalments not exceeding £. 500. And be it Enacted, That every loan or advance to be made by such loan shall be advanced until it shall have been proved to 9. Advances not to exceed £.6,000 in case of inca sons without the sanction And be it Enacted, That any loan or advance that shall be made by the said Commissioners for any such work or improvement as aforepacitated Per- said, under the said provisions hereof, to any person being entitled to any estate only as tenant for life or in tail, or being under any legal 40 thousand Pounds, unless the sanction of a Court of Equity shall be 2 ing such advance to apply to the High Court of Chancery or to the Court of Excheqner in Ireland, by petition, specifying the improvement proposed to be made, the estimated cost thereof, and the yearly value, and other circumstances of the estate proposed to be charged ; 5 and every such petition shall be referred to a Master of the said Court of Chancery, or to the Remembrancer of the said Court of Exchequer, to inquire into and ascertain the propriety of such improvement, and of the proposed charge on such estate ; and if, upon the report of such Master or Remembrancer, it shall appear to the satisfaction of the 10 said Court that the proposed improvement and charge upon such estate would be proper and judicious, and advantageous to the person or persons entitled in possession, and in reversion or remainder to such estate, it shall be lawful for such Court; by its order, to declare that it shall be lawful for the said Commissioners of Public Works to 15 make a limited advance exceeding Five thousand Pounds in aid of such improvement, if they shall so think fit, and to cause the same to be charged upon the said estate, pursuant to the provisions hereof as aforesaid ; whereupon it shall be lawful for the said Commissioners, 1 & 2 W.4, if they shall deem it fit and right so to do, to make such advance and 4:33, s. 15, 16, . 20 cause such charge to be made upon such estate, subject nevertheless to the several provisions, regulations and enactments of the said recited Act of the first and second years of the reign of King William the Fourth, and the other Acts amending the same, in relation to advances of the like nature, save and except so far as the same may be varied 25 by this Act. 10. sioners may recover the Works. And be it Enacted, That if default shall be made in the due appli- In case of cation of any instalment of any loan or advance made for the purpose of, op neglect of any such drainage, embankment, reclamation or other improvement, to apply, any or in case the party or person to whom any such loan or advance may the purpose , 30 have been so agreed to be made, or the person entitled for the time the Commis being to the rents and profits of the lands which may be the subject of such drainage, embankment, reclamation or other improvement, advances made, or may shall omit or neglect to proceed with the completion of such drainage, complete the embankment, reclamation or other iinprovement, it shall and may be 35 lawful for the said Commissioners to proceed for the recovery of any such instalment, loan or advance, or any part thereof, with the interest due thereon, and to stop all further advances or loan in respect of such work, or it shall and may be lawful for the said Commissioners, or any person authorized by them for that purpose, if they shall so think fit, to 40 enter upon such lands, and proceed to complete the drainage, embank ment, reclamation or other improvement of such lands, according to the may and out of the residue of the inonies so agreed to be advanced by, and then remaining in the hands of, the said Commissioners, to complete and finish such drainage, em- 5 11. Act may be amended, &c. this Session. And be it Enacted, That this Act may be amended or repealed by any Act to be passed in this present Session of Parliament, 26 February 1846.–9 Vict. 88 (Ireland.) A B I L L For the further Amendment of the Acts for the Extension and Promotion of Public Works in Ireland. [Note.—The Words printed in Italics are proposed to be inserted in the Committee.] W c. 33. c. 108. HER EAS an Act was passed in the first year of Her Preamble: 7 W. 4, and present Majesty's reign, intituled, “ An Act to amend the 1 Vict., c. 21. Acts for the Extension and Promotion of Public Works in Ireland,” reciting an Act of the first and second years of his late Majesty 5 King WILLIAM the Fourth, intituled, " An Act for the Extension and 1& 2 W. 4, Promotion of Public Works in Ireland,” the provisions whereof were amended and extended by an Act passed in the then last Session of 6 & 7 W.4, Parliament, and that the Commissioners acting under and in execution thereof were authorized to make advances by way of loan to a certain 10 amount in the said Acts limited in aid of the execution of Public Works in Ireland, and were also authorized to make advances for the like purpose by way of grant in aid of the construction of certain Works to an amount not exceeding in the whole the sum of Fifty thou sand Pounds, and that it was expedient with a view to the further pro15 motion of Public Works in Ireland, and the employment of the labouring population, that the said Commissioners should be enabled to make advances to an additional amount by way of yrant, and that provision should be made for making advances for the execution of Public Works under certain circumstances, partly by 20 way of loan and partly by way of grant; that is to say, by loan to the extent of one moiety of such advances, and by grant to the extent of the other moiety thereof; and by the said first-recited Act it is enacted, that it should and might be lawful to and for the Commissioners for the execution of the said recited Acts, under the like |