Drumcondra, Clonliffe and Glasnevin Township Act 1878
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1878 c. clvii |
[41 & 42 VICT.] Drumcondra, Clonliffe, and [Ch. clvii.]
Glasnevin Township Act, 1878;
CHAPTER clvii.
An Act for the formation and improvement of Drumcon- A-D- ]87s.
dra, Clonliffe, and Glasnevin township, comprising the
districts of Drumcondra, Clonliffe, and Glasnevin, in the
barony of Coolock and county of Dublin; and for other
purposes. [4th July 1878.]
"HE11EAS the districts of Drumcondra, Clonliffe, and Glas-
nevin, in the barony of Coolock and county of Dublin, are
large, populous, and improving districts, and the population thereof
has of late years increased and is increasing, and the formation of
these districts into a township would be of local' and public
advantage:
And whereas it is expedient that provision should be made for
lighting, paving, sewering, draining, cleansing, supplying with
water, and otherwise improving and regulating the township, and
for establishing and controlling markets, and for transferring from
the grand jury of the county of Dublin to the Commissioners to
be appointed for those purposes the supervision, construction,
and maintenance of roads, footways, and bridges within the town-
ship,
and for conferring upon those Commissioners adequate
financial powers; but the purposes aforesaid cannot be attained
without the authority of Parliament:
May it therefore please Your Majesty that it may be enacted;
and 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 the present Parliament assembled, and by the
authority of the same, as follows; (that is to say,)
1.
This Act may for all purposes be cited as the Drumcondra, Short title.
Clonliffe, and Glasnevin Township Act, 1878.
2.
Subject to the provisions of this Act, the several words and Interpreta-
expressions to which by the Acts wholly or partially incorporated tion of
herewith meanings are assigned shall have the same respective
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Drumcondra, Clonliffe, and [41 & 42 VICT.J
Glasnevin Township Act,. 1878.
A.D.
1878. meanings in this Act, unless there be something in the subject or
context repugnant to such construction; and in the incorporated
Acts and this Act, for the purposes of this Act,—
The word " town "or " township " shall mean the Drumcondra,
Clonliffe, and Glasnevin township :
" The Drumcondra, Clonliffe, and Glasnevin township" means
the lands, villages, and hereditaments comprised within the
limits of this Act:
The expression the " Lord Lieutenant" means the Lord Lieu-
tenant or other Chief Governor or Governors of Ireland for
the time being:
The expression "the grand jury" hieans the grand jury of the
county of Dublin, and the expression " the finance committee "
means the finance committee of the county of Dublin:
The expression "the Commissioners " means the Commissioners
appointed by this Act, and their successors :
The word " road" includes any street, footpath, square, avenue,
highway, bridge (except railway or canal bridges), culvert,
court, alley, thoroughfare, or public passage within the limits
of this Act, but does not include a railway.
tion of 3. The Lands Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845, except the pro-
general
Acts,
visions thereof with respect to the taking of lands otherwise than
c 18 1C' ^ agreement, and with respect to the entry upon lands by the
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promoters of the undertaking, the Lands Clauses Consolidation
in^n v ^c^ Amendment Act, 1860, the Commissioners Clauses Act, 1847,
c. i6. ' the Towns Improvement Clauses Act, 1847, the Waterworks
lb
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n Vict, clauses Act, 1847, the Waterworks Clauses Act, 1863, the Gas-
10 &
ll Vict, works Clauses Act, 1847, the Markets and Fairs Clauses Act,
c. 17. 1847, are (except where the same respectively are varied by or are
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inconsistent with the provisions of this Act) incorporated with
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this Act.
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4. The following provisions of the Towns Improvement (Ireland)
c. 14. Act, 1854, are incorporated with this Act, and, as. far as such
Provisions
of provisions respectively are not varied by any of the sections of this
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103.
Act, shall be read and construed as if those provisions- respectively
incorporated were herein expressly re-enacted; (that is to say,)
with this Sections one to three (inclusive), twenty-nine,-fifty-three, fifty-
four, sixty-one, sixty-three, sixty -four, and seventy-two to
one hundred, inclusive.
Provided always, that where in the foregoing provisions, or any
of them, reference is made to any other Act or Acts, or to portions
of any other Act or Acts, such Act or Acts or portions- thereof
respectively shall likewise be deemed to be incorporated with this
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