Inverness Bridge (Treasury Grant) Act 1855
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1855 c. 113 |
| Year | 1855 |
(18 & 19 Vict.) C A P. CXIII.
[14th August 1855]
'WHEREAS by an Actpassed in the Session of Parliament holden in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Years of Her Majesty, Chapter Sixty-six, ‘for rebuilding the Bridge over the RiverNess at the Town of Inverness , and improving the Approaches thereto, and for amending the Acts relating to Highland Roads and Bridges,’ after Provision for the Application of a Sum of Seven thousand seven hundred Pounds towards the Expense of erecting the said Bridge, it was enacted, that it should be lawful for the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury to advance by way of Loan to the Commissioners of Highland Roads and Bridges, for the Purposes of the said Act, any further Sum not exceeding Ten thousand seven hundred Pounds out of the growing Produce of the Consolidated Fund, to be repaid, with Interest, in manner therein-after provided, and that there should, upon the Advance by the said Commissioners of the Treasury of all or any Part of the said Loan of Ten thousand seven hundred Pounds, be appropriated to the Repayment of the Sum advanced and Interest thereof such Parts of the Sums allotted to the Counties ofInverness, Ross, Sutherland , and Caithness , out of an annual Grant of Five thousand Pounds, in the said Act mentioned, as would produce an annual Payment at the Rate of Six Pounds Ten Shillings for every One hundred Pounds of the Sum so advanced, and so in proportion for any lesser Amount, and such annual Payment should be made for the Term of Twenty-two Years, to be computed from the Sixth Day of April or Tenth Day of October which should first happen after such Advance, and further Provisions are therein contained concerning such annual Payment, and for the Deduction thereof from the Sums allotted to the said Counties, and to provide for the Deficiency to arise by such Deductions: And whereas the Expense of erecting the said Bridge having exceeded the estimated Amount thereof it is expedient that further Public Assistance should be afforded towards defraying such Expense upon the Conditions herein-after expressed:' 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...
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