Royal Irish Mining Company Act 1824
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1824 c. clvii |
| Year | 1824 |
ANN0
QUINT0
GEORGII
IV.
REGIS.
Cap
clvii.
An
Act
to
encourage
the
workiiig
of
Mines
in
Ireland,
and
to
regulate
a
Joint
Stock
Company
for
that
Purposey
to
be
called
‘‘
The
Royal
Irish
Mining
Company.”
[24th
June
1824.1
HEREAS
that Part of the United Kingdom called
Iretand
abounds in Copper, Lead, Iron, Coals, and other Minerals,
W
Metals, and Metallic Substances, and also in Cobalt, Manga-
nese, Jasper, Porphyry, Marble, Granite, Slate, Steatite, Gypsum, Fuller’s
Earth, Sulphur, Potter’s Clay, and other Matters
and
Products
:
And
whereas the several Mines, Mine Works, Quarries,
Pits,
Holes, Beds,
Veins, and other Bearings
of
Mines, Ore, Copper,
Lead,
Iron, Coal,
Metals, and Minerals, and other Matters and Products as aforesaid, have
not been sufficiently worked for want
of
a
sufficient Capital
for
that Pur-
pose: And whereas it would be
of
great public Advantage and Utility,
and it would be highly beneficial to that Part
of
the
said United
King-
dom
called
Ireland
generally, and particularly
to
the labouring Classes
thereof, that a Joint Stock Company should
be
established for the Purpose
of working such Mines, Mine Works, Quarries, Pits, Holes,
Beds,
Veins,
and
other Bearings
of
Mines, Ore, Copper,
Lead,
Iron,
Coal,
and other
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Minerals,
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GEO
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I
I
IV.
Cap.
clvii.
Minerals, Metals, and Metallic Substances, and of raising and making mer-
chantable such Lead, Iron, Coal, and other Minerals, Metals, and Metallic
Substances, and also Cobalt, Manganese, Jasper, Aeethyst, Porphyry,Mar-
ble,
Granite, Slate, Gypsum, Fuller’s Earth, Sulphur3 Porter’s Clay, and
other Matters and Productsasaforesaid in that Part of the said United King-
dom called
Ireland:
And whereas the several Persons hepein-after named
are wiIling and desirous, at their own Costs and Charges,
to
effect
the
se-
veral Purposes aforesaid, but such beneficial Purposes tannot
tie
harried
fully and completely into Execution without the Authority
bf.
Pai%ttbent
:
May
it
therefore please
Your
Majesty that it may be enacted
;
and be it
enacted by the King’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with theAdvice and
Consent of the
Lords
Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in
this
Collipany
in-
present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority
of
the same,
That
the
corporated.
Most Noble
Howe
Peter
Marquis of
Sligo,
the Right Honourable
John
Chambre
Earl
of
Meath,
the Right Honourable
Francis William
Earl
of
Charlemont,
the Right Honourable
Robert
Earl
of
Roden,
The
Honour-
able and very Reverend
Richard Ponsonby
Dean of
Saint
Patricks,
the
Right Honourable
George
Knox,
the Honourable
Henry Caupeld,
Sir
Tho-
mas Esmcnde
Baronet, Sir
Capel
Molyneux
Baronet,
Donough Obrien,
John
Atkinson, Anthony Strong Hussey, John MCDonnell, Christopher Fitz-Simon,
Patrick Boylan, John Esmonde, Phillip
MG~~oY,
Patrick Woods, George
Sta-
pleton, Patrick Nolan, William Johnson, Daniel Arabin, TYilliam Lindsay
Darling, John Dawson Duckett,
and
Michael Roach,
and their seve-
ral Executors, Administrators, and Assigns, and all and every other
Person and Persons, Body or Bodies Politic, Corporate,
or
Colle-
giate, Corporation Aggregate or Sole,
who
shall, according
to
the Con-
ditions and Restrictions herein-after set forth, be possessed of any Part
of
the said Joint Stock, their several
and
respective Executors, Ad-
ministrators, and Assigns,
so
lodg
as
they
shall
hold the same, and
no
longer
;
and they and their Executors, Administrators, ,and
As-
signs holding
such
Shares in the said Stock
As
aforesaid, shall have full
Power and Authority, from Time to Time, and
at
all Times
herafter,
to
search for and
work
all
such Mines and Mine Works, Quarries, Pits,
Holes, Beds, Veins, and other Bearings of Mines, Ore, Coal, and other
Minerals and Metals,
and
Metallic Substances, and all other Ibhters
and Products in that Part
of
the United Kingdom
of
Great Britain
and
Ireland
called
IreZand
as aforesaid,
aS
they shall contiiack fM,
take an Lease, or hold
or
possess, under or
by
virtue of this Act, md %or
the Purposes aforesaid,
to
dig, sink, delve, drive, mrk, and make a11 or
any
Pits,
Shafts, Adits, Levels, Soughs, Tunnels, and other Workibgs
as
the said Company shall think necessary and proper, and
to
make, erect,
and
use
any Machinery, Steam, or other Engines, Windlasses,
Whims,
Ropes, Ladders,
Tools,
Tackle, Materials, and other Conveniences, and
for the due and complete working
of
any such Mines, Mine
WOT~S,
Quarries, Pits, Holes, Beds, Veins,
or
other Bearings of Mines,
Om
&al.,
.and other Minerals and Metals,. and Metallic Substances,
ad
any
other Matters and Products as aforesaid, and
to
dig
and
raise
Clay
for
making and burning of Bricks, Tiles, Gutters,
and
Ridges, or any
bther Matters, and
to
erect and build
any
Erections or Buildings which
shell
be
reqsite
for the Purposes herein mentioned, and
to
make, burn,
ad
eonvert
Coal
and
Culm into Charcoal or Coke
;
and also
to
make and
w
all-mnvenient
Ways,
Roads,
and
Railways for the Use
of
any
Mine
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