Continue certain Acts
Acts for
for regulating Turnpike
Roads in Ireland.

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in Committee.]

HEREAS certain Acts for making, amending, and repairing Preamble. the Turnpike Roads in Ireland were, by an Act passed in

the Session of Parliament holden in the Fourth and Fifth 4 & 5 Vict. c. 6. Years of the Reign of Her present Majesty, amended and continued

5 for a Time therein limited: And whereas the said Acts were further continued from Time to Time, save as specially excepted: And 15 & 16 Vict. whereas, under the Provisions of an Act of the last Session of Parlia- c. 44. ment, the said Acts, save as therein excepted, are further continued, and will remain in force until the Thirty-first Day of July in the 10 present Year, or, if Parliament be then sitting, until the End of the then Session of Parliament: And whereas it is expedient that the several Acts for making, amending, or repairing Turnpike Roads in Ireland should be further continued: Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and 15 Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, as follows:

I. Any Act for making, amending, or repairing any Turnpike Acts for Road or Roads in Ireland which will expire on the said Thirty-first making, &c. Turnpike 20 Day of July in the present Year, or at or before the End of the Roads in

Ireland, which will expire on 31st July 1853, &c., further continued.

Nothing in

this Act to

apply to

and 39 G. 3.

c. 52.

present or next ensuing Session of Parliament, or before the Thirty-
first Day of July One thousand eight hundred and fifty-four, shall
be and the same is hereby continued, as amended by the said recited
Act of the Fourth and Fifth Years of Her Majesty's Reign, until the
Thirty-first Day of July One thousand eight hundred and fifty-four, 5
or, if Parliament be then sitting, until the End of the then Session of

Parliament.

II. Provided always, That nothing herein contained shall extend or apply to an Act of the Thirty-eighth Year of His late Majesty 38 G. 3. c 22. George the Third, intituled "An Act for improving and repairing the 10 "Turnpike Roads leading from the City of Cork to the Brook "which bounds the Counties of Cork and Tipperary, near the Foot of "Kilworth Mountain, and for repealing the several Laws heretofore "made relating to the said Act," or to an Act of the Thirty-ninth George the Third, to explain and amend the said Act.

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Confirm certain Provisional Orders made under an Act of the Fifteenth Year of Her present Majesty, to facilitate Arrangements for the Relief of Turnpike Trusts, and to make certain Provisions respecting Exemptions from Tolls.

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HEREAS, in pursuance of the Act of the Fifteenth Year Preamble. of Her Majesty, "to facilitate Arrangements for the 14 & 15 Viet. "Relief of Turnpike Trusts, and to make certain Provisions c. 38. "respecting Exemptions from Tolls," certain Provisional Orders have 5 been made for reducing the Rate of Interest, and for extinguishing the Arrears of Interest on the Mortgage Debts charged or secured on the Tolls or Revenues of certain Turnpike Roads, and such Orders have been published in the London Gazette, and in Newspapers circulating in the Neighbourhood of such Roads, and the Dates of 10 such Provisional Orders, and the Acts under which the Tolls or Revenues on which such Debts are charged or secured are levied or raised, together with the Amount to which the Rate of Interest on such Debts is to be reduced, and the Day up to which the Interest and Arrears of Interest on such Debts are to be extinguished by such