Midland Great Western Railway Act 1849

Power for Company to take possession of Lands, &c. on Approval of Plans and Estimates by the Commissioners of Public Works.

Plans to be deposited and Notices given.

XIX. And be it enacted, That such last-mentioned Commissioners shall consider such Valuations as aforesaid, and may at their sole Discretion alter or vary the same, and may call for such further Information relating thereto as they shall think fit; and so soon as the said last-mentioned Commissioners or any Two of them shall from Time to Time have signified in Writing their Approval and Sanction of any such Maps, Schedules, and Estimates deposited as aforesaid, or any Part thereof, it shall be lawful for the said Company from Time to Time to enter upon any Lands and Hereditaments described in such Plans so deposited as aforesaid, the Estimate of the Value whereof shall have been approved as aforesaid, and thence-forward to hold the same in Fee discharged of all Estates and Interests whatsoever of any Person or Body whomsoever; and further, that the said Company shall proceed to deposit so much of the said Maps, Schedules, and Estimates so approved of as aforesaid as relates to each Parish in which any Lands or Hereditaments required to be taken for the Purposes of the said Railway between Mullingar and Galway are situate with the Clerk of the Poor Law Union of every such Parish, and thereupon the Company shall publish a Notice once in the Dublin Gazette, and once for Three successive Weeks in some one and the same Newspaper circulated in the County in which such Lands, Tenements, and Hereditaments are situate; and every such Notice shall state the Time and Place of depositing such Maps, Schedules, and Estimates with the Clerk of such Union, and the Sanction and Approval of the said Maps, Schedules, and Estimates by the said Commissioners of Public Works, and shall require all Persons claiming to have any Right to or Interest in the Lands and Hereditaments required for the Purposes of the said Railway in such Parish to deliver to the Company on or before a Day to be named in such Notice (and which Day shall not be earlier than Thirty-one Days from the Date of the Insertion of the last of such Newspaper Notices) a short Statement in Writing of the Nature of such Claim or Right, and a short Abstract of the Title on which the same shall be founded, such Statement and Abstract to be paid for by the said Company.