City of Waterford Act 1783

Commissioners appointed for the streets,

to meet at Waterford at time 5 commissioners shall appoint.

XXV. And whereas many of the streets, lanes and passages of the said city of Waterford, and the suburbs thereof; are too narrow, by means whereof the health of the inhabitants is greatly injured, and the trade of the said city is greatly obstructed; be it therefore enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the mayor, recorder, aldermen, sheriffs, and common council men, or assistants of the said city and their successors respectively, together with the governor or governors of the county of the said city, for the time being, and his or their successors, the bishop of the diocese of Waterford, for the time being, and his successors, the representatives in parliament for the county and county of the said city for the time being, the dean of said city for the time being, and his successors, shall and may be hereby appointed commissioners for the making wide and convenient streets, ways, and passages in the said city of Waterford and the suburbs thereof; and that it shall and may be lawful to and for the said commissioners, or the survivors or successors of them, or any five of them, to meet at such times and places in the said city of Waterford as the said commissioners, or the survivors or successors of them, or any five of them shall appoint or think proper.