In case any Act under which

Trustees are appointed should expire, the Commissioners may take possession of Toll Gates, and levy Tolls until Money advanced is repaid.

and be accounted for and paid over in the Manner and under the Powers and Provisions of the several Acts under which such additional and other Tolls are now collected and taken by such respective Trustees; and in case the said respective Trustees or Commissioners, or any or either of them, shall refuse or neglect to levy, collect, or continue the said additional or other Tolls respectively, or shall lower the same, or shall make default in payment of the Sum or Sums to be paid by them as herein-before directed, or the Interest thereof respectively, before the same Sums and the Interest thereof respectively shall be fully paid off and discharged, it shall and may be lawful for the said Commissioners acting in execution of the said first-recited Act of the Third and Fourth Year of the Reign of His present Majesty to enter upon and take possession of the Toll Gates, Bars, and Toll Houses of the Trustees or Commissioners making default, and to collect, take, receive, and recover the Tolls arising on the Roads under the Care of the Trustees or Commissioners making default, and to pay over and apply the same in manner directed by the said several Acts under which such additional and other Tolls are now raised, collected, and taken by such Trustees and Commissioners respectively, and by this Act, and to execute all the Powers, Provisions, and Authorities in and by the said several Acts in such Case given, as fully and effectually as if the same were repeated and re-enacted in and by this Act.

XXXV. And be it further enacted, That in case any Act or Acts of Parliament, under the Powers and Authorities of which any of the Roads hereby intended to be altered and improved are now repaired and maintained, shall expire, and shall not be renewed, whereby any of the Trusts mentioned and specified in the said Schedule (A.) to this Act shall be dissolved, and the Trustees acting in the Execution of the Act or Acts of Parliament so expiring discharged, it shall and may be lawful for the said Commissioners for executing the said first-recited Act of the Third and Fourth Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, and they are hereby authorized and empowered, to take possession of the Toll Gates or Bars and Toll Houses on the Road or Roads previously maintained and repaired under the Powers and Provisions of such expired Act or Acts, and to continue in possession thereof, and to take, collect, demand, and recover all such Tolls as the Trustees under the said expired Act or Acts of Parliament were, previously to the Expiration thereof, entitled to take, collect, demand, and recover, until the said Commissioners acting in execution of the said first-recited Act of the Third and Fourth Year of the Reign of His present Majesty shall be repaid and reimbursed such Principal Sum of Money as shall under the Provisions of this Act be due and payable to them, at the Expiration of such Act or Acts, from the Trustees of the Road previously repaired under the Provisions of such expired Act or Acts, together with all Interest thereon, and the Charges and Expences of collecting the same; and all the Powers, Authorities, Provisions, Penalties, Forfeitures, and Remedies of such expired Act or Acts shall continue and be in force and available in Law, as far as the same may be necessary and required, for enabling the said Commissioners for executing the said recited Act of the Third and Fourth Year of

Repairs of

Roads.

Commissioners may grant Order to seize and levy Tolls in Cases of

Default of

Trustees.

the Reign of His present Majesty to collect, demand, and recover the said last-mentioned Tolls, and until the said Principal Sum due and owing to the said last-mentioned Commissioners, together with the Interest thereof, and the Expences of taking possession of the said Toll Gates or Bars and Toll Houses, and of collecting and receiving the said Tolls, shall be fully paid off and discharged: Provided always, that nothing herein contained shall extend or be Commissioners construed to extend to make liable the said Commissioners for not liable for executing the said first-recited Act of the Third and Fourth Year of the Reign of His present Majesty to any Charges for the Repairs of any Road on which they shall collect and receive the Tolls. XXXVI. And be it further enacted, That in every Case where Power is herein-before given to the said Commissioners for executing the said first-recited Act of the Third and Fourth Year of the Reign of His present Majesty to seize and collect the Tolls on any Road the Trustees or Commissioners of which shall neglect or refuse to levy, collect, or continue the said additional or other Tolls hereby directed to be taken, collected, and continued thereon, or shall lower the same, or shall make Default in the Payments hereby required to be made for paying off, and discharging any Sum of Money by this Act charged on such Trustees or Commissioners, it shall and may be lawful for the said Commissioners for executing the said first-recited Act of the Third and Fourth Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, and they are hereby authorized, to grant an Order under the Hands and Seals of any Three or more of them to any Person or Persons, authorizing and requiring such Person or Persons to seize the Tolls then collected and taken by the Trustees or Commissioners so refusing or making default; and the Person or Persons to whom such Order shall be directed is and are hereby authorized, immediately on receiving such Order, by himself or themselves, or such other Person or Persons as he or they shall employ for the Purpose, forthwith_to_take possession of the Toll Gates or Bars and Toll Houses of the Trustees or Commissioners so refusing or neglecting or making default as aforesaid, and to take, collect, and receive the Tolls which such Trustees or Commissioners would otherwise have taken, collected, and received; and the said Person or Persons so executing the said Order shall continue in possession of the said Toll Gates or Bars and Toll Houses, and continue to take, collect, and receive the said Tolls, and account for the same to the said Commissioners for executing the said first recited Act of the Third and Fourth Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, until the Principal Sum charged on and payable by the Trustees or Commissioners so refusing or neglecting or making default, together with the Interest thereon, shall be fully paid and discharged.

XXXVII. And be it further enacted, That the Person or Persons authorized to enter upon and take possession of the said Toll Gates or Bars as aforesaid shall hold possession thereof, and take, collect, demand, and recover the Tolls so entered upon and taken possession of, under all the Powers, Authorities, and Provisions, and by the same Remedies which the Trustees or Commissioners so neglecting or refusing or making default might have done if such Entry and Possession had not taken place; and if any Trustee, Commissioner,

Penalty for obstructing Persons put in possession.

Application of the Money to be paid by the Dunstable and other Trusts to the Commissioners.

Collector, or other Person shall refuse to deliver up the Toll Gate or Toll Bar to the Person or Persons so authorized, or shall oppose, hinder, or obstruct him or them in entering upon and taking such Possession, or in the collecting, taking, receiving, or recovering any Tolls whatsoever authorized to be taken by any such Person under the Powers and Provisions of this Act, it shall and may be lawful for the Person or Persons so authorized to enter upon and take such Possession, and to collect and take such Toll or Tolls, forthwith to apprehend the Person or Persons making such Obstruction, and to convey him, her, or them before some Justice of the Peace acting for the County or District where such Obstruction shall take place, or, in case of being unable to apprehend such Offender, to apply to such Justice, who, on such Application, shall forthwith grant his Warrant to apprehend the Person or Persons making such Obstruction, and to cause him, her, or them to be brought before him; and it shall and may be lawful for the Justice before whom the Person or Persons making such Obstruction shall be brought, and he is hereby empowered, forthwith to inquire into the Truth of the Facts, and shall on Proof of the Party or Parties brought before him having been guilty of such Obstruction, such Proof to be on the Confession of the Party or Parties, or the Oath of One or more credible Witness or Witnesses, thereupon impose a Fine not exceeding the Sum of Five Pounds on every Person guilty of such Obstruction; and in default of the Payment of such Fine, or without imposing such Fine, the said Justice shall, if he shall think fit, commit the Person or Persons convicted of any such Obstruction to the Common Gaol or House of Correction of the County for which the said Justice shall act, there to remain, without Bail or Mainprize, for any Time not exceeding Fourteen Days; and the said Justice shall also, if required, issue his Warrant, directing the Constable or Constables of the Hundred within which the Turnpike Gate and Toll House to be seized shall be situated to assist the Person or Persons so authorized as aforesaid in seizing and taking possession of the same.

XXXVIII. And be it further enacted, That the several Sums of Money to be from Time to Time paid by the Trustees of the Dunstable Trust, the Trustees of the Puddle Hill Trust, the Trustees of the Hockliffe and Stratford Trust, the Trustees of the Stratford and Dunchurch Trust, the Trustees of the Dunchurch and Stonebridge Trust, and the Commissioners acting in execution of the said recited Act of the Fifty-ninth Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Third, under the Provisions herein-before contained, to the said Commissioners acting in execution of the said first-recited Act of the Third and Fourth Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, in the Repayment of the Money to be advanced pursuant to the Provisions of this Act, and the Interest thereof, shall be paid by them the said last-mentioned Commissioners to the said Commissioners for the Issue of Exchequer Bills; and the Receipts of the said Commissioners acting in execution of the said first-recited Act of the Third and Fourth Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, or any Three of them, for any Sums of Money to be so paid to them, shall be sufficient Discharges to the Trustees or Commissioners by whom

the same shall be paid, and shall protect them from being bound to see to the Application thereof, or from being answerable for the Misapplication or Nonapplication thereof.

XXXIX. And be it further enacted, That it shall and may be lawful to and for the Lords Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury, and they are hereby authorized and empowered, if they shall think proper so to do, at any Time or Times hereafter, by Warrant or Warrants under the Hands of any Three or more of them, to order and direct that the Rate of Interest then payable by the said Trustees of the Dunstable Trust, the Trustees of the Puddle Hill Trust, the Trustees of the Hockliffe and Stratford Trust, the Trustees of the Stratford and Dunchurch Trust, the Trustees of the Dunchurch and Stonebridge Trust, and the Commissioners acting in the Execution of the said recited Act of the Fifty-ninth Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Third, or any or either of them, on the several Sums to be advanced by the Commissioners for the Issue of Exchequer Bills under the Powers and Provisions of this Act, or already advanced by the said Commissioners or the Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury under the Powers and Provisions of any of the Acts heretofore passed for improving the Road between London and Holyhead, for making Alterations and Improvements in the Roads within the said several Trusts, shall be lowered and reduced to such Rate of Interest as shall be specified and directed in and by such Warrant or Warrants; and from and after the Time or Times to be mentioned in such Warrant or Warrants the said several Trustees or Commissioners named in such Warrant or Warrants shall be charged and chargeable with such reduced or lower Rate of Interest on the Sum or Sums therein specified, and such reduced or lower Rate of Interest shall from thenceforth be accepted and taken by the Commissioners for the Issue of Exchequer Bills or the Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury, as the Case may be, in lieu and stead of the Interest which may at the Time of the issuing of such Warrant or Warrants be then payable on the said Sum or Sums.

Lords Commissioners of Treasury may reduce

Rate of Interest on Loans.

Howth Roads and Harbour

transferred to Commissioners

for Public Works in Ire

acting therein.

XL. And whereas it was by the said recited Act of the Fourth "Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Fourth enacted, that from and after the First Day of September One ⚫ thousand eight hundred and twenty-three the Trustees acting in 'execution of the therein-recited Acts passed by the Parliament of Ireland in the Twenty-sixth, Twenty-eighth, Twenty-ninth, land, and former Thirty-first, Thirty-second, Thirty-third, and Thirty-eighth Years Commissioners of the Reign of His then late Majesty King George the Third, discharged from and of the said therein-recited Act of the Fifty-sixth Year of the same Reign, passed by the Parliament of the United King'dom of Great Britain and Ireland, and of any other Act or Acts passed respecting the Roads therein described, should be relieved from the Burden and Execution of the said Act or Acts so far as related to the Repairs of such Parts of the said Roads as were then or which should thereafter be travelled over by His Majesty's Mail Coaches passing to, from, and between 'the General Post Office in the City of Dublin and the new Packet Harbour at Howth, and that the said Parts of the said Roads should from and after the said First Day of September

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be vested in the said Commissioners appointed by the nowreciting Act, and should be repaired, supported, and maintained by the said Commissioners; provided always, that the said Trus'tees should continue to levy, demand, take, recover, and receive the Tolls then collected by them at the several Turnpikes or Toll Gates on the said Roads; and it was by the now-reciting Act further enacted, that from and after the said First Day of September One thousand eight hundred and twenty-three all that Road commonly called the North Strand, commencing at the Circular Road near to the City of Dublin, and ending at Annesley Bridge, over which His Majesty's Mail Coaches then or should thereafter travel, passing from the General Post Office in the City of Dublin to the new Packet Harbour at Howth, should be and become vested in the said Commissioners thereby appointed; and it was thereby further enacted, that the said Roads travelled over by His Majesty's Mail Coaches passing to, from, and between the General Post Office in the City of Dublin and the new Packet Harbour at Howth, therein-before vested in 'the said Commissioners by that Act appointed, should be maintained, repaired, and supported under the Powers, Authorities, and Provisions relating to Regulations and Repairs contained in the said therein-recited Acts passed by the Parliament of Ireland in the Twenty-sixth, Twenty-eighth, Twenty-ninth, Thirty-first, Thirty-second, Thirty-third, and Thirty-eighth Years of the Reign of His said then late Majesty, and in the 'said therein-recited Act of the Fifty-sixth Year of the same Reign, and in any other Act or Acts relating to the said Roads in the said Acts described, all which Powers, Provisions, and 'Authorities were thereby continued and extended to the said Roads, and should and might be exercised and carried into effect by the said Commissioners by that Act appointed upon the said Mail Coach Roads thereby vested in them, for the procuring Materials, and repairing and maintaining such Roads, as fully and effectually as the same might have been by the Trustees acting in execution thereof in case the now-recited Act had not 'been passed, and the said Trustees should continue to exercise all the other Powers of the said Acts in the recovering the Tolls 'collected on the said Roads, and otherwise as they had there'tofore done; and it was by the now-reciting Act further enacted, that from and after the First Day of September One thousand eight hundred and twenty-three the Commissioners appointed in and by the therein-recited Act of the Fiftieth Year of the Reign of His then late Majesty King George the Third, for improving the Harbour on the North Side of the Hill of Howth, should be discharged and freed from the future Care and Maintenance thereof, and should cease to carry into execution the said therein<recited Act, or any of the Powers thereof, and that from and ' after the said First Day of September all the said Harbour, and 'all Roads, Piers, Quays, Works, and other Erections and Buildings made, erected, or built by the said Commissioners, or which should belong or appertain to the said Harbour, and the Ground and Soil on which the same were built, and all Ground applied for such Purposes or purchased by the said Commissioners for improving the said Harbour, and all other Land and Ground,

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