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BOUNDARY SURVEY (IRELAND) ACT 1859

BOUNDARY SURVEY (IRELAND) ACT 1859 - LONG TITLE

An Act to amend the Act of the Twentieth and Twenty-first years of
Victoria, Chapter Forty-five, relating to the Survey of Boundaries in
Ireland.{1}
[8th August 1859]
Preamble, which recited the Boundary Survey (I) Act 1857 (c.45),
rep. by SLR 1892

BOUNDARY SURVEY (IRELAND) ACT 1859 - SECT 1
Boundary surveyor may alter name of lands erroneously named in
ordnance map on application of owners and proof of error.

1. The provisions contained in the said recited Act for enabling
the boundary surveyor for the time being, when he shall find that
the boundaries of any land have been erroneously marked out, laid
down, or described on the ordnance map of any county, to make such
alteration therein as the circumstances of the case shall require,
shall extend and apply to enable such boundary surveyor in any case
where any lands have not been correctly named on such ordnance map,
so far as the same can be shown by any ancient deed, instrument,
document, or writing, to make such alteration therein as the
circumstances of the case shall require; provided, that application
be made to him for such alteration by the owner or owners, or
reputed owner or owners of such land, stating therein the grounds
on which such application is made, and the name of the lands which
it is proposed by such owner or owners to substitute for the name
of such lands so entered on such ordnance map.

BOUNDARY SURVEY (IRELAND) ACT 1859 - SECT 2
Boundary surveyor may define boundaries of parishes divided under
1827 c.43; 1833 c.37; and 1848 c.41.

2. Such boundary surveyor may define and mark out the boundaries of
any parish which shall have been divided under the provisions of an
Act passed in the seventh and eighth years of the reign of King
George the Fourth, chapter forty-three, or of an Act passed in the
third and fourth years of the reign of King William the Fourth,
chapter thirty-seven, or of an Act passed in the eleventh and
twelfth years of the reign of Her Majesty, chapter forty-one, and
of any adjoining parish to which any lands separated from such
first-mentioned parish shall have been united.

BOUNDARY SURVEY (IRELAND) ACT 1859 - SECT 3
Construction.

3. The said recited Act and this Act shall be read together as
one Act; and all such alterations of boundaries or names of land
hereby authorized to be made, shall be subject to the provisions of
an Act passed in the seventeeth year of the reign of Her Majesty,
chapter seventeen, with respect to the Order or Orders of the Lord
Lieutenant and Privy Council.

BOUNDARY SURVEY (IRELAND) ACT 1859 - SECT 4
Publication of Order in Council.

4. ... It shall be sufficient for the purposes of this Act and
the several Acts herein-before mentioned that the Order only of the
Lord Lieutenant in Council, made in respect of the detailed report
and ordnance plans submitted by the boundary surveyor, shall be
published in the [Belfast Gazette]: but every such Order in Council
shall contain a clause that the said Order, and the report in
detail and the ordnance plans submitted by the boundary surveyor,
shall remain on record in the Council Office, and shall be
exhibited to any person or persons who may desire to inspect the
same, without fee or reward; and a copy of the said Order in
Council, with copies of the report and ordnance plans certified
under the hand of the clerk of the Council, shall be transmitted
to the [chief clerk] for each county to which such Order shall in
any way relate, to be by him kept and preserved in his office,
and exhibited at all reasonable hours to any person or persons who
may desire to inspect the same, without fee or reward.

BOUNDARY SURVEY (IRELAND) ACT 1859 - SECT 5
Extent of Act.

5. This Act shall extend to Ireland only.


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