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Post Roads (Ireland) Act 1832
(2 & 3 Will 4 c.86, 3rd August 1832)

An Act to amend an Act of the Forty-fifth Year of His Majesty King George the Third, relating to Post Roads in Ireland.
[3d August 1832]

'WHEREAS by an Act passed in the Forty-fifth Year of the Reign of His Majesty King George the Third, intituled An Act to amend the Laws for improving and keeping in repair the Post Roads in Ireland,and for rendering the Conveyance of letters by His Majesty's Post Office more secure and expeditious; and by a certain other Act, passed in the Forty-sixth Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Third, intituled An Act to provide for the Security and Expedition of the Conveyance of Letters by the Post in Ireland; and by a certain other Act, passed in the Fifty-third Year of the Reign of His Majesty King George the Third, intituled An Act to amend an Act made in the Forty-fifth Year of His present Majesty, intituled 'An Act to amend the Laws for improving and keeping in repair the Post Roads in Ireland,and for rendering the Conveyance of Letters by His Majesty's Post Office more secure and expeditious,' Provision was made for the Repair and Improvement of the several Lines of Post Roads throughout Ireland, and, amongst other things, His Majesty's Postmaster General for Ireland was authorized and required to cause certain Surveys, Estimates, and Maps of such Lines of Road, and all advantageous Improvements of the same, by cutting off Angles or forming new Lines, and widening, to any Breadth not less than Forty-two Feet nor more than Fifty Feet, such Parts of any Road as might require widening: And whereas by an Act passed in the First Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, intituled An Act for enabling His Majesty to appoint a Postmaster General for the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, it was amongst other things enacted, that it should be lawful for His Majesty, His Heirs and Successors, to appoint any One Person to be Postmaster General for the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, by the Name and Style of His Majesty's Postmaster General; and all the Powers, Authorities, Immunities, Rights, and Privileges theretofore belonging or appertaining to the Postmaster General for Ireland were by the said last-recited Act, together with other Powers and Authorities, transferred to and vested in the Person so to be appointed Postmaster General for the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and other His Majesty's Dominions: And whereas all the Powers, Duties, and Authorities by the before-recited Acts of the Forty-fifth, Forty-sixth, and Fifty-third Years of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Third, in respect of the procuring Surveys, Maps, Plans, and Estimates of Post Roads in Ireland, and all Improvements of the same to be made, were transferred to and vested in the Commissioners for the Execution of an Act passed in the last Session of Parliament, intituled An Act for the Extension and Promotion of Public Works in Ireland: And whereas it is deemed expedient to extend the Provisions of the said Acts of the Forty-fifth, Forty-sixth, and Fifty-third Years of the Reign of His said late Majesty King George the Third to Roads of a Breadth not less than Thirty-two Feet;' be it therefore enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, That all and singular the Powers, Authorities, Immunities, Rights, and Privileges vested in the Postmaster General, or in the said Commissioners for the Execution of the said Act for Public Works in Ireland, as to the surveying, making, forming, gravelling, fencing, widening, and repairing of Roads in Ireland of a Width not less than Forty-two or more than Fifty Feet, shall extend to Roads of a Width not less than Thirty-two Feet nor more Fifty Feet; and all Surveys, Maps, Plans, and Estimates made or to be made of such last-mentioned Roads shall be deemed and taken to be of like Efficacy and Authority in all respects, and dealt with and acted upon in like Manner, as Surveys, Maps, Plans, and Estimates made of any Road in Ireland of a Width not less than Forty-two Feet or more than Fifty Feet; and all and singular other the Powers and Provisions contained in the said recited Acts or any of them, relating to Roads of the Width of Forty-two Feet, shall extend and the same are hereby extended to Roads made or to be made in pursuance of this Act, as fully and effectually as if such Powers and Provisions were repeated and re-enacted in this Act, so far as such Powers and Provisions are applicable to and are not repealed or altered by this Act.

II. Provided always, and be it further enacted, That in case His Majesty's Mail shall be carried between any Two Places, in a Mail Carriage drawn by One or Two Horses, it shall and may be lawful to make any Road under the Provisions of the said recited Acts of a Width not less than Twenty-four Feet nor more than Fifty Feet; any thing herein-before contained to the contrary notwithstanding.