IDENTITY STATEMENT Reference: IE 627/WSC
Title:
Cork Wide Streets Commissioners
Level of description:
fonds
Date:
c1820 - 1850s (1870s)
Extent:
131 items
CONTEXT Creator
Cork Wide Streets Commissioners
Biographical/Administrative History The Cork Wide Streets Commissioners were appointed under/by the City of Cork Act 1765
“An Act for altering and amending several Statutes heretofore made for the better Regulation of the City of Cork, and for regulating Trials by juries in the Court of Record of the said City: and for establishing Market furies in the said City; and for making wide and convenient Ways, Streets, and Passages in the said City and Suburbs thereof; and for preventing Frauds committed by the Bakers and Meal Makers of the said City… XII. And whereas many of the streets, lanes, and passages of the said city of Cork and suburbs thereof, are too narrow; by means whereof the trade of the said city is greatly obstructed: be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the mayor and recorder of the said city of Cork for the time being, the right honourable John Hely Hutchinson esquire, William Ponsonby esquire, Henry Sheares esquire, the several aldermen of the said city for the time being, Hugh Lawton esquire, Francis Carleton esquire, Stephen Denrochesquire, Riggs Falkiner esquire, Bayley Rogers esquire, Walter Travers esquire, William Verling esquire, Simon Dring esquire, Luke Grant esquire, Kevan Izod merchant, Godfrey Baker merchant, Henry Wrixon esquire, and William Butler esquire, shall be and are hereby appointed commissioners for making wide and convenient streets, ways, and passages in the said city of Cork, and the suburbs thereof; and that it shall be lawful for the said commissioners, or the survivors of them, or any five of them, to meet at such times and places in the said city of Cork, as the said commissioners, or the survivors of them, or any five of them, shall think proper. XIII. And be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all the powers vested by an act made in the thirty first year of the reign of George the second, intituled, An act for making a wide and convenient way, street, and passage from Essex-bridge to the Castle of Dublin, and for other purposes therein mentioned, shall be, and are hereby vested in the herein before mentioned commissioners, or any five or more of them; and that all and singular the clauses contained therein, except that clause wherein certain commissioners therein named, are appointed, shall be in as full force with respect to the said street, lanes, and passages, and the lands, ground, houses, and tenements in the said city of Cork, and the suburbs thereof, as the same are given
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