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bution, an equivalent value in materials or in work applied 

 conformably to a previously approved plan. 



"9th. That it shall be competent to cess-payers, rated at above 

 annually in any County, Barony, Half-barony, or 

 Townland, to assess the locality in such sum as may be necessary 

 for making up a moiety of the expense of the works specified 

 in the preceding proposition, or of any portion thereof; the 

 assessment to be distributed over a number of years, proportion- 

 ately to the amount. 



"10th. That power be given to establish moderate tolls, to 

 defray the necessary expenses of maintenance of each Pier or 

 Harbour erected for fishery purposes, either in whole, or in part 

 with public money; and if the amounts arising from such tolls 

 shall exceed the sums required for the permanent repair of the 

 works, that such excess be allowed to accumulate to the credit 

 of the work, as a provision for those sudden and extraordinary 

 casualties to which such works are liable, and for the further 

 improvement of the harbour. 



" 1 1th. That it be competent to the Board of Works, at discre- 

 tion, to make short Lines of Communication between such piers, 

 fishing harbours, or stations, (as have wholly or in part been 

 erected, or shall be erected, by public funds,) and the nearest 

 high roads; a moiety of the amount so expended to be levied on 

 the barony by annual instalments or provided by voluntary 

 contribution. 



" 1 2th. That in cases where Loan Funds, under the management 

 of local associations shall be established, to assist the fishermen 

 in procuring, repairing, or fitting out boats intended for the 

 prosecution of the fisheries, a moiety of these funds shall be 

 supplied out of the public money, (to be sufficiently secured in 

 the repayment by the associators requiring that aid,) that the 

 same legal privileges and indulgences be extended to such 

 associations, as are given to charitable societies, under 'the 

 Charitable Loan Acts;' and that the proceedings and accounts 

 of these associations shall be at all times subject to the scrutiny 

 of the controlling body, under whose management the general 

 interests of the fisheries may be placed. 



" 13th. That such local Loan Funds be encouraged in each of 

 the maritime counties, to assist fishermen. 



" 14th. That Loans, not exceeding a moiety of the expense, be 

 made by the Board of Works, on the most favourable terms, to 

 parties desirous of erecting curing-houses, fishery-yards, salt- 

 stores, or fishermen's houses, under proper security for their 

 accomplishment, according to plans previously approved; pro- 

 vided the expense, in any case, shall not be less than two 

 hundred pounds. 



" 15tL That tenants in tail, and bodies corporate, be empow- 



