the 10th Vic., cap. 109, entitled,
"an Act to authorise a further issue of money in aid of public works of
acknowledged utility in poor districts in Ireland," is, according to the
terms of the Act, applicable only to the case of unimproved districts,
like parts of the Counties Kerry, Galway, Mayo, and Donegal, where,
although roads and other works would be productive of more than usual
public advantage, the districts are too poor to bear the whole expense
of them; and the Act therefore directs that in cases in which the
repayment of loans to the amount of at least a moiety of the estimated
expense of such works shall have been secured, and such further
contributions shall have been made as the Commissioners of Her Majesty's
Treasury shall think fit to require from the individuals principally
interested in the projected works, such aid shall be afforded from this
fund in the shape of grants, as the occasion may appear to require.

The applications which may be received for grants under this Act will
have to be carefully examined and inquired into by the Commissioners of
Public Works, who will recommend for sanction those works which appear
to them to combine the greatest permanent utility with the relief of
urgent distress, taking care that the proprietors specially interested
are required to contribute in addition to their share of the general
assessment for the repayment of half the expense of the works, sums
proportioned in some degree to the special benefits they will derive
from them.

My Lords have considered with the careful attention which the importance
of the subject demands the measures proper to be taken, with a view to
continue the late commissariat operations to the extent which may be
absolutely necessary for the purpose of providing supplies of food for
sale in districts to which the ordinary operations of the provision
trade cannot be expected to extend, the strictest regard being at the
same time paid to the pledge which has been given, not to interfere in
any case in which there is a reasonable expectation that the market will
be supplied by mercantile enterprise; and they will proceed to state the
course which appears to them to be the best adapted to secure the
important object in view.

Their Lordships have already given directions that no portion of the
stock of meal remaining in store in the different depots should be sold
merely for the sake of disposing of it, of which depots they will
reliev