Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-11-15 00:00:00

MERSEY DOCKS AND HARBOUR BOARD.

FLOATING BRIDGES AND PIERS AT LIVERPOOL AND
• WOODSIDE-ALTERATION OF AUTHORISED WORKS
AT WOODSIDE-EXTENSION OF PERIOD FOR EXE-
CUTING PART OF WORKS AT 'WOODSIDE-ALTERA-
TION OF APPROPRIATION OF LANDING STAGES. AT
LIVERPOOL AND WOODSIDE-TOLLS-POWER TO
APPLY MONEY- ARRANGEMENTS WITH FERRY
OWNERS-CERTAIN GOODS NOT TO BE LIABLE TO
FERRY CLAIMS-AMENDMENT OF ACTS. _

?NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that application is intended
11 to be made to Parliament in the ensuing Session for leave
to bring in a Bill to empower the Mersey Do,cks and Harbour
Board (hereinafter called " the Board "), to construct the
Works and effect the objects hereinafter mentioned, or some
of them, that is to say :
Ist. To make a floating Bridge, Pier, and Jetty on the Liver-
pool side of the River Mersey, commencing on the south side
and at or near the east end of the Basin or Dock called the
Seacombe Basin, belonging to the Board, and terminating
upon and by a junction with the North Landing Stage, on the
River Mersey, near to the second Bridge from the south end of
such Stage, which said proposed Bridge, Pier, and Jetty will
be wholly situate in the parish of Liverpool, in the county of
Lancaster.

2nd. To make a floating Bridge, Pier, and Jetty on the Bir-
kenhead side of the River Mersey, to commence on the north
side and at or near the west end of the open Dock or Basin
authorised 'to lie made by " The Mersey Docks and Harbour
(Works) Act, 1858," at the south end of the proposed Quay or
Sea Wall for inclosing the Woodside Basin, and to terminate
upon and at or near the centre of the intended floating Land-
ing Stage in the River Mersey, at Woodside, authorisa to be
made by such Act, which said last-mentioned Bridge, Pier,
and Jetty will be wholly situate in the extra-parochial Town-
ship or Chapelry of Birkenhead, in the county of Chester.
3rd. To alter and to enlarge the intended open Docker Basin
authorised to be constructed by ",The Mersey Docks and
Harbour (Works) Act, 1858," to the northward of the Wood-
side Pier or Jetty, and to widen and extend such open Dock
or Basin on the south side thereof, and to construct at the west
end thereof a Gridiron or Graving Blocks, and all necessary
Works connected therewith. which said proposed alteration,
enlargement and extension will be situate wholly in the said
extra-parochial Township or Chapelry of Birkenhead, in the
county of Chester.
4th. To divert the Waters of the River 31 ersey into the altered
Dock Basin and Works.

sth. To make, erect, lay down, and maintain in the
Parish and extra-parochial Township and place aforesaid,
and in the Bed or Shore of the River Mersey, all proper
and convenient Ways, Platforms, Quays, Wharfs, Gates,
Moorings, Piles, Pontoons, Buoys, Cofer Dams, En-
gines, and other works and conveniences.
6th. To take or purchase by compulsion or a.,i-reement any
lands or hereditaments required for the purposes of the in-
tended works, and to vary or extingush all rights and privi-
leges incidental thereto or connected therewith.
ith. To abandon and relinquish the construction of the
intended Graving Dock on the south side of the Woodside
Pier or Jetty, authorised to be made by " The Mersey Docks
and Harbour (Works) Act, 1858," and to erect on the Shore of
the River Mersey, and in continuation of the authorised Quay
or Sea Wall at Woodside, and wholly in the said extra-parochial
Township or Chapelry of Birkenhead, a Quay or Sea Wail
along the authorised entrance to such Graving Dock.
Bth. To charge that portion of the said Quay or Sea Wall
which may be constructed in front of or upon land of the
Birkenhead Improvement Commissioners, including the Grid-
iron or Graving Blocks, with an Annual Rent Charge, payable
to the Board, as a consideration for the costs and expenses at-
tendant upon the construction thereof respectively, by making
Section 40 of "The Mersey Docks and Harbour (Works) Act,
1858," applicable thereto.
9th. To extend the period within which Certain parts of the
Works at Woodside fifthly described in "The Mersey Docks
and Harbour( Works) Act, 1858," are required to be completed.
10th. To vary and adapt the said existing North Landing
Stage at Liverpool, and the said authorised floating Landing
Stage at Woodside, or some parts thereof respectively, so as to
provide for the convenient use thereof by Ferry Boats, and for
the passage on and over the same and the embarking and dis-
embarking thereat of Cattle, Carts, Carriages, and other
Vehicles, and to alter the several provisions of "The Mersey
Docks and Harbour Act; 1857," and " The Mersey Dock Acts
Consolidation Act, 1858," and " The Mersey Docks and Harbour
(Works) Act, 1858," which in any way direct the appropriation
of the said Landing Stages, or either of them, or of any parti-
cular portions thereof for any specific purposes, and to make
other provisions in lieu thereof.
11th. To levy tolls, rates, and dues upon Goods, Wares, and
Merchandise, Cattle, Carts, Carriages, and other Vehicles
using or passing over the said floating Bridges, Piers, and
Jetties, or either of them, and to appropriate to the exclusive
use of passengers the several existing and authorised ways,
bridges, and approaches to the said floating Landing Stages at
Liverpool and Woodside respectively.
12th. To apply the income and any other moneys of the
Board towards the purposes of the proposed Works, and gene-
rally for facilitating and improving the communications
between the Docks of the Board at Liverpool and Birkenhead.
13th. To enable the Board to eater into contracts, agree-
ments, and arrangements with the Birkenhead Improvement
Commissioners and all other the owners or lessees for the time
being of the several Ferries now existing, or hereafter to be
established, across the River Mersey, with regard to the use
for the purposes of the traffic of such Ferries respectively, of
the said floating Bridges, Piers, Jetties, or Landing Stages,
and the tolls, rates, and charges to be paid upon, or in respect
thereof; and to enable the Board and the said Commissioners
and such other owners or lessees as aforesaid, or any of them,
to agree for a commutation of such tolls, rates, and dues, by
payment of an annual sum in gross or otherwise, and to apply
money for that purpose.
14th. To provide and declare that all Goods, Wares, and
Merchandise carried in Lighters, Flats, Barges, or other
Vessels from any portion of the Docks, Quays, and Estate of
tee Board at Birkenhead to any portion of the Docks, Quays,
and Estate of the Board at Liverpool, and vice versa, shall be
free from all rights or claims (if any) on the part of the owners
or lessees of any Ferry now or hereafter to be established
across the River Mersey.
15th. To confer, vary, or extinguish other rights and
privileges.
16th. And it is intended, so far as may be necessary or
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of them, that is to say, (loc .1 and personal,) 3 William 4,
chapter 68 ; 1 Victoria, chapter 33 ; 5 Victoria, chapter 5 ; 6
Victoria, chapters 13 and 24 ; 7 Victoria, chapter 32 ; 9 Victoria,
chapter 28; 13 Victoria, chapter 3; and 21 and 22 Victoria,
chapters 85 and 121, relating to the Birkenhead Improvement
Commissioners ; and the 20 and 21 Victoria, chapter 162 ; 21
and 22 Victoria, chapters 90 and 92 ; and 22 Victoria, chapter
20, relating to the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board.
:AND NOTICE I 8 HEREBY FURTHER GIVEN, that, on or before the
thirtieth day of November instant, Plans and Sections of the.
intended Works, together with a Book of Reference to such
Plans, and a Copy of this Notice, as published in the London
Gazette, will be deposited for public inspection with the Clerk
of the Peace for the County Palatine of Lancaster, at his Office,
at Preston, in that County, and with the Clerk of the Peace
for the ounty of Chester, at his Office, at Chester, in that
County, and that on or before the said thirtieth day of Novem-
ber instant a Copy of so much of the said Plans, Sections, and
Book of Reference as relates to each parish and extra-parochial
place from, in, through, or into which the said works will be
made, together with a Copy of this Notice as published in the
London Gazette, will be deposited for public inspection in the
case of each such parish with the Parish Clerk thereof, at hiS
residence, and in the case of each such extra-parochial place
wits the Parish Clerk of some Parish immediately adjoining
thereto, at his residence. And that on or before the twenty-
third day of Decembee next printed Copies of the said intended
Bill will be deposited at the Private Bill Office of the House of
Commons.

Dated this twelfth day of November, 1859.
JOHN NOR , H, Solicitor of the said Board.