Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-11-30 00:00:00

TANCY ACT

APPOINTMENT OF COMMISSIONERS OR TRUSTEES—
POWER TO PURCHASE TOWN AND ANCHORAGE
DUES LEVIED WITHIN CERTAIN PARTS OF THE
RIVER MERSEY EXERCISE OF CONSERVANCY'
POWERS, AND APPLICATION OF DUES FOR. THAT
PURPOSE—ALTERATIONS OF DUES AND RATES—
POWER. TO BORROW MONEIHAPPLICATION .OF
DUES AND RATES AND OTHER MONIES, AND
AMENDMENT OF ACTS.
1 OTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that application
is intended to be made to Parliament ix the- ensuing ses-
ion for an act to effect the following, or some of the following,
mong other purposes : namely,
To vest in a body of commissioners or trustees, to, be ap-
pointed under this act, powers for the purchase, either, compul-
sorily or-by agreement, within a period to be. limited:by such
act, of all such powers, rights and privileges of imposing or
collecting all such and so many of the rates or- dues. in the
Mersey Docks and Harbour Act' 1857, called town.dnes and
anchorage dues, as hereinafter mentioned,, that is- to say, All
such' and so' many of the said, town dues-as shall, be lawfully
payable for or in respect of any goods not liable under or by virtue
of the Mersey Docks Acts Consolidation. Act, 1855 to- the pay-
ment of dock rates on goods specified in Schedhle• (C): to such
act annexed, or any of them whi:th shallbeaarried or eta-Ivey ed
upon, -over, or along any part of the Portof Liverpool lying
above or on the south-easterly, side of an imaginary straight
line drawn across the River Mersey from. Easthana-ferry slip
to the north-westerly boundary of the present Garston
Dock-quay, and all such and so maw of the said anchor- ,
age dues as shall be lawitilly payable upon or for or in ,
respect of any vessel hot liable-under or by virtue of the said '
Mersey Docks Acts Consolidation Act,, IS*: bathe payment in
respect of the same voyage of tlock tonnage rates mentioned in '
Schedule (B) to the same act annexed, which shall enter into;
or depart from or navigate or sail ar be propelled upon or along
any part of the River. Mersey, lying or being on the south,.
_easterly side, of the saiddrnagitetry straight line, in considera-
tion of there being paid or Secured to the Mersey Docks and
Harbotir 'Board or other parties, if any entitled thereto, by
wayofoimpensition for such dues, a proportionate part.of the
"or
price consideration paid for the whole of the said: dues '
trans',erred to the said board by the said Mersey Docks and
Har' sour Act, 1857, or such other ptice or consideration to be
Pal d or secured in such manner as to Parliament, may seem
re .set.
To make, such provisions as to Parliament may• seem meet
- for the appointment, by election, nomination, or otherwise, of
a body of commissioners or trustees, for the purpose of carry-
ing into effect the objects of the proposed ant,
' To vest in the said commissioners or trustees appointed
under the said proposed act, the said town, dues and ancho-
rage dues, which shall be so purchased by them, and all
powers, rights, and privileges of iztkp:csing or collecting the
same dues respectively, and all powers of revision and varia-
tion, and all other powers in relation, thereto, which are now
vested in the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board, or which
have been lawfully exercised by them, or by the Mayor, Alder-
men and Burgesses of the Borough of Liverpool, in relation.
thereto ; and to divest the said Mersey Docks and Harbour
Board of all such powers; rights, and privilegei.
To empower the commissioners or trustees appointed under
the proposed act, to impose, levy, and collect the town dues
and anchorage dues, which they shall have so purchased,
either by the same or any other names or name ; or to ex-
tingukh such town dues and anchorage dues; and to impose,.
levy, and collect other rates or dues in lieu thereof, and sub-
ject' to the approval of the Board of ,Trade, or of such other
authority as to Parliament may seem meet, from fine 'to time;
to revise, alter, or Vary the same dues or rates respectively,
or any of them ; or, from to time, to suspend or forego, and
afterwarls to resume the collection of them, or any of them,
(but subject, nevertheless, to such, limitations as to prevent
the same from being imposed, levied, or collected according
to a higher scale or scales of rates or duties than the scales of
town.dues and anchorage dues respectively, which shall Ise in
force, and by which the said dues shall be collected at 'the
. time of ,the passing of the said proposed act,) and to confer,
" vary, or extinguish exemptions from payment of such rates
and dues, and other rights and privileges itirelation thereto.-
To empower the commissioners or trustees appointed under
the said proposed act, with a view to carrying into effect the
several purposes thereof to raise and borrow, and from time to
time to re-borrow money-on-bend or otherwise, upon security
of the said town dues and anchorage dues iespeetiVely, which
shall be so purchased by or vested in them as aforesaid; or of
anyother dues or rates which may for the time being be vested
in them. .

To, enable the said commissioners or trustees appointed
under the said proposed act, from time to time, with the con-
sent and under the direction or control of the Commissio-Aers
for the Conservancy of the River Mersey, to exercise or execute
all or any of the powers or provisions of an act made and
passed in the sth and 6-.13. years. of the reign of Her present
Majesty, entituled "An Act for the better preserving the
navigation of the River Mersey," so far as relates to the por-
tion of the said River Mersey lying or being on the south-
easterly side of the said imaginary straight line, or any part
thereof.

To enable the said commissioners or trustees appointed
under the said proposed act, to apply any monies• which shall
be received or collected by them, in pursuance of the said
propOsed act, in payment of the expenses of and attending the
obtaining of the said proposed act, and carrying into effect
the provisions thereof, and subject as aforesaid to enable the.
said Com Missioners or Trustees appointed under the said pro-
posed act; to provide for the abolition or reduction of the said
rates and dues, or either of them.
To amend, alter, repeal or enlarge, so far as may be neces-
sary for the purposes aforesaid, or any of them, all or some of
the powers and provisions of the several local and personal
acts following : namely,. "The Mersey Docks and Harbour
Acts, 1857 ;" "The Mersey Docks Acts Consolidation
Act, 1858 ;" "The Mersey Docki and Harbour (Works) Act,
1858 ;" "The Mersey Docks (Money) Act, 1359" ; and the
act passed in the sth and 6th years of the reign of her present
Majesty, cap. 110; or any act or acts, or portion of any act or
acts incorporated therewith, respectively.
AND NOTICE IS HEREBY FtritTIIER GIVEN, that on or before
the Twenty-third clay of December next, printed copies Of
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