The Sun.
London, England, 1848-11-28 00:00:00

ASHTON-UNDER-LYNE POLICE, MAR-
KETS, and IMPROVEMENT ACTS, EXTENSION AND
AM et ND at EN T, and TRANSFERENCE of GAS and WATE It
WORKS and other PROPERTY to the CORPORATION.
_Notice is hereby given, that Application is intended to be made to
Parliament in next session for leave to bring in a BILL or Bills for
the purpose of effectually transferring to and vesting in the Mayor,
Aldermen, and Bur; eases of the borough of Ashton-under-Lyne, in-
corporated by Royal Charter, dated the 29th day of September, 1847,
and confirmed by an Act passed in the last session of Parliament,
Intitulel "An Act to confirm the incorporation of certain boroughs,"
.er the Council of the said borough for the time being, as managers
of the said corporation, the whole lands, buildings, erections,
aPParatns, moneys, securities, bonds, contracts, books, rates, tolls,
goeds, chattels, property, and memises whatsoever, and all
or some of the powers, privileges, and authorities belonging
to or vested in or conferred upon the Commissioners appointed
or acting under and by virtue of the two several Acts
ef Parliament following, or either of them; that is to
say, an Act pass& in the session of Parliament held in the
seventh and eighth years of the reign of his late Ma-
jesty King George the Fourth, intituled "An Act for lighting,
cleansing, watching, and otherwise improving the town of Ashton-
tinder-Lyne, in the county palatine of Lancaster, and for regulat-
ing the police thereof," and an Act passed in the ninth year of the
reign ef his said late Majesty, intituled "An Act for altering and
amending an Act passed in the last session of Parliament, intituled
An Act for lighting, cleansing, watching, and otherwise improving
the town of Ashton-under-Lyne, in the county palatine of Lan-
Caster, and for regulating the police thereof, and also for regulating
the market, and erecting a market-place within and for the said
Own,',,
And it is also intended by the said 13111 or Bills to alter, amend,
and enlarge some of the powers and provisions of the said several
Acts, or to repeal the same, and to grant other powers and provi-
sions in lieu thereof, and to extend the powers and provisions of the
laid recited Acts, or such of them as shall not be repealed, as well
as the powers and provisions of the said Bill or Bilis, to and through-
out the whole of the said town or borough of Ashton-under-Lyne,
within the limits thereof, as settled for municipal purposes by the
aforesaid royal charter of incorporation.
Ard it is also intended by the said Bill or Bills to take powers for
improving the sanitary condition of the said town or borough, within
tke municipal boundaries thereof; and -for making, maintaining
cleansing, and keeping in repair drains and common sewers, and re-
covering the exi ens° thereof from the owners, lessees, or °staplers
Of houses, buildings, or other property within the said town or bo-
rough ; or for enforcing and securing the formation, maintenance,
cleansing, and repair of such drains and sewers by such owners, les-
sc 5, or occupiers ; and to obtain new and further powers for the
lighting, cleansing, paving, watching, regulation, improvement, and
Pollee of the said town or borough ; and for the regulation of the
Market-houses, markets, and market-places within the said town or
borough, and the fairs held therein ; and also to alter the present
tells, stallages, rents, and sums of money authorised to be taken by
the said secondly and thirdly recited Acts, or either of them, in the
Markets and fairs held within the said town or borough ; or to repeal
the same, and to levy other tolls, stallages, rents, and sums of money
in lieu thereof.
And it is also intended by the said Bill sr Bills to enable the said
Mayor, alderman, and burgesses, or the said council, to complete,
and if necessary to enlarge and extend the Town-hall, public offices,
I°OMM-houses, fire-engine-houses, and other buildings and con-
veniences connected therewith within the said town or borough, and
also, if necessary, to erect one or more additional market-house or
market-houses within and for the said town or borough, to erect and
Provides, or cause to be erected and provided, proper slaughter-
hauses and places far slaughtering cattle, and to regulate the same,
and to levy rates or rents and charges in respect of the use thereof,
and also to regulate and restrict the use of other slaughter-houses
and places within the said town or borough.
• And it is-also intended by the said Bill or Bills to effect, or to
. enable the Ashton Gas Company and the Ashton-under-Lyne Water
Works Company, or one or other of them, to effect a sale, lease, or
other transference of the whole or any part of the gas works and
Water works, or either of them, belonging to the said companies
respectively, with the reservoirs, aqueducts, mains, pipes, apparatus,
Works, buildings, and other property and effects, now belonging to
or -which may be constructed or acquired by such companies or
company, and all the powers, rights, and privileges which now are
or may hereafter be vested in or exercised by such companies or
company to the said mayor, aldermen, and burgesses, or to the said
council, and to dissolve the said companies or company, and to en-
• able the said mayor, aldermen, and burgesses, or council to purchase,
take on lease, or acquire, and to invest in sun body all or any part
of such works, property, and effects, and powers, rights, and privi-
leges, in trust, for behoof of the community of the said town or
borough,-or otherwise.
And it is also intended by the said Bill or Bills to confer upon the
Said mayor, aldermen, and burgesses, or council, further powers for
supplying water for extinguishing fires, and also for supplying
Water to public wells, baths, and washing-houses, and for cleansing
the squares, streets, and lanes of the said town or borough, and for
other sanitary purposes.
And it is also intended by the saidjilll sr Bills to enable the said
mayor, aldermen, and burgesses, or the said council, to levy the
rates which the said companies or company are or may.be authorised
to levy, and such new or additional rates, or such assessments on
the inhabitants, as may be necessary for the purposes herein specified ;
• and to raise money for the purpose Of purchasing, leasing, or ac-
quiring the works, property, and effects of the said companies or
company, so as to provide for or secure the price, rent, or other con-
sideration to be paid therefor, and for the other purposes aforesaid.
And it is also intended by the said Bill or Bills to take power to
alter the existing rates leviable by the said companies or company,
and tO confer, vary, or extinguish exemptions from payment of rates,
and to vary er extinguish all existing rights and privileges wjiich
may in any manner interfere with the objects aforesaid, and to
confer other rights or privileges.
And, for these and other purposes, it is intended by the said Bill
Ul' /Ails to alter and amend, or to repeal, an Act passed in the sixth
Year
~
of the reign of his late Majesty King George the Fourth, inti-
tuledan Act for lighting with gas the town of Ashton-ender-Lyne,
and the neighbourhood thereof, in the county palatine of Lancaster,
and the township of Dukinfield, in the county palatine of Chester,
and for supplying with water the said town of (Ashton-under-Lyne,
and the neighbourhood thereof;" and " Ashton Gas Act, 1847 ;" and
Passed in the sixth year of the reign of his late Majesty King
Willem the Fourth, intituled "An Act for better supplying with
Water the town of Ashton-under-Lyne, and the neighbourhood
thereof, within the parish of Ashton-under-Lyne, in the county
Palatine of Lancaster."
And it is also intended by the said Bill or Bills, to alter, vary,
amend, or repeal the mode of rating and assessing the several de-
scriptions of property mentioned and referred ton the said secondly
and thirdly recited Acts, or either of them, and to obtain powers to
rate, assess, and charge railways, canals, collieries, and other de-
scriptions of property within the limits aforesaid, not heretofore
charged with rates, under the said Acts ; and to extend the operation
of the rate or rates, and assessment or assessments, by the said Acts,
or either of them, authorised to be made and levied over the whole
Property comprehended within the limits of the said municipal bo-
c7go, as aforesaid ; and to alter, vary, and increase the said rate
r rates, and assessment or assessments, or to repeal the same; and
to enable the said mayor, aldermen, and burgesses, or the said
se'uuncil, to make, assess, and levy other and different rates and as-
s:Mears, in lieu thereof ; and to assess and levy new or additional
s upon all property within the limits aforesaid, for the purposes
of the said intended Bill or Bills ; and it is also intended by the said
ce
_lO-11
'rides or Bills to repeal so much of the said secondly recited Act as
that the rate or rates, assessment or assessments, to
made In virtue thereof, shall net exceed, in any one
Year,annual the sum of one shilling in the pound upon the
rent er value of the property thereby assessed,
without the consent of the inhabitants at large of the said town
to hton-under-Lyne, signified as therein mentioned; and also
rasereP"l so much of the said Act as provides that the whole
or rates to be made by virtue of the said Act should never in
is!' one year exceed the sum of one shilling and sixpence in the
seaaidion such rent or value ; and also to repeal so much of the
as provides that workshops, warehouses, manufactories,
ss_u foundries or mills, rateable nnder the same Act when tenanted or
17csPeled by tenants or occupiers of any messuage or dwelling-house
In said town, shall be rated at one-half only of the fail annual
rent or value thereof. And it is also intended to vary or extinguish
certain other exemptions from payment of tolls, rates, and duties
conferred by the said secondly and thirdly recited Acts, or either
Of them, and other rights and privileges ; and to confer certain
exemptionsand from payment of tolls, rates, and duties, and other rights
„, Privileges. And it is also intended to repeal or alter so much
an Act passed in the 34th year of the reign of his late Majesty
"ma George the Third, intituled " An Act for making and main-
talni
ng a navigable canal from and out of the canal of Sir John
.amsden, Baronet, at or near the town of Huddersfield, in the West
Riding of the county of York, to join and communicate with the
canal navigation from Manchester to or near Ashton-under-Lyne
and Oldham, at or near the town of Ashton-under-Lyne aforesaid,
in the county palatine of Lancaster," as exempts the Huddersfield
Canal, and other works to be made by virtue of the said Act, from
the operation of any law or statute relating n
toninsemweisrssi,nan of sewersndfromthe;
control, direction, survey, and order of any
and a'so to repeal or alter so much of the said last recited Act as
relates to the mode an I proportion in which the proprietors of the
Said Huddersfield Canal, and their lands, grounds, warehouses,
buildings, and other property, are to be rated and charged to all
Parliamentary and parochial taxes, rates, and assessments, and as
relates to the eventual exemption and discharg e of such property
therefrom ; and also to
-repeal repeal or alter so much of certain other

Acts relating to the said Huddersfield Canal, passed respectively in
the 39th and 40th and the 46th years of the reign of his said late
Majesty King George the Third, and in the 9th, the 10th, and the
11th years of the reign of her present Majesty, as confirms, extends,
transfers, or in any way relates to the aforesaid provisions and
exemptions.

Anhiii;abto intended by the said Bill or Bills to enable the said
mayor, aldermen, and burgesses, or the said council, to raise money
upon the credit of the property of the corporation of the said borough,
and also upon the credit of the 'various tolls, rates, assessments,
rents, charges, and payments granted by the said recited Acts, or
'll3'' of them, or to be granted by the said intended Bill or Bills, for
the several purposes aforesaid, as also for the purpose of paying off
and discharging the whole or any part of the sums borrowed by the
‘it'lximissioners appointed by the said secondly and thirdly recited
'l4ls, or the council of the said borough.
And it is also intended by the said Bill or Bills to take powers for
tg.,_?. Purchase, compulsorily or by agreement, of the lands, houses,
'idings, and other property required for the purposes aforesaid, or
any of them.
And it is also intended to incorporate in the said Bill or Bills cer-
tain ,Portions of the following Acts, or some of them, (that is to say,)
the -Lands Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845; the Markets and Fairs
ases Act, 1847 ; the Gas Works Clauses Act, 1847 ; the Commis-
Toners Clauses Act, 1847 • the Waterworks Clauses Act, 1847 ; the
Aer es Improvement Clauses Act, 1847 ; the Town Police Clauses
n
„, 147 ; the Cemeteries Clauses Act, 1847 ; and the Public
ealth Att. 1848.

Aaliton-tuider-Lyre, NovembßEer N1,R18Y4843. ARTSIDE, Town Clerk.
GRAHAME, WEEMS, and GRAHAME.
10_,±}reat George-street, Westminster, Agents.

"BIRKENHEAD, LANCASHIRE, and ?TB();
PART SHIRE JCCTION RAIWY.—(ABADONME
17., of LINE, EEXTENSIONL toA LONDONN and NO ESTERN RAILWAY, ALTERATION of LEVELS of CHESTER
jelp-,„,11.C/I, and of MODE of CROSSING CANNING-STREET, in
LA ""-c.„ NHED, EXTENSION of TIME for PURCHASE of
...'f'..9, ALTERATION of TOLLS, and DECREASE of CAPITAL
paNnei,atice is hereby given,
eau AMENDMENT of ACTS.)
and and enlarge thatApplleation is intended to be made to
tend meat' in the ensuing session, for an ACT to alter, amend, ex-
, and to repeal some of the powers, restrictions,
zrovisions of the several Acts relating to the Birkenhead, Lan-
Persone' a"
Cheshire Junction Railway (that is to say), local and
an,
e, al, first Victoria, chapter 107, third Victoria, chapter 2, eighth
eicoratpnan Birkenhead
tenth Ttll Victoria, chapter 99, nine and tenth Victoria, chapter 91,
_..e ..,:d_ eleventh Victoria, chapters 222 and 223 ; and to autho-
the railw
Y to abandon tk of the main line of
' Lancashire. and Cheshire Junction Railway
- • formation of so much
re=edie 115 In ,the
tenth of VaTI anth°riseci to be made by the said Act of the ninth and
eteria, as lies between a point situate in a field, num-
ownshlp of Norton and parish of Runcorn, in
to i MilatY of Chester, on the plans of the said railway referred
n the said Act, and the termination of the said main line, in the
ec,rnunLhiP or Heaton Norris, in the parish of Manchester, in the
the, of Lancaster, and also to abandon the formation
b:ue branch railway authorised by the said Act, commencing in
__Myfashi of Altrincham and parish of Bowden, and terminating
.6"..,t+ junction with the Manchester South Junction and Altrincham
in sway, in the township of Timperley and parish of Bowden, all
the ile said county of Chester, being the railway in the said Act of
nuth and 10th of Victoria, secondly described ; and also to aban-
tionM
"eeerath: formation of the branch railway authorised by the said Act,
ncing in the town of Warrington, and terminating by a junc-
or
wwith the Grand Junction Railway, in the township and parish
th„ arrington, all in the county of Lancaster, being the railway in
e said Act of the 9th and 10th of Victoria lastly described.
And it isintended Act to enable the
also proposed by the said
Said Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire Junction Railway Cora-
l:ll3'n t° make a Rahway to commence by a Junction with the said
said line of their Railway in the said field, numbered 115, in the
..i . through
freeithwilshi
extra. n
~,r late by a
P of Norton and parish of Runcorn, and thence passing
, or into the several parishes, townships.
and to
._ m
.Parochial Places of Kekewick, Norton, and Runcorn, an
131,4 ait is also Junction with the line of the London and North-
wick Railway at or near Kekewick, in the township of Ke
`''' !Ind Parish proposedrn all in the said county of Chester.
said
by' the said intended Act to enable the
to
alter ttead Lancashire, and Cheshire Junction Railway Company
223, as lirise
, authe levels of so much of the Chester branch of the said railway
ed by the said A. t of the 10th and 11th Victoria, chapter
and s between parish of St. John
Baptist, on the plans of the said branck
a field numbered 73 in the township ?flloole,
ritelfteliTed to in the..,_ said last-mentioned the
plan: wt°,-;",_sniP of Helsby, and parish of Frodshatn, on the s d
Act, and a 11,1.1 numbereda?
the
.64,...e, which hip
of railway will pass from, in, through, or into
John 'rat Parishes, townships, and extra-parochial places of St.
itu the BaptisL II '
P ' --°o.o, St. Oswald, Great Boughton, Plems ,
ig,,,erwis° - krnondstan, Gullden Sutton, slickle Trafford, Barrow
ham-on-the-1;11, ,__•"‘"go Trafford, Thornton, otherwise Thornton-in-the-Moors, Dun-,
countY of Chester.
_ apsford
, Frodsham, and Helsby, all in the said
And it also H
proposed by the said intended Act to enable the said
the
Company to alter the mode of carrying the railway authorised by
said Act of the Bth !3 and 9th Victoria, chapter 99, across a certain
the
road
in the extra-panchlal chapelry or township of Birkenhead, in
tsaid county of Chester, known as the Corporation-road or Can-
le-eet, so as to carry the said road across
the said railway upon
level thereof instead of by means of a bridge, and for such pur-
pose to alter the existing level of the said road, within the said extra-
Parochial chapeiry or township of Birkenhead.
time it is also proposed by the said intended Act to extend the
tine granted by the said Act of the ninth and tenth of Victoria, for
the COni Id
parishes P sory purchase of lands and houses within the several
der "- , townships, and extra-parochlal places of Eastbam, Chil-
ney:nt(3)ttallten, Little Sutton, Overpool, Whitby, Stoke, Great Stan-
Elton Jacw, Ince, Thornton-in-the-Moors otherwise Thornton,
.
in
saaPsferd, Frodsham, Helsby, and lordship of Frodsham,
therein
d county of Chester, and for the completion of the works
And It is also proposed by the said intended Act to reduce the
capital of the said Comp
the divisi on thereat th Company, and to to make regulations as regards
into shares, and the payment of dividends or in-
terest thereon.
P alter, or divert, whether at And it is also proposed by the said intended Act to take power to
temporarily or permanently, all
such turnpike and other roads and highwayo, railways, tramways,
aciucclucta, canals
, - atx
cams, and rivers, within the aforesaid vv.