The Sun.
London, England, 1848-11-24 00:00:00

ASHTON-UNDER-LYNE POLICE, MAR-
KETS, and IMPROVEMENT ACTS, EXTENSION AND
AMENDMENT, and TRANSFERENCE of GIS and WATEtt
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 vestug in the Mayor,
Aldermen, and Burgesses 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,
Intituled "An Act to confirm the incorporation of certain boroughs,-
or the Connell of the said borough for the time being, as managers
of the said corporation, the whole lands, buildings, erections,
aPParatus, moneys, securities, bonds, contracts, books, rates, tolls,
gem, chattels, property, and premises whatsoever, and all
or Seine 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
of Parliament following, or either of them; that is to
saY, an Act passed in the session of Parliament held in the
,seventh and eighth years of the reign of his late Ma-
jesty King [,serge the Fourth, intituled "An Act for lighting,
cleansing, watching, and otherwise improving the town of Ashton-
!lxider-Lyue, in the county palatine of Lancaster, and for regulat-
ing the pollee thereof," and an Act passed in the ninth year of the
reign of his said late Majesty, intituled "An Act for altering and
amending an Act passed in the last session of Parliament, intituled
the
Act for lighting, cleansing, watching, and otherwise improving
me town of Ashton-under-Lyne, in the county palatine of Lan-
!aster, and for regulating tke police thereof, and also for regulating
tat market, and erecting a market-place within and for the said
Oft., IP

Aid it is also intended by the said 13111 or Bills to alter, ameffil,
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
Said recited Acts, or inch of them as shall not be repealed, as well
as the powers and provisions of tife said Bill or Bills, to and through-
eat the whole of the said town or borough of Ashton-under-Lyre,
'Within the limits thereof, as settled for municipal purposes by the
aforesaid royal charter of incorporation.
, And 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
the Municipal boundaries thereof; and for making, maintaining
cleansing, and keeping in repair drains and common sewers, and
nr re-
covering the expense thereof from the owners, lessees, or occupiers
"'houses, buildings, or other property within the said town or bo •
„Inn ; or far enforcing and securing the formation, maintenance,
—`aaalllg, and repair of such drains and sewers by such owners, les-
or occupiers and to obtain new and further powers for the
„„ng, cleansing, paving, watching, regulation, improvement, and
."-alce of the said town or boroagh ; and for the regulation of the
market-houses, markets, and market-places within the said town or
holls rouge
, and the fairs held therein ; and also to alter the present
stallages, rents, aid sums of money authorised to be taken by
the said secondly and thirdly recited Aces, or either of them, in the
Markets and fairs held within the said town or borough ; or to repeal
L he..same, and to leyy other tolls, stallages, rents , and sums of money
lat lieu thereof.
And it is also intended by the said Bill er 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,
Lcck-up-houses, fire-engine-houses, and other buildings and con-
Leelences connected therewith within the said town or borough, and
-.0, 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-
houses and places for slaughtering cattle, and to regulate the same,
and to levy rates or rents and chars in respect of the use thereof,
and also to regulate and restrict the use of other slaughter-houses
and pines within the said town or borough.
And it Is also intended by the said Bill or Bills to effect, or to
.n,anable the Ashton Gas Company and the Ashton-under-Lyne Water
"orks Company, or one or other of them, to effect a sale, lease, or
ether 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
ee,,MPanY, and all the powers, rights, and privileges which now are
n eA-' may hereafter be vested in or exercised by such companies or
e--Leg,PailY to the said mayor, aldermen, and burgesses, or to the said
—"nen, and to dissolve the said companies or company, and to en-
little the said mayor, aldermen, and burgesses, or council to purehase,
44 on lease, or acquire, and to invest in such body all or any part
such 'works, property, and effects, and powers, rights, and privi-
gcs, in trust, for behoof of the community of the %aid town or
,borough, or otherwise.
sai•o-till it is also intended by the said Bill or Bills to confer upon the
Sid mayor, aldermen, and burgesses, or council, further powers for
4'51118 water for extinguishing fires, and also for supplying
etc ter to public wells, baths, and washing-houses, and for cleansing
gnares, streets, and lanes of the said town or borough, and for
Andanitary purposes.
it is also intended by the said. Bill or Bills to enalale the said
Mayor,a aldermen, and burgesses, or the said council, to levy the
to`P which the said companies or company are or may be authorised
Bin'i!vY, and such new or additional rates, or such assessments on
and to
as may be necessary fur the purposes herein specified ;
Ma to raise money for the purpose of purchasing, leasing, or ac-
Zlring the works, property, and effects of the said companies or
so as to provide for or secure the price rent, or other con-
erati
, on to be paid therdefor, and for the other, purposes aforesaid.
al nd
it is also intended by the said Bill or mills to take power to
agar the existing rates leviable by the said companies or company,
to confer, vary, or extinguish exemptions from payment of rates,
aa to vary or extinguish all existing rights and prtvileges which
e„,?; in any manner int. rfere with the objects aforesaid, and to
er other rights or privilege...
mod, for these and other purposes, it is intended by the said Bill
°r3,eallills to alter and amend, or to repeal, an Act passed In the sixth
%lee of the reign of his late Majesty King George the Fourth, Intl-
Null," An Act for lighting with gas the town of Ashton-under-Lyne,
and the t
thereof, in the county palatine of Lancaster,
an., `..'uei township of Dukinfield, in the county palatine of Chester,
an,`i !9r supplying with water the said town of .Ashton-under-Lyne,
yne,
the heighbourheod thereof;" and " Ashton Gas Act, 1847 ;" and
Passed in the sixth year of the reign of hls late Majesty King
watermt the Fourth, 'Minded "An Act for better supplying with
thereof he town of Ashton-under-Lyne, and the neighbourhood
pain_ , the parish of Ashton-under-Lyne, in the county
'gine cif Lancaster."
10,,Arli. it is also intended by the said Bill or Bills, to alter, vary,
se—nz, or rweal the mode of rating and assessing the several de-
sire, air? ofciroperty mentioned and referred to in the said secondly
rate r'ilY recited Acts, or either of them, and to obtain powers to
sier4).Zess, and charge railways, canals, collieries, and other de-
lis of property within the limits aforesaid, not heretofore
rt,'. with rates, assessment the said Acts ; and to extend the operation
Or .iietbrate or rates, andr asSessments, by the said Acts,"
Ar er of them, authorised to be made and levied over the whole
r.op7ty comprehended within the limits of the said municipal bo-
or Coat aforesaid ; and to alter, vary, and increase the said rate ,
to ,_eand assessment or assessments, or to repeal the same ; and
eoeZr the said mayor, aldermen, and burgesses, or the said
Sesame; to Make, assess, and levy other and different rates and as-
rates its, in lieu thereof ; and to assess and levy new or additional
!_inot :I;isal topopy within the limits aforesaid, for the purposes
But or
!Sid intended Bill or Bills ; and it is also intended by the said
repeal so much of the said secondly recited Act as
tre 1 es that the rate or rates, assessment or assessments, to
Year, t: in virtue thereof, shall net exceed, in any one
Without4l4ual trheeen tau'n
o ono shilling in the pound up.n the
or value of 'the property thereby assessed,
or Ask consent of. the inhabitants at large of the said town
to as`,ni-ltilder-Lyne, signified as therein mentioned; and also
rate 07u much of the said Act as provides that the whole
tiny o,e rates to be made by virtue of the said Act should never in
P°Und year exceed the sum of one skating and sixpence In the
said Don such rent or value ; and also to repeal so much of the
foundries or
provides that workshops, warehouses, manufactories,
peen es or mills, rateable under the same Act when tenanted or
he
by tenants or occupiers of any messuage or dwelling-house
rent",,' said town, shall be rated at one-half only of the fall annual
certain value thereof. And it is also intended to vary or extinguish
ether exemptions from payment of tolls, rates, and duties
conferred by the said secondly and thirdly recited Acts, or either
cf
exe,_them, and other rights and privileges ; and to confer certain
s„‘,.olstions from payment of tolls, rates, and duties, and other rights
h
Privileges. And it is also Intended to repealof hors *leer siiiiirjousy
" Act passed in the 34th year of the reign 1. t
kin
e,,.1 George the Third, intituled " An Act for making and main-
taining navigable canal from and out of the canal of Sir John
hiding
Baronet, at or near the town of Huddersfield, in the West
to join and communicate with the
the county
navigation
from of York,
Manchester to or near Ashton-under-Lyne
and Oldham, at or near the town of Ashton-under-Lyne aforesaid,
In
me county palatine of Lancaster," as exempts the Huddersfield
Canal, and other works to be made by virtue of the said Act, fern
the operation of any law or statute relating to sewers, and from the
control, direction, survey, and order of any commission of sewers;
and a:so to repeal or alter so much of the said last recited Act as
relates to the mode and proportion in which the proprietors of the
Said Huddersfield Canal, and their lands, grounds, warehouses,
tuildings, and other property, are to be rated and charged to all
irliamentary and parochial taxes, rates, and assessments, and as
;rates to the eventual exemption and discharge of such property
efro.l ; and also to repeal or alter so much of certain other
gets relating to the said Huddersfield Canal, passed respectively in
hie 39th and 40th and the 46th years of the reign if his said late
iTstY King George the Third, and in the 9th, the 10th, and the
tra;: Years of the reign of her present Majesty, as confirms, extends,
ezeuvtio,ocsbr in any way relates to the aforesaid provisions and
And it is •
ma or,
credit also
l intended by the said Bill or Bills to enable the said
n
--en, and burgesses, or the said council, to raise money
of the property of the corporation of the said borough,
Yea arts, ch 151)00 the credit of the various tolls, rates, assessments,
any of tharges' and payments granted by the said recited Acts, or
the several em, or to be granted by the said intended Bill or Bills, for
and diseh Par Poses aforesaid, as also for the purpose of paying off
Cenurdwargilla the whole or any part of the sums borrowed by the
Acts, 0,, loners appointed by the said secondly and thirdly recited
And council of the said borough.
the nar'eLhis arso intended by the agreement,, or Bills to take powers for
banding asei compulsorily or by of the lands, houses,
any or
tai;tand other property required for the purposes aforesaid, or
t..tAhd It in's al. so intended to incorporate in the said Bill or Bills cer-
Ceaofr...tion,s of the following Acts, or some of them, (that is to say,)
Clans 47 Clauses Consolidation Act, 18 15 ; the Illarkets and Fairs
!loners clet. 184.7 ; the Gas Works Clauses Act, 1847 ; the Commis-
-towns anses Act, 1847 ; the Waterworks Clauses Act, 1847 ; the
18,MPronement Clauses Act, 1847 ; the Town Police Clauses
the Cemeteries Clauses Act, 1847 ; and the Public
u Act, 1848.

.1.41 h n-under-Erne, Novembe HENRY' GARTSIDE, Town Clerk.
te r
1, 1848.
GRAIIAME, WEEMS, and GRAHAME.
S---- 90, Great George-street, Westminster, Agents.
ClirLY I,H—EASTERN RAILWAY.
ILOVAL of RFSTRICTION against OPENING the
11.„.A.aer "AT,D9P. WELLS and HASTINGS and ASHFORD and
ro4'""ru LINES; REVIVAL and GRANT of COMPULSORY
114 LZIP for PURCHASE of LAND; ALTERATION of ROAD
for PURCHASE
STEAM-BOATS.
Pon._ s hereby given, that application Is intended to be made to
repear..ocent
al the ensuing Session, for: leave to bring in a Bill to
teig, alter so ranch of an Act passed in he ninth year of the
tioothZ her present Majesty, intituled "Ant Act to authorise.the
Wells a!tern Railway Company to make a Railway from Tunbridge
um join the Rye and Ashford Extension of the Brighton, Lewes,
'Orrin-rngs Railway near Hastings." as enacts that It shall not be
by 'Orrin- tlie saia Company to oen for public purposes the Railway
ZstoAct authorised be modpe until the Railway fro-m Hastings
the e,nt. rd shah have been completed. And it is also intended by,
to Bill to authorise the said South-Eastern Railway Company
Deli;6er
e, the levels of the last-mentioned Railway from, at, or near a
~°,l the n,Suell Railway, marked. twenty-three miles and four furlongs
Lione of referred to in the last-mentioned Act, to two of the junc-
aehre._, the said Railway with the lino of the Hastings, Rye, and
o,.lleer;_u_txtension of the Brighton, Lewes, and Hastings Railway,
;leg, ii, theunctions being near Lel tham Farm, in the
. parish of quest-
1-44,_county of Sussex, and the other of such junctions being at
e", Bill Fenn, in the same parish and county, which alterations
1111 g, roily situate in the several parishes of Westfield and Guest-
Aim
I,le same county.
of an 'Jo' also intended by the said Bill to repeal or alter so much
Are en,e..ssed in the eighth and ninth years of the reign of ber
aiestY, intituled " An Act to enable tne Brighton, Lewes,
.Ithe. i.ings Railway Compauy to make a Railway from Bulver-
;4ri.mnthtliate county of Sussex, to Ashford, in the county of Kent," as
err no part of the railway thereby authorised to be trans-
or authorised to be made by, the South-Eastern Railwa
titerecrf' 'ball be opened to the public, nor any toll taken in respect
Bey
au4by the South-Eastern Railway Company, until thekcowmpch-
4es betCpening of the portion of the same railway and works which
la eal. a point in the parish of St. Leonard and the s
la reyi: t° be made in the parish of the Holy Trinity, Ilastings,lat.de
afore, :et l of that portion of the line from Bulverh
/haul" toAshford aforesaid, which is situate between the point at
to 1, ueVeill:ltarked one mile and five furlongs upon the plans referreda
twelve Act, and the point near the River Bother, at Rye, marked
Of sun, Tiles seven furlongs upon the same plans, the expiredsp
Act for the compulsory purchases of lands and house .
alter a 3 also intended by the said Bill to enable the Company to
to tal alter the levels of the turnpike road leading from Playden
Rye,to;;l for the distance of 250 yards or thereabouts, in or near the
eon A„°ft ItYe, in the parish of Rye, in the county of Sussex, fur more
Railway e and commodiously carrying such turnpike road over the
alva authorised by the last-mentioned Act, and to purchase landsid
be
for tho purpose by compulsion or agreement, which sa
Win bi; gooses
and the lands and houses so to be purchased as aforesaid,
kr. "'hoar situate in the said parish of Rye.
XasZ.it 18 also intended in the said 11111 to authorise the said South-
Iton;'1 Railway Company to alter the levels of the last-mentioned
Mike aY from. at, or near a point on such Railway marked five
tie es seven furlongs on the plans referred to in the last-men-
Baia „,gust, to
.a point on such Railway marked seven miles on the
lauee'r;,4_lla, 'which alteration will be wholly situate in the parish of
A _Tft, in the county of Susaex.
tee-Tearnlt is also intended by the said Bill to authorise the South-
thenr, Railway Company to purchase, by compulsion or agree-
er,_.°e_rtain lands and houses in the parish of St. Mary Magdalen,
ZenuseY, to the county of Surrey, fur the purpose of conveying
l'reo Gr te th Corporation of the Warden and Governors of the
Dorm "linere School of Queen Elizabeth of the parishioners of the
-Act „ °f St. (Have, Southwark, pnrsuaut to the provisions of an
sern'ired in the tenth and eleventh years of the reign of her pi,-
Way aiesty, intitaled "An Act to enable the South-Eastern Rad-
ittal to further to widen the London and Greenwich Railway
And It is alo
onlarge their London-bridge Station."
ratlyrn einetemnpdaednyin the said Bill to authorise the South-
to cross, divert, alter, or stop up tempo-
yrztys, Or
....Permanently all such turnpike roads, parish roads, foot-
eattals,, -",,ects, and other highways, rivers, streams, sewers, pipes,
.arish;n"avlgations, bridges, railways, or tramwa3 s, within the
ero,e, aforesaid, or some of them, as it may be necessary so to
ftrert, alter, or stop up for any of the purposes aforesaid.'s also intended by the said Bill to vary or extinguish all
`'° Atir'hrights and privileges connected with the lands proposed to
vretnaci"ased or taken for the several purposes aforesaid, or which
vorekt,ll any manner impede or interfere with the several objects
.a' ;
.In or any of them, and to confer other rights and privileges.
toad And
Is hereby further given, that plans and sections of the
bolla ey'len'ted alteration of the turnpike road from Play-den to Rye,
Ole lauds and houses. to be taken for the purposes theyeof, to-