The Sun.
London, England, 1848-11-18 00:00:00

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A SHTON-UNDER-LYNE POLICE, MAR-
KETS, and 'IMPROVEMENT ACTS, EXTENSION AND
4,2{EN-DmzisTr, and TRANSFERENCE of GAS and WATER
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
he Purpose of effectually transferring to and vesting in the Mayor,
Alder—s,
„s -en, and Tit-assesses of the borough of Ashton-under-Lyne, in-
wrlsOrated by Royal Charter, dated the 29th day of September, 1847,
oand confirmed by an Act passed in the last session of Parliament,
"'led "An Act to confirm the incorporation of certain boroughs,"
the Council 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,
goods, chattels, property, and premises whatsoever, and all
oroor some of the powers, privileges, and authorities beionging
vested in or conferred upon the Commissioners appointed
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acting under "and by virtue of the two several Acts
Parliament fbllOwing, or either of them; that is to
say, au Act passed in the session of Parliament held in the
!!seventh and eighth years of ,the. reign of his late Ma-
wises!og George the Fourth, intituled "An Act for lighting,
n, watching, and otherwise Improving the town of Ashton-
!lnder-Ly
in the county palatine of Lancaster, and for regulat-
ing the Police thereof," and an Act passed In the ninth year of the
reign, of his said late• Majesty, intituled "An Act for altering and
!Tending an Act passed in'the last session of Parliament, intituled
Act for lighting, cleansing, watching, and otherwise improving
the town of Ashton—under-Lyne, in--the county palatine of Lan-
easter, and for regulating the police_ thereof, and also for regulating
the Market; and erecting a market-place within and for the said
tos
And
addart.gisellso intended by the said Bill or Bills to alter, amend,
At. some of the powers and provisions of the said several
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_said recited Acts, or such of them as shall not be repealed, as well
the powers and provisions of. the said Bill or Bills, to and through-
With in the limits thereof, as settled for municipal purposes by the
aforesaid royal charter of incorporation.
skeet it is also intended by the said Bill or Bills to take powers for
!reproving the sanitary condition of the said town or borough, within
the municipal boundaries thereof; and for making, maintaining
cleansing, and keeping in repatr drains' and common sewers, and re-
covering the expense thereof from• the owners, lessees, or occupiers
"houses, buildings, or other property within the said town or bo
rough ; or for enforcing and securing the formation, maintenance,
°Lnsing,' and repair of such drains and sewers by such owners, les-
tsys, or occupiers ; and to obtain new and further powers for the
cleansing, paving; watching, regulation, improvement, and
Police of the said town or borough •, and for the regulation of the
market-houses, markets, and market-places within the said town or
Dreugh, 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
tmarkets and fairs held. within the said town or borough ; or to repeal
,nesame and to levy other tolls, stallages, rents, and sums of money
os. lieu thereof. •
And it is also intended by the said Bill or Bills to enable the said
_mayor, alderman, and burgesses, or the said, council, to complete,
an I.ufneceseary to enlarge and extend the Town-hail, public offices,
arzaZP- uses, tire-engine-houses, and other buildings and eon-
ilat ees connected therewith within the said town or borough, anti
necessary, to erect one or more additional market-house or
market-houses within and for the saidlown or borough, to erect and
provides, or came to be erected and provided, proper slaughter-
housesato and plaaea for slaughtering cattle, and to regulate the same,
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
!mole the Ashton Gas Company, ,:a tn. Ashton-un44.-Lynn water_.
Works Company, or one or other of them, to effect a sale, lease, or
other transterence of the whole or any part of the gas works and
vrater works, 61. eitheellr4berrt, - belonging to the said companies
realXictively, 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 vs sted in or exercised by such companies or
neraPanY 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 such 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 brargesses, or council, further powers for
supplying water lor extinguishing fires, and also for supplying
Water to public welli, baths, and washing-houses, and for cleansing
the squares, streets, and lanes of the said town or borough, and for
Der
sanitary purposes.
And
dit is also intended by the said Bill or Bills to enable the said
mayor, aldermen, and burgesses, or the said council, to levy tie
rat
which the said companies or company are or may be authorised
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inv.Y, 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
ecnnParlY, so as to•provideior or secure the price, rent, or other con-
alteration to be paid therefor, and for the other purposes aforesaid.
And it is also intended by the said Bill or Rills 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,
'ad to•vary or extinguish all existing rights and pr.vlleges which
'nal' In any mamser Lntt rfere with the objects aforesaid, and to
confer other rights or privileges.
And, for these and.other purposes, it is intended by the said Bill
or Bills 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-
tuled " An Act for lighting with gas the town of Ashton-uuder-Lyne,
and the neighbourhood thereof, in the county palatine of Lancaster,
and the township of Dukinfield, in the county palatine of Chester,
anti for supplying with water the said town of ?Ashton-under-Lyne,
and the neighbourhood thereof ;" and " Ashton Gas Act, 1847 ;" and
Act Passed in the sixth year of the reign of his late Majesty lising
illiara the Fourth, imitated "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,
~,!nerld, or repeal the mode of rating and assessing the several de-
scriPtious of property mentioned and referred to in the said secondly
and thirdly recited 'Acts, or either of them, and to ostain powers to
assess, and charge railways, canals, collieries, and other de-
'"SliPtions of property within the limits aforesaid, not heretofore
Charged with rates, under the said Acts ; and to extend the operation
e rate or rates, and assessmtnt or assessments, by the said Acts,
or either of them, authorised to be made and levied over the whole
t~gProperty comprehended within the limits of the sald municipal bo-
gu, as aforesaid ; and to alter, vary, and increase the said rate
or rates, and assessment or assessments, or to repeal the same; and
t° enable the said mayor, aldermen, and burgesses, or the said
council to make, assess, and levy other and different rates and as-
scuments, in lieu thereof s. and to assess and levy new or additional
rates upon all property within the limits aforesaid, for the purposes
Wsthe said intended-Bill or Bills ; and it is aLlo intended by the said
or Bills to repeal so much of the said secondly recited Act as
Provides that the rate or rates, assessment or assessments, to
Made in virtue thereof, shall net exceed, in any one
Year, the sum of one shilling in the pound upon the
;iraftim
the consent
or value of the property thereby assessed,
consent of the inhabitants at large of the said town
of Ashton-under-Lyne, signified as therein mentioned; and also
to repeal so much -Of the said Act as provides that the whole
rshy one ate or rates to be made by virtue of the said Act should never in
year exceed the sum of one shilling and sixpence in the
_ id nd upon such rent or value; and also to repeal so much of the
:l Act
‘ound as provides that workshops, warehouses, manufactories,
nes or mills, rateable under the same Act when tenanted or
occupied b
in tenants or occupiers of any messnage or dwelling-house
the said town, shall be rated at onc-half only of the foil annual
rent or value thereof. And it is also intended to vary or extinguish
Certain other exemptions from payment of tolls, rates, and duties
es2nterred by the said SeCa tily and thirdly recited Acts, or either
them,— ap . ses • and to confer certain
priviieagned,. other rights and
oboes from payment of tolls, rates, and duties, and other rghts
,
and
of an A the reign of his late Majesty
it is also 'Mended to repeal or alter so much
Act Passed in the 34th year of
tainag George the Third, intituled " An Act for making and main-
the canal of Sir Soho
a navigable
Iluddentleld, in the II es
3213 den, Baronet, at or near the town of
elingcanal from and out of t
orßi
near Ashton-under-Lyne
~,`"ag of the county of York, to join and communicate with the
"'lila navigation from Manchester
the Huddersfield
as exempts
and Oldham, at or near the town otfe.ilton-under-Lyne aforesaid,
in the county palatine of Lancaster,"
the Operation
and other works to be made by virtue of the said Act, from
oPeration of any law or statute
relating to sewers, and from the
control, direction, survey, and r
der of any commission of sewers;
and aam to repeal or alter so much of the said last recited Act as
.elates to the mode and proportion in which the proprietors of the
!aid Huddersfield Canal, and their lands, grounds, warehouses,
buildings, and other property,. are_ to be rated and charged to all
arliamentary and parochial taxes; rates, and assessments, and as
!elates to the eventual exemption and discharge of such properly
therefrom ; anti also to repeal or alter so much of certain other
skins relating to the said Huddersfield Canal, passed respectively in
the 39th and 40t1r and the 4titb 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.
And it is also 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, assessmests,
rents, charges, and payments granted by the said recited Acts, or
any 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
Commissioners appointed by the said secondly and thirdly recited
Acts, or the council of the said borough.
And it is also intended by the said Bill or Bills to take powers for
the Purchase, compulsorily or by agreement, of the lands, houses,
buildings, and other property required for the purposes aforesaid, or
any of them.
And it is also intended to incorporate in the said 13111 or Bills cer-
tain portions of the following Acts, or sonic of them, (that's to say,)
the Lands Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845; the Markets and Fairs
Clauses Act, 1547 ; the Gas Works Clauses Act, 1847 ; the Commis-
sioners Clauses Act, 1847 ; the Waterworks Clauses Act, 1847 ; the
Towns Improvement Clauses Act, 1847; the Town Police Clauses
Act, 1847 ; the Cemeteries Clauses Act, 1847; and the Public
health Act, 1848. •

HENRY GARTSIDE, Town Clerk.
Aghtml-nnder-Lyne, November 1, 1848.
GRAHAME, WEEMS, and GRAHAME.
;(), 4 ;Mat George-street, Westminster, Agents,

birREST YARMOUTH HAVEN BRIDGE
IND NAVIGATION IMPROVEMENT.

Nc;tice is hereby given, that Application is intended to be made to
Parliament is the ensuing session for leave to bring in a BILL to
alter, amend,
and enlarge the powers and provisions of an Act
Passed in the session of Parliament holden in the fifth and sixth years
of the reign of his late Majesty King William the Fourth, intituled,
"As Act for improving the Haven of Great Yarmouth, in the
county of Norfolk, and thb several rivers col:meted therewith, and
for repairing or taking down and rebuilding a certain bridge over the
said haven at Great Yarmouth aforesaid, and a certain bridge called
Saint Olave's Bridge, over the river Waveney, in the counties of
Norfolk and Suffolk ; and for suspending for a limited period certain
duties payable to the corporation of Great Yarmouth, and imposing
other duties in lien thereof t" so far as relates; to the taking down,
rebuilding, and maintaining in repair the bridge over the haven at
Great Yarmouth aforesaid, and the widening the said haven and
improving the navigation thereof; and also to alter and amend
the powers and provisions of an Act passed in the session of Par-
liament holden in the tenth and eleventh years of the reign of her
present Majesty Queen Victoria, iatituled, "An Act to enable
the Norfolk Railway Company to extend their Railway to the town
Of Great Yarmouth; and for othef purposes ;" so far as relates to the
laying down and maintaining a tramway passing along and on the
level of the quays in, the parish and town of Great Yarmouth afore
said ; aid also to alter Ind amend the powers and previsions of an
Act passed in the session of Parliament holden in the fourth aid
fifth years of the reign of his late Majesty King William the Fourth,
intituled " Aa Aet for more effectually amending, widening, and
repairing the road from Yarmouth-bridge through the hamlet of
Southtown, otherwise Little Yarmouth, to Gorleston, in the county
Of Suffolk;" so far as relates to the amendment and improvement
of the said road.
And in such Bill powers are intended to be taken to enable the
'emunissioners of the haven of Great Yarmouth to build and con-
struct a bridge over the said haven of Great Yarmouth, from the
parish of Great Yarmouth aforesaid to the hamlet of Southtown,
Otherwise Little Yarmouth,
in the parish of Gorleston, in the county
f Suffolk, and to widen, deepen, and alter the channel of the said
pariah
eof Great m ; to make
haven, and otherwise improve the navigation thereof, in the said
Yarmouth and tine said hamlet of gouthtown, or one
and construct approaches to the said bridge, and
for that Purpose to vary
tiziadn the quays if,
and r the parish and town of Great Yarmouth afore-
and alter the line and level of the tramway
let ofeS-rnake
and to relay down such tramway there • and to widen, alter,
, re-make
Southtown the said road from Yarmouth-bridge through the ham-
alter aforesaid, so far as it may be necessary to widen,
execution f wharfs
'the said road, by reason of the construction or
o the said works ; and to alter or remove all ,
quays'
or works in the said parish of Great Yarmouth and hamlet
o__fntlitown, or one of them, now obstructing or encroaching
pot_t_or interfering with the said haven and the navigation thereof;
and to construct quays, embankments, tramways, and other works
and conveniences in the said parish and hamlet, or one of them,
the Purpose of the improvement of the said navigation ; and
stiellßill Powers are intended to be taken to enable the said
COMMissioners of the haven of Great Yarmouth to apply the
Money
of ui from the duties granted to the said Commissioners
mon e said haven by the said first mentiosed Act, and to raise
of ti:r LT mortgage of the same duties or otherwise, for all or any
.wuVe
Ant. purposes, and other the purposes of the said first-men-
And it is intended to apply for powers for the compulsory pur-
'aungre of lands and houses defined in the plans hereinafter mentioned,
sun to take power_ to deviate from the line or lines laid down on
oplans to the extent therein defined ; and to stop up, alter, or
ther' whether temporarily or permanently, all turnpike and
e roads and highways, tramways, streams, and rivers, within
aforegal
vert, t parish of Great Yarmouth and hamlet of Bouthtown,
uorr Item,
of, - them, which it may be necessary to stop up, alter,
Works_ by reason of the construction or execution of the said
i~,,A_n.d notice is, hereby given, that duplicate plans and sections,
"mit the lino of the raid'/ridge; haven, and navigation, and the
ti..Trovements and works connected therewith, the line and level of
dZittsaid tramway upon the quays- in the parish and town of
l Yarmouth aforesaid, and of the said road in the ham-
et
of ham-
ea Smithtown aforesaid, and the lands to be taken for the game
ti Pectit'elY, and the levels of the banks of the said haven and naviga-
,_n with a book of reference thereto, and a copy of this notice as
=tailed in the " London Gazette," will, on or before the 10th day
'loveraber instant, be deposited for public inspection at the office of
Cthe Clerk of the Peace for the county of Norfolk, at Aylsham, in the
oti,„,sicounty ; at ttie office of the Clerk of the Peace for the county of
4174, at Bury St. Edmands, in the same county; and a copy of the
°I Plans, sections, and books of reference, so far as relates to each