The Sun.
London, England, 1848-11-21 00:00:00

ASHTON-UNDER-LYNE POLICE, MIR-
KETS, and IMPROVEMENT ACTS, EXTENSION AND
AMENDMENT, and TRANeFERENCE 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
the purpose of effectually transferring to and vesting in the Mayor,
.Aldermen, and Burg osses of the borough of Ashton-under-Lyne, in-
corporated by Royal Charter, dated the 25th 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 Council of the said borough for the time being, as managers
of the said corporation, the whole lands, buildings, erections,
apparatus, moneys, securities, bonds, contrac s, books, rates, tolls,
owls, chattels, property, and premises whatsoever, and all
or some of the powers, privileges, and authorities belonging
to or vested in or conferred upon the Commiss oners appointed
or acting under and by virtue of the two several Acts
of Parliament following, or either of them; that is to
*an an Act passed in the session-of Parliament held in the
oc \tenth and eighth years of the reign of his late Ma-
Osty King George the Fourth, intituled "An Act for lighting,
cleansing, watching, and otherwise improving the town of Ashton-
under-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 of his said late Majesty, intituled "An Act for altering and
amending an Act passed in the last session of Parliament, intituled
'lsa 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
tame o
And it is also intended by the said Bill 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-
Coat in lieu thereof, ant to extend the powers and provisions of the
Mid recited Acts,' or such of them as shall not he repealed, as well
as the powers and provisions of the said Bill or Rills, 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.
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 repe:r drains and common sewers, and re-
"ssYering the expense thereof from the owners, lessees, or occupiers
", houses, buildings, or other property within the said town or bo
rough ; or her enforcing and securing the formation, maintenance,
Weeanoing, and repair of such drains and sewers by such owners, les-
,ll, or occupiers ; and to obtain new and further powers for the
slighting, cleansing, paving, watching, regulation, improvement, and
Polite of the said town or borough ; and for the regulation of the
htarket-houses, markets, and market-places within the said town or
?wove and the fairs held therein ; and also to' alter the present
stallages, rents, ant sums of !nein rey authorised to be taken by
thein 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
thein
_same, and to levy other tolls, stallages, rents ,and sums of money
And also lieu thereof,
ma or
intended by the said Bill er Bills to enable the. said
and if necesa
7:rtaan. and burgesses, or the said council, to complete,-
vlenien'e-egvuSes,
arY to enlarge and extend the Town-hail, public offices,
fire-eagine-houses, and other buildings and con-
connected therewith within the said town or borough, and
a so, if necessary, to erect one or more additional market-house or
Taarkeishouses within and for the said town or borough, to erect and
presides, or cause to be erected and provided, proper slaughter-
'menses and places for 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 re,triet the use of other slaughter-houses
aud places within the said town or borough.
And it is also intended by the said 11111 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'wliidgtniay 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
oouncil, and to dissolve the said companies or company, and to en-
able the said mayor, aldermen; and burgesses, or council to purchase,
tape on lease. or acquire; and to.inyest iu :such body all or any part
Wendt vicilts, property, and effects, and powers, rights, and prise-
Lege.% in trust, for behoof of the community of the said town or
umough, 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
aaPPlying 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.
AM it is also intended by the said Bill or 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
s,. levy, and such new or additional rates, or such assessments on
'am inhabitants, as may be necessary for the purposes herein specified ;
and to raise money for the purpose of purchasing, leasing, or ac-
riring the works, property, and effects of the said companies or
company, so as to provide for or secure the price, rent, or other eon-
aideration 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,
mai to confer, vary, or extinguish exemptions from payment of rates,
•-• and to vary er extinguish all existing rights and privileges which
1447 In any manner int, rfere with the objects aforesaid, and to
*infer 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-
uicd, " An Act for lighting with gas the town of Ashton-under-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
Act passed in the sixth year of the reign of his late Majesty King
William 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 e rating and assessing the several de-
scriptions of property 'mentioned and referred to in the said secondly
and thirdly recited Acts, or either of them, and to °Stain 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-
rough, as aforesaid ; and to alter, vary, and increasa the said rate
or rates, and assessment or assessments, or to repeal the same; and
to enable the said mayor, aldermen, and burgesses, or the said
Council, to make, assess, and levy other and different rates and as-
sessments, in lieu thereof; and to assess and levy new or additional
rates 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
-Bill or Bills to repeal so much of the said secondly recited Act as
provides that the rate or rates, assessment or assessments, to
m'ue in virtue thereof, shall net exceed, in any one
year, the sum of one shilling in the pound up 'n the
annual rent or value of the property thereby assessed,
__Without the consent of the inhabitants at large of the said town
°!- Ashton-under-Lyne, signified as therein mentioned; and also
80 much of the said Act as prOvides that the whole
rate or rates to be made by virtue of the said Act should never in
poiT„°,," Year exceed the sum of one shilling and sixpence in the
zgi,r7 upon such rent or value ; and also to repeal so much of the
Act as provides that workshops, warehouses, manufactories,
foundries or mills, rateable under the same Act when tenanted •r
t'e
a cilPied by tenants or occupiers of any messuage or dwelling-house
the said town shall be rated at one-half only of the full annual
rent or value thereof. And it is alsointteonfdetodilts, to • Vrttartye
and
dtinlsh duties '
.h
Certain other exemptions from Payou-
",nferred by the said seceadly and thirdly recited Aeclsieroreeerittahiehr
s
them, and other rights and privileges ; amid to confer
exemptions from payment of tolls, rates, and duties, and otherandherso m
rights
WI Privileges. And it is also intended to repeal or
of an Act passed in the 340 s year o.fAthheAreet forigii ofth ahkishilgatahe
dMhdajeasithy.
King George the Third, intituled '
dl o
inf Sirtthe
e West John
.rining a navigable canal fromand
srasdon, Baronet, at or near
the to town outof If u tdhdee resat ine
Riding if the county of York, to join and communicate with the '
coital 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 to sewers, and front the
control, direction, survey, and order of any commission of sewers; '
and also to repeal or alter so much of the said last recited Act as 1
relates to the mode and 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 discharge of such property
therefrom ; and also to repeal or alter so much of certain other I
Aets relating to the said Huddersfield Canal, passed respectively in '
the,.. 39th and 40th and the 46th years of the reign of his said late '
aiajesty King George the Third, and in the 9th, the 10th, and the
ilth 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,
rents alsos upon the credit of the various tolls, rates, assessments,
charges, and payments granted by the said recited Acts, or '
aPY- 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
sesn2siniosiopers appointed by the said secondly and thirdly recited
".'l, or the council of the said borough.
And it is also intended by the said Bill or Bills to take powers for
the Purchase,uteldin compulsorily or by agreement, of the lands, houses,
Ss, and other property required for the purposes aforesaid, or
Alkay-of them.
4._ And it is also intended to incorporate in the said Bill or Bills cer-
the
'4lll Portions of the following Acts, or some of them, (that is to say,)
Lands Clauses Consolidation Act, ,1815; the Markets arid Fairs
Clauses Act, 1847 ; the Gas Works Clauses Act, 1847 ; the Commis-
sioners Clauses Act, 1847 ; the Waterworks Clauses Act, 1847 othe
Towns Improvement Clauses- Act; 1847 ; , the Town Police Clauses
Act,, 1847; the Cemeteries Clauses Act, 1847 ; and the Public
slealthAct 1814 .

TIENRY GART_SIDE, Town Clerk.
Athi.iit-under-Lyne, Iroveinter 1,41148. - -
GRAHAME, WEEMS, and GRAB/01E.
30, gsga,r George-street, Westminster; 'Manta

SOUTH-EAST-ERN RAILWAY.
REMOVAL, of ESTRICTION OPENING the
KuSTIRIDGE WELLSR and HASTlNGSagainst and ASHFORD and
STINGS LINES; REVIVAL and GRANT of COMPULSORY
POWERS for PURCHASE of LAND ; ALTERATION of ROAD
LEYELS ;.:STEA.M-BOATS.
Notice is hereby given, that application Is intended to be made to
Parliament- in the ensuing Session, for: leave to bring in a Bill to
repel_or alter so much of an Act passed in the ninth year of the
reign of her present Majesty, intituled "An Act to authorise the
South-Eastern Railway Company to make a ItaUway from Tunbridge
Wells, to join the Rye and Ashford,Extension of the Brighton, Lewes,
and Hastings Railway near Hastings." as enacts that it shall not be
lawfpl for the said Company to open for public purposes the Railway
by that Act aitthorised to be made untilthe Railway from Hastings
to AShford shall have been completed. Arid it _is also intended by
the said Bill to authorise the said South-Eastern Railway Company
to after the levels' of the laM-mentioned Railway from, at, ornear a
Point on such Railway, marked twenty-three miles and four furlongs
on the plans referred to in the last-mentioned Act, to two of the junc-
tions of the said Railway with the line of the Hastings, Rye, and
Ashford Extension of the Brighton, Lewes, and Hastings Railway,
one °ranch innCtiois being near Leltham Farm; hi the parish of Guest-
nag, in the county of Sussex, and the other et such junctions being at
Lidham Hill Farm, in the sante parish and county, which alterations
will be wholly situate in the several parishes of Westfield and Guest-
ung, I,n the same county.
Auld itsis also intended by the said Bill to repeal or alter sO Mitch
of an Act passed in the eighth find ninth years of the reign of her
present Majesty, intitnled " An Act to enable tne Brighton, Lewes,
and "'timings Railway Company to make a Railway from Bulver-
hithe, in the county of Sussex, to Ashford,:in the county of Kent," as
enacts that
no part of the railway thereby authorised to be trans-
ferred to, or alithorised to be made by, the South-Eastern Railway
Company, shall be opened to the public, nor any toll taken in respect
there9e,
by the South-Eastern Railway Company, until the comple-
tll.es between °n and °PeOing of the portion of the same railway and works which
a Point, in the parish oe St. LeOnaid and the station
intended to be made in the. parish of the Holy Trietty, Hastings, and
to
rt"rl".' in respect' of that portion of the line front Bulverhithe
.aforesaid to Ashford aforesaid, which Is situate between the point at
liastings marked one mile and five furlongs upon the plans referred
to in such Act, and the point near the River Bother, at Rye, marked
tweite miles seven furlongs upon the same plans, the expired powers
of such Act for the compulsory purchases of lands and houses.
And it is also intended by the said Bill to enable the Company to
alter and alter the levels of the turnpike road leading from Playden
ItYe, for the distance of 250 yards or thereabouts, in or near the
evrti-ofßye, In the parish of Rye,in the county of Sussex, for more
Conveniently and commodiously carrying such turnpike road over the
Railway authorised by the last-mentioned Act, and to purchase lands
and houses for the purpose by compulsion pr agreement, litich said
alterations, and the lands and houses so to be purchased as aforesaid,
Will be w holly s tuate in the said parish of RY'e.
And it is also intended in the said Bill to authorise the said .
South-
East.
n Railway Company to alter the levels of the last-mentioned
Railway from, at, er near a point on such Railway marked five
Miles and seven furlongs on the plans referred to in the last-men-
tioned
Act, to a point on such Railway marked seven miles on the
said plans, which. alteration will be wholly situate in the parish of
°nestling, in the county of Sussex.
And it is also intended by the said Bill to authorise the South-
Zastern Railway Compaay to purchase, by compulsion or agree-
ment, certain lands and houses in the parish of St. Mary Magdalen,
theerm•ndseY' in the county of Surrey, for the purpose of conveying
Free sa to the Corporation of the Warden and Governors of the
Grammar School of Queen Elizabeth of the parishioners of the
Purlsh
Act of St.Dlave. Southwark, pursuant to the provisions of an
passed in the tenth and eleventh years of the reign of her pre-
sent Majesty, intituled " An Act to enable the South-Eastern Rail-
"ay Company further to widen the London and Greenwich Railway
and to enlarge their London-bridge Station."
And it is also intended in the said Bill to authorise the South-
_
astern
Ralleray•Company to cross, divert, alter, or atop up tempo-
LIT Y. Or permanently all such turnpike roads, parish roads, foot-
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-streets, and other highways, rivers, streams, sewers, pipes,
Canals, navigation, bridges, railways, or tramways, within the
Parishes aforesaid, or some of them, as it may be necessary so to
ero,
8, divert, alter, or stop up for any of the purposes aforesaid.
_,±nclat is also. intended by the said Bill to vary or extinguish all
Zt'sdng.rights and privileges connected_ with the lands proposed to
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ouldin
Purchased or tak%n for the several purposes aforesaid, or which
any manner impede or interfere with the several objects
aforesaid And mtany of them, and to confer other rights and privileges.
notice is hereby further given,. that plans and sections of "the
raid intended alteration of the turnpike road Masi rliffderi to 'Rye;
And of the
and houses to be tsken for the purposes thereof, to-