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

ABIITON-UNDER-LYNE POLICE, MAR-
KETS, and IMPROVEMENT ACTS, EXTEN ;lON AND
AM. V; ND al EN I', and rItAN.;FERIIINCE of Gas and WATER
WORKS and other PROPERTY to the CORPORAIP ;LON.
Notice is hereby given, that Application is intended to be made to
Parliatne nt 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 Burs 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 I'a. liament,
gtot
in • nled "Art Act to confirm the incorporaJon of certain boroughs,"
e Council or the said borough for the time being, as managers
the said corporation, the whole lands, buildings, erections,
apparatus, moneys, securities, bonds, contrac:s, books, rates, tolls,
goods, chattels, property, and premises whatsoever, and all
or some of the powers, privileges, and authorities be onging
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 yeah of the reign of his late Ma-
jesty King George the Fourth, intttuled "An Act for lighting,
elearashig, watching, and otherwise improving the town of Ashton-
ttnfier-Lyne, in the Minty palatine of Lancaster, and for regulat-
ing the police thtreot," and an Act passed in the ninth year of the
reign of his said late Majesty, ititituled "An Act for altering and
amenditag an Act passed in the last session of Parliament, intituled
' Ala Act for lighting, cleansing., watching, and otherwise improving
the tcfwn of Ashton-under-Lyne, in the county palatine of Lan-
caster, and for regulating the police thereof; and also for regul Ring
the market, and erecting a market-place within and for the said
own. "
And it is also intended by the said 13111 or Bilis 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
.said recitedoActs, or such of them as shall not be repealed, as well
as the powers and provisions of the said Biller BHA 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 boundarlfes thereof; and for making, maintaining
cleansing, and keeping in repair drains and common sewers, and re-
covering th 3 exl.ense thereof from the own .irs, lessees, or occupiers
of houses; buildings, or other property within the said town or bo •
:rough ; or for enforeing and securing the formation, maintenance,
tleaasfng, and repair of such drains and sewers by such owners, les-
se• s, or occupiers ; and to obtain new and further powers for the
lighting, cleansing, paving, watching, regulation, improvement, and
police of the said town dr borough ; and for the regulation of the
market-houses, markets, and market-places within the said town .or
borough, and the Mira held therein ; and also to alter the present
tells, stallages, rents, aad 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, stallagcs, rents ,and sums of money

In Ben thereof.
And it is also intended by the said Bill or Bills to enable the said
mayor, aldermaq, and burgesses, or the said council, to complete,
and if necessary tl5 enlarge and extend the Town-hall, public offices,
lock-up-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
prcvides, or cause to bo erected and provided, proper slaughter-
houses 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'trict the use of other slaughter-houses
and Ogees Within the said town or borough.
And it is also intended by the said Bill or Bills to effect, or to
unable 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. buddin,gs, 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
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 such body all or any part
,of such works, property, and effecta, 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 said Bill or Bills to enable the said
mayor, aldermen, and burgesses, or the said council, to levy tee
rates which the said companies or company are or may be authorised
to Ida-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
cempsany, so as to provide for or secure the price, rent, or other cm-
sideration to be paid therefor, and for the other purposes aforesaid.
And it is also intended by the said Bill or Hills 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,
add to vary or extinguish all existing rights and privileges which
May in any manner int• 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, lath
.tulaki ~ An Act for lighting with gas the town of Ashton-under-Lyne,
and else neighbourhood thereof, in the county palatine of Lancaster,
and thre township of Dukinfield, is the comity palatine of Chester,
and for supplying with water the said town of 7Ashton-under-LYne,
and the neighbourhood thereof ;" and " Ashton Gas Act, 1847 ;" and
an Act passed in thsvixth year of the reign of his late Majesty King
Williskn Fourth', lestituled " An Act for better supplying with
?,,
water th wn of Ashton-under-Lyne, and the neighbourhoo I
thereof, thin the parish of Ashton-under-Lyne, in time county
palatine o 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 to in the said secondly
and thirdly recited Act:, or either of them, and to a 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 assessm-nt er assessments, by the said Acts,
or either of them, authorised to be made atia levied over the whole
property comprehended within the-limits of the said municipal bo-
rough, as aforesaid ; and to alter, vary, and increase the said rate
or rates, and assessment or assessments, or to repeal the same; and
to enable the said mayer,aidermen, and burgesses, or the said
council, to make, assess, aid levy other and different rates and as-
Sessmeuts, in lieu thereof ; and to assess and levy new or additional
rates upon all property within the limits aforesaid, for the purposes
01 the said intended Bill or Bills; and it is also intended by the said
Rill or Bills to repeal so much of the said secondly recited Act as
s_Provides that the rata pr rates, assessment or assessments, to
•De made in virtue thereof, shill net exceed, in any one
Year. the suns of one shilling :7,1 the pound up n the
annual rent or value of the property thereby assessed,
tv4thout the consent of the inhabitants at large of the said town
of Ashton-under-Lyne, signified as therein mentioned; and also
to repeal so newts of the said Act as provides that the whole
rate or rates to be made by virtue of the said Act should never in
any one year exceed tile sum of one shilling and sixpence in the
;;ti pound 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 or
_ Occupied, by teaants 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 also intended to vary or extinguish
certain other exerayations from payment of tolls, rates, and duties
conferred by the said secondly and thirdly recited Acts, or either
.°,l: them, and other rights and privileges ; and to confer certain
--smartens from payment of tolls, rates, and dutiaes,
o arnd other r
muc,glitsh
and privileges. And It Is also intended to repel alter so
Of an Act passed in time 34tk year of the reign of his late Majesty
making and
of Sir
m jaothnn-
al,
King George time Third, intituled ~„•AnA of , Act for
t
•,, —lig a navigable canal from ~d out hemc
aLarneaen,
thearonet at or near the town anddefid in the West
lilding of -cOun'iy of York, to join communicate with the
Canal navigation from -Manchester ,o or near Ashton-under-Lyne
and wham, at or near the town 01, Ashton-under-Lyne aforesaid,
in the county palatine of Lancaster, as exempts time Huddersfield
Canal, and other works to be made by virtue of the said Act, from
the opeation of any law or statute relating to sewers, and from the
control,r direction, survey, and order of any commission of sewers ;
and ego to repeal or alter so much of the said last recited Act as
relates to the mode an t proportion in which the proprietors of the
said Huddersfield Canal, and their lauds, •grounds, warehouses,
buildings, and other property, are to be rated and charged to all
Tarliamentary 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
Acts relating to the said Huddersfield Canal, passed respectively in
the 39th and 40:h ant the 46th years of the reign of his said late
Majesty King George the Third, and in the 9th, the 10th, and the
llth 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
Orm_ri the credit of the property of the corporation of the said borough,
Iti also upon the credit of the various tolls, rates, assessments,
resits, 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
.be several '
_____ purposes aforeetild, as also for the purpose of paying off
41scharging the whole or any part of the sums borrowed by the
_.commissioners appointed by the said secondly and thirdly recited
''''-cts, or the council of the said borough.
linAildnidniets
is also intended by the said Bill or Bills to take powers for
the purchase, compulsorily or by agreement, of the lands, houses,
ar„. _ , and other property required for the purposes aforesaid, or
', er Ulm,
ttibsAnn
pdortitioish:lso intended to incorporate in the said Bill or Bills cer-
.,a, Lana, of the following Acts, or some of theta, (that is to say,)
clauses .Clauses Consolidation Act, 1815; the Markets and Fairs'
stoners 1-ct, 1847 ; the Gas Works Clausts Act, 1847 ; the Commis-
Tew„ Improvement
Act, 1847 ; the Waterworks Clauses Act, 1847 ; the
Aet_ll. Lull:movement Clauses Act, 1847 ; the Town Police Clauses
Itelatheli4,
itBh4eB.Cemeteries Clauses Act, 1847; and the Public

NovembernE NI.ItIBY4BG. ARTSIDE, Town Clerk.
GRAN tME, WEEMS, and GRATIAME.
30, Great George-street, Westminster, Agents

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It RaCENHEAD, LANCASHIRE, and CHE-
LA VII,R.%.IIIfriTION RAILWAY.—(ABANDONSI .NT of
7" iXtTiti r'.-",; .1-ze"la FIiXTUSION to LONDON andNOR 111-
8RA,,,,--„—:tN. RAILWAY, ALTERATION of LEVELS of CHESTER
Arlfr,,`-'stli and of MODE of CROSSING CANNIN b-S rREET, in
Laaa•—rs'elEAD, EXTENSION of TIME for PIJRCEIASK of
and —,`lB, A
N TER
DMENT of AC I'S .)
ATION of TOLLS, and DECREASE of CAPITAL
ra
_AME't'tjee' hereby given, that Application is intended to be made to
t_,rnent, in the ensuing session, for an ACT to alter, amend, ex-
and and p i
-41,4tge, and to repeal some of the powers, restrictions,
`! rovisions of the several Acid relating to the Birkenhead, Late._
-_shire,noland Cheshire Junction Railway (that is to say), local and
and nta ' fLrtit Victoria chapter 107, third Victoria, chapter 2, eighth
tenth anwt4 v ietoria, ch;pter 99, nine and tenth Victoria, chapter 91,
Ilse the eleventh Victoria, chapters 222 and 223; and to antho-
corn liirkenimut,
Lancashire, and Cheshire Junction Railway
the rPrY to
abandon the formation of so much of the main line of
tentha lw
af,•,,ayi authorised to be made by the said Act of the ninth and
7 ielorie, as lies between a point situate in a field, num-
herea
th 115 in the township of Norton and parish of Runcorn, in
lin
tol "WILY of Chester on the plans of the said railway referred
a the a •
%sem aid Act, and, the termination of the said main e, in the
,
cout°P or Heaton Norris, in the parish of Manchester, in the
theof Lancaster and also to abandon
come formation
to„.branch rallway'authorisla. by the s tid Act, encing in
by a ,„nalliP of a ltrincham and parish of Bowden, and terminating
Itaihrg"eilon with the Manchester South Junction and Altrincham
in the Yi in the township of Timperley and parish of Bowden, all
the 18ald county of Chester, being the railway in the said Act of
don th and 10th of Victoria, secondly described ; and also to aban-
commie formation of the branch railway authorised by the said Act,
ti.ni -pring in the town of Warrington, and terminating by a junc-
o( ; al the Grand Junction, Railway, in the tovinship and parish
the rilington, all in the county of Lancaster, being the railway in
in 47 Act of the 9th and 10th of Victoria lastly described.
Sala Bit is also proposed by tee said intended Act to enable, the
tirldlntoliw°
pang ti:, ienl'ead. Lancashire, and Cheshire Junction RallwayC m
the said
sat
a Railway to commence by a Junction with
of their Railway in the said field, numbered 115, in the
from, i hie of Norton and parish of Runcorn, and thencc passing
extra. 4' elrough, or Into the several parishes, townships, and
te
rnunPaarochial places of Kekewick, Norton. and Runcorn, an
IV:lntednaittlisbaY" a junction with the line of the London and North-
wick am—a""raY at or near Kekewick, in the township of Keke-
Birkenhd
arish of Runcorn, all in the said county of Chester. .
alter the rep Ise proposed by the said intended Act to , enable the said
' Lancashire, and Cheshire Junction Railway Company to
a, autho,els of so much of the Chester branch of the said ail way
223, authorised by the said A tof the 10th and llth Victoria, chapter
a field numbered 73 In the township of Boole,
rieanofdtehrPr:aertadbiblitoe:Sttwtleeittn the Baptist, on the plans of the said brands
the id last-mentioned Act, and a 11,Id numbered 43
Vella which
or Helsby, and parish of Frodsham, on the said
""-- ~ eh Portion of railway will pass from, in, through, or instto.
jia_ veral
,_ Parishes, townships, and extra-Parochial places of .11
oh: toe Baptist, Boole, St. Oswald, Great Boughton, Ple,mste ,
7andse Pi' mondstall, Guilden Sutton, Mlckle Trafford, harrow
...ma-on-the-Hill,
,_ IN Trafford, Thornton, otherwise Thornton-in-the-Moors, Dun-,
And it also proposed by
county of Chester.
n"---Psford, Frodsham, and Helsby, all in the said
the said intended Act to enable the said
therasPany to alter the anode of carrying the railway authorised by
I_a _ aid Act of the Bth and 9th Victoria, chapter 99, across a certain
Llt in the ex,ra-par ichial chapelry or township of Birkenhead, in
nsaid county of Chester, known as the Corporation-road or Can-
.l'eB_street, 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-
raer to alter the existing level of the said road, within the said extra-
t7Zend liatli.ellasarry or township of Birkenhead.
proposed by the said intended Act to extend the
P,,e granted by the said Act of the ninth and tenth of Victoria, for
,;:::_rernpuls,Ary purchase of lands and houses w.thin the several
_"6l a, townships, and extra-parochial places of Eastilam, Chit-
sier Thornton, Little Sutton, Overpool, Whitby, Stoke, Great Stan-
i,y4 Stanlow, Ince, Thornton-In-the-Moors otherwise Thornton,
i„"„ni Hapsford, Frodsham, Helsby, and lordship of Fredkham,
ti;eirneinsaid &nutty of Chester, and for the completion of tile works
„,.,n1 It is al• o proposed by the said intended Act to reduce the
''''-i t lt°hfertehoeni.taid Company, and to to make regulations as regards
l'ne division thereof into shares, and the payment of dividends or In-
terest And it is also proposed by the said intended Act to take power to
Stopvip, alter, or divert, whither temporarily or permanently, all
"om7turnpike and other roa Is and highways, railways, tramwbys,
acitteth/C45, "Wm, Streams, and rivers, within the aforesaid pa-