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

AsrITON-UNDER-LYNE POLICE, MAR-
' IcETS. and IMPROVE:IEI:NT ACT, EXTENSION AND
Litt•:NVMlßh and 1: ItA N,FE it Eof k,si and
IVO:tii.S and other l';;ol.'i,,itTY to the COIti'DiZATION.
Nolte. is heretic- given, that Aripheation is intended to be made to
Pariiainent iu next sessiall for leave ti tiring in a BILL or hills for
the purpose of effectually transferral; to and vesting in the Mayor,
Aldermen, and Butaosses of the borough of Ashton-under-Lyne, in-
corporated by Royal Charter, dated the Oath 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, contracts, books, rates, tolls,
goods, chattels, property, and premises whatsoever, and all
or some of the powers, privileges, and authorities belonging
to or vested In or conferred upon the Coinmis4'.oners 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 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
'Au Act for lighting, cleansing, watching, and otherwise improving
the t3VIII 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
town.' "
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 saute, and to grant other powers and provi-
, stens In lieu theieof, and to extend the powers and provisions of the
said recited Acts, or such of Litton as shall not be repealed, as well
as the powers anti provisions of the said Bill or Bills, to and through-
out the whole of the said town or borough of Ashton-under-Lyne,
within the limits thereof, as settled for nu purposes by the
aforesaid royal charter of incorporation.
Arad 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
• eleansjng, and keeping in repair drains and common sewers, and re-
covering the ex; ense thereof from the owners, lessees, or occupiers
of houses, buildings, or other property within the said town or bo •
• rougli; or for enforcing and securing the formation, .maintenance,,
cleansing, and repair of such drains and sewers by such owners, les-
se.ss, or occupiers ; and to obtain new and further powers for the
lighting, 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
borough, and the fairs held therein ; and also to alter the present
• tolls, -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
inl4° same. and to levy other tolls, stallages, rents ,and sums of money
lieu thereof.
And it is also Intended by the said Bill or Bills to enable the said
l'a7or, alderman, and burgesses, or the said council, to complete,
anti if necessary to enlarge and extend the Town-hall, public offices,
l---'up-hotises, fire-engine-houses, and other buildings and Con-
venie connected therewith within the said town or borough, and
also' ,i nces
heoesary, 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 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 exorcised 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 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, atreets, and lanes of the said town or borough, and for
outer sanitary purposes.
And it Is also intended by the said:Bill er 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-
elderatiorito 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 rate. leviable by the said companies or company,
and to confer, vary, or extinguish exemptions from payment of rates,
and to vary or
.extinguish all existing rights and privileges which
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
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-under-Lyne,
and the neighbourhood therecif, in the county palatine of Lancaster,
aned t,he township of Dukinfield, in the county palatine of Chester,
and for supplying with water the said town of fAsliton-under-Lyne,
and the neighbourhood thereof;" and " Ashton Gas Act, 1847 ;" and
an 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 of 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 o'.tain powers to
rate, assess, and.charge railways, canals, collieries, and other de-
scriptions og 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 or assessments, by the said Acts,
01 either of them;•authorised to be made and levied over the whole
Properti 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 mayor, aldermen, and burgesses, or the said
e42lnell, to make, assess, and levy other and different rates and as-
woesments, in lieu thereof ; and to assess and levy new or additional
elite' upon all property within the limits aforesaid, for the purposes
ertfthe sald intended Bill or Bills ; and it is also intended by the said
Dra or Rills to repeal so much of the said secondly recited Act as
‘1448 that the rate or rates, assessment or assessment s, to
1)14,1e in virtue thereof, shall net exceed, in any one
ear
,a 1; Ilia slim of one shilling in the pound upon the
W
linith4'rent or value of the property thereby assessed,
i .° the consent of the inhabitants at large of the said town
to""'"Lon-under-Lyne, signified as therein mentioned; and also
fate er
so much 'of the said Act as provides that the whole
er rates to be made by virtue of the said Act should never in
anY 048 Year exceed the sum of ono shilling and sixpence in the
spOmtldllicut as provides
such rent or value ; and also to repeal so much of the
Provides that workshops, warehouses, manufaetories,
foundries or mills, rateable under the same Act when tenanted or
occupied by tenants or occupiers of any messuage or dwelling-house
In e thetor value raid town,
thereof.it hal 1 be rated at one-half only of the full annual
Tent
And it is also intended to vary or extinguish
certain other exemptions from payment of tolls, rates, and duties
e2nterred by, the said secondly and thirdly recited Acts, or either
of them, and other rights and priviegesuct;
dand to
duties,ancdorodtehrercerrwtahitn.
exemptions from. payment of tolls, rates,
and privileges. Aad it is also intended ade d
to repeal or alter so much
lataendm
Majestyatn
of an Acr passed in the 34tli year o.fAtiht eArectigtonr
King George the.Third.of makinghi s
id out of the canal of Sir John
navigable causal, from and intituled
Ramsdon, Baronet, at or nearkehtoatoriowinn oarndllucdodinetnrsufineilead,
communicate
en
,sthiethWtehset
Riding of the county of jerk,
to or near Ashton-under-Lyne
canal navigation from Man
and Oldham. at or nearttusttcoawnerof, Ashton-under-Lyne Ashton-under-Lynen..taupndert-hLe Huddersfield
aforesaid,
iu the county palatine of
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 from the
control,' direction, survey, and order of any commission of sewers;
and alo 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,
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
thereitoni ; and also to 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
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 Wso intended by the said Bill or Bills to enable the said
n!Rayor, aldermen, and burgesses, or the said council, to raise money
actZn )credit of the property of the corporation of the said borough,
rentsaliT oPon the credit of the various tolls, rates, assesSments,
any
of enarges, and payments granted by the said recited Acts, or
th thew. or to be granted-by the said intended Bill or Bills, for
e set oral Purposes aforesaid, as also for the purpose of paying off
diseharging the whole or any part of the sums borrowed by the
••hirnissloners appointed by the said secondly and thirdly recited
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 friteraded 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 arid Fairs
Clauses Act, 1847; the Gas Works. Clauses Act, 1847; the Commis-
Stoners Clauses Act, 1847 ; the Waterworks Clauses Act, 1847 ; the
T•wns Improvement Clauses Act, 1847; the Town Police Clauses
Act, 1847 ; the Cemeteries Clauses Act, 1847 ; and the Public
Health Act, 1843.

HENRY GARTSIDE, Town Clerk.
Ailiton=under-Lyne, November 1, 1848.
GRAHAME, WEEMS, and GRAHAME.
30, Great George-street, Westminster, Agents.

SOUTH-EASTERN RAILWAY.
REMOVAL of RESTRICTION against OPENING the
TUNBRIDGE WELLS and HASTINGS and ASHFORD and
HASTINGS LINES; REVIVAL and GRANT of COMPULSORY
POWERS. for PURCHASE of LAND; ALTERATION of ROAD
ad LEVELS; STEAM-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
repeal 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 Railway 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
lawful for the said Company to open for public purposes the Railway
by that Act authorised to be made until the Railway from Hastings
to Ashford shall have been completed. And it is also intended by
the said Bill to authorise the salt South-Eastern Railway Company
to alter the levels of the last-mentioned Railway from, at, or near 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 lino of the Hastings, Rye, and
Astelbrd Extension of the Brighton, Loves, and Ilastings Railway,
one ofsuch junctions being near Leltham Farm, in the parish of Guest-
ling, lu the county of Sussex, and the other of such junctions being at
Wham Hill Farm, in the same parish and county, which alterations
Will be wholly situate in the several parishes of Westfield and Guest-
Bs& In the same county.
And it is also intended by the said Bill to repeal or alter so mach
of an Act passed in the eighth and ninth years of the reign of her
present Majesty, intituled " An Act to enable too Brighton, Lewes,
and Hastings Railway Company to make a Railway from Bulver-
ta the county of Sussex, to Ashford, in the county of Kent," as
!nuts that no part of the railway thereby authorised to be
Company, shall
to; or authorised to be made by, the South-Eastern Railway
tripanr. shall be opened to the public, nor any toll taken in respect
"eor, by the
tion and South-Eastern Railway Company,' until the comple-
rh„.....opening of the portion of the same railway and works which
ntended to
es --n•naeli a point in the parish of St. Leonard and the station
aforesaid Ve made in the parish of the Holy Trinity, Hastings, and
to revive, in respect of that portion of the line from Bulverhithe
Hastings +"-o Ashford aforesaid, which is situate between the point at
'narked one mile and five furlongs upon the plans referred
.t° I" such Aet,, and the point near the River Bother, at Rye, marked
twelve miles seven furlongs upon the amine 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
to Rye, for. the distance of 250 yards or thereabouts, in or near the
town,. of Rye, In the parish of Rye, in the county of Sussex, for more
en"
—ventooll?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 or agreement, which said
alterations, and the lands and houses so to be purchased as aforesaid,
Will be wholly situate in the said parish of Eye.
And It is also intended in the said Bill to authorise the said South-
Eastern Railway Company to alter the levels of the last-mentioned
Ilailway from, at, or near a point on such Railway marked flve
Miles and seven furlongs on the plans referred to in the last-men-
tioned Act, to a point on such Railway marked seven miles ou the
Bald plans, which alteration will lie wholly situate in the parish of
Guestling, in the county of Sussex.
_ astern Hallway Company And it is also
intended by the said Bill to authorise the Soath-
Xto purchase, by compulsion or agree-
121_ ent, certain lands and houses in the parish of St. Mary Magdalen,
Ilermendsey, in the county of Surrey, for, the purpose of conveying
the same to the. Cerporacion of the Warden and Governors of the
Pariah
Pree Grammar School of Queen Elizabeth of the parishioners of the
of St: Dime, .Southwark, pursuant to the provisions of an
A Passed in the' tenth and eleventh years of the reign of her pre-
way Maje.sty, intituled "An Act to enable the South-Eastern Rail-
way Corriarmy further to widen the London and Greenwich Railway
and to enlarge their London-bridge Station."
Eastern Ritilw ay Company to cross; divert, alter, or stop up tempo-
.4r,af
dy or •portnahently 'all such turnpike roads, parlsh roads; foot-
Ys, streets, streets, and other highways, rivers, streams; sewers, pipes,
fantaia, navigations, bridges, railways, or tramways, within the
Parishes af.resaid, or some of them, as it may be necessary so to
cross,s
And divert, alter, or stop up for any of the purposes aforesaid.
it is ale*. intended by the said Bill to vary or extinguish all
existing rights
stud privileges connected with the lands proposed to
Would inased or
taken . for the several purposes aforesaid, or which
aforesaid any manlier impede or interfere with the' several objects
And noticeOr any of tii6m, and to confer other. rights and privileges.
said intended Is y
alterationurther given -that plans and sections of the of t
he turnpike road from Playden to Rye, Wad of the lands and houses to be taken for the purposes thereof, to-