The Sun.
London, England, 1845-09-01 00:00:00

TIDAL HARBOURS.

The report of the Commissioners on this important
subject is now printed and delivered to Members. After
noticing the condition of various harbours, it concludes :
—" Your commission humbly recommend that a Board
of Conservancy be established for the superintendance
and protection of all the tidal harbours and navigable
rivers in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Ireland ; that it be in connexion with the Admiralty ;
and that it be permanent.
That this Board have jurisdiction, by summary pro-
ceedings, over the waters of the tidal harbours and
navigable rivers, notwithstanding any charters or Acts
of Parliament to the contrary, with a reservation of pri-
vate rights under the charters, and the continuation of
Local Commissioners where the Board may think fit.
That the Beard should have full powers, by the assist-
ance of engineers, surveyors, and others, to ascertain
the extent of all nuisances and cbstructions in tidal har-
bours and navigable rivers.
That the board should be enabled to have a jury sum-
moned by the sheriff to ascertain whether or not any en-
croachment or other nuisance in a tidal harbour or navi-
gable river, has existed years; and if it be found to
have been made within that time, that the board have
power by their own order, at the expense of the party
who made such encroachment or nuisance, to remove it.

That the whole of the coasts of the United Kingdom
be divided by this board into districts, and that each be
placed under the superintendence of a competent person,
who shall visit each river, port, harbour, and creek, at
least once a year, or oftener, as it may be necessary, to
inquire into and report on the state of each river, port,
harbour, and creek in his district, and of all works
which may be in progress there.
That the Board should have power to enforce the ap-
pointment of a resident engineer or harbour-master, or
both, at every port they may consider of sufficient im-
portance to require such constant superintendence.
That every commission or trust of a harbour or navi
gable river, or if there be none, every resident engineer
or harbour-master, be required to make out and forward
to the Board, before the Ist of March in each year, a de-

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tailed report made up to the 31st of Decembe
r, consist-
ing of an accouut of all such works as have been ex-
ecuted, with the expenses thereof, within the limits of
his superintendence during the past year ' • and a report
on those works he would recommend to be undertaken
during the ensuing year. And, also, to include in that
report an account of all changes that may have taken
place during the year in the depth of water, or formation
of shoals, or any other change affecting the navigation of
the river or harbour.

That if any works, public or private, shall be com-
menced or proceeded with on grounds within the high-
water mark of ordinary spring tides, without having
first obtained the sanction of the board or their super-
intending officer, it shall be lawful, and the board
should be empowered immediately to stop such works,
and to direct the removal of the same by the parties
erecting them, and if they refuse so to do, the board
may direct their removal, and charge the parties with
the expenses.
That for the protection of the public interests in the
navigation of every river. port, harbour, and creek of
the United Kingdom, a clause be inserted in every fu-
ture Act, charter, or commission, which affects in any
way the tidal harbours and navigable rivers of the
country, giving power to and requiring the Admiralty
to appoint one-third part of the whole number of Com-
sioners to execute the trusts under such Acts, char-
ters, and commissions, and also to have the power to
change the whole or any of such third part of Commis-
missioners from time to time, as the Admiralty shall
think fit, so as to secure at all times a sufficient number,
at each board or meeting of the trust, to protect the
public interest against any bias or local interests.
That the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty
should direct the surveying officers employed in the seas
of the United Kingdom to transmit to them, for the in-
formation of the Board of Conservancy, a list of all the
parts of the coast on which they have been engaged sur-
veying, and the harbours, ports, creeks, and navigable
rivers they have examined, and on which they feel com-
petent to give an opinion, in case of any improvements
or alterations being proposed: also, that in future, in
every port they visit, they shall make inquiries relative
to any embankments or encroachments on the harbour
or river, and generally as to any neglect in the preserva-
tion of the ports; and forthwith shall report the same to
the Secretary of the Admiralty for the information of
the said Board.
That hereafter the number of commissioners or
trustees of any harbour or navigable river, docks, or
other work affecting navigation shall not exceed
twelve (12), and that four (4) be a quorum, with a
view to a greater responsibility and the more effectual
performance of the duties connected with such commis-
sion or trust.
That to all existing harbour commissions or trusts the
Admiralty shall have power to add new commissioners
or trustees, not exceeding in number one-fourth of the
whole commission.

That the Board should have power to call upon every
such commission, or trust, or harbour-master, as the
case may be, to make out a correct account of all receipts
of money by the said commission, in the course of the
year up to the 31st of December, and from what source
and under what authority received ; stating, also, the
expenditure during the year, under separate heads, so as
to afford a current ace mint of the resources of each trust,
and of the application of the same, which, after being
duly audited, shall be transmitted to the Board of Con-
servancy on or before the Ist of March following.
That the board should have power to order that a
tide scale be placed in all harbours, and in certain ports
that a self-registering tide gauge be erected, accom-
panied by a barometer, and that a record of these be
strictly kept ; as well as a journal of the wind and
weather ; of the arrivals and sailings, of cases of wreck,
or of anything affecting the interests of navigation, and
transmitted periodically to the Board of Conservancy.
That in all suits and proceedings at law, by the Di-
rectors or Commissioners acting under any commission
or trust of a harbour or navigable river, it shall be im-
perative on them to take the opinion of. and to act under
the directions of the law officers of the Crown.
That a summary of the proceedings of this Board be
laid before Parliament on or before the 25th of March
in each year.
That an annual grant be made by Parliament for the
support of the said Ifeard.
Among the last recommendations which we humbly
take leave to lay before your Majesty, there is one which
appears to your commission of essential importance to-
wards the improvement of our harbours, namely, the pro-
curing accurate plans and surveys on a sufficient scale of
all the ports and navigable rivers of the United King-
dom ; not only for the present value of such plans as
showing the actual state of the port, and as affi,rding
the basis for improvements ; but also to be preserved as
documents for reference hereafter, in order to determine
at any future time what changes may have taken place.
Your commission cannot close their report without
expressing, in the strongest terms, their conviction, that
immediate measures for detailed inquiry and local exa•
mination into the state and condition of every port and
navigable river of the United Kingdom, are indispensa-
bly necessary, with a view to that thorough superin-
tendence, without which many of the evils already re-
cited are liable to recur.

And when they consider the great want of accessible
harbours along the whole of the coasts of your Majesty's
dominions—more especially when the extended use of
steam navigation points to such great changes in mari-
time affairs, whereby every sheltered creek is likely to
become of value—and when they consider that, by the
improvement of our tidal harbours, your Majesty's
beneficent intentions for the preservation of the lives
and property of a large class of your Majesty's subjects
may be best fulfilled, they earnestly trust that no minor
consideration may be allowed to impede the accomplish-
ment of objects of such national importance.
All which we humbly certify to your Majesty.
W. BOWLE3, Rear-Admiral, M.P., Chairman.
J. J. GORDON BREMIER, Captain, R.N.
JOSEPH HUME, M.P.
AARON CHAPMAN, M.P.
EWARD R. RICE, M.P.
THOMAS BARING, M.P.
T. BEAUFORT, Hydrographer.
G. B. AIRY, Astronomer Royal.
JOHN WASHINGTON, Captain, R.N.
RICHARD GODSON, Q.C. and M.P., Counsel
to the Admiralty.
London, July 8, 1845.

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