The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-11-20 00:00:00

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attending the several works and matters aforesaid, or some of
them ; and for regulating and managing warehouses and
storehouses, within the said limits, and for appointing a fire-
police, and regulating the same, for the prevention of fires
!herein ; and for licensing and regulating the conduct of por-

ters, warehousemen, and other servants and persons em-
ployed in or about the warehouses and storehouses, now
or hereafter to be erected within the said limits ; and for
improving the sanitary condition of the district comprised
within the said limits, and for preventing the spread of con-
tagious diseases, and for promoting the increase of cleanliness
therein; and for the erection of public Baths Ind Wash-houses
and other conveniences within the said district, and for the
maintenance and regulation of a police-force therein. And
also to confer on the said Commissioners such or the like
powers as are now vested in the Commissioners acting in the
execution of the said recited Acts, with reference to the con-
burial grounds
to authorise such
new Commissioners to sell or lease the whole, or part, of any
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within the limits

buriali grounds, or of the lauds authorized to be purchased
for the purposes thereof, to any joint stock, or other company,
person, or corporation who may be able to purchaze or hold the
same.
A

nd it is further proposed by the said intended Act, to confer
powers upon the said new Commissioners, to purchase, lease,
or otherwise take and hold all or any terries or rights of ferry
accross or over the river Mersey, and to enable all persons,
companies, bodies politic or corporate, being the owners of, or
having any interest in, any such ferries or rights of ferry, to
sell, lease, and transfer the same to the Commissioners upon
such terms and conditions as may be mutually agreed upon
between the said Commissioners and such persons, companies,
bodies politic or corporate; and it is also proposed by the said
intended Act to make further provision for the purchase, by the
said Commissioners, of ➢conks' Ferry, and all the property

connected therewith, contracted to be purchased by the tom--
missioners acting in the execution of the said recited Acts, and
to authorize the Commissioners to grant bonds o

bonds a first charge on the said ferry and property, and the
tolls, rents, and profits receivable in respect thereof, and to
enable the Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire Junction
Railway Company to receive and hold such bonds or mort-

And it is also proposed by the said intended Act to authorize

the Commissio

to levy tolls

rates, date

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for or in respect of the use_of 01 or any ferries, wharfs,

landing-places, cranes, and other works aria conveniences at
any time belonging to them, and to alter existing tolls, rates,
duties, and charges, and to confer, vary, or extinguish exemp-
tions from payment of tolls, rates, duties, or charges, and at
their option to enter into or decline entering into contracts for
the use of all or any of their ferries, with any person or per-
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And it is ais.o proposed by the said intended Act to authorize
the Commissioners to erect a town-ball and police-courts, and
all necessary buildings and offices connected therewith, or to
rent or hire such buildings as they may think suitable for any
of such purposes.
And it is &so proposed by the said intended Act to make
farther provision for the recovery of all or any rates, charges,
expenses, or other monies authorised to be levied, made,
charged, or received by the said Commissioners, and for the
regulation of, or otherwise in relation to, all or any of the
ferries, markets, paits, cemeteries, wharfs, cranes, or other
property, matters, or things belonging to the Commissioners,

hint. for-the regnla'tion of Tiackney'Ca;riages,drWei;,porters,
and others within the said district, and for the making and
enforcing of bye-laws in relation to all or any of the matters
aforesaid.

And it is also proposed by the said intended Act to authorize
the Commissioners and Francis Richard Price, Esquire, and
his trustees, to make and carry into effect certain arrange-
ments for more effectually vesting in the Commissioners the
Woodside Ferry and certain lands contracted to be purchased
by the Commissioners acting in the execution of the said re-
cited Acts ; and to raise a sum of money by the creation of
bonds or mortgages for paying the consideration money for
the purchase of the said ferry, and to make such bonds or
mortgages a first charge on the said ferry and the property
belonging thereto or connected therewith, and the boats and
vessels used or employed by the Commissioners in relation
thereto, and on the tolls receivable in respect thereof.
And it is also proposed by the said intended Act to make
certain provisions touching the bond or mortgage debt of the
Commissioners, and to regulate and (if need be) to alter the
rights, privileges, priorities, and securities of the bondholders
or mortgagees, and to authorise the bondholders or mortga-
geec to purchase land from the Commissioners, and to surren-
der their bonds or mortgages in lieu of payment of money as
the consideration for the pturbase of such land ; and to make
further provision for enabling the Commissioners to acquire
and hold lands, and to sell or dispose of all or any of the lands
vested in or belonging to them.
And it is also proposed by the said intended Act to enable
the Commissioners to raise, for all or any of the purposes
aforesaid, a further sum ,of money, and to apply and appro-
priate such parts of the rates, assessments, tolls, rents, pro-
perty, and revenue of the Commissioners as they shall think
fit, for or towards the execution of all or any of the purposes
herein before mentioned; and also to empower the Commis-
sioners to make, assess, levy, and receive all or any of the
rates, assessments, tolls, or charges now receivable by the
Commissioners acting in the execution of the said recited Acts,
and to alter or vary such rates, assessments, tolls, and charges,
or some of them, and to confer, vary, or extinguish exemptions
from the payment thereof, and other rights and privileges.
Dated this tenth day of November, 1849.
AMBROSE WALN, Solicitor for the Bill.