The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-11-15 00:00:00

ITOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that application is in-
-111 tended to be made to Parliament in the next session,
for an Act or Acts to repeal, alter, enlarge, and extend some
of the powers and provisions of three several Acts of Parlia.
went, one thereof passed in the third and fourth years of the
reign of His Majesty King William the Fourth, intituled
"An Act for paving, lighting, watching, cleansing, and
otherwise improving the township orchapelry of Birkenhead,
in the county palatine of Chester, and for regulating the
police thereof, and for establishing a market }within the said

nether thereof, pass

years of the reign of Her present M

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Act for paving, lighting, watching, 'ansing, a

improving the township or chaply of Birkenhead, in the
county palatine of Chester, and for regulating the police
thereof, and for establishing a market within the said town-
ship;" and the other thereof, passed in the fifth year of the
reign of Her said present Majesty, intituled "An Act to au-
thorise the purchase of a certain ferry called Woodside
Ferry, by the commissioners for the improvement of the
township or chapelry of Birkenhead, in the county palatine

of Chester, and for amending the improvement ACts for the
said township ;" and to include the township of Claughton
cum Grange, in the parish of Bidston, in the county of

Woodchurch, in the said cowl,
on the plans to be deposited
within the provisions of the said recite
Act or Acts so intended to be
define the boundaries of the said township or chapelry of
-Birkenhead, and of the said townships of Claughton cum
Grange, and Oxton, and the limits of the said Acts, in man-
ner to be defined on the said plans, and to annex such parts
of the said townships of Claughton cum Grange and Oxton,
as may be included within the provisions of the said Acts to
the said township of Birkenhead, and to render so much of.
the said townships of Claughton cum Grange and Oxton, as
may be so annexed as.aforesaid, liable to th poor rates and
other local rates and assessments to be made within the said
township of Birkenhead, and to exempt the same from all
contribution towards the poor and other township rates
within the said townships of Claughton cum Grange and
Oxton; and also to repeal all existing rights (if any) of de-
manding or taking tolls, or charges upon or in respect of the
passage on any road within the said township of Claughton
cum Grange, and township or chapelry of Birkenhead, or
either of them, and within so much of the said township of
Oxton as shall be within the limits of the said intended Act
or Acts.

of Chester, (to be defined
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And, by the Act or Acts so intended to be applied for, it
is proposed to repeal the right, now vested in the Corporation
of Liverpool, of nominating commissioners under the said
recited Acts, and to provide for the establishment and regu-
lation of a more efficient police and fire police within Birken-
head and Claughton cum Grange aforesaid, and within so
much of Oxton as shall be within the limits of the said in-
tended Act or Acts ; and for the payment of such police
wholly or in part, by rates on the inhabitants of the said
township or chapelry of Birkenhead, and township of Claugh-
ton cum Grange, and so much of the said township of Oxton
as shall be within the limits of the said intended Act or Acts ;
and to regulate the erection, drainage, and maintenance of
buildings within the said townships, or so much thereof as
shall be within the limits of the said intended Act or Acts ;
and to provide for the establishment therein, and the regula-
tion of hackney carriages to be exempt from the payment of
post horse or other duty, and to make regulations for the go-
vernment of hackney coachmen, carmen, and porters, and
the limitation of their charges ; and to vest in the said com-
missioners, acting under the said recited Acts, and the said
intended Act or Acts, the sole power to grant licences to
keepers of inns, ale-houses, and victualling-houses within
the limits of the said recited Acts, and of the said intended
Act or Acts, to sell exciseable liquors by retail : and to give
further powers to the commissioners acting under the said
recited Acts, with regard to the before-mentioned objects,
and also with regard to the regulation of public-houses and
bathing machines within the said townships, or so much
thereof as shall be within the limits of the said intended Act
or Acts ; and with regard to other objects connected with the
improvement, good government, and police regulation of the
districts included, and to be included, within the limits of
the said Acts, and of the said intended Act or Acts.
And it is also proposed to enable the said commissioners
to form and maintain a park within Birkenhead and Claugh-
ton clam Grange aforesaid, or one of them, for the purposes
of public recreation, and also to form and maintain a ceme-
tery for the interment of the dead in the said township of
Claughton cum Grange, and in the said township or chapelry
of Birkenhead, to be included within the following bounda-
ries, viz., a line commencing at a boundary stone situate at
the junction of the townships of Claughton cum Grange,
Oxton, and Bidston, and running thence due east 273 yards,
or thereabouts, along a fence to an occupation road; thence
running north along the said occupation road until it reaches
the turnpike road leading from Birkenhead to Upton, 290
yards, or thereabouts ; thence running west along the said
turnpike road to its junction with the old road from Birken-
head to Bidston, 106 yards, or thereabouts ; thence in a
westerly direction along the said old road, to its junction with
the lane called White's Lane, 130 yards, or thereabouts;
thence in a northerly direction along the said lane to the
south corner of a field in the occupation of Mary White,
widow, 205 yards, or thereabouts; thence continuing in a
northerly direction across the said field and another field, also
in the occupation of the said Mary White, to the house and
buildings in the occupation of the said Mary White, 105
yards or thereabouts; and thence continuing in a northerly
direction along the west side of the said house and build-
ings, to a house in the occupation of Wm. Wilcock, 100 yards
or thereabouts ; and thence continuing in a northerly direction
along the west side of the said last-mentioned house, to and
along the line of an old railway, to the boundary stone at the
south west corner of the land belonging to the Corporation
of Liverpool, 265 yards, or thereabouts ; thence in a north-
westerly direction in a straight line, 180 yards, or therea-
bouts; thence turning in a curve line, and running in a west
and south west direction along the base of Flaybrick-

in
right angle, and running a westerly direction to a
ditch, separating the township of Birkenhead from the
township and parish of Bidston. RIO yards, or thereabouts ;
and thence in a southerly direction along a fence forming the
said boundary, to a junction with the old Bidston road,
210 yards, or thereabouts ; thence continuing in a southerly
direction along the said last-mentioned road 430 yards, or
thereabouts ; thence continuing in a southerly direction along
a cart track, passing on the westerly side of a house in the
occupation of the Reverend Mr. Gates to the Upton turn-
pike road 200 yards, or thereabouts ; and thence continu-
ing in a southerly direction along the boundary separating
the township of Claughton cum Grange from the township of
Bidston, to the first-mentioned boundary stone 250 yards, or
thereabouts ; and to take fees in respect of the same ; and to
erect a police court and offices in the said township or cha-
pelry of Birkenhead ; and to extend the market place within
the township or chapelry of Birkenhead, and to apply to the
market place so extended, and to other public places within
the said township or chapelry, the right of taking tolls en-
joyed by the said commissioners in the said existing market
place ; and to form and maintain new roads or streets in the
said township of Claughton cum Grange; and to erect and
maintain public baths in the said township or chapelry of
Birkenhead ; and to alter and enlarge the landing place or
slip in the said township or chapelry of Birkenhead, at and
adjoining to the ferry known as Woodside Ferry, or otherwise
to make a new pier or landing place, or piers or landing
places, in the said last-mentioned township or chapelry, at,
near, or adjoining Woodside Ferry aforesaid, and to form
a railway, by means of a tunnel, or otherwise with proper
stations and other conveniences, within the said township or
chapelry of Birkenhead, from the landing place known as
Monks Ferry, to or near to the terminus of the Chester and
Birkenhead Railway ; and to alter, enlarge, and extend the
landing places or slips at and adjoining and belonging to
the said last-mentioned ferry, in the said last-mentioned
township or chapelry ; and also to erect a sea wall, with
a pier and landing place or places, in the said township
or chapelry of Birkenhead, adjoining Tranmere-pool ; and to
demand and receive tolls on all goods, animals, and missen-
gers landed at or embarked from the said pier, slipV',N.or
landing places, or any of them, or passing along ta,
said intended railway ; and also to levy tolls, rates, and
duties upon all vessels and other craft having cargoes to
discharge within the limits of the said intended Act
or Acts, or to compel such vessels and other craft to
discharge their cargoes at the said intended piers, slips,
or landing places aforesaid, or one of them ; and to pur-
chase and take lands for all the before-mentioned pur-
poses ; and also for effecting improvements in the said town.
ship or chapelry of Birkenhead, and township of Claughtor
cum Grange, and so much of the said township of Oxton
shall be within the limits of the said intended Act or Act,
and also to purchase Monks Ferry aforesaid, with all rit4
property, and appurtenances thereunto belonging;
take tolls and charges in respect of the same ; and also to
grant leases of the said intended baths, and of the said ferry
and railway, and of all or any of the lands so to be acquired
by them the said commissioners, and to take rents in respect
of the same.
And it

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„ is also proposed, by the said intended Act or Acts,
to provide for the appointment a a Stipendiary Magistrate
within Birkenhead and Claughton cum Grange aforesaid,
and so much of Oxton as shall be within the limits of the
said intended Act or Acts, and for the payment of such ma-
gistrate, by rate on the inhabitants of the said townships of
Birkenhead and Claughton cum Grange, and so much of
Oxton as aforesaid ; and also to establish a Court for the
more speedy recovery of debts under twenty pounds, within
the said townships of Birkenhead and Claughton cum Grange,
and so much of Oxton as aforesaid ; and to authorise the
demanding of fees and charges, for support of the officers of
the said Court.
And it is also proposed, by the said intended Act or Acts,
to enable the said commissioners to raise a further sum of
money on the credit of the rates, tolls, and sums of money
which they are at present authorised to receive under the said
recited Acts, or which they may be authorised to receive un-
der the powers of the said intended Act or Acts, and to alter
the mode prescribed by the said last recited Act, of app lying
the tolls and rates thereby authorised to be received; and
also to render the owners of all houses and buildings under
the annual value of fifteen pounds within the said townships,
or so much thereof as shall be within the limits of the said
intended Act or Acts, liable to the payment of all rates and
assessments chargeable on the occupiers of such houses and
buildings ; and to enable the said commissioners to enter into
compromises with such owners in respect of the payment of
such rates ; and also to compel the construction of proper
sewers by the owners of all properties adjoinincto township
roads within the said townships, or so much thereof as shall
be within the limits of the said intended Act or Acts, and to
charge the lands adjoining to all public streets and roads
formed by the said commissioners with the cost of the for-
mation thereof.
And notice is hereby further given,-that plans and sections,
describing the situation and levels of the said proposed rail-
way from Monks Ferry ; and also plans describing the situa-
tion of the said intended sea wall, pier, and landing place
or
places adjoining Tranmere pool; and the said intended
mning oodside Ferry
padssoof or streets intended to be
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and Oxton, and defining also the proposed limits of the said
intended Act or Acts ; and the lands proposed to be taken
for the said several
containing
purposes.the togethernam es oNfvi
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or referencefrep utreputed
to such plans,
owners, lessees or reputed lessees, and occupiers of the said
lands, will be deposited, on or before the 30th day of Novem-
ber, in this present year, with the Clerk of the Peace of the
county of Chester, at his office in Chester ; and also, on or
before the 31st day of December next, so much of the said
plans,
sections, and books of reference as relate to the said
township of Claughton cum Grange, will be deposited with
the Parish Clerk of the parish of Bidston ; and so much of
the said plans, sections, and books of reference as relate to
the township or chapelry of Birkenhead, w 'll be deposited
with the respective Clerks to the churches,wl Rhin the said
last-mentioned chapelry or township; and so much of the
said plans, sections, and books of reference as relate to the
township of Oxton, will be depositedi with the Parish Clerk
of the
JOSEPHsaI pai‘riiAsh of i
IAWBV, Clerk to the said Commissioners,

and Solicitor for the Bill,
Liverpool, 29th October, 1842.