The Liverpool Standard, and General Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-11-28 00:00:00

Varliamentarp Notice.

LIVERPOOOL D 0 CAZ S.
[PURCHASE OF LANDS : NEW DOCKS, AND OTHER
WORKS AN!) IMPROVEMENTS: CUT INTO THE
LEEDS AND LIVERPOOL CANAL: POWER TO RAISE
A FURTHER SUM OF MONEY: AMENDMENT OF

ACTS.]
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that application is intended
to be made to Parliament in the ensuine Session for leave to
bring in a Bill to enlarge, alter, extend, improve, and in-
crease the Dock Accommodation in the Port of Liverpool ;
and to confer on the Trustees of the Liverpool Docks further
and additional powers relating to the present and future
Docks, Warehouses, and Works of the said Trustees, and to
the management thereof; and in particular powers to effect
the objects hereinafter mentioned, or referred to, or some of
them, that is to say _ . . . .

To 'purchase and take, by compulsion and otherwise, certain
Lands and Hereditaments, lying to the northward and east-
ward of certain of the present Docks and Works of the said
Trustees, called Sandon Dock and Sandon Graving Docks,
and bounded on the west side thereof, in part, by the said
last-mentioned Docks and Works, in other part by land be-
longing to the said Trustees, and in other part by the Strand
and Waters of the River Mersey ; on the northerly side
thereof, in part, by the Strand and Waters of the said River,
in other part by a Road or Street, called Strand Promenade,
and in other part by a Road or Street, called Pleasant-view;
on the east side thereof. in part, by a Road or Street, called
Derby-road, in other part by the Towing-path of the Leeds
'and Liverpool Canal, and in other part by Lands belonging
to the Earl of Derby, and John Shaw Leigh, Esquire, re-
spectively; on the south and southeast sides thereof by a
Street, called Castle-street„ and by the Line of Railway now
being constructed from the Lancashire and Yorkshire Rail-
way, to or towards another of the present Docks of the
said Trustees, called Stanley Dock, and in other part by a
Road or Street, called Boundary-street; and to extend to
and over as well the Lands and Hereditaments, so to
be purchased, as those now belonging to the said rustees,
all the powers and authorities of the said Trustees to con-
struct on Lands purchased or belonging to them, Docks and
Basins, with connecting Cuts, Locks, Wharfs, and other
Works, Warehouses, and Buildings.
To divert, Water from the River Mersey, and from the
present and authorized Docks and Works of the said Trustees,
into the said intended Docks, Basins, and other Works.
To make a communication by means of a Cut or Branch
Canal, to cross the said Street called Derby-road, and to con-
nect the said Docks, Basins, and Works with the said Leeds
and Liverpool Canal, such Cut to commence On the west
side of the Derby-road, near to Castle-street, and to join
the said Canal at a point about 300 yards northward of the
bridge over the same called Marsh Bridge, otherwise Miller's
Bridge. and to supply the said intended Cut or Canal with
water, from the said Leeds and Liverpool Canal.
To make, alter, and maintain all proper and desirable Em-
bankments Sea-walls, Dock-gates, Roads, Approaches,
Bridges, Locks,i Gates, Quays, Slips, Graving Docks, Graving
Blocks, Platforms, Jetties,. Sheds, Piers, Sluices, Sewers,
Engines, and other Works and conveniences connected with,
or for the purposes of the said intended and existing Docks,
Basins, Cut, Canal, and other Works.
To cross, divert, raise, lower, alter, or stop up all such
Streets, Roads, Highways, Footpaths, Towing-paths, Canals,
Railways, Bridges, Sewers, Drains, Aqueducts, Pipes,
Streams, and Watercourses, as it may be necessary or
desirable to cross, divert, raise, lower, alter, or stop up,
for the purposes of the intended or existing Works, or
any of them.
All which said intended Docks, Basins, Cut, and other
Works, and conveniences, will he made within, or pass from,
in, through, or into the several Parishes and Townships of
Liverpool, Walton-on-the-Hill, Bootle-cum-Linacre, and
Kirkdale, and the Township or Extra-Parochial place of Tox-
teth-park, and the Bed, Strand, Shore, or Soil of the said
River Mersey, or some of them, all in the county of Lancaster.
To exercise powers of purchasing by compulsion, and by
agreement, in respect of all or any of the Lands, and other
Hereditaments in the several Parishes, Townships, and
Extra-Parochial or other places, aforesaid, which may be re-
quired for the several objects and purposes of the said Bill,
arid to vary. or extinguish any rights and privileges connected
with such Lands and Hereditaments, and any other rights
and privileges which would in any way interfere with such
objects and purposes.
To enable the said Trustees to accept and take a transfer
from the Mayor, Aldermen, and Burgesses of the Borough of
Liverpool, upon such terms and conditions as may be settled
or agreed upon between them, and to hold, for the purposes
of the Dock Trust, all such parts of certain Lands and Here-
ditaments, situate in the said Parish and Borough of Liver-
pool, and in the said Township, or Extra-Parochial place of
Toxteth-park, proposed to be purchased. or acquired by the
said Mayor, Aldermen, and Burgesses, under the autho-
rity of an Act of Parliament, to be applied for by them
in the next session of Parliament, as shall lie an the westward
side of a certain new or improved Street, or new or improved
Streets proposed to be made by them under the authority of
their said intended Act, and shall not be required for the pur-
poses of such new or improved Street or Streets, and including
therein such existing Streets, or parts of existing Streets in
the said Parish and Borough of Liverpool and Township or
Extra-Parochial place respectively, as may be disused as
public thoroughfares, upon the construction of the said new
or improved Street or Streets.
To sanction and confirm certain purchases made by the said
Trustees from the Earl of Derby, Mr. Matthew Dobson
Lowndes, and the Trustee under the will of the late Mr. George
Rowe, respectively, of certain Lands situate in the said Parish
of Liverpool, and abutting on the said Leeds and Liverpool
Canal, near to the south side of the Bridge over the said Canal
called Gerard Bridge.
To levy Tolls, Rates, Dues, and Duties in upon or in respect
of the said Docks, Basins, Cut, Quays, Wharfs, and other
Works, and to alter existing Tolls, Rates, or Duties, and to
facilitate the recovery thereof, and to confer, vary, and extin-
guish exemptions from the payment thereof,. and to confer,
vary, or extinguish other rights and privileges, and to
confer on the said Trustees all usual necessary or convenient
powers and authorities for maintaining, regulating, govern-
ing, and managing the said Docks, Basins, Cut, Quays,
Wharfs, and other Works, and to extend thereto the provi-
sions of the existing Acts relating to the said Dock Estate.
•

To authorise the said Trustees to borrow and raise by way
of loan on security of their Bonds, or by Mortgage, or other-
wise such further sums of money as may be necessary for the
purposes of the said Bill, and of the said Dock Estate; and to
make other arrangements in reference to the debt of the said
Trustees.

To amend or repeal (so far as may be necessary for the pur-
poses of the said Bill) the powers and provisions contained in
the following Acts of Parliament relating to the Docks and
Harbour of Liverpool, or some of them, that is to say : Bth
Anne, chapter 12 ; 3d George 1., chapter 1; 11th George 11.,
chapter 32; 2d George 111., chapter 86; 25th George 111.,
chapter 15; and (local and personal acts) 39th George 111.,
chapter 59 ; 51st George 111., chapter 143 ; 53d George 111.,
chapter 156; 59th George 111., chapter 30; 6th George IV.,
chapter 187 ; 9th George IV., chapter 55 ; 9th George IV.,
chapter 114; 11th George IV., chapter 14; 4th Victoria, chap-
ter 30; 6th and 7th Victoria, chapter 98 ; 7th and Bth Victoria,
chapter 80; Bth Victoria, chapter 11; 9th and 10th Victoria,
chapter 109; 11th Victoria, chapter 10; and 14th and 15th
Victoria, chapter 64 ; and, so far as may be necessary, the
Act of sth and 6th William IV., chapter 76, for the regulation
of Municipal Corporations in England and Wales.
And Notice is hereby further given, that, on or before the
30th November, 1854, duplicate Plans and Sections relating to
the proposed undertaking and describing the Lands. Build-
ings, and Premises required to be purchased and taken for
the purposes thereof, together with a Book of Reference to
such Plans, and a copy of this Notice, as published in the
London Gazette, will be deposited for public inspection at the
Office of the Clerk of the Peace for the County of Lancaster
at Preston, in the said County, and at the Office of the Clerk
of the Peace for the Borough of Liverpool, in the Town of
Liverpool ; and on or before the same day a copy of the said
Plans, Sections, and Book of Reference, with a copy of this
Notice, as published in the London Gazette, will be deposited
for public inspection in the case of each such parish, with the
Parish Clerk thereof, at his residence ; and in the case of such
Extra-Parochial place. with the Parish Clerks of Liverpool,
being a Parish immediately adjoining thereto. at their respec-
tive residences; and also with the Clerk of St. James's Church,
in Toxteth•park aforesaid, at his residence
•; and that, on or

before the 30th December

copies ?

Solicitor OF the said Trustees

FOR BEST HOUSE COALS,
From Ince-hall Collieries, apply to
W. AND H. LAIRD.
LIVERPOOL-23, Castle-street.
HUYTON, ROBY, and RAINHILL—Me. BROWN, Roby.
Five per Cent. Discount for Cash Payment.