Bolton Improvement Act 1877
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1877 c. clxxxviii |
| Year | 1877 |
[40
& 41
VICT.] Bolton Improvement Act, 1877. [Ch. clxxxviii.
CHAPTER clxxxviii.
An Act to extend the Borough of Bolton, and to enable the
A.D.
1877.
Mayor, Aldermen, and Burgesses thereof to make New
Streets and Street Improvements, to extend the Limits of
Gas Supply, and to make further provision for the Improve-
ment and Government of the Borough ; and for other
purposes. [2d August 1877.]
W
HEREAS the horough of Bolton, in the county of Lancaster, is
a municipal horough subject to the Acts relating to municipal
corporations, and the mayor, aldermen, and burgesses of the said
borough are in this Act called the Corporation:
And whereas the following Acts are in force within the said
borough; (that is to say,)
17& 18
Vict.
Bolton Improvement Act, 1854;
2V& 25
Viet.
Bolton Improvement Act, 1861;
c.
cixxiii.
Bolton Improvement Act, 1864;
f*.28
Vict
Bolton Improvement Act, 1865 ; and
2*8
& 29
Vict.
The Bolton Corporation Act, 1872; c- xii-
off CL of "VF?/»4-
which Acts are in this Act referred to collectively as " the former c. ixxviii.
Acts,"
and each of them separately as an Act of the year in which
the same was passed:
And whereas the Corporation are the owners of the gas and water
undertakings of the saicl borough, and under powers contained in
the former Acts manufacture gas and supply gas and water in the
said horough and in townships and places adjacent thereto:
And whereas " The Local Government Act, 1858," was adopted
in the township of Halliwell in the month of November one thousand
eight hundred and sixty-three, and the saicl township of Halliwell
became the district of the local board of health of Halliwell:
And whereas it is expedient that the municipal limits of the said
borough be extended so as to include part of the said district, and
[Local-188.] A 1
[Ch.
clxxxviii.] Bolton
Improvement
Act, l&H. [40
& 41
VICT.]
A.D.
1877.
that the said local hoard he dissolved, and their estate, property,
rights,
duties, dehts, and liabilities, suhject to the provisions of this
Act, he transferred to the Corporation, and that so much of the said
district as is not added to the borough he added to and form part of
the district of the rural sanitary authority of the Bolton Union:
And whereas the said local hoard of health of Halliwell owes on
mortgage the sum of twenty-four thousand four hundred and
ninety-four pounds four shillings and fourpence :
And whereas the Corporation are the burial board for the said
borough, and it is expedient that they be constituted the burial
board for the borough as extended :
And whereas it is expedient that a new ward be added to the said
borough, and that the number of aldermen and councillors be
increased:
And whereas it is expedient that the Corporation he authorised to
abandon the construction of a road authorised by the Act of 1864,
and to construct another road in lieu
thereof:
And whereas it is expedient that the Corporation be enabled to
construct the several new works and improvements herein-after
mentioned:
And whereas it is expedient that the Corporation be authorised to
acquire additional lands for waterworks and sewage purposes :
And whereas it is expedient that the limits within which the
Corporation are empowered to supply gas be extended :
And whereas the Corporation under the powers of their former
Acts have provided a park and recreation grounds for the borough,
and have also power to erect slaughter-houses :
And whereas it is expedient that further powers he granted to the
Corporation for the borrowing of money and the improving and
better governing of the borough, and that their former Acts be in
divers particulars altered and amended and the powers thereof
extended:
And whereas the purposes aforesaid cannot be effected without
the authority of Parliament:
And whereas estimates have been prepared by the Corporation
for the purchase of land for and the execution of the following
works by this Act or by the former Acts authorised, and such
estimates are as follows; (namely,)
Por new streets and roads and street improvements, fifteen
thousand pounds;
Por slaughter-houses, twenty-five thousand pounds;
Por new sewer, sewage works and purposes, fifty thousand
pounds;
Por waterworks purposes, eighty-five thousand pounds;
2
[40
& 41
VICT.] Bolton Improvement Act, 1877'. [Oh. clxxxviii]
For gasworks purposes, one hundred thousand pounds; A.D. 1877.
For completing the park and recreation grounds, fifteen thousand
pounds:
And whereas the several works included in sueh estimates are
permanent works within the meaning of the two hundred and thirty-
fourth section of '' The Public Health Act, 1875 ":
And whereas an absolute majority of the whole number of the
council, at a meeting held on the twenty-fifth day of September one
thousand eight hundred and seventy-six, after ten clear days notice
by public advertisement of such meeting, and of the purpose
thereof,
in the Bolton Daily Chronicle, a local paper published or circulating
in the borough, such notice being in addition to the ordinary notices
required for summoning such meeting, resolved that the expense in
relation to promoting the Bill for this Act should be charged on the
borough fund and borough rate:
And whereas such resolution was published twice in the Bolton
Daily Chronicle, a newspaper circulating in the borough, and has
received the approval of the Local Government Board in respect of
matters under the jurisdiction of the Board, and of one of Her
Majesty's Secretaries of State in respect of other matters :
And whereas the propriety of the promotion of the Bill for this
Act was confirmed by an absolute majority of the whole number of
the council at a further special meeting held in pursuance of a
similar notice on the tenth day of January one thousand eight
hundred and seventy-seven, being not less than fourteen days after
the deposit of the Bill in Parliament:
And whereas the owners and ratepayers of the borough by
resolution in the manner provided in the Third Schedule of " The
Public Health Act, 1875," consented to the promotion of the Bill
for this Act:
And whereas plans and sections describing the lines, situations,
and levels of the works authorised by this Act, and plans showing
the lands to be acquired under the powers of this Act, and a book
of reference to those plans containing the names of the owners or
reputed owners, lessees or reputed lessees, and of the occupiers of
lands in the line of those works or within the limits of deviation as
defined on the plans, and describing those lands, have been deposited
with the clerk of the peace for the county of Lancaster, and are in
this Act referred to as the deposited plans, sections, and book of
reference:
May it it therefore please Your Majesty that it may be enacted;
and be it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and
with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal,
A 2 3
To continue reading
Request your trial