Borough of Hanley Act 1857
| Year | 1857 |
(20 & 21 Vict.) C A P. X.
'WHEREAS by an Act passed in the Session holden in the Second and third Years of Her Majesty, intituled Staffordshire Potteries,and for improving and cleansing the same, and better lighting Parts thereof , it was enacted that the Third District, for the Purposes of that Act, should comprise, among other Places, such Part of the Township of Shelton as comprised any Part of the Glebe Lands then belonging to the Rector of Stoke-upon-Trent , or any Lands which, on the Twentieth Day of May One thousand eight hundred and twenty-five, were Parcel of the Glebe Lands of the Rector of Stoke-upon-Trent aforesaid, and the Powers of the said Act extend over the said Part of the Township of Shelton : And whereas the Inhabitant Householders of Hanley and Shelton in the County of Stafford did petition Her Majesty to grant to the Inhabitants of the said Towns, under the Name of Hanley , a Charter of Incorporation, and such Petition was taken into consideration by the Privy Council; and, in pursuance of the Advice of the said Privy Council, it was intended that a Charter of Incorporation should be granted, which should include the whole of the Townships of Hanley and Shelton , with the Exception of that Portion of the Township of Shelton which is included in the District over which the Powers of the said Act of the Second and Third Years of Her Majesty extend (videlicet , the Part of the Township of Shelton comprised in the said Third District for the Purposes of that Act), which Portion is commonly known by the Name of the Glebe Lands: And whereas a Charter of Incorporation has been granted by Her Majesty, and bears Date the Twenty-second Day of May last past, by which the Inhabitants of the District comprised within the Town of Hanley and Shelton , and comprising the whole of the said Townships of Hanley and Shelton , are expressed to be incorporated by the Name of the Mayor, Aldermen, and Burgesses of the Borough of Hanley , and, through Inadvertence, no Exception has been made in the said Charter of the said Part of the Township of Shelton over which the Powers of the said Act of the Second and Third Years of Her Majesty extend: And whereas it is expedient that the Error in the said Charter should be corrected, and that the Charter, as so amended, should be...
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