Bristol and Portishead Pier and Railway Act 1863
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1863 c. cvii |
| Year | 1863 |
ANNO VICESIMO SEXTO & VICES1MO SEPTIMO
VICTORLE REGIN.E.
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Cap,
cvii.
An Act to authorize the Construction of a Pier at
Portbury in the County of Somerset, and of a
Railway therefrom to the Bristol and Exeter
Railway near Bristol, with a Branch Railway to
Pvrtishead; and for other Purposes.
[29th June 1863.]
W
HEREAS the Construction of a Pier in the Parish of Port-
bury in the County of
Somerset,
and of a Railway to connect
the same with the Bristol and Exeter Railway in the Parish
of Bedmmster in the County of Somerset, and of a Branch Railway
diverging therefrom to
Portishead,
would be of great public Advantage
by facilitating the embarking and disembarking of Passengers, Animals,
Goods Ware's, and Merchandise from Steam Packets and other Vessels^at
such Pier and by opening an additional, certain, and expeditious Means
of Communication between Bristol and the said Places, and also by
facilitating Access to more distant Towns and Places
:
And whereas the
Persons hereafter named, with others, are willing at their own Expense
to carry such Undertaking into execution: And whereas a Plan showing
the Line or Situation of the said Pier, and Plans and Sections of the
intended Railway and Branch Railway, showing the Lines and Levels
thereof respectively, and describing the Lands in and through which the
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The Bristol and Portishead Pier and Railway Act, 1863.
same respectively may be made or which may be required for the Pur-
poses of the Undertaking, with a Book of Reference to such Plans,
containing the Names of the Owners or reputed Owners, Lessees or
reputed Lessees, and of the Occupiers of those Lands, have been
deposited with the Clerks of the Peace for the County of
Somerset
and
for the City and County of Bristol, and those Plans, Sections, and Books
of Reference are in this Act referred to as the deposited Plans, Sections,
and Books of Reference
:
And whereas it is expedient that Facilities be
afforded for Traffic passing over the Railway and Branch Railway by
this Act authorized, and also over the Railways of the Bristol and Exeter
Railway Company (herein-after called " the Bristol and Exeter Com-
pany"):
And whereas it is expedient that such Working and other
Arrangements should be authorized and such Powers conferred with
reference to the Bristol and Exeter Company as are herein-after
expressed: And whereas the Purposes aforesaid cannot be effected
without the Authority of Parliament: May 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, and Commons, [in this present Parlia-
ment assembled, and by the Authority of the same, as follows; (that is
to say,)
Short
Title.
1. This Act may be cited for all Purposes as " The Bristol and
Portishead Pier and Railway Act,
1863."
8&9Vict. 2. " The Companies Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845," " The Lands
cc.16.18.
&
Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845," " The Lands Clauses Consolidation
10& 11
Vict.
Acts Amendment Act, I860," "The Railways Clauses Consolidation
232&24Vict. Act' 1845'" and "Tlie Harbours' Docks> Piers> aDd Clauses Act, 1847,"
c.
106.,
in- ' save so far as the same respectively are expressly varied or excepted by
corporated. this Act, shall be incorporated with and form Part of this Act: Provided
always, that the Provisions of " The Harbours, Docks, and Piers Clauses
Act, 1847," with respect to Lifeboats, and with respect to keeping a Tide
and Weather Gauge, shall not be in force under or for the Purposes of
this Act unless and until and except only so far as the Board of Trade,
by Notice in Writing under the Hand of One of the Secretaries of that
Board to the Company, require the Company to conform either wholly
or in part to those Provisions respectively.
taUoTT 3* In
constmin§'
the incorporated Acts in connexion with this Act
Terms.0 the
ExPressio11
" the Undertaking," and the Expression " the Railway,''
in "The Railways Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845," respectively mean
the Railway and Branch Railway by this Act authorized, and the Works
connected therewith, but not the Pier or Jetty nor the Works connected
therewith; the Expression " the Undertakers
"
in " The Harbours, Docks,
and Piers Clauses Act, 1847," shall mean the Company by this Act in-
corporated ; and in this Act the Expression "the Undertaking" includes
as
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The Bristol and Portishead Pier and Railway Act, 1863.
as well the Railway and Branch Railway by this Act authorized, and the
Works connected therewith, as the Pier or Jetty by this Act authorized,
and the Works connected therewith
;
the Expression " Superior Courts,"
or " Court of competent Jurisdiction," or any other like Expression in this
Act, shall be read and have effect as if the Debt or Demand with
respect to which the Expression is used were a common simple Contract
Debt, and not a Debt or Demand created by Statute, unless there be in
the Subject or Context hereof anything repugnant to or inconsistent with
such Construction.
Same Mean-
4.
The several Words and Expressions to which by the Acts incor-
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Words ccc
porated with this Act Meanings are assigned have in this Act the same
jn
inCorpo-
respective Meanings, unless excluded by the Subject or Context. rated Acts
r as in this
Act.
5.
James
Ford,
Richard Fuidge, Richard
Robinson,
Thomas
Canning,
Subscribers
and
Frederick
Wetherley, and all other Persons and Corporations who incorpo
have already subscribed or shall hereafter subscribe to the Undertaking, rate '
and their Executors, Administrators, Successors, and Assigns respectively,
shall be united into a Company for the Purposes of the Undertaking
hereby authorized; and for the Purposes aforesaid such Company shall
be incorporated by the Name of " The Bristol and
Portishead
Pier and
Railway Company," and by that Name shall be a Body Corporate with
perpetual Succession, and shall have Power to purchase, acquire, take,
hold, and dispose of Lands and other Property, and any Easements,
Interests, Rights, Powers, and Privileges in, over, and affecting the same,
for the Purposes of the Undertaking, but subject to the Restrictions
herein and in the incorporated Acts respectively contained/
6. The Share Capital of the Company shall be Two hundred thousand Capital.
Pounds.
7 The Number of Shares in which the said Capital shall be divided Number
and
shall be Eight thousand, and the Amount of each Share shall be Twenty- *£££of
five Pounds.
8. Five Pounds per Share shall be the greatest Amount of any One Calls.
Call'which the Company may make on the Shareholders, and Two
Months at least shall be the Interval between successive Calls, and the
aggregate Amount of Calls to be made on any One Share in any One
Year shall not exceed Three Fourth Parts of the whole.
9 The Company may borrow on Mortgage any Sum not exceeding in Power to
the whole the Sum of Sixty-six thousand six hundred Pounds, butno ^J~
Part of such Sum shall be borrowed until the whole of the said Capital
shall have been subscribed for and One Half thereof shall have been
actually paid up, and until they shall prove to the Justice who is to
certify
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