Cardiff Corporation Act 1879
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1879 c. cxxxiii |
| Year | 1879 |
[42
&
43 VICT.] Cardiff
Corporation
Act, 1879. [Oh. cxxxiii.]
CHAPTER cxxxiii.
An Act to provide for the transfer to the Mayor, Alder-
A.D.
1879.
men, and Burgesses of the borough of Cardiff of the
Cardiff Waterworks; and for other purposes.
[21st July 1879.]
W
HEREAS the borough of Cardiff (in this Act called "the
borough") is a municipal borough subject to the provisions
of the Acts relating to municipal corporations, and the mayor,
aldermen, and burgesses of the borough (in this Act called "the
Corporation") are the urban sanitary authority for the district
thereof:
And whereas the following, among other Acts and Provisional
Orders,
are.
in force within the borough ; (that is to say,)
An Act for removing the markets held in the town of
Cardiff,
in
5
&
6 W.
4.
the county of Glamorgan, and for providing other market- c'
places in lieu
thereof;
An Act for better paving, cleansing, lighting, and otherwise
7 W.
4.
improving the town of Cardiff in the county of Glamorgan; Cl xv"'-
The Public Health Supplemental
Act, 1850
(Number
3); *$£ v
The Llandaff
and
Canton District Market
Act,
1858; £
*r.22 Virt-
•
The Local Government Supplemental
Act,
1859 (Number
2);
c"m'irt'
The Cardiff Borough Act, 1862;
I'S™-
The Local Government Supplemental
Act, 1865
(Number
5);
K'TUrt-
The Cardiff Improvement Act, 1871;
^"5Vict
The Local Government Board's Provisional Orders Confirmation
36
4 37Vict.o.i.
Act, 1873;
The Cardiff Improvement
Act,
1875
; faS^'
which Acts
and
Orders
are
collectively referred
to as the
former
Acts,
and
each
of
them separately
as an Act or
Order
of the
year
in
which
the
same was passed:
And whereas
by the
Cardiff Waterworks
Act,
1853,
the
Cardiff
16 & 17
Vict.
Waterworks
Act,
1850,
was
repealed,
but the
Cardiff Waterworks
j'o^'w
v-
Company
(in
this
Act
called
"
the company
")
thereby incorporated,
c.
lxix.
[Local^SS.] A 1
[Ch. CXXXiii.] Cardiff
Corporation
Act, 1879. {42 & 43 VICT.]
A.D.
1S79. ^rere authorised and empowered to supply with water the town and
port of
Cardiff,
and the parishes and places adjacent thereto in the
county of Glamorgan:
23 & 24
Vict.
And whereas by the Cardiff Waterworks Act, 1860, the powers of
c' cv' the company were extended :
4i
& 42
Vict.
And whereas by the Cardiff Waterworks Act, 1878 (in this Act
c
cxbv.
called " the Act of 1878 "), the company were authorised to
construct additional works to form part of their undertaking :
And whereas the share capital of the company on the thirtieth
day of June one thousand eight hundred and seventy-eight stood as
follows:
Act by which Capital authorised.
16 Vict. c. 24. -
23 & 24 Vict. c. 105.
41 & 42 Vict. c. 144. -
aSSa. Capital paid up.
£
45,000
100,000
200,000
£
45,000
76,631 '
Nil
Hate of
Dividend.
£ s. d.
10 0 0
7 10 0
7 0 0
and the company owe on mortgage twenty thousand four hundred
and fifty pounds:
And whereas the Corporation have agreed with the company for
the purchase of their undertaking upon the terms set forth in this
Act, and it is expedient that such purchase be carried into effect:
And whereas by the Act of 1875 the then borough of Cardiff was
extended so as to include portions of the parishes of Roath and
Llandaff,
but by section seventeen (provisions as to school board) of
that Act the area so added to the then borough was exempted from
the jurisdiction of the school board
thereof:
And whereas inconvenience has resulted from such exemption,
and it is expedient that the said section seventeen be repealed, to
the intent that the school board district should become conterminous
with the borough :
And whereas it is expedient that further provision should be
made with respect to the government of the borough:
And whereas it is expedient that the borrowing powers of the
Corporation be extended, and that further provisions be made with
respect to the raising and the repaying of moneys authorised to be
borrowed by the former Acts:
And whereas the objects aforesaid cannot be effected without the
authority of Parliament:
And whereas estimates have been prepared showing that, in
addition to the moneys required for and in relation to the purchase
of the water undertaking, the Corporation may require to borrow
2
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