Corporation of London (Open Spaces) Act 1878
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1878 c. cxxvii |
| Year | 1878 |
[41 & 42 VICT.]
Corporation
of
London
(Open [Ch. CXXVii.]
Spaces) Act, 1878.
CHAPTER cxxvii.
An Act to enable the Corporation of London to acquire and
A.D.
1878.
hold and manage as open spaces Lands in the neighbour-
hood of London ; and for other purposes. [4th July 1878.]
W
HEREAS by the Metage on Grain (Port of London) Act,
35 & 36
Vict.
1872,
the mayor and commonalty and citizens of the city of c-c-
London, in the said Act and herein-after called the Corporation,
were empowered to demand and receive in respect of all grain
brought into the port of London for sale a certain fixed duty
therein particularly specified, and to be called the city of London
grain duty, and it was enacted that such duty should, subject to
the provisions of that Act, be held by the Corporation for the pre-
servation of open spaces in the neighbourhood of London not
within the metropolis as denned by the Metropolis Management
Act, 1855, and it was thereby enacted that, for the purpose of the
preservation of any such open space, the Corporation might from
time to time borrow at interest on the credit of the net proceeds of
the city of London grain duty and of their estates and revenues any
money not exceeding in the whole ninety-nine thousand pounds:
And whereas by the City of London (Various Powers) Act, 1877,
40&41
Vict.
it was enacted that for the purpose of the preservation of any open
c#
vn-
spaces in the neighbourhood of London, within the meaning of the
Metage on Grain (Port of London) Act, 1872, the Corporation
35 &
36 Vict.
might from time to time borrow, in addition to the said sum of c-c-
ninety-nine thousand pounds, such moneys not exceeding the sum
of fifty thousand pounds as they might require, and upon the same
security and subject to the same terms and conditions as though
the same were moneys authorised to be borrowed by the last-
mentioned Act for a like purpose:
And whereas by the Metropolitan Open Spaces Act, 1877, certain
40 & 41
Vict.
powers of acquiring and holding the ownership of and the right c-45-
to enter upon and use and enjoy certam open spaces are vested in
the Metropolitan Board of Works, and it was thereby enacted that
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