Ely Tidal Harbour and Railway (Glamorgan) Act 1856
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1856 c. cxxii |
| Year | 1856 |
ANNO DECIMO NONO & VICESIMO
VICTORLE REGIME.
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Cap.
cxxii.
An Act for making a Railway from the Taff Vale
Railway to the River Ely in the County of
Glamorgan, for converting Part of the said River
into a tidal Harbour and regulating the Access
thereto, for authorizing Arrangements with the
Taff Vale Railway Company; and for other
Purposes. [21st July 1856.]
HERE AS the Construction of a Railway to commence from
and out of the Taff
Vale
Railway in the Parish of Radyr in
the County of Glamorgan, and to terminate at or near the
North-east Bank of the River Ely, between and on the opposite Side
of the River to Cogan Pill and Cwtch-y- Cwm, and the embanking,
widening, deepening, and improving of Part of the River Ely for the
Purpose of a tidal Harbour, and the dredging and deepening of
other Portions of the said River, and the Preservation of the Access
thereto, and the Construction of an Embankment on or adjacent to
the West Side of Penarth Flats or West Mud in the said County,
would be of great public and local Benefit: And whereas the several
Persons herein-after named, with others, are willing at their own
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The Ely Tidal Harbour and Railway Act, 1856.
Expense to carry such Undertaking into execution; but the same
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 Parliament assembled, and by the Authority
of the same, as follows:
Short Title. I. In citing this Act for any Purpose whatsoever it shall be suffi-
cient to use the Expression " The Ely Tidal Harbour and Railway
Act, 1856."
Interpreta-
tion of
Terms.
II.
The following Words and Expressions shall have in this Act
the Meanings hereby assigned to them respectively, unless there be
something in the Subject or Context repugnant to such Construction;
(that is to say,)
The Expression " the Company " or " the said Company " shall
mean the Company incorporated by this Act:
The Expression " the Harbour " shall mean that Part of the River
Ely (lying between a Point Forty-six Chains or thereabouts
below Cogan Pill and a Point One hundred and forty-four
Chains or thereabouts above the said Pill, measured in both
Cases along the Centre of the said River,) which is by this Act
authorized to be embanked, widened, deepened, and improved
for the Purpose of a tidal Harbour:
The Expression "the Limits of this Act" shall mean the said
Harbour, and also that Portion of the said River which lies
between that Part of the Bristol Channel called Cardiff Roads
and the said Harbour, and also the Entrance thereto.
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cc.
16. 18. &
20.
and
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c. 27. incor-
porated.
III.
The Provisions of " The Companies Clauses Consolidation
Act, 1845," " The Lands Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845," " The
Railways Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845," and " The Harbours,
Docks, and Piers Clauses Act, 1847," except as herein-after provided,
shall be incorporated with and form Part of this Act: Provided never-
theless, that so much of the Twelfth Section of " The Harbours,
Docks, and Piers Clauses Act, 1847," as provides and requires that
if the Conservancy of the navigable River therein referred to shall
legally belong to any Person, the Consent and Approval in the now
citing Enactment specified of such Person shall be necessary, in addition
to the Consents and Approvals in the now citing Enactment before
required, shall not be applicable to the Company or to the Under-
taking or to the Works which may be executed under the Authority
of this Act: Provided also, that the Provisions with respect to Life
Boats,
and with respect to keeping a Tide and Weather Gauge, of
" The Harbours, Docks, and Piers Clauses Act, 1847," shall not be
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in force for the Purposes of this Act, except so far as from Time to
Time the Lords of the Admiralty by Notice in Writing to the Com-
pany may require them to provide any Works or Conveniences accord-
ing to those Provisions respectively : Provided also, that the Twenty-
second Section of" The Harbours, Docks, and Piers Clauses Act,
1847,"
shall not apply to the Portion of the Harbour by this Act
required to be reserved and set apart as and for a public Wharf or
Wharves.
IV. The Honorable Robert Windsor Clive, Crawshay Bailey Subscribers
Esquire, Thomas Powell Esquire, the Reverend George Thomas,
mcorPorate
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William Sheward Cartwright Esquire, John Nixon Esquire, James
Harvey Insole Esquire, Thomas Joseph Esquire, John Batchelor
Esquire, Thomas Wayne Esquire, and Francis Crawshay Esquire,
and all other Persons and Corporations who have already subscribed
or shall hereafter subscribe to the Undertaking, and their Executors,
Administrators, Successors, and Assigns respectively, shall be united
into a Company for the Purpose of making and maintaining the Rail-
way and Harbour and executing the several other Works by this Act
authorized, according to the Provisions of this Act and of the Acts
incorporated herewith, and for other the Purposes herein and in the
said Acts contained; and such Company shall be incorporated by
the Name of " The Ely Tidal Harbour and Railway Company," and
by that Name shall be a Body Corporate, with perpetual Succession
and a Common Seal, and shall have Power to purchase and hold Lands
for the Purposes of the Undertaking within the Restrictions herein
and in the said Acts contained.
V. The Capital of the Company shall be One hundred and thirty Capital.
thousand Pounds, and shall be applied solely to the Purposes of this
Act.
VI.
The said Capital shall be divided into One thousand three Number and
hundred Shares, and the Amount of each Share shall be One hundred £mount of
n , Shares.
Pounds.
VII.
Ten Pounds per Centum on the Amount of each Share shall Calls.
be the greatest Amount of any One Call which the Company may
make on the Shareholders, and Six Tenths of the Amount of a Share
shall be the utmost aggregate Amount of Calls that may be made
in any One Year, and Two Months at the least shall be the Interval
between successive Calls.
VIII. It shall be lawful for the Company to borrow on Mortgage Power to
or Bond any Sums not exceeding Forty-three thousand Pounds, but
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no Part of such Sums shall be borrowed until the whole of the said 0I sa§0*
Capital
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