Kingston-upon-Hull Improvement Act 1854
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1854 c. ci |
| Year | 1854 |
VICTORLE REGINA.
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ANNO DECIMO
SEPTIMO & DECIMO OCTAVO
Cap.
ci.
An Act for the further Improvement of
Kingston-
upon-Hull,
and for other Purposes.
[3d
July
1854.]
HEREAS the following Acts, Local or Local and Personal Acts,
Whave been passed ; (to wit,) an Act of the Twenty-eighth Year
of
George
the Second, Chapter Twenty-seven, intituled
An
28 G. 2. c. 27.
Act for explaining, amending, and making more effectual several Acts of
Parliament relating to the Maintenance and Employment of the Poor of
the Town of
Kingston-upon-Hull,
and for better paving, preserving, and
cleansing the Streets, Squares, Lanes, and Alleys in the said Town, and
preventing Obstructions therein, and for preserving the Lamps which shall
be set up to enlighten the Streets of the said Town, and securing the Property
of such Lamps to the Owners;
an Act of the Second Year of
George
the
2 G. 3. c
,
70.
Third, Chapter Seventy, intituled
An Act to amend and render more
effectual several Acts made for cleansing and enlightening the Streets of the
Towh, of
Kingston-upon-Hull,
and for preventing Annoyances therein ; an
Act of the Fourth Year of
George
the Third, Chapter Seventy-four, inti-
tuled
An Act for amending and supplying the Deficiencies of an Act passed
4 G. 3. c. 74.
in the Second Year of the Reign of His present Majesty King
George
the
Third, intituled ' An Act to amend and render more effectual several Acts
[Local.
1
17
0
' made
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17° & 18° VICTORI}E,
Cap.ci.
The Kingston-upon-Hull Improvement Act,
1854.
made for cleansing and enlightening the Streets of the Town of
Kingston-
' upon-Hull,
and for preventing Annoyances therein';
an Act of the Twenty-
23 G. 3. c.55. third Year of
George
the Third, Chapter Fifty-five, intituled
An Act for
building a new Gaol for the Town of
Kingston-upon-Hull, for purchasing
an additional Burial Ground for the Use of the Parish of the Ii
oly Trinity
in the said Town, for regulating the Fares of _Hackney Coachmen, Chair-
men, and Porters, and the Prices of Carriage of Goods, for altering
the Time of lighting Lamps, for ascertaining the Breadth of Party Walls,
and for preventing certain Nuisances, within the said Town, Liberties, and
Precincts thereof ; for amending an Act of the Fourteenth Year of His
present Majesty for making and establishing public Quays or Wharfs at
Kingston-upon-Hull,
in respect to such as are or may be built opposite to
certain Staiths in the said Act described, and for other Purposes ;
an Act
41 G. 3. c. 30. of the Forty-first Year of
George
the Third, Chapter Thirty, intituled
An
Act for paving, cleansing, lighting, watching, and regulating the Streets,
Squares, Lanes, and other public Passages and Places within the Parish of
Sculcoates
in the East Riding of the County of
York,
and for removing
.
and preventing Nuisances, Annoyances, Encroachments, and Obstructions,
and for licensing and regulating Hackney Coaches, Chairs, Porters,
Coal
Carriers, and Water Carriers, Trucks, Carts, and other Carriages, within the
said Parish;
an Act of the Fiftieth Year of
George
the Third, Chapter
50 G. 3. mi. Forty-one, intituled
An Act for watching and more effectually
lighting,
cleansing, and otherwise improving the Town of
Kingston-upon-Hull
and the Liberty of
Trippett,
and the Lordship or Precinct of
Myton
in the Parish of the
Holy Trinity
in the said Town, and for pre-
venting Nuisances therein, and also for preventing Frauds and Imposi-
tions in the Quality, Measure, and Delivery of Coals in the said
Town;
an Act of the Third Year of Her Majesty, Chapter Seventy-six,
3 & 4 Viet. intituled An Act for better lighting and cleansing the Town of
Kingston-
c. fxxvi.
upon-Hull,
and certain Parts of the Liberty of
Trippett,
within and Part
of the Municipal Borough of
Kingston-upon-Hull : And whereas, those
Acts are in this Act called the existing Improvement Acts : And
whereas the several Clauses and Provisions of the fourthly-recited Act
respectively specified in the Schedule C. to this Act annexed relate to
Matters not within the Purview of this Act : And whereas by a Provisional
Order of the General Board of Health, dated the Twenty-third Day of
June
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-one, " The Public Health Act,
1848," (except Section Fifty thereof,) was applied to the whole Borough
according to its present Limits, which was thereby constituted One District,
for the Purposes of that Act ; and by " The Public Health Supplemental
Act, 1831, No. 2,
"
which received the Royal Assent on the Seventh Day of
August
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-one, that Provisional Order
was confirmed : And whereas a Copy of the Provisional Order is given in
the Schedule (A.) to this Act annexed : And whereas the Mayor, Aldermen,
and Burgesses of the Borough are by the Council of the Borough the
Local Board of Health for that District, and in this Act in their Capacity
of
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The Kingston-upon-Hull Improvement Act,
1854.
of a Municipal Corporation they are called " the Corporation," and in their
Capacity of such Local Board of Health they are called "the Local Board:"
And whereas the Powers of the Local Board are insufficient, and it is ex-
pedient that their Powers for the Acquisition of Lands be extended, and
that they be authorized to acquire, provide, and regulate Cemeteries for
the Borough, and that their Powers for the Improvement of the Sewerage
and Drainage of the Borough, and for the Prevention of Nuisances, and
for the Construction and Regulation of Buildings and Dwellings, and for
the general Improvement of the Borough, and for levying Rates and
raising Monies, be extended : And whereas, in order to avoid Incon-
veniences arising from several Private Acts relating to the same Purposes
being in force at the same Time, it is expedient that the existing Im-
provement Acts, except the several Clauses and Provisions of the fourthly-
recited Act respectively specified in the Schedule C. to this Act annexed,
and the Provisional Order, be repealed, and that some of the Powers and
Provisions thereof be amended and re-enacted or continued by this Act :
And whereas such Purposes 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 :
I.
That this Act may be cited for any Purpose as " The
Kingston-upon-
Short Title.
Hull
Improvement Act, 1854."
II.
That this Act shall commence and have effect on and from the
Ccume"ce-
.
Third
Wednesday
next after the passing thereof.
meat of Act
III.
That this Act may be put in execution for all the Purposes thereof
within the Borough of
Kingston-upon-Hull,
and for the Purposes thereof
with respect to Cemeteries within such further Limits as by the Provisions
thereof respectively in that Behalf appear.
IV.
That the " Public Health Act, 1848," and the several Acts sup=
12 Viet.
elemental thereto, save so far as any of the Clauses and Provisions thereof
c. 63.
porat ec .
respectively are expressly varied by or are repugnant to or inconsistent
with any of the Powers, Provisions, er Purposes of this Act, and except
the First Section and Sections IV. to XXXIV. both inclusive, L. CV.
CXXI. CXXXVIII. CXLI. CXLM and CLII. of "The Public Health
Act, 1848," and except the last Proviso with respect to Exemptions from
rating of Section LXXXVI II. of that Act, are incorporated with this Act.
V.
That the Mayor, Aldermen,
aid
Burgesses of the Borough of
Council of
Kingston-upon-Hall
shall, by the Coun9i1 of the Borough, be within and for
Borough
to
the
be Local
Limits of
Act.
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