Liverpool and Manchester Railway Act 1832
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1832 c. xlvi |
| Year | 1832 |
ANNO SECUNDO
GULIELMI IV. REGIS.
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Cap.
xlvi.
An Act for enabling the Liverpool and Manchester
Railway Company to make a Branch Railway;
and for amending and enlarging the Powers and
Provisions of the several Acts relating to such
Railway. [23d May 1832.]
HE RE AS by an Act passed in the Seventh Year of the Reign
of His late Majesty King
George
the Fourth, intituled An Act 7G.4. c.49.
for making and maintaining a Railway or Tramroad froin the
Town of Liverpool to the Town of Manchester, with certain Branches there-
from,
all in the County of Lancaster, the several Persons thereby united
and made one Body Corporate, by the Name and Style of "The Liver-
fool and Manchester Railway Company," were authorized to make and
maintain the said Railway in the Lines and Directions described in a Plan
and Book of Reference
thereof,
deposited with the Clerk of the Peace
of the said County Palatine of Lancaster, as in the said Act mentioned :
And whereas by Two other Acts, the one passed in the Ninth Year of
the Reign of His said late Majesty, intituled An Act to enable the
Company 9
G.
4.
c.
7.
of Proprietors of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway to alter the Line
of the said Railway, and for
amending
and enlarging the Powers and Pro-
visions of the several Acts relating
thereto,
and the other passed in the
Tenth Year of the same Reign, intituled An Act for
enabling
the Liver-
10G.
4.c 35.
pool and Manchester Railway
Company
to make an Alteration in the Line
of
the
said Railway, and for
amending
and
enlarging
the Powers and Provi-
sions of the several Acts relating
thereto,
the said Company of Proprietors
were empowered to make such Deviations from or Alterations in the
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2°GULIELMI IV. Cap.xlvi.
Line of the said Railway as in the Two several Acts now in recital are
expressed, and as described in the Two several Plans and Books of Re-
ference
thereof,
also severally deposited with the Clerk of the Peace of
the said County, as in the said Two last-recited Acts is mentioned : And
whereas Two other Acts were passed, the one in the Seventh and Eighth
7&8G.
4.
Years of the Reign of His said late Majesty, intituled An Act for
amend-
ed
21.
ing and
enlarging
the Powers and
Provisions
of an Act relating to the Liver-
pool and Manchester Railway, and the other in the First Year of His
1 W.4.
c.
51.
present Majesty's Reign, intituled An Act for
amending
and enlarging the
Powers and Provisions of the several Acts relating to the Liverpool and
Manchester Railway: And whereas the said Railway, by the said several
recited Acts, or some of them, authorized to be made, has been opened to
the Public ; but the same, and the Works connected therewith, are not yet
completed: And whereas it would materially improve the said Railway,
and facilitate the Communication with the Town of
Liverpool,
if a Branch
Railway were made for the Purposes and in the Situation and in manner
herein-after mentioned: And whereas it is expedient that some of the
Powers and Provisions in the said several recited Acts should be amended
and enlarged, and that further Powers should be granted : And whereas
the several Purposes herein-before mentioned cannot be carried into exe-
cution without the Authority of Parliament: May it therefore please
Your Majesty that it may be enacted; and be it enacted by the King's
most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords
Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament as-
Powers of sembled, and by the Authority of the same, That the said several recited
recited Acts Acts of the Seventh, Seventh and Eighth, of the Ninth and of the Tenth
thiPlAct.t0 Years of the Reign of His said late Majesty King
George
the Fourth, and
except as tne sa'd recited Act of the First Year of the Reign of His said present
herein Majesty, and all the Powers, Exceptions, Penalties, Forfeitures, Payments,
altered. Rules, Remedies, Directions, Articles, Matters, and Things therein
respectively contained, shall (except so far as the same or any of them
have heretofore been or by this Act is or are varied, altered, or repealed,)
be good, valid, applicable, and effectual for carrying this Act into
execution, to all Intents and Purposes.
II.
And be it further enacted, That it shall be lawful for the said
Liverpool and Manchester Railway Company, and they are hereby em-
powered, to make a Branch Railway, as herein-after mentioned, for the
Passage of Waggons, Carts, and other Carriages, properly constructed,
commencing at and communicating with the main Line of the said Liver-
pool and Manchester Railway in the Township of West Derby in the
Parish of
Walton-on-the-Hill
in the said County, and extending to or pass-
ing through or into the several Parishes of
Walton-on-the-Hill
and Liver-
pool, and through or into the several Townships, Hamlets, or Places of
West Derby, Edge Hill, and Liverpool, or some of them) all in the said
County of
Lancaster,
and terminating at or near to a certain Place now or
lately called the Cattle Market, situate on the Easterly Side of Lime Street
in Liverpool aforesaid, and also to make and construct the Tunnel herein-
after mentioned, with proper Warehouses, Wharfs, Landing Places, Steam
and other Engines, and Works, for such Branch Railway; and such
Branch Railway and other Works shall for all the Purposes of this Act
and of the said several recited Acts be and be considered Part and Parcel
of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway.
III.
And
906
Company
empowered
to make
a Branch
Railway.
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