Liverpool Sewage Utilization Act 1866
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1866 c. ccxciii |
| Year | 1866 |
ANNO VICESIMO NONO & TRICESIMO
VICTORLE REGINiE.
Cap.
ccxciii.
An Act for utilizing the Sewage of the Borough
of Liverpool; and for other Purposes.
[30th July 1866.]
HEREAS by an Act passed in the Session holden in the g& lovict.
Ninth and Tenth Years of Her Majesty, intituled An
c.
cxxvii.
Act for the Improvement of the Sewerage and Drainage
of the Borough of Liverpool, and for making further Provisions for
the sanitary Regulation of the said Borough, the Council of the
Borough of Liverpool were required to cause the Borough to be well
and effectually sewered and drained in manner therein-after provided;
and by the said Act all Sewers, together with all Buildings and other
Works, Materials, and Things therewith connected, existing within
the said Borough, or which should thereafter at any Time be con-
structed and made therein, whether constructed at the Cost of the
Mayor, Aldermen, and Burgesses of the said Borough, or otherwise,
were vested in the said Mayor, Aldermen, and Burgesses, and placed
under the sole and entire Management and Control of the said
Council, subject to the Provisions of that Act; and by the said Act
it was provided that the said Council should cause to be constructed
and made such and so many Main and other Sewers as should be
necessary and proper for the effectual draining of the whole of the
said Borough, together with all such Reservoirs, Engines, Sluices,
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Cap.ccxcin.
The Liverpool Sewage Utilization Act, 1866.
Penstocks, and other Works as should be required for properly flushing
and cleansing out such Sewers, and that it should be lawful for the
said Council to cause such Sewers to communicate with and empty
themselves into any public River, Stream, Watercourse, or tidal Basin,
or to cause the Refuse from such Sewers to be conveyed by an appro-
priate Channel to the most convenient Site for its Collection and Sale,
and its Application as Manure for agricultural Purposes, as might be
deemed most expedient, but so that the same should in no Case become
a public Nuisance or Annoyance to the Neighbourhood, and that all
such Sewers and other Works and Premises should belong to the
said Mayor, Aldermen, and Burgesses, and be at all Times under the
Control, Care, and Management of the said Council, and their Sur-
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veyors and Officers respectively: And whereas by "The Liverpool
c-'sy- Sanitary Amendment Act, 1854," the said Mayor, Aldermen, and
Burgesses are empowered to contract with any Person for, and pur-
chase and hold, any Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments, or any
Easement or Privilege in, through, over, or upon the same, within or
beyond the Limits or Boundary of the said Borough, for the Purpose
of more conveniently constructing any Sewer or Drain, or of con-
veying away, depositing, or otherwise disposing of the Refuse of the
said Borough, or otherwise carrying into effect the Powers and Autho-
rities of the firstly herein-recited Act and that Act, and all Persons
by " The Lands Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845," authorized to sell
and convey Lands are by the Enactment now in recital empowered
to sell and convey Lands, Tenements, and Hereditaments, or Easements
or Privileges in or over the same, for the Purposes aforesaid: And
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Vict,
whereas under the Act of the last Session of Parliament (Chapter
c' 75, Seventy-five), " for facilitating the more useful Application of Sewage
"in Great Britain and
Ireland,"
the said Mayor, Aldermen, and Bur-
gesses are empowered to construct Sewers, as well without as within
the said Borough, for the Purpose of Outfall or Distribution of Sewage
upon making due Compensation, and subject to certain Provisions and
Restrictions therein contained, and are also empowered, for the Pur-
pose of utilizing the Sewage of the Borough, to make Agreements
(subject to the Restriction therein contained) as to the Supply of
such Sewage and Works to be made for the Purpose of that Supply,
and the Parties to execute the same and bear the Costs
thereof,
and
the Sums, if any, to be paid for that Supply : And whereas the
Sewers of the said Borough now discharge their Contents into the
River Mersey at LOAV Water at several Points along the Margin of
such River, the most Southward of such Points being at or near
Dingle Lane, and the most Northward of such Points being at or
near Bank Hall: And whereas there is situate between the Lancashire
and Yorkshire Railway and the Irish Sea an Area or Tract of Waste
Lands or Sands known as the Sandhills or Rabbit Warrens which
is unproductive, but is capable of being converted to agricultural
Purposes,
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