London Bridge Approaches Act 1829
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1829 c. cxxxvi |
| Year | 1829 |
ANNO DECIMO
GEORGII IV. REGIS.
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Cap.
cxxxvi.
An Act for improving the Approaches to London
Bridge. [24th June 1829.]
HERE AS by an Act passed in the Fourth Year of the
Reign of His present Majesty King George the Fourth,
intituled An Actfor the rebuilding o/"London Bridge, and
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G.4.
c.
50.
for improving and making suitable Approaches thereto, the Mayor,
Aldermen, and Commons of the City of London, in Common Council
assembled, were empowered and directed to cause a new Bridge to be
erected across the River Thames upon the Site or Westward of the
present London Bridge, and to make a spacious and convenient Street,
Way, or Passage at each End of the said intended Bridge, and for those
Purposes to take and use any Tenements or Hereditaments which it
might be deemed expedient to take and use for the Purpose of erecting
the said Bridge, and widening and improving the Approaches thereto,
provided that no House, Building; Garden, planted Walk, or Yard
belonging to a House should be taken and used, except such as are
mentioned in the Schedule to the said Act annexed, without the Con-
sent in Writing of the Owner or Owners
thereof;
and for accomplish-
ing the Purposes of the said Act the Sum of One hundred and fifty
thousand Pounds was directed to be paid out of the Duties, Revenues,
and Incomes composing the Fund called the Consolidated Fund, in
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manner therein mentioned; and the said Mayor, Aldermen, and Com-
mons,
in Common Council assembled, were authorized to raise any
Sum or Sums of Money on the Credit of the Rents and Profits of the
Messuages, Lands, Tenements, and Hereditaments called the Bridge
House Estates, to which they were entitled as Trustees; and it was
thereby directed that the Money to be raised on the Credit of the said
Rents and Profits should be applied in or towards the erecting and
completing of the said new Bridge ; and if any Surplus thereof should
remain after the said Bridge should have been completed, the same
should be applied to the other Purposes of the said Act: And whereas
by an Act passed in the Seventh Year of the Reign of His said present
7 G. 4. c. 40. Majesty, intituled An Act to authorize the Lords Commissioners of His
Majesty's Treasury to advance Money out of the Consolidated Fund
towards the Expences of rebuilding London Bridge, the Lord High
Treasurer or the Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury for the
Time being were empowered, if he or they should think it expedient,
to advance and lend out of the said Consolidated Fund any Sum or
Sums of Money, upon proper Security being given for Repayment
thereof,
with Interest, out of the Rents and Profits of the said Bridge
House Estates: And whereas an Act was passed in the Seventh and
7&8 G.4. Eighth Year of the Reign of His said present Majesty, intituled An
c.
30.
j^ci f0 amend and enlarge the Powers of an Act passed in the Fourth
Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, for the rebuilding of London
Bridge, and for improvingand makingsuitable Approaches t/iereto: And
whereas the new Bridge directed to be built by the said first-recited
Act is nearly completed: And whereas several of the Houses, Build-
ings,
and Hereditaments mentioned in the Schedule to the said first-
recited Act, and necessary to be taken or used for the Purposes of the
said Acts, have not yet been purchased: And whereas the Approaches
authorized to -be improved and made by the said recited Acts will not
afford suitable Means of Access to the said new Bridge; and it is
expedient that the said Mayor, Aldermen, and Commons, in Comimon
Council assembled, should be empowered to make more convenient
Approaches thereto, and to take and use other Houses, BjaMings, and
Hereditaments for that Purpose: And whereas it "is estimated that
the Sums of Money already advanced, raised, and applied, and
authorized ,to be advanced, raised and applied by the said recited Acts,
will be fully sufficient for Payment of the Expences of completing the
said new Bridge: And whereas the Rents and Profits.of the said
Bridge House Estates are not of sufficient Amount to repay the Monies
necessary to be raised for making suitable Approaches to the said
new Bridge: And whereas the Fund called the Orphans Fund was
established by an Act passed in the Fifth and Sixth Year of the Reign
5
& 6
W.&M.
of King William and Queen Mary, intituled An Act for the Relief of
c 10. the Orphans and other Creditors of the City of London ; and the said
Fund hath been from Time to Time charged with considerable Sums
of Money for defraying the Expences of several public Works : And
whereas the principal Parts of the said Fund consist of the Imposition,
Rate,
or Duty of Four-pence Metage, over and above what is other-
wise lawfully paid for the Metage
thereof,
for every Chaldron of Coals
or Culm imported or brought into the Port of the said City of London
or the; River of Thames, within the Liberty of the said City, to be
sold by the Chaldron or Ton, imposed by the said Act of the Fifth
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10°GEORGII IV. Cap.cxxxvl 3451
and Sixth Year of the Reign of King William and Queen Mary, and
also of the Imposition, Rate, or Duty of Sixpence for every Chaldron
or Ton of all Coals or Culm usually sold by the Chaldron or Ton,
imported into the Port of London, or Members
thereof,
imposed by the
said Act of the Fifth and Sixth Year of the Reign of King William
and Queen Mary, from Michaelmas Day One thousand seven hundred,
for the Term of Fifty Years, and continued for the Term of Thirty-
five
Years,
from the Expiration of the said Term of Fifty Years, by an
Act passed in the Twenty-first Year of the Reign of His Majesty King
George the Second, intituled An Act for the further Relief of the
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G.
2.
c.29.
Orphans and other Creditors of the City of"London, and for other Pur-
poses therein mentioned; and further continued for the Term of Forty-
six Years, from the Expiration of the said Term of Thirty-five Years,
by an Act passed in the Seventh Year of the Reign of His late Majesty
King George the Third, intituled An Act for completing the Bridge 7
G.
3.
c.
37.
cross the River Thames from Blackfriars in the City of London to the
opposite Side in the County of Surrey, and the Avenues thereto on the
London Side, for redeeming the Tolls on the said Bridge and on
London Bridge, for rebuilding the Gaol of Newgate in the said City,
for repairing the Royal Exchange within the same, for embanking Part
of the North Side of the said River within certain Limits, and for further-
continuing towards those Purposes the Imposition of Sixpence per
Chaldron or Ton of Coals and Culm imported into the Port of the said
City, established by an Act of the Fifth and Sixth Year of the Reign of
King William and Queen Mary ; and also for carrying on the new
Pavements in the City and Liberties of Westminster and Borough of
Southwark, and for other Purposes therein mentioned; and further
continued for the Term of Five Years and Three Quarters of a Year,
from the Expiration of the said Term of Forty-six Years, by an Act
passed in the Forty-fourth Year of the Reign of His said late Majesty,
intituled An Act for raising an additional Sum of Money for carrying
4 4
G.
3.
c.
27.
into execution several Acts for widening the Entrance into the City of
London near Temple Bar, for making a more commodious Street at
Snow Hill, and for raising on the Credit of the Orphans Fund certain'
Sums of Money for those Purposes, and also for enlarging the Powers
of the said Acts; and the said Term of Five Years and Three Quarters
of a. Year will expire on the Fifth Day of July One thousand eight
hundred and thirty-seven: And whereas the Surpluses of the said
Fund have been from Time to Time applied according to the Direc-
tions of the several Acts of Parliament relating thereto, and thereby
the Capital Debt due to the Orphans of the said City of London hath
been annihilated, and the Capital Debt due to the other Creditors'
of the City of London, and charged upon the said Fund before the
passing of this Act, was, on the Twenty-eighth Day of January last,
reduced to the Sum of Two hundred and nine thousand nine hundred
Pounds, and it is probable that if no further Charge or Incumbrance
were made on the said Fund the whole of the said Capital Debt would
be paid off and discharged by the Fifth Day of April One thousand
eight hundred and thirty-two : And whereas the Sum of One thousand'
two hundred and thirty-nine Pounds One Shilling and One Halfpenny,"
Part of the Debt due to the said Orphans, has been ordered to be paid
off, and has never been claimed, and remains in the Hands of the
Chamberlain of the said City : And whereas if an Imposition, Rate,
Duty,
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