Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway (Additional Powers) Act 1886
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[50 VICT.] Manchester, Sheffield, and Idncolnshvre [Oh. xlix.]
Railway {Additional Powers) Act, 1886.
CHAPTER xlix.
An Act to authorise the Manchester Sheffield and Lincoln- A.D. ISSG.
shire Railway Company the Sheffield and Midland
Railway Companies Committee and the Cheshire Lines
Committee respectively to construct new Railways and
other works and to confer further powers upon that
Company and those Committees in connection with their
respective undertakings and for other purposes.
[25th September 1886.]
TT7HEREAS.it is expedient that the Manchester Sheffield and
u Lincolnshire Railway Company (in this Act called the
Company) should be empowered to make and maintain the railways
and other works by this Act authorised to be made and maintained
by the Company and to exercise the other powers by this Act
conferred upon the Company and to acquire for the purposes of
this Act and for the general purposes of their undertaking and
works connected therewith the lands and buildings by this Act
authorised to be acquired by the Company :
And whereas it is expedient that the Company should be
empowered to stop up and discontinue as a highway a certain
portion of a public road in the parishes of Chapel-en-le-Frith and
Glossop herein-after mentioned and to substitute in lieu thereof a
new road herein-after described:
And whereas it is' expedient that the Company should be
empowered to raise further moneys for the purposes of the works
by this Act authorised :
And whereas it is expedient that the time limited by the Man-
chester Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway (Additional Powers)
Act 1883 for the compulsory purchase of lands for the purposes of
the railways and works described in sub-sections 1 2 3 4 7 8 .9
and 10 of section 4 of that Act should be extended :
And whereas it is expedient that the time limited by the Man-
chester Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway (Additional Powers) Act
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xliX.] Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire [50 VICT.]
Railway (Additional Powers) Act, 1886.
A.D.
1886. 1884 for the compulsory purchase of certain lands authorised by
the Manchester Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway Act 1881 should
be extended:
And whereas it is expedient that the Company should be
empowered to subscribe a further sum of money towards the
undertaking of the Oldham Ashton-under-Lyne and Guide Bridge
Junction Railway Company in this Act referred to as the Oldham
Company:
And whereas the Company as the owners of the navigation of the
River Dun in the county of York are liable to repair maintain renew
and amend three bridges over the New River (commonly called and
in this Act referred to as the Dutch River) which was made by the
participants and owners of the several lands lying within the level
of Hatfield Chase and parts adjacent thereto in the counties of York
Lincoln" and Nottingham and this liability was originally created
by Act 13 Geo. I. cap. 20 intituled " An Act for improving
" the navigation of the River Dunn from a place called Holmes-
" Stile in the township of Doncaster in the county of York to
" "Wilsick House in the parish of Barmby Dunn in the said county "
and by that Act the said three bridges therein described were to be
maintained as draw-up or' draw bridges for the easy passage of
boats lighters and other vessels through the same without taking
down or lowering their masts in such passage :
And whereas the Dutch River was at the passing of the last-
mentioned Act the only outlet for the navigation of the River Dun
into the tideway but since then a new and improved outlet for that
navigation has been made at Keadby on the River Trent by means
of a canal authorised by and constructed and maintained under the
authority of an Act 33 George III. cap. 117 intituled " An Act for
" making and maintaining a navigable canal from the River Dun
" navigation cut at or near Stainforth in the west riding of the
" county of York to join and communicate with the River Trent at
" or near Keadby in the county of Lincoln and also a collateral cut
" from the said canal to join the said River Dun in the parish of
" Thorne in the said riding11 which last-mentioned canal is also
now vested in the company:
And whereas owing to the construction of a fixed bridge over the
Dutch River at-or near G-oole under the authority of the North
Eastern Railway Company's (Hull and Doncaster Branch) Act 1863
(herein-after referred to as the Hull and Doncaster Railway Act)
for the purposes of the railway by that Act authorised vessels with
fixed, masts can no longer navigate the Dutch River above the said
last-mentioned bridge and it would therefore be to the advantage of
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[50 VICT.] Manchester, Sliejjield, and Lincolnshire [Ch. Xlix.]
Railway (Additional Powers) Act, 1886.
the public using such of the bridges as the Company are liable to A-.U-1886.
maintain repair and renew over the Dutch River above the bridge
authorised by the Hull and-Doncaster Railway Act if those bridges
were made and constructed as fixed bridges if and whenever they
or either of them require reconstruction and for the reasons afore-
said it is also expedient to repeal alter and amend the said Act
13 Geo. I. cap. 20 in manner herein-after expressed and provided:
And whereas it is expedient that the indenture of lease between
the Oleethorpes Promenade Pier Company and the Company set
forth in the first schedule to this Act should be confirmed:
And whereas the Company are owners of a sea-wall promenade
gardens and works connected therewith at Oleethorpes in the county
of Lincoln and have expended large sums of money thereon and it
is expedient that the Company should be enabled to make and from
time to time alter byelaws rules and regulations for the regulation
management and control of the said sea-wall promenade gardens
and other works:
And whereas by an Act 55 Geo. III. cap. LXY. intituled " An
" Act for making and maintaining a navigable canal from Sheffield
" to Tinsley in the west riding'of the county of York" certain
persons in that Act named were incorporated under the name of the
Company of Proprietors of the Sheffield Canal and the capital stock
of that company consisted of seventy thousand four hundred pounds
divided into seven hundred and four shares of one hundred pounds
each: ^
And whereas by the Sheffield Canal Purchase Act 1848 the
Sheffield Canal was transferred to and vested in the Company in
consideration of the payment unto every person who at the passing
of that Act was a proprietor and was entitled to one or more of the
seven hundred and four shares their respective executors admin-
istrators and assigns of a fixed annuity or yearly sum of two pounds
ten shillings for or in respect of each such share held by them
respectively the total amount of which annuity amounted to the sum
of one thousand seven hundred and sixty pounds per annum and
was made payable by half-yearly payments on the fifteenth of
January and fifteenth of July in every year:
And whereas by the Sheffield Canal Transfer Act 1849 the
Sheffield Canal was transferred by the company to the Company of
Proprietors of the navigation of the Eiver Dun subject to the
payment of the said annuity of one thousand seven hundred and
sixty pounds:
And whereas by the South Yorkshire Railway and River Dun
Company's Vesting Act 1874 the undertakings of the South
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