Naval Works Act 1897

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Citation1897 c. 35
Year1897


Naval Works Act, 1897

(60 & 61 Vict.) CHAPTER 35.

An Act to make further provision for the Construction of Works in the United Kingdom and elsewhere for the purposes of the Royal Navy.

[6th August 1897]

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:

S-1 Power for Admiralty to construct scheduled works.

1 Power for Admiralty to construct scheduled works.

1. Without prejudice to any existing powers, the Admiralty may forthwith proceed to construct the works as specified in the schedule to this Act at the places therein mentioned, and for that purpose may acquire such lands and execute such works as they may deem expedient.

S-2 Issue of money for works mentioned in scheduled.

2 Issue of money for works mentioned in scheduled.

2. In addition to any sum authorised to be issued under any other Act, the Treasury shall issue out of the Consolidated Fund or the growing produce thereof such sums, not exceeding in the whole sis hundred and fifty-four thousand pounds, as may be required by the Admiralty for defraying the costs of the works specified in the schedule to this Act, subject to the terms and conditions in sections three and five of the Naval Works Act, 1896, and those sections shall be construed as if they were herein re-enacted and in terms made applicable to this Act.

S-3 Application of surplus income of year 1895-6 for expenses of scheduled works.

3 Application of surplus income of year 1895-6 for expenses of scheduled works.

3. The surplus set apart under section four of the Naval Works Act, 1896, may be applied in paying any sums authorised to be issued out of the Consolidated Fund by this or any future Act for the purpose of the works specified in the schedule to this Act, whether included or not in the schedule to the Naval Works Act, 1896.

S-4 Short title.

4 Short title.

4. This Act may be cited as theNaval Works Act, 1897.

S C H E D U L E.

Heads of Proposed Expenditure.

Works.

Total Estimated Cost, 1897.

Expected Date of Completion.

Estimated Expenditure to 31st March 1897.

Estimated Expenditure from 1st April 1896 to 31st March 1897.

Estimated Expenditure for the Year 1897-98.

1.

2.

3.

4.

4 .

5.

(a .) Enclosure and Defence of Harbours—

Gibraltar

1,026,000 *

1899-1900

344,072

190,000

320,000

Gibraltar, Commercial Mole

669,000 ***

1900-1

150,000

Portland

650,000

1900-1

173,340

112,000

200,000

Dover (including 35,000 l. for Fixed Machinery).

3,500,000

1907-8

3,485

3,000

200,000

(b .) Adapting Naval Ports to present Needs of Fleet—

Deepening harbours and approaches

960,000 §

1899-1900

518,559

183,000

200,000

* Estimate reduced by 48,000 l. for dolphins replaced by Commercial Mole.

*** The total estimated cost of tile Commercial Mole is 700,000 l. , including 31,000 l. for superintendence under item (d ). Four-sevenths of this sum is to be repaid by the colony of Gibraltar in the form of an annuity of 14,000 l. per annum for 57 years from the opening of the Mole, to be credited as an appropriation in aid of Navy Vote 10.

** An expenditure of 40,543 l. was incurred during 1893-4 and 1894-5 in erecting dolphins on the line of the breakwater, and was charged to Vote 10 in those years. This is in addition to the estimate of 650,000 l.

§ Exclusive of the cost of dredging plant purchased prior to 31st March 1895.

Heads of Proposed Expenditure .

Works.

Total Estimated Cost, 1897.

Expected Date of Completion.

Estimated Expenditure to 31st March 1897.

Estimated Expenditure from 1st April 1896 to 31st March 1897.

Estimated Expenditure for the Year 1897-98.

1.

2.

3.

4.

4 .

5.

(b .) Adapting Naval Ports, &c.—

Keyham Dockyard Extension (including 175,000 l. for Fixed Machinery).

3,175,000

1903-4

88,204

82,000

450,000

Portsmouth Docks

375,000

1897-8

369,096

60,000

5,904

Gibraltar Dockyard Extension (including 63,000 l. for Fixed Machinery).

2,674,000

1899-1900

123,597

70,000

250,000

Hong Kong Dockyard Extension (including 40,000 l. for Fixed Machinery).

575,500

1903-4

3,000

3,000

100,000

Colombo Dock

159,000

1902-3

15,000

* Pembroke Jetty, &c. (including 20,000 l. for Fixed Machinery).

110,000

1899-1900

200

200

30,000

* Portsmouth—Widening caisson

60,000

1898-9

30,000

* Haulbowline improvements (including 14,500 l. for Fixed Machinery).

64,500

1899-1900

8,294

8,294

15,000

(c .) Naval Barracks, &c.—

Chatham Naval Barracks

390,000

1900-1

7,741

4,447

150,000

Sheerness Naval Barracks (including 20,000 l. for Fixed Machinery).

220,000

1900-1

75,650

Portsmouth Naval Barracks

595,000

1900-1

100,000

Keyham Naval Barracks

160,000

1900-1

50,000

Chatham Naval Hospital

341,000

1900-1

26,200

26,200

50,000

Walmer Marine Dept

20,000

1897-8

17,654

4,653

2,346

Keyham Engineers' College

30,000

1897-8

15,961

12,700

14,000

Dartmouth College for Naval Cadets

196,000

1899-1900

100,000

Magazines (including 25,000 l. for Fixed Machinery).

485,000

1899-1900

14,000

14,000

150,000

Haslar Zymotic Hospital (including 500 l. for Fixed Machinery).

68,500

1899-1900

10,000

Haulbowline Zymotic Hospital (including 500 l. for Fixed Machinery).

10,500

1898-9

5,000

(d .) Superintendence...

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