Newcastle-upon-Tyne Corporation (Byker Bridge, &c.) Act 1894
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1894 c. cxl |
| Year | 1894 |
[57
& 58
VICT.] Ncwcastk'-upon-Tijnc Corporation
[Ch. CXl.]
(Byker Bridge, $e.) Act, 1894.
CHAPTER
cxl.
An
Act to provide for the transfer to the Mayor Alder- A.D. IS.
men
and Citizens of the city and county of Newcastle-
upon-Tyne
of the undertaking of the Byker Bridge
Company
and for certain payments to the North Eastern
Eailway Company
under an agreement dated the eleventh
day
of April one thousand eight hundred and eighty-
eight
for the passage of foot passengers free of toll along
the
Railway Bridge over the Ouseburn Valley and for
other
purposes. [31st July 1894.]
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7
HERBAS the city and county of Newcastle-upon-Tyne (in this
Act called " the city") is subject to the Acts relating to
municipal corporations and the mayor aldermen and citizens of the
city (in this Act called " the Corporation ") acting by the council
are the urban sanitary authority for the district
thereof:
And whereas by the Byker Bridge (Newcastle-upon-Tyne)
37& 38
Vict.
Act 1874 (in this Act called "the Act'of 1874") the Byker c"xlii-
Bridge Company (in this Act called " the Bridge Company ") were
incorporated and authorised to construct in the city of Newcastle-
upon-Tyne a bridge or viaduct across the Ouseburn Valley and to
demand and take for the use of the said bridge and the approaches
thereto the tolls specified in the said Act:
And whereas the Bridge Company constructed the said bridge or
44
&
45
Vict.
viaduct and under the powers of the Act of 1874 and of the Byker c- XX1X'
Bridge (Newcastle-upon-Tyne)
Act
1881 have raised
a
share capital
of sixty-five thousand pounds
the
whole
of
which
is
paid
up and
have borrowed
on
mortgage
and now owe the sum of
twenty
thousand five hundred pounds
but
they have
not
created
any
debenture stock:
And whereas
the
Bridge Company have agreed
to
sell
to the
Corporation
and the
Corporation have agreed
to
purchase
the
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