Port Carlisle Dock Act 1836
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1836 c. lx |
ANNO SEXTO
GULIELMI IV. REGIS.
Cap.
lx.
An Act to enable the Carlisle Canal Company to
make a Dock or Docks at Port Carlisle other-
wise Fishers Cross, and for amending and en-
larging the Powers and Provisions of the Act for
making and maintaining the said Canal.
[7th June 1836\]
W
HEREAS by an Act passed in the Fifty-ninth Year of the
Reign of His late Majesty King George the Third, in-
tituled An Act for making and maintaining a Navigable
59G.
3.
c.13.
Canal from or from near the City o/Carlisle to the Solway Frith at or
near Fishers Cross in the Parish of Bowness in the County of Cum-
berland, certain Persons were incorporated by the Name of " The
Carlisle Canal Company," and were thereby empowered to make and
maintain a Cut or Canal for the Navigation of Boats, Barges, and
other Vessels from or from near the City of Carlisle, in or through the
several Townships and Parishes in the said Act mentioned, to the
Solway Frith at or near Fishers Cross, since known and herein-after
designated by the Name of Port Carlisle, in the said Parish of
Bowness, together with other Works and Conveniences connected
therewith: And whereas the said Company were by the said Act
authorized to raise such Sums of Money as they should think neces-
sary for the making, carrying on, and completing the said Canal and
other Works thereby authorized to be made, not exceeding in the
whole the Sum of Eighty thousand Pounds, except as therein men-
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tioned; and in case the said Sum of Eighty thousand Pounds should
be found insufficient, the said Company were authorized to raise,
either among themselves or by the Creation of new Shares, or to borrow
and take up at Interest on the Credit of the said Undertaking, or by
the Issue of Promissory Notes, any further or additional Sum or Sum's
of Money, not exceeding the Sum of Forty thousand Pounds: And
whereas, by virtue and in pursuance of the said Act, the said Com-
pany have made and completed the said Canal, and the same is now
navigable: And whereas the Number of Vessels resorting to the said
Canal and Port
Carlisle
aforesaid has greatly increased, and, by reason
of the Junction of the Ncwcastle-upon-Tgne and
Carlisle
Railway with
the said Canal, the Traffic upon the said Canal is likely to become
much more extensive, and to require increased Accommodation: And
whereas Vessels navigated by Steam, and other Vessels of large
Burthen, which are unable to navigate the said Canal, are obliged to
remain and be moored on the Strand or Beach at the Western Ter-
mination of the said Canal at Port
Carlisle
aforesaid, and it is there-
fore expedient that a Floating Dock or Floating Docks should
be constructed upon the Ground of the said Company at Port
Car-lisle
aforesaid, to communicate with the said Canal, for the Safety
and Protection of Vessels resorting to the said Port, and for facili-
tating the Arrival and Departure of Vessels at and from the said
Canal: And whereas the said Company have, for the Guidance and
Safety of Vessels resorting to the said Canal, placed and fixed in and
near the Channel of the Sohvay Frith Buoys and Beacons or Land-
marks, and it would materially tend to the Safety of Vessels navi-
gating the said Frith if Provision were made for placing, erecting,
and maintaining proper Buoys, Beacons, and Lights in and near the
Channel of the said Frith, and for defraying the Expences attending
the same: And whereas the Sum of Seventy-three thousand seven
hundred and fifty Pounds, Part of the original Capital of Eighty
thousand Pounds by the said recited Act authorized to be raised, hath
been subscribed in One thousand four hundred and seventy-five
Shares of Fifty Pounds each, and the Sum of Thirty-eight thousand
nine hundred and fifty Pounds hath also been borrowed upon the
Credit of the said Undertaking: And whereas, in addition to the said
Two Sums of Eighty thousand Pounds and Forty thousand Pounds
so authorized to be raised and borrowed as aforesaid, a further Sum
will be required for the Purpose of making, completing, and main-
taining the said Docks and other Works by this Act authorized to be
made, anil it is necessary that the said Company should be empowered
to raise and borrow forthwith an additional Sum of Money, and be
enabled to provide for the Extinction of such Debt and of the Debt
already contracted, cither by the Creation of an additional Number of
Shares, or by allocating and dividing the said Debt upon the Shares
for the Time being of the said Company: And whereas the Pro-
visions of the said Act have in many respects been found insufficient,
and it is therefore expedient that the same should be altered and
amended, and some further Powers granted to the said Company, but
the several Purposes aforesaid cannot be effected without the Aid and
Authority of Parliament: May it therefore please Your Majesty that
it may be enacted ; and be it enacted by the King's most Excellent
Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual
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