Ramsgate Water Act 1835

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Citation1835 c. vi
ANNO QUINTO
GIMELMI IV. REGIS.
Cap.
vi.
An Act for better supplying with Water the
Parish of Ramsgate, and the Neighbourhood
therebf,
in the County of Kent.
[12th June 1835.]
W
HEREAS the Inhabitants of the Parish of' Ramsgate and the
Neighbourhood
thereof,
being within the Parishes of Saint
Laurence, Saint Peter the Apostle, and Minster, all within the
Isle of Thanet in the County of Kent; are riot at present well or conve-
niently supplied with Water; and the Inhabitants of the said Parish and
Neighbourhood, for Want of a sufficient Supply of Water for domestic
and other Purposes* are subject to much Inconvenience, and are liable to
increased Danger in Cases of Accidents by Fire, which Inconvenience and
Danger might be prevented, and the Lives and Property of the Inhabitants
of the said Parish and Neighbourhood better preserved and protected, if
a'constant Supply of Water were provided t And whereas a constant Sup-
ply of Water for the Use of such Inhabitants rriigh| be obtained from
divers:Springs arid Sources within the said Parishes of Ramsgate, Saint'
Laurence, Saint Peter the Apostle, and Minster, by raising and conducting
the rWater from such Springs and Sources4 or some or one of them, into
a proper Reservoir or Reservoirs by means of Engines, Cuts, Drains,*
Tunnels> Pipes, Conduits, Feeders, and other Aqueducts, and from thence
by Pipes>to the Houses and Premises of the said Inhabitants: And whereas'
the several
Persons;
hereinafter named are willing and desirous, at their
owniGosts and Charges, to effect^he Purposes aforesaid ; but the Under.
taking cannot be carried' fully, arid'-completely 'into execution without
the Aid; and Authority of ^Parliament :'.*May~f it therefore please Your
Majesty thabit may be; enacted-j'and be' it enacted by the King's most
[Local.'} H h Excellent.
122 5°GULIELMI IV.
CapM.
Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords
Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assem-
Proprietors bled, and by the Authority of the same, That Israel Abrahams, William
incorporated. /lrchibald Armstrong, Nathaniel Author Austen,
George
Bailey, Benjamin
Barnard, John Barnard, Thomas Bayly, Miles
Bland,
Brownlow Bourdillon,
Thomas Bowles, George Burgess, James Burgess, John Oakley Burgess,
Peter Burgess, Joseph Canham, Gilbert Caught, Isaac Blake Clarke, George
Clendon, Richard Saurie Cox, Robert Strong Cramp, James Crisford, Fre-
derick Lewis Crow, Evan Jones Cruchley, Charles Berwick Curtis, James
Stock Daniel, John Dimsdale, William Pitts Dimsdale, Harry Edgell, James
Elvey, Robert Ferrere, Charles Fisher, John Foat, William Fowler, John
Holmes Gibson, Richard Grant; Richard Halford, Richard Harvey the
younger,
George
Hinds, Alfred James Hiezcocks, Edward
Hodges,
Daniel
Hooper, William Alexander Hunt, William Hutchinson, James Bourne Judge,
John Kelly, Richard Kent, Edward Langley, Thomas Mayhew, William
Miller the elder, Stephen Norwood, Richard Wilson Page, Robert Page,
George
Phipps, William Henry Phipps, David
Plenderleath,
Thomas Rammell,
John Rose Surgeon, John Rose Coal Merchant, Samuel Sackett, Georgd
Saffery, Henry
Saffery-,
Osmond
Saffery, William Sharp, Samuel SharwooS,
George
Snowden,
Thomas Hodges
Grove Snowden, John
Solly,
Thomas Hougham
Sparks,
Joseph Rogers
Templeman,
William Thackray the younger, John Boyle
Thompson,
Charles Thornton, Henry'
George
Thornton, Richard
Thomson
the
elder, Richard Thomson the younger, Robert Townley, Charles Turmine,
Jesse
Vye,
John Ashley Warre, Samuel Watkins, John Watson, James What-
man,
Thomas Whitehead, Elvy John Wildish, and John Wilson, together
with all and every other Person or Persons, or Body or Bodies Politic or
Corporate, who have subscribed or who. shall hereafter subscribe towards
the said Undertaking, and their several and respective Successors, Execu-
tors,
Administrators, and Assigns, shall be and they are hereby united into
a Company for making, completing, maintaining,, and continuing the
Waterworks and other Works by this Act authorized,. according to the
Provisions and Restrictions herein-after contained, and shall for that
Purpose be one Body Politic and Corporate by the Name of " The Com-
pany of Proprietors of the Ramsgate Waterworks," and by that Name
shall have perpetual Succession and a Common Seal, and by that
Name shall and may sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, at Law or
in Equity, and shall and may prefer and prosecute any Bill or Bills of
Indictment against any Person or Persons who shall commit any Felony,.
Misdemeanor, or other Offence indictable by the Laws of this Realm, and.
shall also have full Power to purchase and become seised and possessed'
of Lands, Tenements, and Hereditaments, to hold to them, their Succes-
sors and Assigns, for the Use of the said Undertaking, and without
incurring any of
the"
Penalties or Forfeitures of the Statutes of Mortmain.
General . II- And be it further enacted, That for the better managing and con-
Meetings of ducting the Affairs of the said Company, and the Business of the said Un-
the Company (jertaking, it shall and may be lawful for the several and respective Mem-
to be holden. ^^ Q£ ^ gajj companv to meet from Time to Time when and where
they shall find convenient in the said Parish of Ramsgate; and the First
General Meeting of the said Company for proceeding in the Execution
of this Act shall be held at some convenient Place within the said Parish
of Ramsgate on the Third Friday after the passing of this Act between
the Hours of Ten of the Clock in the Forenoon and Two of the Clock
i in
5°GULIELMI IV. Cap.vi. 123
in the Afternoon; and the said Gompany assembled at such General
Meetings shall have Power to adjourn such General Meetings, and order
such future General Meetings of the said Company to be holden from Time
to Time to and at such Place or Places as shall at such General Meetings
be thought proper and convenient; and in case at any Time no Adjourn-
ment of any General Meeting shall be made, or in case it shall be necessary
to call a Meeting on an earlier Day than the Day to which any General
Meeting shall stand adjourned, then it shall be lawful for any Nine or
more Members of the said Company, possessed of Five or more Shares
each, to call a General or Special Meeting to be held at such Time and
Place as they shall think fit within
:
the said Parish of Ramsgate', by
Notice advertised in One or more Newspaper or Newspapers published in
the Eastern Division of the said County of Kent, and by Notice posted at
some public and convenient Place within the said Parish of Ramsgate,
mentioning the Time and Place and the Purpose of such intended Meet-
ing if called for a special Purpose ;> and every Question, Order, Matter,
or Thing which shall be proposed, discussed, or considered by the Pro-
prietors or Members of the said,Company assembled at any Meeting to
be holden by virtue of this Act shall be determined by a Majority of
Votes of the Proprietors of Shares in the said Undertaking then present;
and on all Occasions every Proprietor of One or Two Share or Shares so Questions to
present as aforesaid shall be considered as possessed of and entitled to be decided
give One Vote, and every Proprietor of Three or Four Shares so present bv
a
Majority
as aforesaid shall be considered as possessed of and entitled to give Two
person,
Votes,
and every Proprietor of Five, Six, or Seven Shares so present as
aforesaid shall be considered as possessed of and entitled to. give Three
Votes,
and every Proprietor of Eight or Nine Shares so present as
aforesaid shall be considered as possessed of and entitled to give Four
Votes,
and every Proprietor of Ten or more Shares so present as aforesaid
shall be considered,as possessed of and entitled to give Five Votes, but
no Proprietor shall be entitled to give more than Five Votes in respect of
any Number of Shares he, she, or they may be entitled to, and whether
such Shares be the Property of One Individual or of a Plurality of Indivi-
duals ; and any Proprietor may also vote in right of his or
her.
own Shares,
as well as Committee of any Lunatic, Guardian of any Minor, Assignee of
any Bankrupt or Insolvent, or Executor or Administrator of any Testator
or Intestate, on the same Occasion ; and if the Number of such Votes Chairman to
shall be equal, the Chairman presiding at such Meetings shall have the have casting
casting Vote as such Chairman, in addition to his Vote or Votes as a Pro-
prietor j Provided always, that no Act shall be done by any General or
Special General Meeting of the Proprietors (except the Adjournment
of such Meeting) unless Seven at least of such Proprietors be present.
III.
And be it further enacted, That in case any Proprietor or Prqprie- Lunatics and
tors entitled to vote at any such Meeting as aforesaid shall be a Lunatic Minors to
or Lunatics, or a Minor or Minors, such Lunatic or Lunatics shall or mayteby tneir
vote at such Meeting or Meetings by his, her, or their Committee, or any a^Guar^
One of such Committees, and such-Minor or Minors shall and may vote, dians.
by his, her, or their Guardians, or any.One of such Guardians.
IV. And be it further enacted, That it shall and may be lawful, for the Officers to ..
said Gompany at any General Meeting to nominate, elect, and choose, be^PPoinjed
and Meetings.

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