Sunderland Improvement, Market and River Wear Watch Act 1810
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1810 c. xxvii |
ANNO QUINQUAGESIMO
GEORGII III. REGIS.
Cap.
27.
An Act
for
paving, lighting, watching, and cleansing
the Town of Sunderland near .the Sea, in the County
of Durham;
for
removing the Market; for building
a Town Hall
or
Market House; and for otherwise
improving the said Town; and for establishing a
Watch on the River Wear. [6th April 18
J
0.]
W
HEREAS the Town of
Sunderland
near the Sea, in the County
of
Durham,
is very populous, and is a Place of considerable
Trade as a Sea Port: And whereas the Streets, Lanes or
Alleys, .public Ways and Passages within the said Town, are not
properly cleansed, paved, or lighted, and are also subject to various
Incroachments, Obstructions, Nuisances, and Annoyances, and are
in many Parts thereof so narrow as to be incommodious and dan-
gerous to the Inhabitants of the said Town and others resorting
thereto, and the Market Place in the Centre of the principal Street of the
same Town is in an inconvenient Situation, and the Market thereof not
properly regulated : And whereas it would tend greatly to the Benefit
and Safety of the Inhabitants and Persons resorting to the said Town, if
the Streets, Lanes or Alleys, public Ways or Passages were well paved
and lighted, and an able and well regulated Watch established therein,
and also upon the River Weqr adjoining to the same Town, and if some
of the said public Ways and Passages were widened and rendered more
commodious, and if the Market
Place,
and all Obstructions, Incroachments,
JJuisances and Annoyances in the said Town were removed, and one or
more convenient Market or Markets established in the said Town of
Sun*
[Loc. & Pervj 7 M dtrland;
570
Commission-
ers*
Qualification
of Com-
missioners,
50°GEORGII III.
Cap.27.
derland;
but these beneficial Acts cannot be obtained without the Aid 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 alid with the
Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons^
in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the 'lame,
That'Edward Aiskell, Henry Alder
son,
Joseph Ashton, Thomas Arlott,
Anthony
Almond,
William Armstrongs William Armstrong the younger,
Christopher Bramwell,
Benjamin
Bray, George Bramwell, Robert Brown f James
Burnett^ Hewitt Burnett,
George
Binns, William Beckwith, William Bulman,
FrancisSeptimusBum, James
Bell,
Robert
Bewick,
WilliamBrass, WilliamBrass
the younger, Thomas
Blackett,
William
Burn,
WilliamBell,
JamesBraid,Thomas
Cooke,
James
Crosby,
Thomas
Milner Cummings,JohnCarr ofStockton, Thomas
Cassop,
William Cocker ill, Thomas Cocker ill, Thomas Clarke,
Solomon
Chap-
man,
Richard Dowell, William Dunn, Richard Denton, John
Elstob,
Thomas
Ellerby, William Eden,
Stevenson
Eden, John Edmunds, George Fenwick,
Addison Fenwick, Robert Fenwick, James Graham, Robert Gray D.D.,
Chipchase
Grey, John Gray, James Gowen, William Gardner, John Hampson
Clerk, Thomas Hindmarsh, William Haswell, William Haddock, William
Haddock the younger, Robert
Hodgson,
Abney
Hopton,
Thomas Hunter, John
Hunter, JamesHogg, AveryHornsby,
John
Harrison,
Michael
Hick,
Michael Hut*
chinson,
ThomasHorn,WilliamHorn,Thomas Hornthty oxxngcr, Nathan
Horn9
Thomas Kilvington, John Lamb, James Lamb, William Lincoln, Michael
Laws, Thomas Laws, Ralph John Lambton Esquire, John
George
Lambton
Esquire, Richard Markham, Richard Markham the younger, Sir Ralph
Milbunke Baronet,
George
Markham, William Middleton, William Forster
Middleton, John Mounsey, William Mounsey, William Masterman, Thomas
Masterman, Richard
Mitcalf,
John Martin, John Middleton,
Joseph
Morton,
Jfihn Ness, Jackson Natirass, William Jackson Naitrass, Matthew Nesham,
George
Newby, Bernard
Ogden,
William Bernard
Ogden,
John Biss Ogden,
Thomas
Oliver, John Oliver, William
Orton}
Thomas
Parker,
Timothy
Parker,
John Penman, William Potts,
George
Robinson^
John Renner,
Thomas
Reed,
Thomas Reed the younger. Thomas
Rutherford^
Michael Rowe, William
Robson,
Thomas
Robson, John Ramon, Bracey
Robson,
John Skirving, James
Stonehouse,
Thomas
Satchell,
Robert
Spoors,
John Swinburn, Andrew
Simpson,
Matthew Shout, John Smith, Gowland Summers, Christopher Thornhill
Thornbill, Thomas
Thompson,
James
Thompson,
James Taylor, John
Taylor^
Sir Henry Vane Tempest Baronet, John
Vipond,
George Wheatley, Jvhn
Wright, John
Wood,
Richard
Wharton
Esquire, William
Walton,
Caleb
Wilson,
Stephen
Watson,
John
Wilson,
George
Wylam, Charles War die, Roger
Watson*
Thomas Wilson, Jonathan Willey, Andrew Toung, John Toung, and Thomas
Toung, shall be, and they and their Successors, to be elected in Manner
herein-aft^r mentioned, are hereby appointed Commissioners for putting
this Act.and the several Powers therein contained into Execution.
IL Provided always, and be it enacted, That no Person shall be capable
of jacting as
a.
Commissioner in the Execution of this Act unless he shall,
either in his own Right or in the Right of his Wife, be at the Time of
his acting, seised of or entitled to and be in the actual Possession or
Receipt of the Rents and Profits of Freehold, Copyhold, or Leasehold
Messuages, Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments of the clear yearly
Value of Twenty Pounds above Reprizes, or shall be the Occupier of
Messuages, Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments situate within the said
Town of
Sunderland,
of the clear annual Value of Thirty Pounds above
Reprizes, or shall be an Inhabitant 6f the said Town of
Sunderland,
and
8 be
50"
GEORGII III.
Cq>.2f.
be possessed of,'and entMfeci in his own Right to a cleaf Estate dithetf Rfell
or Personal or Both of
•
fftfe Vahi'e bf Orie thousand- Pounds j atrd>3f I my
Person iiot
*
Being so -Qualified
ish'all
-prfeume'to actas/a^ednimifeionfelp,
(ekcept in a^ihistenng-the path or Affirmation hereinafter mentioned),
every such Person shall for every sich Offence forfeit Arid pay the Sum^of
Fifty Pourids to tfny Ferstfn or PeV&ons who shall sue fdr the same, tb^be
recovered by 'Action of Debt or on the Case, or by Bill;-Suit, or Infer*
matidn in any Court of Record.
Ill,
Provided also* and be it further enacted, That no Person shall
be capable of acting as a Commissioner in the Execution of this Aa,
(except in administering the Oath or Affirmation herein-after mentioned),
until he shall have taken arid subscribed before any Two dr more of the
said Commissioners at a Meeting to be holdeh by virtue of this Act/who
are hereby required and authorized to administer to each other the saitt'e
Oath or Affirmation in the Words or to the Effect following:
< T ^5. do swear (or affirm) that I am truly and ^fj^ in,my own
* * Right, or in the Right of my Wife, seised of or entitled toFreeKoj^
< Copyhold, or Leasehold Messuages, Lands, Tenements 6r Hereditatnefife,
* of the clear yearly Value of Twenty Pouhds'above Reprizes, or am the
c Occupier of Messuages, Lands, Tenements or Hereditaments, situate
' within the Town of
Sunderland
near the Sea, in the County of
Durham^
* of the clear annual Value of Thirty Pounds above Reprizes, or am an
* Inhabitant of the said Town of
Sunderland^
and*possessed of or entitled
* in my own Right to Personal Estate of the Amount of One thousand
c Pounds clear of all Deductions; and that I will truly
"and
impartially^
( according to the best of my Skill and Judgment, execute and perform
4 all and every the Powers and Authorities reposed in me by virtue'of an
1 Act passed in the Fiftieth Year of the Reign of His present Majesty King
'
George
the Third, intituled [here set forth
the
Title of this Jet],
4So help me GOD.*
IV, Provided always, and be it further enacted, That all Acts and Pro-
ceedings by any Person touching the Execution of this Act, previous $>
his being convicted of acting without being qualified as aforesaid, shall,
notwithstanding such Conviction, and whether he shall or shall not have
taken the Oath hereby required as aforesaid, be as valid and effectual
as if such Person had been duly qualified according to the Direction of
this Act.
V* And be it further enacted, That the said Commissioners, or any
Five or more of them, shall meet at some convenient House in the Town
of
Sunderland,
on the First Day of May One thousand eight hundred
and ten, between the Hours of Ten of the Clock in the forenoon an£
Two of the Clock in the Afternoon, and shall then and there proceed
to put this Act into Execution, and shall at such Meeting adjourn them-
selves* and afterwards meet from Time to Time at the Place aforesaidi
or at some other convenient Place within the said Town,
'as
the said Cbml
missiqners, or any rive or more of them, shall from Time to Time appoint,;
and that all Proceedings of the Commissioners under this A?i'shal
1
be had and
determined at public Meetings to be holden by virtue of this Act, between
the Hours of Ten of the Clock in the Forenoon and Two of the Clock
in the Afternoon, on each Day of the Meeting, and not otherwise j and
that not less than Five Days previous Notice in Writing, signed by the
Clerk
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