Teignmouth Harbour Act 1853

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Citation1853 c. xxxvi
ANNO DECIMO SEXTO
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Cap.
xxxvi.
An Act
for
the Maintenance and Regulation of the
Harbour
of
Teignmouth
and the
Navigation
of
the River Teign, and for other Purposes.
[1.4th Jw^ 1853.]
HEREAS by the (Local)
Act, 6
William the Fourth,
6
Chapter 42, Commissioners were appointed
for
improv-
c
ing, maintaining, apd regulating
the
Harbour
of
Teign-
mouth and the Navigation of the River Teign in the County of I)evon,
and were empowered to define the Limits
of
the said Harbour, and to
levy certain Rates, Tolls, and Duties
in
respect
of
Vessels coming
into the said Harbour
of
Teignmouth from
the
Sea,
or
navigating
the said Harbour, and in respect
of
Goods, Wares, Merchandise, and
Commodities imported or exported to or from the said Harbour, and tp
apply the same
for
the^Cons^erva^(c^of the^said" Harbour; and
the
Commissioners thereby appointed proceeded
to
execute
the
said
Act, and have borrowed under that Act Sums
of
Money,, of which
Five thousand six hundred Pounds remain unpaid
:
And whereas
the Trade
of the
District to the Westward
of
the Entrance
pf
the
River
Exe
from
the Sea
has .increased,, since
the
passing
of the
said Act,
and a
:siipernumerary Port, with Bonding Privileges
for
Custom House Purposes, has been established
for
the Convenience
thereof:
And whereas the Harbour of Teignmouth as defined by the
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Commis-
590 16° VICTORIA, C^.xxxvi.
The Teignmouth Harbour Acty 1853.
Commissioners under the Powers of the said Act is wholly within such
supernumerary Port, and is to the Westward of and without the River
Exe: And whereas the Mayor, Aldermen, and Citizens of Exeter claim'
to be entitled to receive certain Petty Customs Duties or Sums of
Money commonly called Town Dues in respect of Goods, Wares, and
Merchandise the Property of Persons not free of the City of Exeter
imported into the said Harbour of Teignmouth ; And whereas
such Town Dues are inconvenient, and ill adapted to the Trade
of the said Harbour and District: And whereas it is expedient
that the Rates, Tolls, and Duties authorized to be levied by the
said recited Act, and the said Petty Customs or Town Dues, should
be altered, modified, and regulated as herein-after mentioned, and
that other Rates, Tolls, and Duties should be substituted in lieu
thereof,
and that further Provision should be made for the Main-
tenance, Regulation, and Conservancy of the said Harbour, and
that the said Act should be repealed: And whereas such Pur-
poses cannot be effected without the Authority of Parliament:
May it therefore please Your Majesty that it may be enacted ;
and 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 ; (that is to say,)
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Short
Title.
! That this Act may be cited for any Purpose as " The Teign-
mouth Harbour Act,
1853."
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Commence- II. That this Act shall commence and have effect on and from the
ment of Act. Wednesday in the Week next after the passing
thereof.
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M
Limits-
of III. That this Act shall be put in force within the present Limits
Act of the Harbour of Teignmouth, which Limits extend from the Boundary,
Stone marked T. H. B. on the Beach in the Parish of East Teign-
mouth, about One hundred Yards East of the Lighthouse, to the
Boundary Stone at the Foot of the Ness in the Parish of Saint Nicholas,
also marked T. H. B., and comprise all Places between those Points
so far as the Tide flows and the River Teign, and all Places within the
Navigation of the River Teign as high as the First Lock of the Stover
Canal.
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Interpreta- IV, That the following Words and Expressions in this Act have
nJ?f ^e following Meanings, unless there be something in the Subject or
Context repugnant to such Construction; (to wit,)
The Expression "the Admiralty"'means the Lord High Admiral
of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Ireland,
and also
the Commissioners for executing the Office of Lord High
Terms.
Admiral of the said United Kingdom: The
16° VICTORLE, C^.xxxvi. 591
The Teignmouth Harbour Act, 1853. s
The Expression " the old Commissioners" means the Commissioners
for carrying the recited Act into execution:
The Expression " the Commissioners" means the Commissioners
for carrying this Act into execution:
The Expression "the Town Dues" means the Petty Customs Dues
or Sums of Money claimed by the Corporation of Exeter', as in
this Act recited:
The Expression " Ballast Lighter" means any Lighter, Barge, Boat,
or other Vessel used for receiving or conveying Ballast:
The word "Ballast" includes Stone, Gravel, Sand, Clay, Earth,
Soil, and other Materials and Substances used as Ballast:
The Word "Rubbish" includes Ballast Wreck,'Ashes, Filth, and
other waste Materials and Substances.
Words
are assigned by the Acts wholly or partly incorporated with this Act, -"gts^s j^ ,s
and to which Meanings are not otherwise assigned by this Act, have as in Actsin-
in this Act the same Meanings as are so assigned to them respec- £orPoi;^ea
tively ; and the Expression " Quarter Sessions" in those Acts means,
for the Purposes of this Act, the General or Quarter Sessions ofu.arte^
the Peace held at Exeter for the County of Devon. Session
VI.
That from and after the Commencement of this Act, but Recited Act
subject to the Powers, and Provisions of this Act, the recited Act repea e "
shall be and is hereby repealed,
VIL That " The Commissioners Clauses Act, 1847/* except the io&iiVict
Clauses thereof with respect to the Election and Rotation of the corporated
Commissioners, where the Commissioners are to be elected by the with
this
Act
Ratepayers or other like Class of Electors, shall be incorporated
with this Act.
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VIII. That the Commissioners for executing this Act shall be "Teign-
called " The Teignmouth Harbour Commissioners," and shall have moutk Har-
Power to purchase, take, hold, and dispose of Lands and other Pro- missioned"
perty for the Purposes but subject to the Restrictions of this'Act, and to execute
to put this Act in all respects into execution. _____^_
IX. That the Persons who at the Time of the passing of this Act First Corn-
are the old Commissioners, and the Survivors of them, and Two Persons m^8SI0nei's
to be from Time to Time appointed as by this Act provided by the remain in
Admiralty, together with Thomas William Bishop Hatchings, Samuel Office until
Wills Hatchingsj Arthur Owen, and John Bartlett Mansfield, and
such Persons (if any) as the said Commissioners from Time to Time
appoint under this Act to supply Vacancies in their Number, shall be
the

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