Thames Embankment Act 1852
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1852 c. 71 |
| Year | 1852 |
(15 & 16 Vict.) C A P. LXXI.
[30th June 1852]
'WHEREAS by an Act of Parliament passed in the Session of Parliament held in the Ninth and Tenth Years of the Reign of Her present Majesty, Chapter Thirty-nine, after reciting (amongst other things) that the Commissioners appointed by Her Majesty to inquire into and consider the most effectual Means of improving the Metropolis, and of providing increased Facilities of Communication between the same, by their Second Report, dated the Seventh Day ofMay One thousand eight hundred and forty-five, recommended to Her Majesty's favourable Consideration the Construction of an Embankment and public Road between Battersea and Vauxhall Bridges, upon the Basis of a Plan and Estimates in the said Report contained or referred to; and reciting that such Recommendation was made by the said Commissioners on the Understanding that the whole Cost of constructing such proposed Embankment and Roadway was not to fall ultimately upon the Public, but that a certain Proportion of such Cost should be contributed (either in Money or by conveying the Land required free of Expense, or by constructing the same Embankment and Roadway or Parts thereof at prime Cost, or otherwise,) by certain of the Owners of or Parties interested in the Tenements situated on the River Frontage along which the said intended Embankment and Roadway were to pass, in consideration of the Benefit which would accrue therefrom to their said respective Tenements, and that certain of such Parties were willing to contribute accordingly in some of the Modes aforesaid, and that it was intended that they should respectively enter into Agreements with the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Woods, Forests, Land Revenues, Works, and Buildings, to make such Contribution accordingly, in such Sums or otherwise as the Lord High Treasurer or the Commissioners for executing the Office of Lord High Treasurer should approve of, and should think proper and sufficient, and that no Part of the said intended Embankment and Roadway should be commenced until after all such Agreements as aforesaid, so approved of as aforesaid, should have been duly executed; and also reciting that the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Woods, Forests, Land Revenues, Works, and Buildings had caused Surveys...
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