Weston-super-Mare Improvement Commissioners Water Act 1878
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1878 c. clxxxv |
[41 & 42
VICT. J
Weston-super-Mare
Improvement [Ch. clxxxv.]
Commissioners
Water Act, 1878.
CHAPTER clxxxv.
An Act to authorise the Weston-super-Mare Improvement A.D. ISTS.
Commissioners to supply Water within the Urban Sanitary
District of Weston-super-Mare and within the parishes of
Uphill, Kewstoke, and Worle, in the county of Somerset; to
purchase the undertaking of the Weston-super-Mare Water-
works Company; and for other purposes. [22d July 1878.]
W
HEREAS the Weston-super-Mare Improvement Commis-
sioners appointed under and by virtue of the Weston-super-
5 & 6
Vict.
Mare Improvement and Market Act, 1842, and acting under the c'xx'
authority of the said Act, and of the Weston-super-Mare Improve-
14 &
15 Vict.
ment and Market Act, 1851, and of three provisional orders made c'
under the authority of the Local Government Act, 1858, and
21
&
22
Vict.
bearing date respectively the fourth day of May one thousand eight c' 98'
hundred and sixty-one, the fifteenth day of July one thousand eight
hundred and sixty-one, and the sixth day of June one thousand
eight hundred and seventy-six, and confirmed respectively by the
24 & 25
Vict.
Local Government Supplemental Act, 1861 (No. 2), and the Local c' " '
Government Board's Provisional Orders Confirmation (Birmingham,
39 & 40
Vict.
&c.) Act, 1876, are now the urban sanitary authority within the
°"ccn"
urban sanitary district of Weston-super-Mare for the purposes of
the Public Health Act, 1875, and of the said local and personal
38 &
39 Vict.
Acts and provisional orders : c"
And whereas the said Improvement Commissioners are desirous
that the supply of water within the said urban sanitary district
should be subject to their control and management, and that they
should be authorised to supply water to the neighbouring parishes
of Uphill, Kewstoke, and Worle, hi the county of Somerset, and it
is expedient that for giving effect to such desire provisions such as
are in this Act contained should be made :
And whereas the Weston-super-Mare Waterworks Company were
incorporated by the Weston-super-Mare Waterworks Act, 1853,
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[Ch.
Clxxxv.] Westm-super-Mare Improvement
[41 & 42
VICT.]
Commissioners
Water Act, 1878.
A.D.
1878.
with a share capital of eighteen thousand pounds and loan capital
not exceeding three thousand six hundred
pounds,
and were thereby
empowered to supply water within the town of Weston-super-Mare,
and by the Weston-super-Mare Water Order, 1873, as confirmed by
36 &
37 Vict, the Gas and Water Orders Confirmation Act, 1873, the said Com-
"' pany were empowered to raise for the purposes of their under-
taking additional share and loan capital to the amount of twelye
thousand pounds in shares, and not exceeding three thousand
pounds by loan:
And whereas the capital of the Company on the first day of
December one thousand eight hundred and seventy-seven consisted
of the following:—
900 original shares (£20) -
150 new shares, 1874 (£20) -
150 new shares, 1876 (£20) -
Total
Created.
£18,000 -
3,000 •
3,000 •
£24,000
Called
up.
• £18,000
2,175
2,175
£22,350
Balance
not
called
up.
- Nil
- £825
825
£1,650
And whereas the Company have no mortgage debt:
And whereas the said Improvement Commissioners have entered
into an agreement with the said Company, bearing date the twelfth
day of December one thousand eight hundred and seventy-seven,
for the purchase by the said Improvement Commissioners of the
waterworks and undertaking of the said Company, and of all their
rights,
powers, and authorities in connexion therewith under the
16
& 17
Vict.
Weston-super-Mare Waterworks Act, 1853, and it is expedient that
the same be carried into effect in manner by this Act provided:
And whereas estimates have been prepared by the said Improve-
ment Commissioners showing that they will have to grant or create
and issue debentures or debenture stock to secure the sum of sixty-
five thousand pounds (the consideration to be paid for the purchase
of the said waterworks and undertaking of the Company), and that
they may from time to time require to borrow moneys to an amount
in the aggregate not exceeding ninety thousand pounds for the
redemption of such debentures or debenture stock, and for works
necessary for the improvement of the said waterworks and the
extension of the same, and of the mains and other pipes connected
therewith:
And whereas such waterworks and works are permanent works
within the meaning of the two hundred and thirty-fourth section of
38^39 Vict. the puhiic Health Act, 1875, and it is expedient that the said Im-
provement Commissioners should be authorised to grant or create
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