[River] Dee Standard Restoration Act 1851
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1851 c. lxxxvii |
| Year | 1851 |
ANNO DECIMO QUARTO & DECJMO QUINTO
VICTORIA REGIN.E
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C«p.lxxxvii.
An Act for the Restoration of the Standard in the
River Dee, and for granting further Powers to
the River Dee Company. [24th July 1851.]
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THERE AS by an Act passed in the Eleventh and Twelfth
' Years of the Reign of King William the Third, intituled
An Act to enable the Mayor and Citizens of Chester to 11&12W.3
recover and preserve the Navigation of the River Dee, reciting that c'24*
the said River Dee was theretofore navigable for Ships and Vessels of
a considerable Burden from the Sea to the City of
Chester^
but by
Neglect of the said River, and for Want of sufficient Banks, Works,
and Fences on the Sides thereof against the Flux and Reflux of the
Sea, the Channel of the said River was become so various and un-
certain, that by Sands and otherwise the Navigation of the said City
Avas almost lost and destroyed, the Mayor and Citizens of the said
City of Chester and their Successors were empowered from Time to
Time and at all Times thereafter to make and keep the said River
navigable from the Sea to the said City of Chester for Ships of One
hundred Tons Burden or upwards; and to enable them so to do they
were thereby authorized to levy certain Duties in the said Act men-
tioned, and the Property of the Sand, Soil, or Ground therein
mentioned was, immediately from and after such Time as the said
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1242 14° & 15° VICTORIES, Cap.lxxxvii.
The Dee Standard Restoration Act, 1851.
River and Channel should be made navigable and passable with and
for such Ships and Vessels to land from the said City of Chester, to
be vested in the said Mayor and Citizens and their Successors for
ever, and they were thereby authorized to defend, enclose, and
improve the same, and receive the Rents and Profits
thereof,
and
apply the same for maintaining and repairing the intended Works
and Fences, and for making, erecting, and doing such farther and
other Works, Fences, and Things from Time to Time as Occasion
should require for making and keeping the said River navigable as
aforesaid: And whereas by an Act passed in the Sixth Year of the
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c.30. Reign of His Majesty King George the Second, intituled An Act to
recover and preserve the Navigation of the River Dee in the County
Palatine of Chester, reciting the said Act passed in the Eleventh and
Twelfth Years of the Reign of William the Third; and also reciting,
that considerable Sums of Money had been laid out and expended
pursuant to the said Act, but the said River was not made navigable,
the Provisions for making the same navigable by the said recited Act
being insufficient, and that the Time thereby granted for making the
same navigable had then expired; and further reciting, that the Sands,
Soil, and Ground not bearing Grass, commonly called " The White
Sands" from the City of Chester to the Sea, and lying between the
County of Chester on the North Side and the County of Flint on
the South Side, were of great Breadth in most Places, and the said
River not being navigable was chiefly owing to the Breadth of the
said Sands, and to the shifting of the Channel from the One Side thereof
to the other, as the Winds and Tide varied; and also that the said
Sands, Soil, and Ground commonly called " The White Sands " were
not nor were likely to be of any Advantage or Benefit to any Person
whatsoever, unless the said River was bounded in and made navigable
by Sea-walls, Banks, and Fences, which would require a very great
. Expense as well to erect as to maintain and repair from Time to
Time, and that if the said White Sands were recovered from the Sea
by Sea-walls, Banks, and Fences, and the Channel of the said River
Dee thereby confined to one certain Course, it would not only effec-
tually make the said River navigable, but, vesting the said White
Sands in the Undertakers of the said Navigation, would be a consi-
derable Encouragement to the Undertaking; and also reciting, that
the making the said River navigable would be a Means to advance
the Trade of the said City of Chester9 and that great Benefit would
accrue thereby to the Inhabitants
thereof,
and to the Towns and
Countries adjacent to or near the said River, and that it would also
increase the Number of Seamen and Watermen, and promote the publiG
Good of this Kingdom; it wras enacted, that Nathaniel Kinderley, in.
the said Act named, his Heirs and Assigns, and such Persons as he,
his Heirs and Assigns, should nominate and appoint under his or their
Hand and Seal, should be and they were thereby appointed Undertakers
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