Barrow-in-Furness Corporation Act 1881
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1881 c. cxxi |
| Year | 1881 |
m
&
45 VICT.] Barrow-in-Fimiess Corporation [Ch. cxxi 1
Act, 1881.
CHAPTER cxxi.
An Act to extend the boundary of the Borough of Bar- A.D.
ISSI.
row-in-Furness to empower the Mayor Aldermen and
Burgesses of the Borough to make tramways and new
streets to confer further borrowing powers to make better
provision for the good government of the Borough and
for other purposes. [18th July 1881.]
W
HEREAS the borough of Barrow-in-Furness in the county
of Lancaster is a municipal borough under the government
of the Mayor Aldermen and Burgesses (in this Act called the
Corporation) of the borough.
And whereas the Corporation by the council are the sanitary
authority for the borough with the powers and obligations of an
urban sanitary authority and they also have divers powers under
the following Local Acts which are in force within the borough that
is to say:
The Barrow-in-Furness Corporation Act 1868
31 & 32
Vict,
c»
civ,
The Barrow-in-Furness Corporation Extension and Amendment
35 &
36 Vict,
Act
1872 c. cxiii.
The Barrow-in-Furness Corporation Act 1873 c cx
The Barrow-in-Furness Corporation Act 1875
38 & 39
Vict.
C CC1V
which Acts are in this Act severally referred to as the Act of the
year in which it was passed and are collectively referred to as the
recited Acts:
And whereas by an order of the Local Government Board dated
the first day of May one thousand eight hundred and seventy-eight
certain parts of the chapelry of ftampside in the parish of Dalton
were amalgamated with the parish of Barrow-in-Furness (which
before that order was co-extensive with the existing borough) and
it is expedient that the existing borough should be extended so as
to include the whole of the parish:
[Local-i2i.] A 1
TCh CXXi
1
Barrow-in-Furness
Corporation
[44 & 45 VICT.]
L '
^,1881-
D 1881. And whereas it is expedient that the Corporation be authorised to
— make the new roads and streets in this Act described:
And whereas it is expedient that the Corporation be authorised to
construct lay down and maintain within the borough the tramways
in this Act described:
And whereas it is expedient that the Corporation be authorised to
raise further money by borrowing and that further provision be
made in relation to their borrowing powers :
And whereas the Corporation are the owners of the gas and water
undertakings of the borough and it is expedient that the powers of
the Corporation in relation thereto be enlarged and that they he
empowered to provide and supply light by means of electricity:
And whereas it is expedient that the Corporation be empowered
to acquire lands for sewage and other purposes and that the powers
of the Corporation respecting the sanitary condition of the borough
and other matters of local management and various provisions of
the recited Acts be in divers respects extended and amended:
And whereas the objects aforesaid cannot be attained without the
authority of Parliament:
And whereas plans and sections describing the lines situations
and levels of the works authorised by this Act and plans showing
the lands to be acquired under the powers of this Act and a book
of reference to those plans containing the names of the owners
or reputed owners and of the lessees or reputed lessees and of the
occupiers of those lands and describing those lands have been
deposited with the clerk of the peace for the county of Lancaster
and are in this Act referred to as the deposited plans sections and
book of reference:
And whereas estimates have been prepared by the Corporation for
the purchase of land and for the execution of the works and for
other the purposes by this Act authorised and such estimates are as
follows (that is to say):
For new streets and street improvements fifty-nine thousand five
hundred pounds.
For tramways thirty-five thousand pounds.
For sewage lands sewers and works twenty-five thousand pounds.
For providing electric lighting twenty thousand pounds.
For cattle-market and slaughter-houses twenty thousand pounds.
For municipal offices fifty thousand pounds.
For police stations five thousand pounds.
For purchase and laying out of recreation grounds five thousand
pounds.
2
[44
&
45 VICT.] Barrow-in-Furness
Corporation
[Ch. CXXi.]
Act, 1881.
Tor depots for stores refuse and ashes and stables twelve thousand
A.D.
1881.
pounds. —
For lands buildings plant and works of a permanent nature for
general purposes fifteen thousand pounds.
And whereas the several works included in such estimates are
permanent works within the meaning of section 234 of the Public
38 &
39 Vict.
Health Act 1875 : c-65-
And whereas an absolute majority of the whole number of the
council at a meeting held on the thirtieth day of November one
thousand eight hundred and eighty after ten clear days notice by
public advertisement of the meeting and of the purpose thereof
in the Vulcan a local newspaper published or circulating m the
borough such notice being in addition to the ordinary notices
required for summoning that meeting resolved that the expense
in relation to promoting the Bill for this Act should be charged on
the borough fund or rate :
And whereas that resolution was published twice in the Vulcan a
newspaper circulating in the borough and has received the approval
of the Local Government Board:
And whereas the propriety of the promotion of the Bill for
this Act was confirmed by an absolute majority of the whole
number of the council at a further special meeting held in pur-
suance of a similar notice on the fourteenth day of March one
thousand eight hundred and eighty-one not less than fourteen days
after the deposit of the Bill for this Act in the offices of the Houses
of Parliament:
And whereas the owners and ratepayers of the borough by
resolution in the manner provided in the Third Schedule of the
Public Health Act 1875 consented to the promotion of the Bill for
this Act:
May it therefore please Tour 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
the authority of the same as follows (that is to say):
I.—PBELIMINABY.
1.
This Act may be cited as the Barrow-in-Furness Corporation
Short
title.
Act 1881.
2.
The following enactments (so far as they are applicable for Incorpora-
the purposes of and axe not varied by or inconsistent with this Act) ^"J^
A 2 3 Acts.
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