Baybridge Canal Act 1825
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1825 c. clxiv |
| Year | 1825 |
ANN0
SEXTO
GEORGII
IV.
REGIS.
Cap.
clxiv.
An
Act
for
making
and
maintaining a
navigable
Cut
or Canal
froin
the
River
Adur,
at
or near
Binesbridge
in
the
Parish
of
West
Grinsted
in
the
County of
Sussex,
to
Baybridge
in
the
said
Parish.
[22d
June
1826.1
HEREAS
the River
Adur,
in
the County of
Sussex,
is navi-
gable from the Sea at
or
near
New Shoreham
to
Binesbridge,
in the Parish
of
West
Grinsted
in the said County, and
it
would be
of
great Advantage and Convenience to the Owners and
Occupiers of
Estates
and other Inhabitants of the said Parish
of
West
Grinsted,
and the Parishes adjoining thereto and in its Vicinity, and
would be otherwise
of
great
public
Utility,
if
a navigable
Cut
or Canal
was made,
with
proper Reservoirs, Aqueducts, Feeders, Basins, Quays,
Wharfs, Locks, and other necessary Works, from and out
of
the Naviga-
tion
of
the said River
Adur,
at or near
Binesbridge
aforesaid, to
or
near
Baybridge
in
the said Parish
of
Ct/est
Grinsted:
And whereas the several
Persons herein-after named are desirous of being united into a Company,
for
carrying into Effect the Purposes aforesaid, but the same cannot be
accomplished without the Authority
of
Parliamenr
:
May
it therefore
please
Your
Majesty that
it
may
be
enacted
;
and
be
it. enacted
by
the
King’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with
the
Advice and Consent
of
the Lords Spiritual
and
Temporal, and Commons,
in
this present
Par-
liament assembled, and
by
the Authority
of
the same, That the
Right
Honourable
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Proprietors
incorpo-
rated, aiitl
empowered
to
purchase
arid
sell
Lands.
Power
to
make
Canal,
Tunnels,
Bridges,
&c.
IV*
Honourable
Henry 7ohn
Lord
Selsey,
Sir
Charles Merrik Burrell
Baronet,
Walter Burrell, Wham Peckhani Woodward
Clerk,
John Wood,
ranies
Eversfieeld, James Lancaster,
and their respective Executors, Admi-
nistrators, or Assigns, or such
of
them
as
shall from Time to Time be
possessed
of
any Share
or
Shares in the said Canal and Undertaking
hereby authorized to be made and carried on, and also such other Person
or Persons, Bodies Politic
or
Corporate, as shall from Time to
Time
be
possessed of any Share or Shares therein, shall be and they are hereby
united into
a
Company for making, completing, maintaining, and carry-
ing
on
the
said intended Canal and other Works hereby authorized to
be
made, according
to
the Rules, Orders, and Directions hereinafter
expressed, and
for
that Purpose are and shall be One Body Politic and
Corporate, by
the
Name and
Style
of
The
Baybridge Canal Company,
and
by that Name
shall
have perpetual Succession and
a
Common
Seal,
and
by
that Name shall and may sue and be sued, and also shall and
may
have Power and Authority
to
purchase, in manner
by
this Act directed,
Lands, lenements, and Hereditaments, to them and thzir Successors
and
Assigns, for the Use
of
the said Undertaking, and for the several
Works
hereby authorized to be made, and for the several other Purposes herein
mentioned, without incurring any of the Penalties
or
Forfeitures
of
tlic
Statutes of Mortmain, and also to sell any of the Lands, Tenements,
or
Hereditaments purchased for the Purposes aforesaid.
11.
And be it further enacted, That
it
shali and
may
be lawful to and
for the said Company, and they are hereby authorized and empowered,
from and after the passing of this Act, by themselves or
by
their Depu-
ties, Agents, Officers, Workmen, or Servants, to form and make
a
Canal
for the Navigation
of
Boats, Barges, and other Vessels, from and
out
of
the said River
Adur
Navigation, at or near
Binedridge
in the said Parish
of
West
Grinsted,
to or near
Baybridge
in the said Parish
of
W&t
Grinsted,
and
to
maintain the said Canal; and also
to
supply
the
said intended
Canal at all Times for ever while making, and after the same shall be
made, with Water from all such Brooks, Springs, Streams, Rivulets,
Waters, and Watercourses which are or shall
flow
to,
or
be found in
digging
or
making the said Canal
;
and
also
to make, sink, and drive
such and
so
many Drains, Tunnels, Levels, Perforations, Feeders, and
Aqueducts, and to make, erect, and set up such and
so
many Weirs,
Locks,
Water Wheels, and other Machines, with proper Shafts and
Tunnels thereto, for supplying the said Canal with Water, and for
con-
veying Water to or from the same, for the Purposes
of
Navigation only,
and for the Purpose of the better making and maintaining
of
such Cmal,
as
they the said Company shall from Time to Time think proper and
expedient
;
and also, for effectuating the Purposes of this Act, to enlarge
such Bridges as are now built
on
the Line
of
the said intended Canal, or
take down and rebuild the same, and to build other Bridges on the said
Line, as they the said Company shall think
fit,
and
to
enlarge, widen,
divert, alter, or vary such Roads
or
Ways,
and the Course of such
Brooks, Streams, or Watercourses, which are or shall
be
situate within
the Line of the said intended Canal, or which shall or
may
hinder,
prevent, or otherwise obstruct the making of the said Canal; and for
the
Purposes aforesaid, or any of them, the said Company, their Depu-
ties, Servants, Agents, and Workmen, are hereby authorized and em-
powered to enter into and upon
the
Lands
and Grounds
of
any Person
to
or
or Persons, Bodies Politic, Corporate, or Collegiate whatsoever,
ant1
to
survey and take Levels of the same,
or
any Part thereof, and
to
set out
and ascertain such Parts thereof
as
they shall think necessary and proper
for making the said intended Canal, and the other Works
and
Con-
veniences hereby authorized to be made, and there to bore,
dig,
cut,
trench, and driin, arid
also
to remove, take, carry away, and lay any
Earth, Clay, Stone, Soil, Rubbish, Trees, Roots of Trees, Beds
of
Gravel
or Sand, or any other Matters or Things which inay be dug or got
in
making,
or
which
may
hinder, prevent, or obstruct
the
making, carrying
on, maintaining,
ox
repairing the said Canal, Feeders, Tunnels, Aque-
ducts, and other Works respectively, according to the true Intent and
Meaning
of
this
Act
;
and also to make Roads and other Ways,
as
well
for
the carrying and conveying
of
all mznner
of
Materials necessary
or
intended
for
the
making, erecting, finishing, altering, repairing, widening,
enlarging,
or
improving the said intended Canal, and other Works hereby
authorized, as also
for
the Purposes of the said intended Navigation, and
for the carrying
arid
conveying of
the
Goods, Wares, Merchzndize, and
otherThings
CO
and
from the said Canal; and also
to
make, build, drive,
erect, and set up, in or upon the said Canal, or in
or
upon the Lands
adjoining thereto respectively, such and
so
many Tunnels, Drains, Aque-
ducts, Culverrs, Sluices, Locks, Flood Gates, Weirs, Banks,
Dams,
Pens
for Water, Water Tanks, Basins, Wharfs, Quays, Warehouses,
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Watch Houses, Landing Places, Weighing
Beams,
Cranes, Docks,
Machines, and other Works, Fences, and Conveniences, as and where
the
said Company hereby incorporated shall think requisite and convenient
;
and also from Time to Time
to
alter, repair, and amend or discontinue
the same, or any
of
them, and
to
place, lay, work, or manufacture any
Materials on the Lands
or
Grounds adjoining to the Place or Places where
the said Works, or any of them, shall be carrying on
j
and also
to
make,
set out, and appoint such Towing Paths, Banks, Roads, and Ways, for
the towing, hauling,
or
drawing
of
Barges, Boats, Lighters, Rafts, and
other Vessels passing upon the said Canal, with Men, Horses,
or
other-
wise,
and such convenient Places for Barges, Boats, and other Vessels and
Rafts,
to
turn, lie, or pass each other in, as the said Company shall think
proper and expedient; and
also
to dig, take, and carry away any
Soil,
Clay, Gravel, Sand,
or
Stone which shall be proper, requisite, and con-
venient for making, maintaining, and repairing the several Works afore-
said,
or
any of them, in or from the Grounds of any Person
or
Persons
adjoining thereto
;
and also to construct, erect, set up, make, and do
all
and every or any other Works, Matters, and Things whatsoever, which
they the said Company shall think requisite and necessary or convenient
for the making, completing, repairing, improving, carrying on, main-
taining, and using the said Canal and other Works, in pursuance
of
and
within the true Intent and Meaning
of
this
Act,
they the said Company,
their Deputies, Agents, Servants, and Workmen, doing as
little
Damage
as may be in the Execution
of
the several Powers to them hereby granted,
and making Satisfaction in manner herein-after mentioned to the
Owflers
or
Proprietors, Tenanrs
or
Occupiers of, and all Persons interested in the
Lands, Tenements, Hereditaments, Waters, Watercourses, BrOOkd,
or
Rivers respectively which shall be taken, used, removed, diverted, or
prejudiced, for all Damages to be by them sustained in or by the Execu-
tion
of
all or any
of
the Powers
of
this Act; and this Act shaIl
be
suffi-
cient to indemnify the said Company and their Deputies, Servants, Agents,
and
477
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