Birmingham Canal Navigations Act 1840

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Citation1840 c. lvi
ANNO TERTIO
VICTORLE REGIN.E.
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Cap.
lvi.
An Act to authorize the Company of Proprietors
of the Birmingham Canal Navigations to extend
and alter the Line of their intended Cut or
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Canal from Dan
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a Branch to Salford Bridge; and
to grant further Powers to the said Company.
[4th June 1840.]
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HEREAS an Act was passed in the Fifth Year of the
Reign of His late Majesty King William the Fourth, inti-
tuled An Act to consolidate and extend the Powers and 5&6W.4
Provisions of the several Acts relating to the Birmingham Canal Navi- c.34.
gations, and by the said Act certain Persons, Bodies Politic and
Corporate, were incorporated by the Name of " The Company of
Proprietors of the Birmingham Canal Navigations :'* And whereas an
Act was passed in the Third Year of the Reign of Her present
Majesty, intituled An Act for enabling the Company of Proprietors of
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&3 Vict.
the Birmingham Canal Navigations to make a new Cut, and for
eoc-
c. 61.
tending and altering some of the Provisions of their present Act, and by
the same Act the said Company was authorized and empowered to
make a navigable Cut or Canal from and out of a Branch of the then
existing Canal Navigations of the said Company, called Dank's
Branch, to join and communicate with a Part of the said Canal
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Power to
make an Ex-
tension and
Alteration or
Deviation of
the Cut or
Ganal.
were
3° VICTORIA,
CapM.
Navigations at or near SaWord Bridge in the Parish of Aston justa
Birmingham in the County of Warwick, and to make, complete, and
maintain the several Works therein mentioned -, and by the same Act
certain of the Powers in the said recited Act of the Fifth Year of the
Reign of His said late Majesty King William the Fourth
extended and altered : And whereas the Cut or Canal and Works by
the said recited Act of the Third Year of the Reign of Her said
present Majesty authorized to be made, completed, and maintained
have not yet been made and completed: And whereas it would be
of great public Advantage if Power were given to the said Company
to make such Extension and Alteration or Deviation of the Line or
Course of the said Cut or Canal as are herein-after respectively men-
tioned, and also, if further Powers were given to the said Company
of Proprietors of the Birmingham Canal Navigations; but the several
Purposes aforesaid cannot be effected without the Aid and Au-
thority of Parliament: May it therefore please Your Majesty that
it may be enacted; and be it enacted by the Queen's most Ex-
cellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the
Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parlia-
ment assembled, and by the Authority of the same, That it shall be
lawful for the said Company, and they are hereby 'fully authorized
and empowered, at their own proper Costs and Expences, and by
their Deputies, Agents, Workmen, and Servants, to make such
Extension and Alteration or Deviation respectively of the said Cut or
Canal authorized to be made by the said recited Act of the Third
Year of the Reign of Her said present Majesty as are herein-after
mentioned; (that is to say,) an Extension of the said Cut or Canal, to
commence from and out of the said Branch of the said Canal Navi-
gations called Dank's Branch at or near a Place called Gold's Hilly in
the Parish of West Bromwich in the County of Stafford, and to be
made in and pass through and into the several Parishes, Town-
ships,
Extra-parochial and other Places following; (namely,) West
Bromwich, Gold's Hill, Tipton otherwise Tibbington, and Toll End, in
the County of Stafford, and to join and communicate with a Part of
the present Birmingham Canal Navigations at or near the Toll End
Furnaces in the Parish of Tipton otherwise' Tibbington aforesaid ; and
an Alteration or Deviation to commence in or near to a Field
belonging to the Earl of Dartmouth in the Parish of West Bromwich
in the County of Stafford, and to terminate in or near to a Field
belonging to Wyrley Birch Esquire, in the Township of Perry Barr
in the Parish of Handsworth in the County of Stafford, and to be
made in, and to pass from, through, or into the several Parishes,
Townships, Extra-parochial and other Places following ; that is to
say, West Bromwich, Ball's Hill, Friar Park, Bustleholme, Wednes-
bury, the Delves, Delves Green, Walsall, Foreign of Walsall, Borough
of Walsall, Aldridge, Great Barr, Newton, Handsworth, Tower Hill,
and Perry Barr, in the County of Stafford, or some of them, and
which said Extension and Alteration or Deviation are delineated in
the Plan arid described in the Book of Reference to be deposited
as herein-after mentioned, and which said Cut or Canal, as hereby
authorized to be extended and altered or deviated, is intended to
be called the Tame Valley Canal; and also to abandon such Parts
of the Line or Course of the said Cut or Canal so authorized to

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