Blackburn Corporation Act 1892
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1892 c. cxviii |
| Year | 1892 |
[55 & 56 VICT.] Blackburn
Corporation
Act, 1892. [Ch. CXViil]
CHAPTER cxviii.
An Act to consolidate the townships and parts of town- A-D-18£2-
ships within the borough of Blackburn into one township
to constitute the Council of the said borough the Burial
Board for the said borough to vest in the Mayor Alder-
men and Burgesses the Blackburn Technical School and
for other purposes. [20th June 1892.]
W
HEREAS the borough of Blackburn in the county palatine
of Lancaster is a municipal borough under the government
of the mayor aldermen and burgesses of the borough and the
borough is a county borough within the meaning of the Local
Government Act 1888:
And whereas the Corporation acting by the council of the
borough are the sanitary authority for the district of the borough
with the powers and obligations of an urban sanitary authority:
And whereas the Blackburn Improvement Act 1882 and the
portions of the local Acts in that Act mentioned and which are by
that Act left unrepealed are still in force in the borough :
And whereas there are at present five townships or parts of
townships comprised within the borough and the rateable value of
the borough according to the poor rate valuation for the present
year is four hundred and twenty-one thousand one hundred and
forty-four pounds and the number of inhabitants at the last census
was one hundred and twenty thousand and sixty-four and there is a
very considerable difference in the rateable value and number of
inhabitants in the respective townships and parts of townships com-
prised within the borough and the raising of rates by calls or
precepts directed to the overseers of each township causes great
inequahty in the amount of rate in the pound actually levied in the
said respective townships and parts of towmships and the employ-
ment of an assistant overseer for each separate township also causes
considerable expense and considerable inconvenience is experienced
annually in the making out of the lists and registers of the voters
[Price 3s.
Qd.].
A 1
[Ch,
CXViil] Blackburn
Corporation
Act, 1892. [55 & 56 VICT.]
AJ).
1892,
and burgesses for the borough and it is expedient that the borough
" should be constituted one township for all purposes other than.
ecclesiastical purposes:
And whereas there is at present in existence a burial board
for the township of Blackburn constituted,under the Burial Acts
1852 to 1871 and the district of the burial board is the area of
the township of Blackburn as the same existed prior to the passing
of this Act:
And whereas the township and parts of townships (other than
the township of Blackburn) comprised within the borough have at
present no burial ground and the inhabitants of such township and
parts of townships have in consequence to use the burial ground of
the burial board and in respect of such user hare to pay to the
burial board double fees as compared with the inhabitants of the
township of Blackburn:
And whereas it is expedient that the burial board should be
dissolved that the burial district should be extended and made
conterminous with the boundaries of the borough that the council
should be constituted the burial board for the borough and that
the estate property rights powers duties and liabilities of the burial
board should be transferred to the council:
And whereas there is in the borough an institution called the
Blackburn Technical and Trade School governed by a council
constituted under the provisions of an indenture bearing date the
fifth day of July one thousand eight hundred and eighty-nine
a copy of which is set out in the Pirst Schedule to this Act:
And whereas the technical school has been erected and built out
of moneys in part derived from public subscription and in part
provided by the council under the provisions of the Technical
Instruction Acts 1889 and 1891 and the Local Taxation Customs
and Excise Act 1890:
And whereas at a meeting of the school council held on the
ninth day of November one thousand eight hundred and ninety-
one the following resolution was passed:—•
" That in the opinion of this council it is expedient that the
Blackburn Technical and Trade School with its trust fund
and school premises should be transferred to and vested
in the town council of the borough of Blackburn and
that the institution should in future be administered and
governed under the town council in accordance with the
provisions which by arrangement have been inserted by
the said town council in the draft of a Bill which that
body is intending to promote in the next session of. Parlia-
ment":
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[55
&
56 VICT.] Blackburn
Corporation
Act, 1892. [Oh. cxviii.]
And whereas the foregoing resolution received the approval of
A.D.
1892.
the donors and subscribers at a special general meeting of the
donors and subscribers held on the twenty-third day of November
one thousand eight hundred and ninety-one and duly convened and
held in accordance with the provisions of the said indenture: •
And whereas it is expedient to give effect to the said resolution
in manner in this Act provided:
And whereas it is expedient to make better provision with re-
spect to the pensions allowances and gratuities of the members of
the police fire brigade and of supernumerary constables of the
borough:
And whereas in consequence of the increase of population and
buildings in the borough considerable inequalities exist in the
population and rateable value of the various wards into which
the borough is divided and it is expedient to alter the number
and boundaries of the wards of the borough in manner by this Act
provided:
And whereas the Corporation are the local authority as defined
by the Lunacy Act 1890 for the purpose of putting in force within
the borough the provisions of such last-mentioned Act and are
about to provide and maintain an asylum for the accommodation of
pauper lunatics as required by that Act:
And whereas the Corporation have with the approval of the
Secretary of State purchased a site for the erection of such .asylum
and are taking steps for obtaining the necessary plans and estimates
previous to entering into a contract for the erection of the buildings
required for such asylum: ... n;
And whereas Her Majesty was pleased to grant in the year 1886
that a separate court of quarter sessions be holden in and for the
borough and in consequence of such grant the present police offices
and sessions house have become inadequate for the accommodation
of the business connected with the said court of quarter sessions and
the present police offices and sessions house are within the town
hall and owing to the necessity for altering the town hall for
municipal purposes the said police offices' and sessions house
cannot be extended or enlarged and it is expedient that central
police offices and a sessions house be erected within the borough :
And whereas the Corporation intend to alter and improve the
town hall and have agreed to purchase certain lands for the
purpose of the alteration and enlargement of the municipal offices
of the borough and for providing central police offices and sessions
house:
And whereas the Corporation have recently agreed to and made
arrangements for the enlargement of the public museums connected
with their free public library: A 2 3
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