Bolton Tramways and Improvement Act 1897
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1897 c. cxxxiv |
| Year | 1897 |
£60 & 61
VICT.] Bolton
Tramways
and
Improvement
[Oil. CXXXiv]
Act, 1897.
CHAPTER cxxxiv.
An Act to enable the Mayor Aldermen and Burgesses of A.D. IS97.
the Borough of Bolton to construct Additional Tramways
in and adjacent to the Borough to construct Highway
and other Works to borrow Additional Moneys and for
other purposes. [15th July 1897.]
HEREAS the borough of Bolton in the county of Lancaster is
a county borough subject to the Acts relating to municipal
corporations and under the government of the mayor aldermen and
hurgessesof the said borough (herein-after called "the Corporation")
acting by the council:
And whereas by the Bolton and Suburban Tramways Order 1878
41
&
42
Vict.
confirmed by the Tramways Orders Confirmation (No. 1) Act 1878 c*ccxxxl-
and in this Act referred to as " the Order of 1878 " the Corporation
as to the said borough and certain adjacent townships and the local
boards for the districts of Astley Bridge Farnworth and Kearsley
Tespectively as to their said respective districts were authorised to
construct certain tramways and to enter into and cany into effect
agreements inter se with respect to the construction maintenance
repair and management of any of the tramways for the time
belonging to any of the contracting parties or of any part thereof
and to appoint a joint committee to carry into execution all or any
of the powers of that Order:
And whereas by the Bolton and Suburban Tramways Order 1888
51 &
52 Vict.
confirmed by the Tramways Orders Confirmation (No. 2) Act 1888 c-xcv-
and in this Act referred to as " the Order of 1888 " the carriages
used on the said tramways were authorised to be worked by steam
electrical or any mechanical power under and subject to the
conditions in that Order specified:
And whereas the Corporation as to the portions of the tramways
constructed by them under the powers of the Order of 1878 demised
the same for a term of years which determined on the seventeenth
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Bolton Tramways
and
Improvement
[60
& 61
VICT.]
Act, 1897.
A.D.
1897.
day of December one thousand eight hundred and eighty-eight and
— the said portions are now being worked by the executor of one of
the former lessees of the tramways under a lease for a short term
subject to certain conditions prescribed by the Corporation as to the
motive power to be used in working the said tramways :
54
Vict An^ whereas DV tne Bolton Corporation Tramways Act 1891 (in
c.
xiii.
' this Act called "the Act of 1891") the Corporation were authorised
to construct additional tramways in and adjacent to the borough
and those tramways were for all purposes constituted a part of the
tramway undertaking of the Corporation :
And whereas it is expedient that the Corporation be empowered
to construct and maintain additional tramways in and adjacent to
the borough:
56 &
57
Vict.
And whereas by the Bolton Corporation Tramways Act 1893
c-lv- (in this Act called " the Act of
1S93
") it was provided that if the
Corporation were unable to demise such of the said tramways as
were constructed by them upon such terms as would in the qpinion
of the Board of Trade yield an adequate rent therefor the Board of
Trade might grant the Corporation licence to work the said tramways
and that if any of the said local boards should be in like manner
unable to demise such of the tramways as were constructed by them
and the Corporation should be working any tramways in immediate
connexion with the tramways of such local boards the Corporation
should if the Board of Trade so directed agree with such local boards
to work their tramways and that the Board of Trade should in
such case grant a licence to the Corporation to work the same
accordingly:
And whereas it is expedient that the restrictions on the working
of the tramways by the Corporation should be removed:
And whereas it is expedient that the Corporation be empowered
to construct the highway works herein-after described :
And whereas it is expedient that the Corporation be authorised
to construct in and under streets in the borough lavatories and other
public conveniences with proper accesses thereto:
And whereas it is expedient that the Corporation be authorised to
provide a fund for the encouragement of thrift among persons in
their employ :
And whereas the Corporation in the year one thousand eight
hundred and ninety-four established a voluntary pension fund for
the benefit of those members of the fire brigade of the borough who
are required to devote the whole of their time to the duties of their
office and
who
are termed and in this Act referred to as " members of
the permanent fire brigade " and to which fund (in this Act referred
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[60
&
61 Vict.] Bolton
TramiucAjs
and Improvement [Oh. CXXXiv.]
Act, 1897.
to as " the fire brigade existing pension fund ") those members have
A.D.
1897.
contributed eight per centum or thereabouts of their wages and it is
expedient that the Corporation be authorised to establish a permanent
fire brigade pension fund to which all the members of the permanent
fire brigade should contribute and to which the fire brigade existing
pension fund should be transferred and that the rate of contribution
to the permanent fire brigade pension fund by the contributors to
the fire brigade existing pension fund should be as in this Act
prescribed:
And whereas an Act (herein-after called " the Bolton Moor 32
Geo.
III.
[Enclosure Act") was passed in the thirty-second year of His late c- 7l<
Majesty King George the Third for (amongst other purposes)
inclosing dividing and allotting a certain common or waste ground
called Bolton Moor and other the commons and waste grounds
within the township of Great Bolton which now form part of the
parish of Bolton within the borough and by that Act after provision
for certain specific allotments including an allotment to the lords of
the manor of Bolton for and in respect of their right and interest in
the soil of the said commons and waste grounds power was given to
commissioners therein named to set out and allot the residue of the
common and waste grounds within the said manor in lots and to sell
or lease such lots for a term of five thousand years free from the
claims of the lords or landowners within the said manor except the
mines and minerals thereunder which were to be excepted and
reserved to the lords of the said manor but subject to the payment
of annual chief rents to certain persons appointed under the said
Act to be trustees for the said, township of Great Bolton and by the
said Act the said commissioners were empowered to sell or lease the
said lots free from the claims of the lords or landowners within the
said manor (other than the lords rights to mines and minerals) but no
provision was or has been made with respect to the fee simple or
reversion of the said lots expectant on the determination of the
.terms of years for which the same should be so demised:
... And whereas in pursuance of the said Act divers leases or other
assurances of the said residue were made by the said commissioners
whereby yearly chief rents (subsequently termed "Bolton Moor
rents ") became payable to the said trustees and those rents by virtue
of section 17 of the Borough of Bolton Act 1850 became vested in 13&14 Vict.
the Corporation and the Corporation were by section 45 of the Bolton *' *!; sg !£
•Improvement Act 1854 authorised to sell the same with the consent c dix s *.;
of the Treasury:
:. And whereas it is desirable for the purpose of any sale by the
Corporation of the said rents or of any interest vested in them in
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