Bradford Corporation Act 1866

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Citation1866 c. ccxxii
ANNO VICESIMO NONO & TRICESIMO
VICTORLE REGI1NLE.
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ccxxii.
An Act for authorizing the Mayor, Aldermen, and
Burgesses of the Borough of Bradford in the
County of York to acquire and to regulate the
Markets and Fairs in the Borough, and to provide
Places for holding the Markets and Fairs, and to
take Tolls for the same, and for extending the
Periods for the Completion of their Waterworks,
and for authorizing them to acquire Lands, and
to raise further Monies, and for regulating their
Borrowing Powers and Debt; and for other
Purposes. [16th July 1866.]
W
HEREAS the Mayor, Aldermen, and Burgesses of the
Borough of Bradford in the County of York (in this Act
called the Corporation) by their Council are the Local
Board of Health for the District of the Borough : And whereas the
Markets and Fairs which are respectively held within the Borough are
or are claimed to be Franchises of the Manor of Bradford which com-
prises the Borough : And whereas the Markets are held on Lands in
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the Borough which belong or are claimed to belong to the Manor,
and the Accommodation for the Markets is very inadequate and not
suited to the Wants of the Borough: And whereas the Fairs which
are held Three Times in the Year are held chiefly in Streets in the
Borough, and Two of the Fairs last several Days: And whereas the
holding of the Fairs, and especially the Cattle Fairs in the Streets,
occasions great Inconvenience, Annoyance, and even Danger to the
Inhabitants of the Borough, and during the holding of the Cattle
Fairs the Foot Pavements of the Streets in which they are held have
to be fenced off by the Corporation at the Expense of the Borough
by Barricades from the Carriageway so as to protect the Foot Pas-
sengers from the Cattle, and the ordinary Traffic in those Streets is
seriously interrupted: And whereas the Corporation are desirous of
taking a Lease for a long Term of Years of the Markets and Fairs
and the Market Places, and the Lady of the Manor is willing to grant
to them a Lease thereof for Nine hundred and ninety-nine Years at
a yearly Rent of Five thousand Pounds if she be thereunto authorized
by Parliament or otherwise, she not now having Power to grant it,
and she proposes if it be found necessary to apply to Parliament in
the present Session for an Act for the Purpose: And whereas the
Right of appointing an Inspector of Weights and Measures for the
Borough belongs or is claimed to belong to the Manor, and great
Inconveniences result from the Exercise of that Right, the Corporation
having Power, if they think fit, to appoint an Inspector of Weights
and Measures for the Borough: And whereas the Corporation are
desirous, and the Lady of the Manor is willing, that the Manorial
Right of appointing an Inspector of Weights and Measures should be
included in the Lease: And whereas an Agreement for the Lease has
been entered into between the Lady of the Manor and the Corpora-
tion which is set forth in the Schedule (A.) to this Act annexed, and
it is expedient that in the event of her being authorized by Parlia-
ment or otherwise to grant the Lease the Agreement be confirmed:
And whereas it is expedient that in the event of the Lease not being
authorized by Parliament or otherwise, and the Agreement not being
confirmed, the Corporation be authorized to purchase the Markets
and Fairs and the Market Places and Land adjoining, and the Right
of appointing an Inspector of Weights and Measures, and it is also
expedient that the Corporation be authorized to purchase compulsorily
other Land adjoining to the Market Place, and the Estates and In-
terests of the Lessees and Occupiers in the Lands comprised in the
Lease: And whereas it is expedient that when the Corporation have
acquired by Lease or Purchase the Markets and Fairs and the Market
Places, they be authorized to provide other Market Places and Places
for Fairs within the Borough for the holding of the Markets and Fairs,
with Market Houses, Slaughter-houses, and other Works and Con-
veniences, and to acquire and appropriate Lands for the Purpose and
for
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for Approaches, and to remove the Markets to the new Market Places,
and to appropriate for Street Purposes and to underlease and other-
wise dispose of the present Market Places, and to remove the Fairs to
the new Places for Fairs, and to prevent the holding of any Cattle
Market or Cattle or Pleasure Fair in any Street o*r public or private
Place in the Borough other than the Places for Fairs, and in other
respects to regulate the Markets and Fairs, and the User of the
Market Places, Market Houses, Places for Fairs, Slaughter-houses,
Works, and Conveniences : And whereas it is expedient that when
the Corporation have acquired by Lease or Purchase the Markets and
Fairs they be authorized to levy Stallages and Tolls in respect of the
same respectively : And whereas it is expedient that the Corporation
be authorized to lease and afterwards to dispose of the Reversion of
Lands already or hereafter acquired by them under any of their pre-
sent or future Powers for the Improvement of the Borough: And
whereas by the Bradford Corporation Waterworks Act, 1854, (in i7&l8Vict.
this Act called the Act of 1854,) the Corporation were authorized to C-CXX1X-
purchase and maintain the Bradford Waterworks, and to make and
maintain other Waterworks, and by means thereof to supply Water
within the Borough and some neighbouring Places, and in the event
that happened to borrow Sums amounting together to 450,000/.: And
whereas the Corporation accordingly purchased the Bradford Water-
works, and supplied Water within the Limits of the Act of 1854: And
whereas by the Bradford Corporation Waterworks Amendment Act,
18 & 19
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1855,
(in this Act called the Act of 1855,) the Corporation were c# clu'
authorized to levy a separate Rate to be considered a Borough Rate,
and to be applicable for the Payment of the Sums borrowed under the
Act of 1854 and the Interest thereon : And whereas by the Bradford 2l&22Vict.
Corporation Waterworks Act, 1858, (in this Act called the Act of c. lxxvi.
1858,) the Limits for the Supply of Water by the Corporation were
extended, and they were authorized to make and maintain additional
Waterworks, and to borrow the further Sum of 200,000/., and further
Provision was made with respect to the Rate authorized by the Act
of 1855: And whereas by " The Bradford Waterworks Act, 1862,"
25 & 26
Vict.
(in this Act called the Act of 1862,) the Limits for the Supply of c- xviii"
Water by the Corporation were further extended, and they were
authorized to borrow the further Sum of 100,000/., and further Pro-
vision was made with respect to the Rates for Water to be levied by
the Corporation: And whereas it is expedient that the respective
Times by the Acts of 1854 and 1858 limited for the Completion of
the Waterworks thereby respectively authorized be extended : And
whereas the Corporation have borrowed the several Sums which by
the recited Acts in that Behalf they were authorized to borrow, and
which together amount to 750,000/., and of that Sum 8,000/. has been
paid off by means of a Sinking Fund, leaving 742,000/. now owing by
them

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