Bridgwater and Taunton Canal Navigation Act 1832

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Citation1832 c. xliii
ANNO SECUNDO
GULIELMI IV REGIS.
Cap.
xliii.
An Act to explain and amend Two Acts, of the
Fifty-first Year of His late Majesty King George
the Third and the Fifth Year of His late Ma-
jesty King George the Fourth, relative to the
Bridgewater and Taunton Canal Navigation.
[23d May 1832.]
HEREAS by an Act passed in the Fifty-first Year of the
Reign of His late Majesty King George the Third, inti-
tuled An Act for making a navigable Canal from the River
51G.3.
c.60.
Avon at or near Morgan's Pill in the Parish of Easton-in-Gordano,
otherwise Saint George's, in the County of Somerset, to or near the
River Tone in the Parish of Saint James in Taunton in the said
County, and a certain Navigable Cut therein
described,
certain Persons
and their Successors were incorporated by the Name of The
Company
of Proprietors of the Bristol and Taunton Canal Navigation ; and
after reciting (among other Things) that by an Act passed in the
Tenth and Eleventh Years of the Reign of His Majesty King
William the Third, intituled An Act for making and keeping the River
10 & 11
W.3.
Tone navigable from Bndgewater to Taunton in the County ofc.8.
Somerset, certain Persons therein named, and their Successors,
were appointed Conservators of the said River, and certain
Powers were given and granted to them for making and keeping
the same River navigable, and other Purposes therein men-
tioned, and that it had been thereby enacted that the Surplus of
what should be received or arise from the Tolls or Rates thereby
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directed to be levied and collected (after making and keeping the
same Riyfr navigable, and reimbursing the said Conservators the
Principal'Money they had or should lay out, with Interest as therein
mentioned,) should be by the said Conservators employed and dis-
posed of for the only Use, Benefit, and Advantage of the Poor of
the said Town of Taunton, and the Parishes of Taunton Saint Mary
Magdalen and Taunton Saint James, in the said County of Somerset,
who were thereby empowered and authorized to lay out and dispose
of the same in building One or more Hospital or Hospitals, or other-
wise,
from Time to Time according to their best Discretions, for the
better educating and maintaining such poor Children as were or
should become chargeable to #ie Town and Parishes aforesaid, and
such Hospital or Hospitals, when built, should be governed and regu-
lated by such Persons,
Rules,
and Orders as should be appointed, given,
and made from* Time to Time by the said Conservators for the Time
being, si as such Rules
an68
Orders were first approved by the Judges
of Assize and Nisi Prius for the said County of
Somerset,
or One of
them ; and also reciting that by an Act passed in the Sixth Year
6
Ann.
c.
9.
of the Reign of Her late Majesty Queen Anne, intituled An Act
for
more effectually
making and keeping the River Tone
navigable
from
Bridgewater to Taunton in the County of Somerset, certain additional
Tolls had been granted to the said Conservators, and they had been
thereby directed to account for and apply the same in like Manner
as had been mentioned in the said first therein recited Act with
respect to the Tolls thereby granted ; and also reciting that another
Act had been passed in the Forty-fourth Year of His then present
44G.3.C.83.
Majesty King George the Third, intituled An Act for explaining and
amending Two Acts, passed in the Tenth and Eleventh Years of King
"William the Third and the Sixth Year of Queen Anne, for making
and keeping navigable the River Tone from Bridgewater to Taunton
in the County of Somerset; and also reciting that the making of the
Canal and Works authorized to be made by virtue of the said Act of
the Fifty-first Year of the Reign, of His late Majesty King George
the Third, now in recital, would be very prejudicial to the Tolls autho-
rized to be levied and collected by the said therein recited Acts from
the Tone Navigation j it was by the said Act now in recital enacted,
that the said Company of Proprietors should and they were thereby
authorized and required, within Three Calendar Months next after
the passing of that Act, to contract and agree with the Conservators
of the said River Type Navigation, and other Persons, Proprietors of
Shares or Parts of Shares, or otherwise interested therein, for the
absolute Purchase of their several and respective Estates, Rights, and
Interests in and to the same, and also to contract and agree with the
Overseers of the Poor for the Time being of the said To wn of Taunton,
and the said several Parishes of Taunton Saint Mary Magdalen and
Taunton Saint James aforesaid, for the absolute Purchase of the re-
spective Estates, Rights, and Interests of the said Town and Parishes
under and by virtue of the said therein recited Acts, or any of them ;
and in case any Disputes should arise touching the Monies to be paid
for any such Purchase, or any Matter or Thing in anywise relating
thereto, then the same should be submitted to a Jury, to be determined

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