Burrow Bridge (Somerset) Act 1824
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1824 c. xcii |
| Year | 1824 |
ANN0
QUINT0
Cap.
xcii.
An
Act
for
taking-down
Burrow
Bridge,
over
the
River
Parrett,
in
the
County
of
Somerset,
and
erecting another in lieu thereof.
[3d
June
1824.1
HEREAS
the Bridge over the River
Parrett,
in the Parishes
of
Stoke
Saint Gregory
and
Lyng,
in the County
of
Somerset,
calIecl
Burrow
Bridge, (and which
is
situate on the Line
of
Turnpike from the Town
of
Taunton
to the Town
of
Glastonbury
in the said County, and called the
Taunton
Turnpike Road,)
is
very
ancient and narrow, and is inconvenient and dangerous to Travellers,
Carriages, and Cattle passing over, and to Persons and Boats passing
tinder the same
;
and the Piers of'the said Bridge are
so
constructed
as to impede the Current
of
the River
in
Times
of
Flood, to the great
Injury
of'
the Turnpike Road near the said Bridge
;
and in order to
render it more safe and convenient to such Travellers, Carriages, Cat-
tle, and Boats, and to fhcilitate the Passage of'the Water in Times
of
Flood,
it
is necessary that the said Bridge should be taken down
and
rebuilt, and considerably enlarged
;
but
the
same cannot be done with-
out the Authority
of'
Parliament: May it therefore please Your Majesty
that it
may
be enacted
;
and
be it enacted by the King's most Excellent
Majesty,
*by
and with the Advice and Consent
of
the Lords Spiri-
tual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assem-
bled, and
by
the Authority
of
the same, That all
His
Majesty's Jus-
Coininis
tices
of'the
Peace
for
the
Time
being, acting
for
the County
of
Somerset,
sione~.
together
with
Smiucl
Alford, Henry
AEford
Clerk,
Robert
Bagehot,
Tlmias Watson Bogchot,
,John
Badcock,
Henry
Badcock,
Robert
Beadon,
[Local.]
23
I.'
Robert
a1
10
Power
to
appoint
additional
Commis-
sioners.
Robcrd
Beadon
Junior,
William
Bendoon,
Downing
Bloke,
John
Sluctt,
Joh,
IJnync
Bovet,
William Burridge
Clerk,
George
Budden,
Nicholm Broadmeact,
James Bunter, William Blatch
Cox,
William
Cox,
Isaac Deacon Coles, Edward
Coles, Edward Combe
Clerk,
George
cox,
James Blatch
Cox,
Hill
Dawc
Junior,
Henry Draper,
Aaron
Foster
Clerk,
Robert Franklin,
George
&-is-
tock, Francis Freke Gunston, Thomas
Horsey,
Edmund Trowbridge Halliday
Clerk,
John Hillard, James Hyde; William Hyde
Clerk,
Joseph Hitchcock,
James Jeboult, Robert Kinglake
M.
D.,
John
Louch,
Clitsonie Musgrave,
Robert England Merrick, John Michell, Charles Michell,
Joseph
1
Vends
Clerk,
Richard Meade, William Norman
of
Upstreet Langport, WiIliani
Norman
of
Bow
Street Langport, Samuel Norman, Robert Newberry,
William
Oliver, William Pyne
Clerk,
Thomas Paul, James Penny, John
Perring, Francis Richardson, William Reynolds,
Joseph
Stuckey, Robert
Hogper
Scott, Thomas Southwood, Robert Tucker, Henry James Townsend,
Richard Turle, Francis Townsend, Thonias Banfield Uttermare, William
Uttermare, John Woolcott Warren, John Warren, John Sainuel Warren, John
Williams,
John
Ellis Westlake, Charles Westlake, Charles Welch, Thomas
Welman, Robert
Beck
Willey, Frederick White, Henry Warr,
md
their
Successors, to be elected and appointed, and being duly qualified in
Manner herein-after directed, shall be and they are hereby appoiiited and
declared to be Commissioners
for
taking down the said Bridge over the
said River
Parrett,
within the Parishes of
Stoke Saint tire'pry
and
Lyng
in the said County of
Somerset,
and erecting another
instead
thereof,
and for carrying the several Purposes
of
this
Act
into Execution.
11.
And
be
it further enacted, That
it
shall be lawful for the Commis-
sioners hereby appointed,
or
my
Three
or
more
of'
them, and they are
hereby authorised and empowered, at any oftheir Meetings to be holdcn
in pursuance of this Act,
to
elect any Number of Persons, not exceeding
Ten in the Whole, to be Commissioners for the Purposes
of
this Act
in addition to the Commissioners hereby appointed
;
and such Commis-
sioners
so
elected, and being duly qualified, shall be and are her+ in-
vested with the same Powers and Authorities for executing this Act
as
if
they had been herein named and appointed.
Appoint-
111.
And be
it
further enacted, That when and
so
often
as
any
of
the
ment
of
new
CommiEsion-
Commissioners named in or appointed by virtue of this Act, (save and ex-
ers.
cept the Justices of the Peace,) or hereafter to be appointed under or
by
virtue hereof, shall die, resign, or refuse to act, or by Bankruptcy, Insol-
vency, or othewise, become incapable of acting in the Execution of this
Act, then and in every such Case it shall be lawful for the surviving or
continuing Commissioners, or any Three
or
more of them, from Time to
Time,
at
any Meeting
to
be holden in pursuance
of
this Act, by Writing
under their 'respective Hands, to elect and appoint some Person to be
a
Commissioner in thc Room of every Commissioner
so
dying, resigning,
or
refusing
to
act, or becoming incapable of acting
as
aforesaid; Fourteen
Days
previous Notice of the 'rime and Place of Meeting of the said Com-
missioners for every such Election being given by the Clerk or Treasurer
of the said Commissioners for the Time being, by Notice inserted in the
Taunton
Courier,
or
so~iie
other Ncwspaper generally circulated in the said
County of
Somerset,
and
aifixed
on
some
coiispicuous Part
of
the present,
or
teniporary, or new Bridge, to
be
erected in pursuance
of
this Act; and
every Person who shall
be
so
elected
and
appointed a Commissioner shall
and
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