Campsie Canal Act 1837

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Citation1837 c. cxi
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Cap.
cxi.
An Act to make and maintain a Canal from the
Forth and Clyde Canal in the County of Lanark
to C
Stirling Alum Work in th e County of
[12th July 1837.]
w
HERE AS the making and maintaining of a Navigable Cut or
Canal from the Forth and Clyde Canal, for the Purpose of
forming a direct Connexion between that Canal and the Lands
and Lime and Ironstone Fields and Manufactories in the Parish of
Campsie,
will be of great local and general Utility by affording a more direct,
cheap, and easy Means of conveying Farm Produce, Manure, and Pas-
sengers between the Village of Campsie and other Villages and Manur
factories in the Parish of
Campsie
and the City of
Glasgow*
and also Lime
and Ironstone from the said Parish to the Iron Works on the Side of the
Monkland and Kirkintilloch Railway, and of supplying the said Villages
and Manufactories with Coals from the Parishes of Old and New Monk*
land;
And whereas the several Persons herein-after named and others
are desirous and willing, at their own Costs and Charges, to make and
maintain the said Cut or Canal, and all other Works necessary thereto
and connected therewith; but these Objects cannot be effected without
the Authority of Parliament: May it therefore please Your Majesty that
it may be enacted; and be it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent
Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and
f Local."} 47 N Temporal,
4282 1° VICTORIA,
Cap.
cxi.
Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by
Proprietors Authority of the same, That Charles Macintosh,
George
Macintosh, Robert
incorporated. Grahame, James
Douglas,
and Thomas Grahame, together with such other
Persons and Bodies Politic or Corporate as are now or shall hereafter
become Subscribers to the said Undertaking, and their respective Execu-
tors,
Administrators, and Assigns, shall be and they are hereby united
into a Company for making and maintaining the foresaid Navigable Cut
or Canal, and all necessary Works connected therewith, herein-after
authorized to be made and maintained, and shall for that Purpose be
One Body Politic and Corporate by the Name of "The
Campsie
Canal
Company," and by that Name shall have perpetual Succession and a
Common Seal, and shall and may sue and be sued, and by that Name
shall also have Power from Time to Time to purchase and to hold Lands
and other Heritages for the Use of the said Undertaking, and to resell,
feu, and dispose of such Lands and other Heritages, and to convey the
same to Purchasers, and to grant Feu Rights or other Alienations
thereof.
Company
authorized to
make Canal
and Works
connected
therewith.
II.
And be it further enacted, That it shall and may be lawful for the
said Company, and they are hereby authorized and empowered, to make
and maintain the aforesaid Cut or Canal so as to be navigable or passable
at all Places by Boats, Barges, and other Vessels, and of such a Depth as
the said Company shall think fit, not exceeding Seven Feet nor less than
Four Feet; which Canal shall commence at and in and in communi-
cation with the Forth and Clyde Canal at or near to or upon the Lands
of Easter Cadder, and thence proceed by or through or near to Easter
Cadder, Dryfield, Hayston, Balquharrage, Watshod, Temple
Redmoss,
Ster-
riqua, and Easter and Wester Muchroft, to a Point at or near to
Campsie
Alum Works; as also to contract and agree with the Owners and
Occupiers of the Lands and other Heritages adjoining or near to the said
intended Canal for a Supply of Water from the Mines, Pits, and Quarries
in the said Lands and from the said Lands themselves, and for these
Purposes to make and erect Steam Engines, and all necessary Machinery,
Conduits, and other Works; and also to make, construct, and maintain
a Reservoir on the Lands of Shottsburn^ Fortissat, and Shotts Farm in
the Parish of Shotts and County of Lanark, and to convey Water there-
from by a Conduit or Feeder to the Stream called the Shotts Burn, from
which it will flow by the said Stream and by the River Calder into the
Monkland Canal, from which the Water supplied from the said intended
Reservoir will be transmitted by that Canal and the Cut of Junction into
the Forth and Clyde Canal, with which the said intended Canal is to
communicate as aforesaid; as also to construct and erect, repair, alter,
remove, re-erect, and maintain such Bridges, Locks, Lifts, and such
Machinery for' passing the Heights and Acclivities, Feeders, Tunnels,
Soughs, Sluices, Piers, Arches, waste Wells and Aqueducts, Basins,
Wharfs, Depots, Warehouses, Cranes, Weighing Beams and Sheds,
Towing Paths, Banks, and Roads, Places for Vessels turning or passing
each other, and such Toll Houses, Houses for Bridge and Lock Keepers,
Stables5 and other Conveniences for the Horses used in hauling Passenger
and other Boats, and such Houses for Persons employed in attending
upon the said Horses3 or otherwise employed in the Service of the said
Company; and all such other Works as may be deemed by the said
Company to be necessary or convenient for making, completing, pre-
serving, repairing, improving, maintaining, and using the said Canal,
ir5 Reservoir,
1° VICTORIA, Cap.cxi. 4283
Reservoir, and other Works; as also to make and maintain such Passages
and Roads of Communication to and from the said Canal, Reservoir,
Conduits, and other Works, and the Bridges, Locks, Lifts, Machinery,
Sluices, Depots, Warehouses, Basins, Wharfs, Towing Paths, Stables,
Bridge and Lock Keepers Houses, and other Works, as the said Com-
pany may think requisite, proper, or convenient for the Accommodation
of their Servants and of the Public in resorting to and making use of the
said Canal, Reservoir, and other Works, and from Time to Time to
divert, widen, alter, or discontinue such Passages or Roads of Commu-
nication j as also to do and execute all other Matters and Things that may
be necessary or convenient for making, maintaining, and using the said
Canal and Reservoir, and effecting all or any of the Purposes of this
Act, according to the true Intent and Meaning
thereof.
III.
And be it further enacted, That where in this Act any Word shall Meaning
of
be used importing the Singular Number only, such Word shall extend
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and be implied to several Persons or Things as well as one Person or Act>
Thing j and where any Word importing the Plural Number shall be
used, the same shall extend and be applied to one Person or Thing as
well as several Persons or Things; and where any Word shall be used
importing the Masculine Gender only, such Word shall be understood
to include Females as well as Males; and where the Word "Land"
shall be used,' the same shall be understood to include Tenements,
Buildings, and all Heritages whatsoever ; and where the Word
"Sheriff"
is used, the same shall be understood to include Sheriff Substitute; and
where the Word "Month" is used, the same shall be understood to mean
Calendar Month; and where the Word "Company" shall be used, the
same shall be understood to mean the
Campsie
Canal Company, unless in
any of the Cases aforesaid it be otherwise especially provided, or there be
something in the Subject or Context repugnant to such Construction.
IV. And be it further enacted, That for the Purposes of this Act the Power to
said Company shall be and are hereby authorized and empowered to ent^r
uPon
enter into and upon the Lands and other Heritages of any Persons or an,daPPro"
Bodies whatsoever, and to survey and take Levels of the same or any and to exe-
Part
thereof,
and to set out and ascertain such Parts thereof as they shall cute Works,
think necessary and proper for any of the Purposes of this Act; as also
doing as
lit-
to bore, search for, dig, cut, trench, sough, get, remove, take, carry tle Damba|e
away, manufacture, and use Earth, Clay, Soil, Stone, Rubbish, Trees, ant?making
Roots of Trees, Beds of Gravel or Sand, of any other Matters or Things Satisfaction
which may be dug or got in making the said Canal and other Works" t0 Partic?
connected therewith, or in or out of the Lands or Grounds adjoining or
lying contiguous thereto, and which may be necessary or proper for
making, repairing, and maintaining the said Canal and other Works
hereby authorized to be made and maintained; as also to dig, cut,
remove, carry away, lay, and deposit Earth, Clay, Rock, Stones, Soil,
Rubbish, Trees, Roots of Trees, Gravel, Sand, and all other Matters and
Things which may hinder, prevent, or obstruct the making, repairing, main-
taining, and using the said Canal and other Works; as also to make and
use such temporary Roads and Ways of Communication as may be con-
venient and useful in making and constructing the said Canal and other
Works, and to discontinue the same when no longer of use; as also to
deposit, lay, work, and manufacture upon any Lands and Grounds
adjoining
interested.

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