Cheltenham Improvement Act 1821
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1821 c. cxxi |
| Year | 1821 |
ANN0
PRIM0
&
SECUND0
GEORGII
IV.
REGIS,
Cap.
cxxi.
An
Act
for better paving, lighting, cleansing,
watching, and iniproving the Town
of
Cheltenham,
in the County
of
Gloucester;
and for regulating
the Police thereof; and for removing and pre-
venting Nuisances and Annoyances therein.
[23d
June
1821.1
HEREAS
an Act was passed in the Twenty-sixth Year
of
the Reign
of
His
late Majesty King
George
the Third, in-
w
tituled
An
Act
for
paving the Footways and Passages
in
the
26G.3.c.116.
Town
of
Cheltenham,
in
the
County
of
Gloucester,
and
for
better
cleansing and
lighting
the
said Town; for taking down certain
old
Buildings now standing therein, and
for
remouing and preventing other
Encroachments, Nuisances, and Annoyances
:
And whereas another
Act was passed in
the
Forty-sixth Year
of
the Reign
of
His
said late
Majesty, intitded
An
Act
for
amending and enlarging the Powers
Of
46G.3.c.117,
an
Act
passed
in
the Twenty-sixth Year
of
His present M~esty,
for
paving the Footways and Passages
in
the Town
of
Cheltenham,
in
the
County
of
Gloucester,
and
for
better cleansing and
lighting
the said
Town,
and
jbr
removing and preventing A'uisances and Annoyances
therein
:
And whereas since the passing
of
the said last-mentioned
Act, the Number
of
Inhabitants and Number
of
Houses and Build-
ings
in the Town
of
Cheltenham
have greatly increased, and the
mid
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49
c
Town
3782
Former
Acts
repealed
;
but
the
Ar-
rears
of
Rates
remaining
due
thereon
shall
remain
liable.
1"
&
2"
GEORGII
IV.
Cap.
cxxi.
Town
has, on account
of
the Salubrity
of
its Air and Mineral Waters,
become a Place
of
great Public Resort: And whereas the Powers
and Provisions
of
the
said Acts have been found in many respects
insufficient for the Purposes intended, and
it
is expedient that other
Powers and Provisions should be granted and made for better paving,
lighting, cleansing, watching, and improving the said Town
of
Chel-
tenkm
;
and
for
regulating the Police thereof; and for removing and
preventing Nuisances and Annoyances therein
:
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 Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this
present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority
of
the same,
That from and after the passing of this Act, the said
Two
several re-
cited Acts
of
the Twenty-sixth and Forty-sixth Years of
His
late
Majesty, shall be and the same are hereby declared to be repealed
:
Provided always nevertheless, that all and every Person
and
Per-
sons from or by whom
any
Rates, or any Arrears
of
Rates, laid
or assessed by virtue
of
the said recited Acts or either
of
them, shall
be clue
or
unpaid at the Time of passing this Act, shall remain and
be liable to the Payment thereof in all respects as such Person and
Persons was or were liable before the passing
of
this Act,
or
would
have been liable
if
the said recited Acts had not been repealed and
were still in force
;
and a11 such Rates and Arrears
of
Rates shall be
paid to and received by the Commissioners for executing this Act, or
their Collectors or Receivers, to be appointed
as
herein-after men-
tioned, and shall and may be recoverable and recovered in the same
Manner, and by the same Ways and Means, as if such Raks or
Arrears of Rates had been laid or assessed or become due under
or
by
virtue
of
this Actt and
as
the Rates by this Act granted inay be
recovered and levied by virtue of this Act
;
and that each and every
Tt&surer, Collector, or other Person
in
whose Hands, Custody, or
Control any Money received or colkcted under or by virtue
of
the
said recited Acts shall be
at
the Time of passing this Act,
shall
be
and temain liable to pay, deliver
up,
and account for the same to the
Commissioner$
for
executing this Act, as
if
the said recited Acts had
not
been repealed, or
as
if such Money had come
to
their
or
any of
kheir Hands by virtue of this Act; and that all Contracts, Stipula-
tions, or Agreements entered into
by
the Commissioners acting
by
or
under the said recited Acts, or either
of
them, with any Person or
Persons whomsoever, shall, notwithstanding the Repeal of the mid
Acts,
subsist
and continue for such
Term
or Terms, and
in
smh
Manner, as according to the Tenor or
Spirit
thereof respectively the
Same would have subsisted and continued in case the said re&,d
Acts
had not been repealed; and this Act,
ad
also
the Rates
or
Assessments hereby granted or authorized to
be
made, shall
be
and
are hereby made subject and liable to the Payment,
;t9
well
of
all
Monies which have been borrowed and are now due and
owing
on
the
Credit or on Account
of
the said Acts, or either of them, together
with
all
Interest due and to
grow
thereon, as also
of
all
Monies
whiah
ma be borrowed
by
virtue
ofthis Act,
as
herein-&er mentioned,
as
f&
and effectually to
all
Intents
and
Purposes
whatsoever
as
if
mh
Monies had been wholly borrowed and
become
due
and
owing
on
the
Credit or on Account
of
tbis
Act.
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11.
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GEORGII IV.
Cap.cxxi.
3783
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Add
be
it further enacted, That Sir
William Hicks
Baronet,
Commission;
Jom@
Pitt,
Sir
John Duckett, Michael Hickes Beach, William Plumer,
Charks
Shaw Lefevre, Jarhes
Agg,
Simpson
Anderson, John Brown,
Joseph Brookes, William Innes Baker
Clerk,
John
Briggs,
George de
Brissac, William Buckle, Thomas Packer Butt, WilZiam Humphries
Barrett, James Arkell, Thomas Byrch, John Byrch, Joseph Bickham,
John Bastin, William Ballinger, Richnrd Critchett, Christopher Gipel
Clerk,
William Capel
the younger,
Daniel Capel,
Charles
Coxwell
Clerk,
Charles Coxwell
the younger,
Thomas Christie
Doctor
of
Medicine,
John Clarke, George Catclwell
Clerk,
Robert Capper, James Clutterbuck,
Christopher Cole, Robert Crump,
the
Right
Honourable
Henry
Prittie
commonly called
Lord
Dunally, Thomas Baghott De la Bere,
James Godwin Davis,
John
Dazvson,
Thomas
Edwards,
Thomas Fisher,
Richard Forster, Peter
Frost,
Henry Fowler, Rowland Freeman,
Henry
Foulkes
Doctor in Divinity,
Thomas
Gray, William Gyde,
John Gardner, Thomas Grfiths, William
Gregory,
James Graham
Philip Godsal, James Gore, Theodore Gwinnett, Robert Hughes,
General
John Hughes, James Lloyd Harris, E&dard Howell,
Henry
William Harris, Thomns Henney, James Hawkins, Samuel Higgs,
John Higgs, Walter John Hamilton, John Harward
Clerk,
Thomas
Harward
Clerk,
Baynham Jones, John Jones, Gilbert Jones, Thomas
Jones, Thomas Jordan, Thomas Jameson
Doctor
of
Medicine,
Edward
Jenner
Doc tor
of
Medicine,
Charles Jervis
Clerk,
Benjamin Kingston,
Alexander Kelty, Edward Leighton,
the Honourable
Robert Moore,
Thomas
Marlzham, Thomas Minster, Edward Matthews, Conrad John
Matthieson, Wilson Macklin
Clerk,
George Matlegon, James Mat-
thews, Edward Matthews, William Saunders Miller
Clerk,
Thomas
Neman, William Nettleship, Thomas
Nash
Doctor in Divinity,
Thomas Newell
Doctor
of
Medicine,
John Neale
Clerk,
Charles New.
aarch, Onslow
Dean
of
Worcester,
JoJan
Harvey
Ollney,
General
John
Orr,
Sir
Loftus Otway, Thomas Pruen
Clerk,
Richard
Pruen,
Harry
Rooke, William Russell, John Riddell, William Read,
Robert Tristram Ricketts, John Roebuclc, Thomas Smith
(North Place),
Richard Slcillicorne Skillicorne
Clerk,
Thomas SmitJi
(High Street),
William Stone, Charles Seager, William Stephens, Charles Hanliu
y
Tracy,
Edward Tatham
Doctor in Divinity,
Robert Lawrence Town.
send
Doctor in Divinity,
Thomas Wells
Doctor in Divinity,
Cornelius
Woolley,
Hugh
Hughes Williams
Clerk,
James Wood, Richard
White, John Gregory Welch, Charles Wynne, Francis
Workman,
Edmund
Mai.tin
Welles,
and
Robert Younghusband,
shall be and they
are hereby appointed Commissioners for carrying this Act into
Execution.
111.
Provided always, and be it further enacted, That no Person
Qualification
herein-before named and appointed a Commissioner shall be capable
of
Commis-
of
acting as a Commissioner in any Case in the Execution
of
this
sioners*
Act, who is or shall be a Victualler, or who shall sell Ale, Wine,
Cyder, or any Spirituous Liquors by Retail, or during the
Time
he
shall hold or enjoy any Office or Place
of
Profit under this Act, or
be
concerned in any Contract made by virtue or in pursuance
of
this
Act, or in
any
Case wherein he shall be in anywise personally or bene.
ficially interested in
the
Matter in question (except as a Creditor on
the
Rates
or
Assessments)
;
nor
unless
he shalt
be
in
his
own
Right,
or
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