Colne and Marsden Local Board Act 1881
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1881 c. lxxxiii |
| Year | 1881 |
[44 & 45 VICT.]
Colne
and Marsden Local Board [Ch. lxxxiii.]
Act, 1881.
CHAPTER lxxxiii.
An Act for empowering the Colne andMarsden Local Board
AJ>.
1881.
to acquire the Colne Waterworks, to construct additional
waterworks, to make street improvements, and to make
better provision in relation to the disposal of the sewage,
the holding of markets, and the good government of the
district, and for other purposes. [27th June 1881.]
W
HERE AS in the year
one
thousand eight hundred and seventy-
fire a Local Board was established for the district of Colne
and Marsden (comprising the township of Colne and a portion of
the township of Marsden), in the parish of Whalley, in the county
of Lancaster (which Board is in this Act referred to as the Local
Board, and which district is in this Act referred to as the district),
and the Local Board are the urban sanitary authority for the
district:
And whereas, by a Local Act passed in the forty-sixth year of
the reign of King George III. (cap. 27), the Company of Pro-
prietors of the Colne Waterworks (in this Act called the Company)
were empowered to construct certain waterworks and to supply water
to the inhabitants of the town and township of Colne; and the
Company have for many years past supplied a large portion of the
inhabitants of the district with water:
And whereas the Local Board have agreed with the Company
for the purchase of their undertaking, and they have, in accordance
with the terms of the agreement, entered into possession of the
waterworks, and have managed the same since the fifteenth day of
May one thousand eight hundred and eighty, and it is expedient
that such purchase should be confirmed and carried into effect:
And whereas the present supply of water from the Company's
works is inadequate to meet the existing and growing demands of
the inhabitants of the district, and it is expedient that the Local
Board should be empowered
' to
acquire the further supply of water,
and to construct the additional waterworks in this Act specified:
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And whereas it is expedient that the Local Board should he em-
— powered to make certain improvements of streets :
And whereas it is expedient that the Local Board be empowered
to acquire lands for utilising or making innocuous the sewage of
the district by means of irrigation or filtration:
And whereas it is expedient that the Local Board should be em-
powered to provide a new market place and buildings, and to make
better provision for the holding of markets, and to authorise the
taking of tolls, rates, and charges in respect
thereof:
And whereas it is expedient that the Local Board should be em-
powered to provide a public hall, and also buildings and offices for
transacting the business of the Local Board:
And whereas it is expedient that the Local Board be authorised
to raise further money by borrowing, and that their powers in
relation to the local management and government of the district be
in other respects extended:
And whereas the objects aforesaid cannot be effected without the
authority of Parliament:
And whereas estimates have been prepared by the Local Board for
the purchase of land and for the execution of the works and for
other the purposes by this Act authorised, and such estimates are
as follows: £
Por purchase of Colne Waterworks and construction
of additional waterworks .... 50,000
Por street improvements -
5,423
Por sewage lands and sewerage purposes - - 19,258
Por markets - - - - - 11,600
Por pubhc hall and offices ... . 12,567
And whereas the several works included in such estimates are
38
&
39 Vict
permanent works within the meaning of section 234 of the Pubhc
c> 55' Health Act 1875 :
And whereas an absolute majority of the whole number of the
members of the Local Board, at a meeting held on the twenty-
seventh day of October one thousand eight hundred and eighty, after
ten clear days notice by public advertisement of such meeting and
of the purpose thereof in the Colne and Nelson Times, a local paper
published or circulating in the district, such notice being in addition
to the ordinary notices required for summoning such meeting,
resolved that the expense in relation to promoting the Bill for this
Act should be charged on the general district fund and general
district rates of the district;
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