Greenock Police, Improvement and Gas Act 1871
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1871 c. xliv |
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VICT.] The Greenock Police, Improvement, and [Ch. xliv.]
Gas Act, 1871.
CHAP. xliv.
An Act for amending the Acts relating to the Police and
A.D.
1871.
Improvement of the town of Greenock, and for vesting the
existing Gasworks there in the Board of Police of the town,
and for authorising the Board to make new Gasworks; and
for other purposes. [16th June 1871.]
W
HEEEAS by the Greenock Police and Improvement Act,
28 & 29 Vict
1865,
(in this Act referred to as the Greenock Act of 1865,) c- ccc-
provisions relating to the police of the town of Greenock were
consolidated and amended, and the Board of Police of Greenock (in
this Act referred to as the Board) were constituted and incorporated,
and certain improvements in the town were authorised, and various
powers were conferred on the Board with reference to tliQse im-
provements, and to (among other things) the government of the
town, and the lighting
thereof,
and the supply of water thereto:
And whereas it is expedient that the Greenock Act of 1865 be in
various respects extended and amended:
And whereas an agreement, dated the twenty-second day of
February one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one, and registered
in the books of council and session in Scotland on the seventh day
of March one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one (in this Act
referred to as the agreement of 1831), was made between several
persons therein named and described, and further therein designated
as commonly called trustees on the water fund, on the one part, and
several persons therein named and described as baillies, treasurer,
and councillors of the burgh of barony of Greenock, and therein
designated as acting as such on behalf of the community, on the
other part:
And whereas by the agreement of 1831 it was recited (among
other things) to the effect that by deed of concert entered into by
the subscribers to the fond for erecting gasworks in Greenock (in
this Act referred to as the subscribers), with consent of the pre-
decessors, in office of the said first party, dated the twenty-seventh
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A.D.
1871.
day of
December
one
thousand eight hundred
and
twenty-seven,
and subsequent dates,
it was
agreed that
the
subscribers should
advance certain sums
of
money, amounting
in
whole
to
the sum of
pounds
hundred pounds
purpose
of
bavin gasworks erected
in the
town,
it
being thereby specially stipulated that
the
gasworks
so to be
erected should be vested
in
the subscribers, or
in
trustees appointed
by them, but should
be
afterwards conveyed to the said first party
as trustees on their repaying the money
to
be advanced by the sub-
scribers, with interest
at the
rate
of
five
per
centum
per
annum,
provided such repayment should
be
made
on or
before
the
first
Friday
of
June
one
thousand
failing the said first party doing so, then the gasworks were to be held
by the subscribers as
a
joint stock company as therein mentioned:
And whereas the agreement
of
1831 further recited to the effect
that by the said deed of concert persons therein named were appointed
a committee for carrying
the
purposes therein detailed into effect,
and also trustees for the subscribers, and
in
order that the grounds
and buildings purchased for the undertaking, and the gasworks and
•nnected therewith,
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for the subscribers:
And whereas the agreement
of
1831 further recited to the effect
that the persons named
in
this behalf
in
the said deed
of
concert
juwmted the office of trustees thereunder, and in virtue of the powers
purchased
two
pieces
of
ground
which gasworks
had
(between the date
of
the deed
of
concert and
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same
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were, along with the pipes, meters, and whole other property con-
nected therewith
at the
date
of
the agreement
of
1831, vested
in
them and their successors
in
office as trustees aforesaid:
And whereas the agreement
of
1831 further recited
to
the effect
+Tm,t the said first party, commonly called trustees on the water fund,
had payment
the subscribers of the amount of their respective subscriptions, with
interest, and that therefore,
in
order
to
secure as
far
as possible the
advantages which were likely to arise
to
the trust under the manage-
ment of the trustees
on
the water fund from the possession
of the
gasworks, and which would otherways be wholly lost,
it
was resolved,
at
a
meeting of the trustees on the water fund, held on the third day
of April one thousand eight hundred
and
thirty,
to
assign over
to
the magistrates and council the right vested
in
those trustees by the
deed of concert, on condition that the magistrates and council should
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[34 VICT.] The Greenock Police, Improvement, and [Ch. xliv.]
Gas Act, 1871.
advance to the subscribers the amount of their respective subscrip- ^A.D. 1872.
tions,
with interest, and divide the profit or loss arising from the
gasworks equally between the funds of the trust under the manage-
ment of the said first party and the funds of the town proper:
And whereas the agreement of 1831 further recited to the effect
that this arrangement was acceded to at a meeting of council held .
on the sixth day of April one thousand eight hundred and thirty,
and. also at a general meeting of the subscribers held on the thir-
teenth day of June one thousand eight hundred and thirty, to which
they had since individually agreed:
And whereas by the agreement of 1831 it was agreed to the effect
that in implement of the resolution come to at the aforesaid meet-
ings,
and for the considerations therein-after mentioned, the persons
being the said first party as trustees foresaid did thereby for them-
selves and their successors in office assign and convey over to the
persons the said second party, as baillies, treasurer, and councillors
foresaid, and their successors in office, for behoof of the community,
all right, title, and interest which they the said first party, or their
predecessors or successors in office, had had, or then had, or could
claim or pretend to the said gasworks, grounds on which the same
were erected, pipes, meters, and every other property, of whatever
description or denomination, connected therewith or belonging
thereto, whether in virtue of the aforesaid deed of concert, or in any
other manner of way :
And whereas by the agreement of 1831 it was further agreed to
the effect that the said first party further bound and obliged them-
selves, as trustees foresaid, and their successors in office, to procure
a formal, valid, and irredeemable conveyance to the said gasworks,
grounds on which the same were erected, pipes, meters, and every
other property connected therewith or belonging thereto, in favour
of the said magistrates, treasurer, and councillors, and their succes-
sors in office:
And whereas by the agreement of 1831 it was further witnessed
to the effect that for the causes aforesaid, and on the other part the
persons, being the said second party, as baillies, treasurer, and coun-
cillors foresaid, in implement of the resolution come to at the
aforesaid meeting of the council, agreed and became bound, as they
did thereby bind and oblige themselves, as magistrates, treasurer,
and councillors foresaid, and their successors in office, to advance
and pay to the subscribers the amount of their respective subscrip-
tions,
amounting to the sum of nine thousand one hundred pounds,
being the actual amount advanced by the subscribers, together with
interest, as stipulated for in the said deed of concert;
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