Hammersmith Bridge Act 1824

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Citation1824 c. cxii
Year1824
ANN0
QUINT0
GEORGII
IV.
REGIS.
Cap.
cxii.
An
Act for building
a
Bridge over the River
Thames
from the Hamlet
of
Hammersmith
in the County
of
Middlesex,
to the
Parish
of
Barnes
in
the
County
of
Surrey,
and
for making convenient
Roads and Avenues to communicate with such
Bridge. [Yth
June
1824.1
HEREAS the Erection
of
a
Bridge over the River
TJLames
from
HammersmitJi,
in the Parish
of
Fulham
in the County
W
of
Middlesex,
to the opposite Bank, in the Parish
of
Barnes
in the County
of
Surrey,
with convenient Roads and Avenues
to communicate therewith, will improve the Means
of
Communica-
tion between several Places in the County
of
Surrey
and the Metro-
polis, and be
of
Utility to the Public: But as the same cannot
be effected without the Authority of Parliament, May it 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
TJ20-
Company
of
mas Bartlett, William Barton,
Paul
Bevan,
JoJzn
Biggemto& Stephen
Proprietors
Bird, FFiJliam Bird, Robert Boughton,
the Reverend
Thomas Frere
incorporated'
Bowerbank, Benjamin Breclcnell, Alexander Caird, John Henry Camp-
bell, Thomas Carlton, James Clarke, John Clarke, William Clarke,
Thomas Cockett, William Matiliew Coe, Thomas Cood, Manners Benson
Cood,
Samuel Cooper.,
Mark
Dewsnap,
Henry
Digby,
Charlotte Ed-
mionds,
,JoJin
Chnrles
Edwccrcls,
Ahuhnni
X'zwas, Simon Fallover,
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George
Their
Style.
Company
may
raise
80,0001.
The
Sum
to
be subscribed
for
in
501.
Shares,
and
the
Sub-
scribers
en-
titled
to
the
Profits,
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George
Fur~a~,
l;”r.unces
Perrend,
Edward
Gardner,
Janzes Chittle
Gomme, RicJiard Gowland, George
Hallam,
Jolm Hanson, Robert
Harris, Robert
Haymard,
Richard Heale,
Jolrn
Hinxnaan, Christopher
Hodgson, Joseph
Holl,
,John
Myrie
Holl,
Thomas Knox Holmes,
John William Horsley, William Hallet Hughes, Thomas HumpJiries,
Joseph Jessop, Thomas Jordan, William Edwardes
Lord
Kensington,
Matthias
Koops
Knight, John
Knight,
Martha
Knight,
the Reverend
Charles
Lane,
Sir
Jolzn Scott Lillie
Knight,
Thomas Lotherington,
James Henry Mann,
Thomas
Mose, Thomas Meggison, Joseph
Moun-
tain,
TJtomas
Neill,
,Joseph Newman,
Sir
Charles
Ogle
Baronet, Doctor
John Palin,
Miles
Palmer, William Pater,
Philip
Perring, Thomas
Pocknell, Walter Powell, William Prater, George
Pring,
Jokn Ridout,
John Roberts, Henry Roberts, William Roberts, John Satchell, Charles
Schlotel, George Schlotel, George Scott, William Scott, Charles Slzillito,
Henry Sich, John Sich, Edward Slater, Thomas Robert
Smart,
Robert
William
Smily,
Henry Spencer, Robert Stanton,
Sir
C?iarles Sutton
Knight,
William Taylor, John Topham, James Henry
Tryre,
George
1Vatthias Turner, Samuel Turner,
Messrs.
Richard,
George,
and
John
Aldred Twining, Richard
mining,
William Yenning, George
Wansey, John Wansey, Ambrose Ward, John
Wilmot
Waterhouse,
John Watkins, Thomas Wetherell, ,John Wetten, Beqjamin Wills,
Sa-
muel Wilkinson, John Lewis Woye, .John
S.
Woodcock, George
Hyde
Wollaston,
John
Wright,
Walter Henry JYyatt, Thomas Yates,
Thomas Youde,
and all and every other Person or Persons who shall
at
any Time hereafter be
a
Proprietor or Proprietors of one or more
Share
or
Shares in the said Undertaking as herein-after is mentioned,
their respective Successors, Executors, Administrators, and Assigns,
shall be and are hereby united in
a
Company for the erecting, corn-
pleting, and maintaining the said Bridge, and making Roads and
Ways communicating therewith, under the Regulations herein-after
expressed, and shall be one Body Corporate by the Name
of‘
‘‘
The
Hammersmith
Bridge Company,” and by that Name shall have Per-
petual Succession, and shall have
a
Common Seal,
aid
by that Name
shall and may sue and be sued, and also shall and may have Power
and Authority to purchase Lands and other Hereditaments to them,
their Successors, and Assigns, for making, erecting, and completing
the said Bridge, Roads, and Ways, and other Purposes herein men-
tioned, without incurring any
of
the Penalties
or
Forfeitures
of
the
Statutes
of
Mortmain,
11.
And be
it
further enacted, That it shall be lawful for the said
Company to raise
arid
contribute among themselves any Sum or
Sums
of
Money not exceeding in the whole the
Sum
of Eighty thousand
Pounds.
111.
And be it further enacted, That the said
Yuin
or Sums
of’
Money shall be subscribed in Shares
of
Fifty Pounds each, which shall
be numbered in regular numerical Progression, and every Share
shall
for ever afterwards be distinguished by the Number to be appointed for
the same, and the said Shares are hereby vested in the Bodies Politic,
Corporate, or Collegiate, and the Persons by whom the same respective-
ly
shall have been subscribed, their respective Successors, Executors,
A
clministr:i!ors,
:ind
.hips,
and
all
ant1 every
siicli
Botlv
and
Bodies,
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Pr.1
wta
2603
person and
Perboils,
his
and
their sevcrai aiid rcspective Successoi
s,
Executors, Administrators, aiid
Assigns,
shall
be
entitled
to
receive an
equal proportionate Part,
:recording
to the Money siibscribed
and
pait1
by them or him respectively,
of'
the Profits and Advantages
that
may
arise from the Tolls, Rates, and Emoluments
to
be received by the
said Company under
the
Authority
of
t&s Act, and shall
pay
3
like
proportionate Part (not exceeding the full Amount
of
their respective
Shares subscribed
as
aforesaid) towards the Expences
of
carrying on
tlie said undertaking
in
manner hereinafter mentioned.
IV.
And be
it
further enacted, That the Shares
of'
all Bodies Politic,
SIiarcs
to
be
Corporate, or Collegiate,
and
Persons
in
the
said Uadertaking, and in
Persollal
the Tolls and Property
of
the
said
Company, shall be deemed Personal
Estate*
Estate, and not
of
the Nature
of
Real Property, and shall be trans-
missible accordingly.
V.
And be
it
further enacted, That the said
Sum
or
Sums
of
Thes,,m
Money to be subscribed as aforesaid shall be applied in the first Place
raised
to
be
in
discharging the Costs
of
this Act, and the Surveys, Plans, and
Estimates and other incidental Expences relating thereto, and then
Bridge,
and
in
or
towards the making and completing the said Bridge and other
the ~tirposes
Works
by
this Act directed to be made, and paying the Purchase
of
the Act.
Money for the Lands and Hereditaments herein-after authorized to be
purchased, and otherwise
for
the
Purposes
of
this Act.
VI.
And be it further enacted, That in case the said
Sum
of
Eighty
Company
thousand Pounds herein-before authorized to be raised, shall be found
empowered
insufficient for the Purposes
of
this Act, then
it
shalt be
lawful
to
and
further
Slim
for the
said
Company to raise and contribute among themselves, in
ifnecessary,
inanner aforesaid, in Shares
of'
Fifty Pounds each, in such Proportions
not exceed-
as
to
them shall
seem
meet, or by the Admission
of
new Subscribers
ing20~000~*
in such Shares
as
aforesaid,
any
further
Sum
or
Sums
of
Money for
perfecting the said Undertaking, not exceeding in the whole the
Sum
of
Twenty thousand Pounds
;
and all Bodies Politic, Corporate,
or
Collegiate, and Persons
who
shall subscribe towards
such
further Sum
or
Sums
of Money, their respective Successors, Executors, Admini-
strators, and Assigns shall be Proprietors in the said Undertaking, in
respect
of
the
Share or Shares therein subscribed by them respectively,
and shall be entitled to the like proportionate Part of the Profits and
Advantages, and pay
a
proportionate
Part
towards the Expences
of
t1ie said Undertaking, in the same Manner, to
all
Intents and Purposes,
as
if
such further Sum or Sums
of
Money hereby allowed to be
subscribed as aforesaid, had been Part
of
the
Sum
of
Money hereby
originallj authorized to
be
raised.
to
raise
a
VII.
Provided always,
and
be
it
further enacted, That in case the
Power
to
said Company shall be desirous
of'
raising
the
said
Sum
of'
Twenty
raise
such
further
Sum,
thousand Pounds, or any Part or Parts thereof, by Alortgage, or by
or
any
Part,
granting Annuities,
it
shall be
lawful
for the said Company to borrow
bv
hIort,ange
and take up
at
Interest all or any Part or Parts of the said Sum
of
&Annuities.
Twenty thousand Ponnds, either
by
way of Mortgage of the said
Bridge and the Tolls thereof, or by granting Annuities, to be payable
out
of'
the
said
Tolls
diiIing
tlie
Life
or
Lives
of'
the
PLirchaser
or
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