Huddersfield Corporation Act 1913
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1913 c. xcv |
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5.] Huddersfield Corporation Act, 1913. [Ch. XCV.]
CHAPTER xcv.
An Act to confer powers on the mayor aldermen and
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burgesses of the county borough of Huddersfield for
the construction of tramways street works and water-
works to purchase the undertaking of the Commissioners
of the Deanhead Keservoir to extend the borough
boundaries and to make further and better provision
with regard to the tramways water and other under-
takings of the Corporation and for other purposes.
[15th August 1913.]
W
HEREAS the county borough of Huddersfield in the West
Riding of the county of York (in this Act referred to as
" the borough ") is a municipal borough under the government of
the mayor aldermen and burgesses thereof (in this Act referred
to as " the Corporation "):
And whereas the Acts and Orders specified in the Eirst
Schedule to this Act (save so far as any of them is amended
by any later Act or Order among the same) are now in force
in the borough and elsewhere conferring various powers upon
the Corporation and are hereinafter referred to collectively as
"the recited Acts" and each of them separately as an Act or
Order of the year in which the same was passed or made except
where any of such Acts or Orders are referred to under their
respective short titles:
And whereas extensive powers with regard to the supply of
water and the construction of tramways and with regard to the
improvement and government of the borough have been conferred
upon the Corporation by the recited Acts:
And whereas by certain of the recited Acts the Corporation
were authorised to lay down within and beyond the borough
the tramways in those Acts mentioned and the powers therein
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contained were conferred on the Corporation in respect of the
said tramways:
And whereas the Corporation have constructed and are
working the tramways authorised by the recited Acts and it is
expedient that the Corporation should be empowered to construct
and maintain the additional tramways in this Act described and
to work the same by electrical power:
And whereas it is expedient that provision should be made
as in this Act contained with respect to the provision and use by
the Corporation of trolley vehicles and motor omnibuses:
And whereas it is expedient that the Corporation should be
authorised to construct the street works by this Act authorised:
And whereas the trade and population and the demand for
water within the limits of supply of the Corporation have
increased and are still increasing and the existing reservoirs and
works of the Corporation do not afford a supply of water sufficient
for the requirements of the public within those limits:
And whereas by an Act passed in the first and second years
of the reign of Her late Majesty intituled " An Act for making
" and maintaining a reservoir at Deanhead in the parish of
" Huddersfield in the West Riding of the county of York and
" for other purposes relating thereto " (hereinafter referred to as
" the Act of 1838") certain Commissioners (hereinafter called
" the Deanhead Commissioners") were incorporated and em-
powered to construct and they have accordingly constructed
the reservoir known as the Deanhead Reservoir and by that
Act and an Act passed in the fourth and fifth years of the reign
of Her late Majesty intituled " An Act to amend an Act of Her
present Majesty for making and maintaining a reservoir at
" Deanhead in the parish of Huddersfield in the West Riding of
the county of York " (hereinafter referred to as " the Act of
1841") powers were conferred upon the Deanhead Commissioners
to levy rates and to borrow money on the security thereof :
And whereas by the Deanhead Commissioners Act 1889
further powers were conferred upon the Deanhead Commis-
sioners for the construction of additional works and for the
supply of water in bulk:
And whereas the Deanhead Commissioners have from time
to time in exercise of the aforesaid powers borrowed various
sums of money on mortgage on the security of the rates
aforesaid:
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And whereas an agreement has been entered into between A.D. 1913.
the Deanhead Commissioners of the first part certain mill
owners and occupiers named and described in the schedule to
such agreement of the second part and the Corporation of the
third part for the transfer to the Corporation of the undertaking
of the Deanhead Commissioners and it is expedient that that
agreement be confirmed and the said undertaking transferred to
the Corporation:
And whereas it is expedient that the Corporation should be
authorised to construct the additional waterworks by this Act
authorised:
And whereas it is expedient that power should be conferred
on the Corporation with respect to the taking of lands as in
this Act set forth:
And whereas it is expedient that the boundaries of the
borough should be extended so as to include the Lindley
Recreation Ground belonging to the Corporation:
And whereas estimates have been prepared by the Cor-
poration in relation to the following purposes:—
For the construction of tramways eighty-three thousand
five hundred and seventy-five pounds;
For the provision of electrical equipment and other works
in connection with the tramways by this Act authorised
twenty-seven thousand six hundred and ninety-nine pounds;
For the provision of rolling-stock in connection with the
Corporation tramways nine thousand pounds;
For the provision of electrical equipment and other works
for the purpose of working trolley vehicles two thousand
eight hundred and four pounds;
For the provision of trolley vehicles one thousand five
hundred pounds;
For the provision of motor omnibuses one thousand eight
hundred pounds;
For the purchase of lands for and the construction of street
works two thousand five hundred and thirty pounds;
For the purchase of lands for and the construction of
waterworks twenty-one thousand one hundred and seventy
pounds:
And whereas the several works and purposes mentioned in
such estimates are permanent works and it is expedient that
the cost thereof should be spread over a term of years:
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