Hulmes Chapel and Chelford (Cheshire) Road Act 1819

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Citation1819 c. xvii
ANNO QUINQUAGESIMO NONO
GEORGII III. REGIS.
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Cap.
xvii.
An Act for lighting with Gas the Town and Parish
of Cheltenham and Precincts thereof in the County
of Gloucester. [6th April 1819.]
W
HEREAS the Town of Cheltenham in the County of
Gloucester
is large and populous, and the Limits and Liberties thereof
are very extensive, and it would be of great Advantage to the
Inhabitants of the said Town and of the Limits and Liberties of the same,
and to the Public at large, if the Streets and other public Passages and
Places were better lighted : And whereas an Act was passed in the Twenty-
sixth Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, intituled An Act for 26G.3.C.116.
paving the
Footways
and
Passages
in the 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
removing
and
preventing other
Encroachments,
Nuisances, and
Annoyances:'
And whereas
another Act was passed in the Forty-sixth Year of the Reign of His said
Majesty, intituled An Act for amending and
enlarging
the Powers of an Act 46G.3.C.117.
passed in the Twenty-sixth Tear of
His
present
Majesty,
for paving the
Foot-
ways and
Passages
in the Town of Cheltenham in the
County
of Gloucester,
and for better
cleansing
and lighting the said Town, and for removing and
preventing Nuisances and Annoyances therein : And whereas Inflammable
Air, Gas, Coke, Oil, Tar, Pitch, Asphaltum, Ammoniacal Liquor, and
Essential Oil may be procured from Coal and other Materials: And whereas
the said Inflammable Air or Gas being conveyed by means of Pipes may
be safely and beneficially used for lighting the several Streets, Highways,
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Squares, Market Places, and other Places within the said Town and Parish,
and the Liberties and Limits
thereof,
and for lighting Shops and private
Houses and Buildings ; and the Coke may be beneficially employed as
Fuel in private Houses and Manufactories, and the said Oil, Tar, Pitch,
Asphaltum, Ammoniacal Liquor, and Essential Oil may be used and ap-
plied in various other Ways with great Advantage: And whereas the several
Persons herein-after named are willing and desirous at their own Costs and
Charges to effect the several Purposes aforesaid ; but such beneficial Pur-
poses cannot be carried fully and completely into execution without the
Aid and Authority of Parliament: 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 Common?, in this present Parliament assembled, and by
Company the Authority of the same, That Thomas Alder, William Allen, John Baker,
incorporated. Mark Baker, Edward Bartley, John Barrett, David Banbury, James Bate,
John Griffith Bevan, William Bishop, John Bishop the younger, Charles
Bishop,
Joseph
Blizard,
Samuel Blackwell, James Boustead, Thomas Bruce,
Peter Butt, Edmund Carr, William Carter, Samuel Cave, Benjamin Chap-
man,
John
Cook,
Thomas Cook, Charles
Corderoy,
Joseph Cos sens, William
Cox, John Crook, Josiah Davis, Richard Dawes, Thomas Dawes, John
Doughty, Thomas Draper, Thomas Entwisle, Thomas Fisher (Banker),
Thomas Fisher (Ironmonger), William Fisher, Thomas Fletcher, Thomas
Forty, Richard Forster, Thomas French, John Gardner, William Gomm,
Samuel
Toung
Griffith, Thomas Griffiths, John Gunton, Gilbert Hall, Charles
Hale, Mossop Haile, Thomas Haines, Edward Hatch, Richard Harrison,
Charles Harrison, William Hastings, William Heath, Thomas Henney, Ber-
ther Herbert, Andrew Hingston, Thomas Hicks, James Hodges, William
Hughes, Edward Hughes, John Hughes, John James, William Jessett, James
Jones, Richard Joseph, John David Kelly, Mary Kelly, Samuel Kent, B.E.
Kent, William Kendall, J. W. Keene, Richard Kitclee, John Lee, Edward
Lewis, Conway Whithorne Lovesey, Aaron Manby, John Major, Edward
Matthews, Daniel Matthews, Maurice M'Mullen, Walter Mecey, Robert
Merrifield, John Milsom, James Morris, James Moss, Stephen Hemsted
Murley, James Neyler, David Neale, John Newton, Benjamin Newbury,
William Newman, John
Nicholson,
Charles Oliver, Jonathan Qldfield, Arthur
Parker, James
Cooke
Pinker, Benjamin Pollard, Sarah
Postans,
John
Read,
William Reeks, William Richardson, John Roberts, George Russell, Peter
Ryan,
Richard Saunders, Thomas Sheldon, Samuel Shedden,
Thomas
Smith,
Joseph Smith, Henry Stiles, Thomas Stone, William Stone the younger,
Catharine Thornton, John Togwell, Robert
Tombs,
William Watcham, William
Watts, Thomas Watson, Thomas Weaver, William Weak, Richard White,
John Whitmore, Thomas Wheeler, William Wheeler,
George
Arthur Williams,
Charles
Williams
(Builder), Charles Williams (Stonemason), Henry Chester
Williams, Robert Williams, Thomas Witts, Thomas Wilson, Moses Tearsley,
and Edward Toung, and all and every such other Person or Persons as
from Time to Time shall become a Subscriber or Subscribers, or be duly
admitted a Member or Members into their Company as herein-after is
mentioned,' and their respective Successors, Executors, Administrators,
and Assigns, shall be and they are hereby declared to be one Body Politic
Their Stile and Corporate, by the Name of the Cheltenham Gas Light and Coke
and Powers. Company, and by that Name shall have perpetual Succession and a Com-
mon Seal, and by that Name shall and may sue and be sued, plead and
i be
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be impleaded, at Law or in Equity, and shall and may prefer and pro-
secute any Bill or Bills of Indictment against any Person or Persons who
shall commit any Felony, Misdemeanor, or other Offence indictable by the
Laws of this Realm ; and that the said Company of Proprietors.shall be
established for the Purpose of producing Inflammable Air, Gas, Coke,
Oil,
Tar, Pitch, Asphaltum, Ammoniacal Liquor, and Essential Oil from
Coal or any other Materials, and shall have full Power from Time to Time
to make Contracts or agree with the Commissioners under the said recited
Acts,
or any other Commissioners or Directors or Trustees, having the
Control, Direction, or Management of the lighting of the said Town:
and Parish, and the Liberties, Limits, or Precincts
thereof,
or any of them,
or any Part or Parts thereof respectively, or with any Person or Persons, or
Body or Bodies Politic, Corporate, or Collegiate, or Corporation or Corpo-
rations Aggregate or Sole, who may be willing and desirous of contracting
or agreeing with the said Company of Proprietors, and they are hereby
empowered to contract with the said Company, for the lighting of such
Town, Parish, Liberties, Limits, and Precincts
thereof,
or of Streets,
Roads, Squares, or Market Places, or of any Manufactories or Places of
public Exhibition, or Shops, Inns, Taverns, or other Buildings or private
Houses, or any of them, within the said Town and Parish, or the Liber-
ties,
Limits, or Precincts
thereof,
or any or either of them, and to sell
and dispose of such Coke, Oil, Tar, Pitch, Asphaltum, Ammoniacal Liquor,
and Essential Oil, and other Products as aforesaid ; and all Parts ascer-
tained and fixed, or hereafter to be ascertained, varied, and fixed, as the
Limits or Boundaries of the said Town and the Suburbs
thereof,
for the
Purposes of the said recited Acts, by the Commissioners from Time to
Time acting under the same, or either of them, shall be deemed for the
Purposes of this Act as Parts of the Precincts of the said Town : Provided
always, that it shall be lawful for the said Company to light any other-
Parts of the said Town, or the Precincts
thereof,
although such Parts may
not be within the Jurisdiction of the Commissioners for executing the
said recited Acts, or either of them.
II.
Provided always, and be it, further enacted, That every such Con- Contracts
tract or Agreement for lighting the said Town of Cheltenham, or the w,.thCom-
Limits or Liberties
thereof,
to be entered into with any of the Commis- [o^beTentered
sioners appointed or to be appointed by virtue of the said recited Acts, or into at Public
either of them, shall be entered into at a Special Meeting of the said Meetings.
Commissioners to be holden for that Purpose, and at which Meeting not
less than Fourteen Commissioners shall be present; and of the Time,
Place, and Purpose of such Meeting, Fourteen Days previous Notice at
the least shall be given by Advertisement in the Gloucester Journal or
Gloucester
Herald,
and in the Cheltenham Chronicle, or in one of them,
or in some other Newspaper published and circulated in the said County
of
Gloucester,
and also by Writing to be affixed on the Door of the Parish
Church of Cheltenham aforesaid ; and such Meeting shall from Time to
Time be called by the said Commissioners, on Application to them for
that Purpose by the said Company or their Successors, or their Clerk or
Superintendent for the Time being.
III.
And be it further enacted, That in order to enable the said Com- Fower to
pany to construct or make Gasometers and other necessary Works, and to contract for
ee^
building.

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