Kirkwall Harbour Act 1828
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1828 c. lviii |
ANNO NONO
GEORGII IV. REGIS.
Cap.
1
Vlll.
An Act
fo^
maintaining^ enlarging, improving, and
regulating the Harbour of the Burgh of Kirkwall
in.Ovkney. [23d May 1828.]
"HEREAS the Harbour of the Burgh of Kirkwall in the County
of Orkney requires to be enlarged, improved, and kept in
Repair ; and there being no sufficient Funds or Means ap-
plicable to these Purposes, it is necessary to make Provision for repairing, ^
enlarging, improving, and^eeping in Repair and regulating the said"**'
Harbour; and as these Ends cannot be attained without !thfe'Aid and Au-
thority 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 N
and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal,
and 'Commons, in this present Parliament assembled^ arid' by the Au- ^sy
thdrity of the-same^ That the/following Persons shall be'Trustees for Trustees.,*^
carrying this Act into Execution; that is; to say,
•S'^muel
\Laiiigof
Bdp4ale, present Provost of the Burgh of Kirkwallj and #ames Spence,
John Bai'kie, Andrew'- Henderson, Patrick
FotherMghaTb,-
'Sihier
Sdott^ and
•Rbberi-Berwick, being Sifc Members of 'the present'^^wJbJGo'uncil of the
said' Burgh, together-with James Drewfi,
WilHam
Trtiifl,'*ahd John Tait, ^
being-Three registered'Owners of Ships trading to ana" fefehl and/oelong- ^
i%! to' the said Burgh of" Kirkwall, and Capt&ift WMiam Balfour df
3lv)ikk\' • Willitim Traill of- > Wmdwiek,; and James'- BaiMe of
•
Jankerness,
being Three Land Owner's -of the County of OrMeyi shall be Trustees
until ortier Trustees shall be eleeted, and act id tlfe -Manner hereinafter
provided1; aiM thereafter the* Provost of the'saf&®urgh of Kirkwall for /
the Time being,'and Six other Members of the^Ttwh Council of thesaid---''/-/
• ' [Local.'] 14 T Burgh,
1270
Annual
Election of
Trustees.
Quorum of
Trustees.
First Meet-
ing of Trus-
tees.
Stated Meet-
ing to be
held annu-
ally.
9°GEORGII IV. Cap.hin.
Burgh, together with Three registered Owners of, Ships trading to and
from and belonging to the said Burgh, and Three Land Owners of the
County of Orkney, to be nominated and elected in Manner after mentioned,
shall be Trustees for carrying this Act into Execution, with Power to them
and the Trustees herein first named respectively,, from and after the passing
thereof,
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Repair, improve, and .enlarge the said Harbour, and to main-
tain an<| uphold the same, with the Wharfs, Piers, and Basin
thereof,
in
such-M4nner as they shall think proper, and also to erect, build, and
make; a4, pfco'per and necessary Piers, Abutments, Pillars, Ramparts,
Wails,
and other Works, for the Use, Support, Preservation, Extension,
and Improvement of the said Harbour, and also to improve the Access
and Avenues to the said Harbour.
It. And be it further enacted, That from and after the Expiration of
Twelve Months from and after the passing of this Act, Six Persons,
being Membps of the said "Town (Council, shall be 'elected aqd chosen
by the Magistrates and Town Council assembled at th^ First Meeting
of Council after Michaelmas yearly; and Three Persons, being regis-
tered Owners of Ships trading to and from and belonging to the
said Burgh, shall be elected by Owners of Ships trading to and from
and "belonging to the said Burgh, at a Meeting to be held at Kirk-wall
on the Second Tuesday of November annually, of which Ten Days
previous Notice shall be given by the Clerk of the said Trustees, by
public Advertisement, or Hand Bills posted in the Streets of Kirkwall)
in which Notice shall be specified the precise Time and Place of such
Meeting ;, and Three Persons, being Landholders of the County of
Ork-
ney, shall-be elected yearly by the Freeholders assembled at the Michael-
wa/ Head Court of the said County ; such Persons so annually elected to
be,
with, the Provost of Kirkwall for the Time being, Trustees for carry-
ing this Act into Execution.
m,,tAnd be. it enacted, That any
Five,of:
the Trustees abov^ ^Smed,
or elected pursuant, tp this Act, shall be.aQ^oafum, ior carrying the
Purposes Cjf this Act into Execution
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but
jw?
Alterations shall be made
in any-jof the Rates and Duties hereby imposed, nor any Clerk, Trea-
surer, or; other Officer appointed, nor their Salaries fixed, by virtue, of
this Act,-except at a Meeting where Nine of the said Trustees shall at
least be present.
IV. And be it further enacted, That the Trustees na#ed in this Ac^
shall hold their First Meeting within the Town. Hall of Kirkwall on the
Fourth, ^es^af after the passing of. thfe Actj at Twelve p'Clock Noon,
for th,e-Epi:]pDS^i,of putting this Act into Execution* at .which Meeting the
Provost of•Kirkwall shall preside; and the said-Trustees, and their
Successor^ igjOllce as Trustees under this Act, shall hold a stated General
Meeting, on ;tljerSec9nd Tuesday after Michaelmas
jci.&i&cy
Year, for put*
ting this Actand the Powers herein committed *Q them into Execution,
at which Meeting the Provost of Kirkwall, and in his Absence the Trus-
tee,wb4se Name/shall stand at the Top of the.Listof Trustees for the Time,
and who shall be present at $qeh Meeth%,. shall act and officiate as
Preses; and tjae Preses, besides bis. own deliberative Voce in common wjth
the other Trustees, shall, in all Cases of Equality of Votes, have also
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casting Vote in every Matter or Question that may-come before the
said
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