Lancashire County Justices Act 1881
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1881 c. xcv |
| Year | 1881 |
[44 & 45
VICT.] Lancashire County Justices Act, 1881. [Ch.XCV.]
CHAPTER xcv.
An Act for authorising the Justices of the Peace for the
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County Palatine of Lancaster to construct Bridges over
the Rivers Lune and Croal and to Consolidate the County-
Debt
;
and for other purposes. [27th June 1881.]
W
HEREAS the existing bridge oyer the Lune in the hundred
of Lonsdale in the county palatine of Lancaster known as
the Caton Lune Bridge is greatly out of repair and has been closed
for cart and carriage traffic to the great inconvenience of the
public:
And whereas it is desirable to empower the Justices of the said
county palatine (hereinafter referred to as "the Justices") to
acquire all the rights and interests of the proprietors of the said
bridge therein and to authorise the Justices to rebuild the said
bridge with proper approaches thereto and to make such provision
as is in this Act contained for charging the expenses of such
rebuilding and of maintaining the said bridge on rates to be assessed
and levied on the hundred of Lonsdale and for charging the
expenses of maintaining the said approaches on the highway area
or areas within which they are for the time being respectively
situate:
And whereas the existing bridge over the Croal in the hundred of
Salford in the said county palatine known as Parnworth Bridge is
narrow and incommodious and out of repair and the approach on
one side of the said bridge is steep and inconvenient:
And whereas the said bridge and its approaches are by ancient
custom repairable by the inhabitants of the said hundred of Salford:
And whereas it is expedient to authorise the Justices to pull
down the said bridge and to construct a new bridge in lieu thereof
with proper approaches on a site more commodious for the public
and to make such provision as in this Act contained for charging
the expenses of such construction and of maintaining such new
bridge on the rates assessed and levied on the hundred of Salford
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[Ch.
XCV.] Lancashire County Justices Act, 1881. [44
&
45 VICT.]
A.D.
1881.
for the repair of hundred bridges and for charging the expenses
of
maintaining the said approaches on the highway area or areas
within which they are for the time being respectively situate:
And whereas the local board of health for the district of Little
Lever in the said county palatine (in this Act called "
the
Little
Lever local board ") are desirous and it is expedient that they
be
empowered for the purpose of enabling them to contribute towards
the expense of constructing the eastern approach to the bridge
(No.
2) by this Act authorised and to make in connection with the
said bridge and approach improvements in streets and roads within
their district and to raise money as by this Act provided :
And whereas an estimate has been prepared by the Little Lever
local board shewing the amount which that board will require to
borrow for the purpose of the said works being permanent works
38 &
39 Vict, within the meaning of the 234th section of the Public Health
Act
c.
55.
1875 and the amount of such estimate is five thousand pounds:
And whereas it is desirable to make better provision for enabling
the Justices and highway authorities respectively to enter into
contracts for the maintenance and repair of roadways over the
county bridges and hundred bridges in the said county palatine
and
of the approaches thereto :
43
& 44 Vict. And whereas by the Lancashire County Justices Act 1880 the
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xxi.
committee of visitors of the County Lunatic Asylum at Whittingham
in the said county palatine were empowered to construct waterworks
for the purpose of affording a good and sufficient supply of
water
to that asylum but such works have not been commenced and the
necessity for them may be obviated if the Justices on the one
hand
and sanitary authorities or other corporations on the other hand
are
empowered to enter into contracts as in this Act mentioned for
the
supply of water in bulk or otherwise to the said asylum:
And whereas the income of the police superannuation fund
of
the said county palatine is inadequate to meet the claims
upon it
and it is expedient to empower the Justices to direct that the fees
received for service of summonses and execution of warrants by
police constables of the county be carried to and applied as part
of
that fund and to make further provision for defraying any deficiency
in the income of the fund:
. And whereas it is expedient to authorise the appointment of an
assistant chief-constable of the county :
And whereas the Justices have from time to time under the
provisions of various public Acts enabling them in that behalf
bor-
rowed moneys for lunatic asylums militia storehouses police and
prisons and on the thirty-first day of December one thousand eight
hundred and eighty they owed on account of such moneys sums
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