Manchester Improvement Act 1854
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1854 c. xxviii |
| Year | 1854 |
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An
Act for
enabling
the
Mayor, Aldermen, and
Citizens
of the
City
of
Manchester
to
widen
Certain Streets
in, and
otherwise improve,
the
said City,
to
raise
a
further Sum
of
Money, and
for other Purposes [2d June 1854.]
HERE AS
it
is expedient that
the
Mayor, Aldermen, and
Citizens of the City of Manchester should be empowered
to widen
so
much
of
the Street
in
the Township
and
Parish of Manchester called Clarence Street as lies between Kennedy
Street and Bancroft Street, and also certain. Portions
of
the Street in
the Township
of
Chorlton-upon-Medlock and Parish
of
Manchester,
called Oxford Street or Oxford
Road,
situate between Clifford Street
and High Street,
all
in the City
of
Manchester, and
to
effect other
Improvements in the said City: And whereas there are now due and
owing
by the
said Mayor, Aldermen,
and
Citizens divers Sums
of
Money (amounting in the whole to the Sum of One hundred thousand
Pounds) which have been borrowed
and
raised upon the Credit
of
the Gasworks
and
Rates under their Management and Control,
and
there are also now due and owing by the said Mayor, Aldermen, and
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Citizens
3.34 17° VICTORIA, Cfcp.xxviii.
The Manchester Improvement Act9 1854.
Citizens, divers other Sums of Money (amounting in the whole to the
Sum of One hundred and fifty thousand Pounds), which have been
borrowed and raised upon the Credit of the said Gasworks and Rates,
for which last-mentioned Sums the Township Rate, authorized by
" The Manchester General Improvement Act,
1851,"
to be made and
levied for the Township of Manchester, is made an additional Security;
and by " The Manchester New Streets Act,
1853,"
the said Mayor,
Aldermen, and Citizens are empowered to borrow on the Credit of the
Gasworks for the Time being under their Control, and the Rents and
Profits arising therefrom, the further Sum of Forty-five thousand
Pounds ; and it is expedient that the said, Mayor, Aldermen, and
Citizens should be empowered to borrow a further Sum of Ninety-
five thousand Pounds upon the Credit of the said Gasworks, Rents,
and Profits, and of the Township Rate, for the Time being leviable in
the Township of Manchester; And whereas the Objects aforesaid
cannot be effected without the Authority of Parliament: May it there-
fore please Your Majesty that it may be enacted; and be it enacted
by the Queen'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, as
follows:
Interpret*- j. In construing this Act the Words and Expressions following
erms.
^gjj
jiave
^he several Meanings hereby assigned to them, unless there
be something in the Subject or Context repugnant to such Construc-
tion ; that is to say,
The Word " Corporation" shall mean the Mayor, Aldermen, and
Citizens of the City of Manchester :
The Word " Person
*
shall include Corporation, whether aggregate
or .sole:
The Word " City
"
shall mean the City of Manchester ;
The Expression u Town Clerk
"
shall mean the Town Clerk of the
said City:
The Word " House" shall include any Messuage or Dwelling
House, Tenement, Warehouse, Manufactory, Building, or other
Enclosure, and every Part
thereof:
The Word "Land" or "Lands" shall extend to and comprise
Messuages, Lands, Tenements, or Premises of any Tenure :
The Word " Owner
'*
shall mean the Person for the Time being
receiving the Rack Rent of the Land or Premises in connection
with which the Word is used, or who would receive the same if
such Lands or Premises were let at a Rack Rent.
Short Title. H. This Act shall for all Purposes be sufficiently described or
referred to as " The Manchester Improvement Act, 1854."
Council to III. The Corporation by the Council are hereby empowered to
execution Dt° can7 *^s ^ct an(i tlie several Powers thereof into execution. IV. For
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