Manchester Streets Act 1836
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1836 c. xvi |
| Year | 1836 |
ANNO SEXTO
GULIELMI IV. REGIS.
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Cap*
xvi.
An Act to enlarge the Powers of several Acts for
effecting Improvements in the Streets and other
Places within the Town of Manchester.
[2c2d April 1836.]
W
HEREAS ah Act was passed in the Fifth Year of- the
Reign of His late Majesty King George the Fourth,
intituled An Act for better lighting
•with.
Gas the Town 5G.4. c.133.
of Manchester in the County Palatine of Lancaster: And whereas
another Act was passed in the Ninth Year of the Reign of His said
late Majesty, intituled An Act to amend several Acts for cleansing, 9
G.+.
c.117.
lighting, watching, improving, and regulating the Towns of Man-
chester and
SaXi'ord,
in the County Palatine of Lancaster: And whereas
another Act was passed in the Eleventh Year of the Reign of His
said late Majesty, intituled An Act to amend several Acts for supplying n G.+.C.47.
the Town of Manchester with Gas, and for regulating and improving
the same Town: And whereas another Act was passed in the First
Year of the Reigri of His present. Majesty King
fVilliayn
the Fourth,
intituled An Act to authorize the raising of further Monies for sup- \
w.4.
c 16.
plying the 'Town of Manchester with Gas: And whereas another Act
was passed in the Second Year of the Reign of His said present Ma-
jesty, intituled An Act for widening and improving a Part of London
2
W.4.
c.36.
Road in the Parish of Manchester and County of Lancaster, and also
for effecting Improvements in the Streets and other Places within and
conligtious
to the Town of Manchester: And whereas the second and
third recited Acts contain certain Powers and Authorities enabling
"The Commissioners for cleansing, lighting, watching* and regulating
the Town of Manchester," and a certain Committee by them ap-
pointed and to be from Time to Time appointed, called " The Im-
£rovement Committee," to make Improvements in the Streets, Squares,
,anes,
Alleys, Passages, and Places of the said Town of Manchester,
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by widening, opening, or altering the same, and otherwise as expressed
and mentioned in such Acts, the Costs, Charges, and Expences of such
Improvements being to be supplied and discharged by means of the
surplus and other Monies which the Directors acting in execution
of the said first-recited Act shall, subsequently to the passing of the
said third-recited Act, have paid over or shall pay over to the said
Commissioners, pursuant to the said second and third recited Acts,
for the Purpose of improving the said Town of.Manchester, as in the
said last-mentioned Acts is also expressed: And whereas the said
Commissioners and the said Improvement Committee, or One of those
Bodies, in the Exercise of the said Powers and Authorities, have
already effected many Improvements in the said Town, and are now
in the course of completing some of the Improvements contemplated
by the said last-recited Act: And whereas it is expedient to make and
form so much of an intended Communication between a certain Street
or Place in the Town of Manchester aforesaid called Hunt's Bank and
a certain other Street or Place in the Town of Manchester aforesaid
called Cateaton Street or Old Bridge as extends from the southerly End
of the Land formerly the Site of the Ring o' th' Bells Public House,
situate near and adjoining to the Footpath running along the westerly
End of the College oJ'Christ\n Manchester aforesaid, to the said Street
called Cateaton Street or Old Bridge, and also to widen and improve
a certain other Street or Place in the Town of Manchester aforesaid
called Smithy Door, extending from Cateaton Street or Old Bridge
aforesaid to a certain other Street or Place in the Town of Manches-
ter aforesaid called The Mar/eel Place, and also to widen and improve
certain other Streets or Places in the Town of Manchester aforesaid
called Saint Mary's and The Parsonage, extending from a certain
other Street or Place in the Town of Manchester aforesaid called
Water Street to a certain other Street or Place in the Town of Man-
chester aforesaid called Blackjriars ; and it is also expedient to make
within and contiguous to the said Town of Manchester further Im-
provements ; but the said several Objects cannot be effected without
the 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 Commons, in this present Par-
Powers of liament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, That from
recited Acts an(] after the passing of this Act the said several recited Acts, and
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t0 all Powers and Authorities, Provisions, Regulations, Matters, and
. Things whatsoever respectively therein contained, as the same Acts,
Powers, Authorities, Provisions, Regulations, Matters, and Things
may be when construed and applied collectively and together,
shall extend and apply to and be construed to extend and apply
to and be exercised by the said Directors, Commissioners, and Im-
provement Committee, and each and every of those Bodies, and
shall operate and be in force as fully and effectually with respect to
the several Messuages, Houses, Buildings, Lands, Tenements, ami
Hereditaments, and Parts of the several Messuages, Houses, Build:
ings,
Lands, Tenements, and Hereditaments, within the said Town
of Manchester, specified or mentioned in the Schedule to this Act
annexed (which is to be taken, deemed, and construed to be Part of
this Act), and generally in every other respect whatsoever for effect-
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