Margate Improvement Act 1825
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1825 c. xx |
| Year | 1825 |
ANN0
SEXTO
GEORGII
IV.
REGIS.
Cap.
xx.
An
Act
to amend and render
more
effectual several
Acts relative to
the
paving, lighting, watching,
and improving
the
Town
of
Margate
in
the
Parish
of
Saint
John
the
Baptist
in the
County
of
Ke?zt
;
for erecting certain Defences against
the
Sea for
the
Protection
of
the
said Town; and for making
further Improvements in and about
the
said
Town
and Parish.
[31st
March
1825.1
HEREAS an
Act
was
passed in the Twenty-seventh Year
of
the Reign
of His
late Majesty King
George
the Third, inti-
W
tuled
An
Act
fir
rebuilding the
Pier
of
Margate
in
the Isle
of
27
6.3.
c.45.
Thanet
in the County
0s
Kent
;
for
ascertaining, establishing, and recovering
certain Duties in lieu
of
the
ancient and customary Droits
for
the Support and
Maintenance
of
the said Pier
;
for
widening, paving, repairing, cleansing,
lighting, and watching
the
Streets, Lanes, Highways, and public Passages
in
the
Town
ofMargate
and Parish
$Saint John the Baptist
in the said
Ish?
of
Thanet
;
fir
settling the Rates
of
Porters, Chairmen, carters, and
Carmen within the said Town
;
and
for
preventing Encroachments,
Nui-
sances, and Annoyances therein
:
And
whereas an
Act
was
also
passed
in
the Thirty-ninth Year
of
the Reign
of
His
said late Majesty, intituled
An
39
G.3.c.
2,
Act
to
amend and render more efectual an
Act,
passed in the Twenty-seventh
rear ofthe Reign
of
His
said late Majesty, for rebuilding
the
Pier
ofMargate
r
Local.]
6U
in
538
WGEQRGII
IV.
Cap.
xx
.
in
the
said
Isle
OJ
Thanet
in
the
Cormty
cf
Kent,
and
for
othti*
Putposer
mentioned in the said
Act
:
And whereas an Act was also passed in the
49G.3.c.117.
Farty-ninth Year of the Reign
of
His
said late Majesty, intituled
An
Act
to
amend and render more efectual
Two
Acts
for
the Maintenance and
Sup-
port
of
the Pier and Harbour, andpaving and lighting the Town
ofMarg-ate
in the County
ofKent: And whereas an Act
was
also
passed in the Fifty-
326.3.c.166.
second Year
of
the Reign
of
His said late Majesty, intituled
An
Act
for
separating the Management
of
the Harbour
of
Margate
in the County
of
Kent
from
the
paving and lighting
of
the Town
of
Margate,
and
for
vesting
the future Management
of
the said Harbour in a Joint Stock Company
of
Proprietors
:
And whereas another Act
was
passed in
the
Fifty-third Year
53
6.3.
c.
82.
of
the
Reign
of
His
said
late Majesty, intituled
An
Act
for
more
efectualb
paving, lighting, watching, and improving the Town
fl
Margate
in the
County
of
Kent
:
And whereas it
is
expedient that some further Provisions
should be made for the strengthening of the Sea Embankments, and for
extending the same, for the better Protection of the Highways and Passages
along the North-west and North Sides
of
the said Town against the
En-
stoachment of
the
Sea
;
and for improving the said Town and the Avenues
in and about the same, and the several Approaches thereto; and for
removing and preventing Obstructions and Annoyances therein
;
and for
better regulating the Police thereof: May
it
therefore please Your Majesty
that it
inay
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 Parliament
Recited
Acts
assembled, and by the Authority
of
the same, That the said recited Acts,
extended
to
and all the Provisoes, Powers, Authorities, Orders, Rules, Regulations.
this
Act.
Comniis-
doners.
Limitations, Restrictibns, Prohibitions, Directions, Exernpt&ms, hdemni:
ties, Penalties, Forfeitures, Punishments, Matters, and Things therein
respectivelycontained (except such Parts of the said Acts
as
are
by
this
Act altered, varied, or repealed), shall extend and are hereby extended
to and shall
take
effect, and be put in Execution in, for, and in respect
of
the making and raising Rates, and completing, repairing, and
maintaining the several Works, Matters, and Things by this Act autho-
rized to be done, as if all the said Provisions, Powers, Authorities,
Or-
ders,
Rules, Regulations, Limitations, Restrictions, Prohibitions, Direc-
tions,
Exemptions, Indemnities, Penalties, Forfeitures, Punishments, Mat-
ters, and Things, were repeated and re-enacted in the Body of this Act.
XI.
And be it further enacted,
That
the Vicar for the Time being
of
the said Parish, and all and every His Majesty’s Justices of the Peace
for
the Time being, acting for the County
of
Kent,
or for the Liberties of
the
Cinque Ports, together with
WilIiuni Adams, William Frederick Baylay
Clerk,
Francis Barrow
Clerk,
Thomas Belsey, John
Boys,
Edward Boys
junior,
Henry
Brasier, James Brooman, Jesse Carroway, Francis Cobb, Francis William
Gbb,
William
Cobb,
John Cramp, Edward Dering, Francis Forster,
Robert
Garrett, John Gore,
DmicZ
Jarvis, John Jenkins, Emanuel Levey,
Pad
Sandby Mum, Latham
Osborn,
William Pain, John Plunamer,
Gibon
Ram-
me#,
Thomas
Smith Rowe, John Sackett, Robert Salter, Samuel Silver,
John Slater, Richard Manger Smithett,
Sir
Thomas Staines
Knight,
John
Swinfird, Edward Taddy, James Taddy, James Taddy
junior,
Robsrt
Tomlin, Robert
Wells,
Edward White, Thomas Wilcocks, James Wright,
and their Successors, to be chosen
as
by the said Act passed in the
Twenty-
seventh
Year of the Reign
of
His
said late Majesty is directed, shall be and
9
they
6"
GEORGII
IV.
cffp.
xx.
539
strey
hereby appointed the Commissioners for carrying into Execution
the
several Powers and Authorities given by this Act,
as
well as the
Powers
and Authorities given to the said Commissioners by the said several
recited Acts*
111.
Provided always, and be
it
further enacted, That the said
Commis-
Oathofcorn-
sioners shall, and
they
are hereby required, previous
to
acting as Corn.
misshers*
missioners in the Execution
of
the Powers and Authorities given by this
Act,
or
any
of
them,
to
take and subscribe an Oath
or
Affirmation,
in
the Words or to the Effect
following
;
(that is
to
say),
I
A.
B.
do
swear,
(or
being one
of
the People called
Quakers, do
solemnly affirm), That
I
am truly and
bondjde
in my own Right, or
in
the Right
of
my
Wife,
in
the actual Possession and Enjoyment or in
'
the Receipt
of
the Rents and Profits of Messuages, Lands, Tenements,
'
or
Hereditaments
of
the clear yearly Value of Sixty Pounds above
'
Reprizes, or possessed
of
a
Real and Personal Estate
of
the Value
'
together of
Two
thousand Pounds above Reprizes
(as
the
Case
may
'
be),
and that
I
will truly and faithfully execute the
Triists,
Powers, afid
Authorities vested in me by
an
Act of Parliament passed in
the
Sixth
6
Year
of
the
Reign
of
King
tieorge
the Fourth, intituled
[here
set
forth
6
tfie
Title ofthi$
Act],
to
the best of my Skill and Knowledge, without
Fear, Favour,
or
Affection to any Person whomsoever.
So
help me
GOD.'
And if any Person not being qualified as aforesaid,
or
not having taken
penalty
on
and subscribed the Oath
as
aforesaid, or being
a
Quaker, and
not
having
acting
with-
made and subscribed the Affirmation as aforesaid, shall act as
a
Commis-
out
being
qualified,
or
sioner
in
the Execution of this Act (except in administering the
Oath
after
becorn-
herein-before mentioned),
or
if any Person or Persons
after
having been
ing
disqu&
duly qualified, and
so
acted
as
aforesaid, shall by Non-residence, Refusal
fied.
fo
act,
or
by Neglect
to
attend at some Public Meeting
of
Commissioners
for the Space
of
One Year at any one Time, without reasonable Cause to
be
allowed by the said Commissioners, become disqualified, shall act
in the Execution
of
this Act, every such Person shall, for every such
Offence
or
Omission, forfeit and pay
the
Sum of Fifty Pounds, to
be
recovered with full Costs of Suit in any
of
His
Majesty's Courts
of
Record at
Westminster,
by Action
of
Debt
or
on the Case, or by BiU,
Suit, or Information, wherein
no
Essoign,
Protection,
or
Wager of
Law, or more than One Imparlance, shall be allowed
;
and every
Person
so
sued
and prosecuted shall prove that at the Time of acting he
was
and had continued to
be
so
qualified as aforesaid, and that he
had
at
the Time of acting taken and subscribed such Oath
or
made
ond
subscribed such Affirmation
as
aforesaid (as the Case may be),
or
other-
wise shall pay the said Penalty, without any other Proof or
Evidence
being
givenon the Part of the Plaintiff or Prosecutor, than that such
Person had acted as
a
Commissioner in the Execution of this Act
;
ad
rhe
Money
so
to
be recovered shall, after Payment
of
the extra
Costs
and
Expnces attending the Recovery thereof, be applied, one Moiety
to the Wormer or Prosecutor, and the other Moiety
to
the Purposes
nf
thh
Act
and
of
the
said former Acts
:
Provided that all Acts
and
Pro-
ceedings
of
any
Person
or
Persons acting
as
a Commissioner
or
Commis
sbners
in
theExecutionof
this
Act, though not
duly
quaMed,done previous
to
Judgment
or
Conviction,
shall
be
as
valid and
effecmal
as
if
such
Per-
son
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