Maryport Improvement (Harbour) Act 1879
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1879 c. ci |
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VICT.]
Maryport Improvement (Barbow) [Oh. ci.]
Act, 1879.
CHAPTER ci.
An Act to alter and amend the Maryport Improvement Acts,
A-D-18?9.
1866 to 1878; to authorise new Works ; to extend the
powers of the Trustees; and for other purposes.
[3d July 1879.]
W
HEREAS an Act was passed in the session of Parliament 29&3oVict.
holden in the twenty-ninth and thirtieth years of Her c'ccx v-
Majesty, intituled the Maryport Improvement and Harbour Act,
1866,
whereby powers were conferred upon the Trustees thereby
appointed for improving and regulating the district and harbour of
Maryport as therein denned :
And whereas by the Maryport District and Harbour Act, 1868,
31 & 32
Viet.
the constitution of the Trustees was altered, and they were empowered c'
to make a dock and other works as therein provided, and by the
Maryport District and Harbour Gas Act, 1877, and by the Maryport
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Viot.
Improvement Act, 1878, further powers were conferred on the ^^^vi t
Trustees, and by the last-mentioned Act it was provided that the c. cliii.
several Acts above recited might be cited for all purposes as the
Maryport Improvement Acts, 1866 to 1878 :
And whereas it has been found inexpedient to proceed with the
construction of the dock authorised by the Maryport District and
Harbour Act, 1868, and the powers of the Trustees for purchasing
lands and executing the works in that behalf authorised have
expired:
And whereas it is expedient that the limits of the existing
harbour of Maryport should be extended, and that the Trustees
should be authorised to construct the dock, basin, railways, piers,
and other works for the improvement of the harbour of Maryport,
and for facilitating traffic there, herein-after described, and that
further powers for the regulation and management of the harbour
should be conferred upon them, and that for the purposes aforesaid
they should be authorised to levy additional rates, and to raise a
further sum of money:
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Act, 1879.
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18W.
^JJ^ whereas it is expedient that the Maryport Improvement
Acts,
1866 to 1878, should he, in such respects as are herein-after
mentioned, altered and amended :
And whereas it is expedient to confer certain powers on the
Trustees, and the Maryport and Carlisle Railway Company, and the
London and North-Western Railway Company, and Mistress Eliza-
beth Pocklington Senhouse, and the other corporations and persons
herein-after mentioned in that behalf in relation to their respective
undertakings, and to authorise agreements between them :
And whereas the Trustees have caused estimates to be prepared
of the moneys which they will require with respect to the dock,
basin, railways, piers, and other works, and such estimates amount
to the sum of one hundred and' ten thousand pounds : '
And whereas the said works included in such estimates are
permanent works within the meaning of the two hundred and
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Vict,
thirty-fourth section of the Public Health Act, 1875, and it is
expedient that the trustees should be authorised to borrow money
for the purposes of the same in the manner by this Act provided:
And whereas an absolute majority of the whole number of the
Trustees, at a meeting held on the twelfth day of November one
thousand eight hundred and seventy-eight, after ten clear days
notice by public advertisement of such meeting and of the purposes
thereof in the " Maryport Advertiser and Weekly News," a news-
paper circulating in the district (such notice being in addition to
the ordinary notices required for summoning such meeting), resolved
that the expense in relation to promoting the Bill for this Act
should be charged on the harbour fund and harbour dues and
rates:
And whereas such resolution was published twice in the " Mary-
port Advertiser and Weekly News," a newspaper circulating in the
said district, and has received the approval of the Local Government
Board and of one of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State:
And whereas the propriety of the promotion of the Bill for this
Act was confirmed by an absolute majority of the whole number of
the Trustees at a further special meeting held in pursuance of a
similar notice on the fourteenth day of January one thousand eight
hundred and seventy-nine, being not less than fourteen days after
the deposit of the Bill in Parliament:
And whereas the owners and ratepayers of the district and harbour
of Maryport, as defined in the Maryport District and Harbour Act,
1868,
by resolution, in the manner provided by Schedule III.
annexed to the Public Health Act, 1875, with respect to resolutions
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