Newark Corporation Act 1891
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1891 c. cxxii |
| Year | 1891 |
[54 & 55 VICT.] Newark
Corporation
Ad, 1891. [Ch. CXXii.]
CHAPTER cxxii.
An Act to enable the mayor aldermen and burgesses
A-D-1891.
of the borough of Newark to construct waterworks
and supply water to the said borough and adjacent
places and to acquire the undertaking of the Newark -
upon-Trent Waterworks Company and for other pur-
poses.
[21st July 1891.]
W
HEREAS the borough of Newark in the county of Not-
tingham is a borough subject to the Acts relating to
municipal corporations and the mayor aldermen and burgesses of
the said borough (herein-after called " the Corporation ") acting by
the council are the urban sanitary authority for the district
thereof :
And whereas the said borough is supplied with water by the
Newark-upon-Trent Waterworks Company a joint stock company
herein-after called " the company " :
And whereas it is expedient that the supply of water to the
said borough should be under the control of the Corporation and
that they should be authorised to construct the waterworks in this
Act described:
And whereas it is expedient that the Corporation be authorised
to acquire the waterworks of the company on terms that have been
agreed on between the company and the Corporation and to main-
tain and improve the same :
And whereas the capital of the company is fourteen thousand
pounds in one thousand four hundred shares of ten pounds each the
whole of which is fully paid up and the company now owe the sum
of ten thousand pounds on mortgage :
And whereas the works by this Act authorised would enable the
Corporation to supply certain places adjacent to the said borough
which are in want of water and it is expedient that the Corporation
be authorised to afford such supply:
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CXxii.] Newark Corporation Ad, 1891. [54 & 55 VICT.]
And whereas it is expedient that the Corporation be authorised to
borrow money for the purposes of this Act:
And whereas the borough is divided into three wards called
the East Ward the North Ward and the South Ward but since
the division the population and rateable value have increased
to a greater extent in the East Ward than in the other wards:
And whereas the borough for the purpose of the Local
Grovernment Act 1888 has been divided into three electoral
divisions having as nearly as may be equal populations and it
is expedient that the boundaries of the said wards should be
altered so as to correspond with the boundaries of those divisions :
And whereas the objects aforesaid cannot be effected without
the authority of Parliament:
And whereas the Corporation have caused estimates to be
prepared for the following purposes and the amounts thereof are as
follows (that is to say):—
For the purchase of land and for the execution of the works
by this Act authorised fifty-six thousand and thirty-four
pounds; and
For new mains and extensions of mains and service pipes twenty
thousand pounds:
And whereas the works included in such estimates are permanent
works within the meaning of the two hundred and thirty-fourth
section of the Public Health Act 1875 :
And whereas an absolute majority of the whole number of the
council at a meeting held on the thirtieth day of September one
thousand eight hundred and ninety after ten clear days' notice by
public advertisement of such meeting and of the purpose thereof in
the " Newmarket Advertiser " a newspaper published and circulating
in the borough (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
district fund and general district rate of the borough :
And whereas such resolution was published once in the said news-
paper and once in the " Newark Herald" which is also a local
newspaper circulating in the borough and has received the approval
of the Local Government Board :
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 council at a further special meeting held in pursuance of a
similar notice on the fifth day of January one thousand eight
hundred and ninety-one being not less than fourteen days after the
deposit of the Bill for this Act in Parliament:
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And whereas the owners and ratepayers of the borough by A.D. 1891.
resolution in the manner provided by Schedule III. to the Public
Health Act 1875 consented to the promotion of the Bill for this
Act:
And whereas plans and sections describing the lines situations
and levels of the works authorised by this Act and books of reference
to those plans containing the names of the owners and lessees or
reputed owners and lessees and of the occupiers of the lands required
or which may be taken for the purposes or under the powers of this
Act were duly deposited with the clerk of the peace for the county
of Nottingham and are in this Act referred to as " the deposited
plans sections and books of reference " :
May it therefore 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 (that is to say):
—
1.
This Act may be cited as the Newark Corporation Act 1891. Short t;tle-
2.
The following Acts (so far as the same are applicable for the Provisions
of
purposes and are not inconsistent Math the provisions of this Act) certtu"
are hereby incorporated with this Act (namely) :— incorporated.
The Lands Clauses Acts ;
The "Waterworks Clauses Act 1847 as amended by section 57 of
the Public Health Act 1875 (except the provisions with respect
to the amount of profit to be received by the undertakers when
the waterworks are carried on for their benefit); and
The Waterworks Clauses Act 1863.
3.
In this Act unless the subject or context otherwise Interprera-
require— tion-
Terms to which meanings are assigned by enactments incor-
porated with this Act or which have therein special meanings
have in this Act and for the purposes of this Act the same
respective meanings;
'; The borough " means the borough of Newark ;
" The Corporation "' means the mayor aldermen and burgesses
of the borough;
" The council " means the town council of the borough ;
" The town clerk " means the town clerk of the borough ;
"The district fund" and. " the general district rate" mean
respectively the district fund and the general district rate
of the borough ;
" The undertaking of the company " means and includes the
undertaking works lands easements plant stock in trade and
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