Newport (Monmouthshire) Corporation Act 1889
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1889 c. clii |
[52&53VICT.]
Newport {Monmouthshire) Corporation [Oh.clii.]
Act, 1889.
CHAPTER clii.
An Act to extend the Borough of Newport in the County
A.D.
1889.
of Monmouth and to enable the Mayor Aldermen and
Burgesses thereof to execute certain improvements and
works and to make further provision for the improve-
ment and good government of the borough and for other
purposes. [12th August 1889.]
HEREAS the borough of Newport in the county of Mon-
mouth is a municipal borough subject to the Acts relating to
municipal corporations and under the government of the mayor
aldermen and burgesses of the borough (herein-after referred to as
" the Corporation ") :
And whereas the Corporation acting by the council of the said
borough are the urban sanitary authority for the district of the
said borough:
And whereas the following local and personal Acts and pro-
visional orders are wholly or partially in force within the borough
(that is to say) :—
An Act passed in the session of Parliament held in the seventh
year of the reign of King George IV. cap. VI. intituled " An
" Act for lighting watching paving cleansing and improving
" the streets highways and places within the town and borough
" of Newport in the county of Monmouth " (in this Act referred
to as " the Act of 1826 ") ;
A provisional order of the General Board of Health bearing
date the 4th May 1850 confirmed by the Public Health
Supplemental Act 1850;
The Newport (Monmouthshire) Corporation Act 1855 (in this
Act referred to as " the Act of 1855 ");
A provisional order for putting in force the Lands Clauses
Consolidation Act 1845 within the district of the Newport
(Monmouthshire) Local Board of Health for the purchase of
lands by the said board for purposes of street improvement
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[Oh. clii.] Newport {Monmouthshire) Corporation [52 & 53 VICT.]
Act, 1889.
A.D.
1889. confirmed by the Local Government Supplemental Act 1869
(No.
2)
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and another
Provisional order to enable the local board of Newport in Mon-
mouthshire to put in force the compulsory clauses of the
Lands Clauses Consolidation Act 1845 confirmed by the Local
Government Board's Provisional Orders Confirmation Act 1873;
The Newport (Monmouthshire) Improvement Act 1876 (herein-
after called " the Act of 1876 ");
A provisional order to enable the urban sanitary authority for
the borough of Newport to put in force the compulsory clauses
of the Lands Clauses Consolidation Acts 1845 1860 and 1869
confirmed by the Local Government Board's Provisional Orders
Confirmation (Ashton-under-Lyne &c.) Act 1879;
A provisional order to enable the urban sanitary authority for
the borough of Newport to put in force the compulsory clauses
of the Lands Clauses Consolidation Acts 1845 1860 and 1869
confirmed by the Local Government Board's Provisional Orders
Confirmation Act 1882;.
A provisional order for permanently constituting the mayor
aldermen and burgesses of the borough of Newport the port
sanitary authority of the whole of the port of Newport con-
firmed by the Local Government Board's Provisional Orders
Confirmation (No. 5) Act 1883;
A provisional order to enable the urban sanitary authority for
the borough of Newport (Monmouthshire) to put in force the
compulsory clauses of the Lands Clauses Consolidation Acts
confirmed by the Local Government Board's Provisional Orders
Confirmation (No. 4) Act 1885 ;
A provisional order to enahle the urban sanitary authority for
the borough of Newport (Monmouthshire) to put in force the
compulsory clauses of the Lands Clauses Consolidation Acts
confirmed by the Local Government Board's Provisional Orders
Confirmation (No. 5) Act 1886; and
The Newport (Monmouthshire) Corporation Water Act 1888 :
And whereas with a view to the due development of the town
and district of Newport and of the trade thereof it is expedient
that the borough should be extended so as to include the portions
of the parishes of Saint Woollos Christchurch and Nash adjacent
to the borough and set forth in the Pirst Schedule to this Act
annexed:
And whereas the borough is at present divided into four wards
which are represented in the council of the borough by twenty-four
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[52 & 53 VICT.] Newport (Monmouthshire) Corporation [Oh. clii.]
Aet, 1889.
councillors and eight aldermen and it is desirable that the number A.D. 1889.
of wards and of aldermen and councillors of the borough should be
increased as herein-after provided:
And whereas the district of the Ohristchurch local board is
wholly included within the area of the borough as extended by this
Act and it is expedient that such local board should be dissolved:
And whereas there exist within and for the said parish of
Ohristchurch a separate burial board and separate school board but
the portions of the said parish which are not included within the
borough as extended by this Act are inconveniently small to form a
separate burial board district and school district and it is therefore
expedient that the said burial board and school board should be
dissolved and that provision as herein-after contained should be
made with respect to burials and education within such portions of
the said parish:
And whereas it is expedient that the Corporation should be
empowered to construct the subway roads and other improvements
in this Act mentioned :
And whereas by the Act of the sixth year of King William IV.
chapter lxvi. (herein-after called " the Act of 1836") a body of
commissioners was appointed for regulating preserving and im-
proving the port or harbour of Newport aforesaid and powers were
conferred upon them with respect thereto :
And whereas it has been agreed between the. Corporation and
the said board of harbour commissioners that the constitution of
that board should be altered and it is expedient that provision be
made as herein-after provided for effecting such alteration :
And whereas by the Act of 1855 after reciting that certain lands
known as the Newport Marshes vested in the Corporation in trust
as regards the profits thereof for certain freemen of the borough
and their widows would if improved and let for building become
very profitable to the Corporation and be advantageous to the
public but that the Corporation had no power to improve or grant
leases thereof It was enacted that the said lands should vest in
the Corporation freed from such trusts and among other powers
the power of letting such land on building leases was conferred
upon the Corporation:
And whereas by the Act of 1876 section 47 after reciting that it
would render the said marshes more profitable to the Corporation
if they were empowered to make building leases for terms not
exceeding ninety-nine years the Corporation were empowered to
make such leases: A 2 3
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