Penarth Harbour, Dock and Railway Act 1857

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Citation1857 c. lxix
ANNO VICESIMO & VICESIMO PRIMO
VICTORLE REGINJE.
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Cap.
lxix.
An Act for enabling the Penarth Harbour, Dock,
and Railway Company (heretofore called " The
Ely Tidal Harbour and Railway Company") to
construct Railways to and a Dock and other
Works on or adjoining the South-west Bank of
the River Ely, and for other Purposes.
[27th July 1857.]
W
HEREAS by " The Ely Tidal Harbour and Railway Act,
19 &
20Vict.
1856,"
the Ely Tidal Harbour and Railway Company c cxxii-
was incorporated for the Purposes in such Act mentioned,
and was authorized to raise a Capital of One hundred and thirty
thousand Pounds in Shares, and to borrow Forty-three thousand
Pounds on Mortgage or Bond: And whereas it is expedient that the
said Company should be empowered to construct a Railway or Railways
from the authorized Line of their Railway in the Parish of Llandaff
to-
the South-west Side of the River Ely between Cogan Pill and
Cwtch-y-
Cwm
: And whereas it is also expedient that the Company
should be empowered to construct and execute in or upon the Bed or
Site of the River, and also upon the South-west Side thereof between
[Local.] 11 0 certain
20° & 21° VICTORIA, GipJxix.
The Penarth Harbour, Dock, and Railway Act, 1857.
certain Points, Embankments, Excavations, Cuts, Walls, and other
Works, and to exercise upon the South-west Side of the River between
those Points the Powers granted by the recited Act with respect to
the Construction of Wharves, Staiths, Drops, Landing and Shipping
Places, and other Works and Conveniences on the North-east Side of
the said River: And whereas it is also expedient that the Company
should be empowered to construct and maintain a Dock on the South-
west Side of the said River: And whereas it is also expedient, with a
view to facilitate the Execution of the Works authorized by the
recited Act and this Act respectively, to provide for the Construction
of a temporary Bridge across the said River from the South-west
Bank thereof between Cogan Pill and Cwtch-y-Cwm to the opposite
Bank thereof at or near Grange Point: And whereas the Railway by
the recited Act authorized will form a Junction and communicate
with the Line of the Taff Vale Railway Company, and it is expedient
that further Provision should be made with reference to the work-
ing and User by the Taff Vale Railway Company and the Company
of their respective Railways and Works connected therewith: And
whereas it is expedient that the Company should be empowered
to raise additional Capital for carrying the Objects of this Act or some
of them into effect, and that the Name of the Company should be
changed ; but the Purposes aforesaid 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 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:
I. In citing this Act for any Purpose whatsoever it shall be
sufficient to use the Expression " The Penarth Harbour, Dock,
and Railway Act, 1857."
II.
The following Words and Expressions shall have in this Act
the Meanings hereby assigned to them respectively, unless there be
something
in
the Subject or Context repugnant to such Construction;
(that is to say,)
The Expression "the Company" or "the said Company" shall
mean the Company incorporated by the recited Act:
The Expression " the Dock " shall mean the Dock and the Works
of the Company to be constructed under this Act in connexion
with the said Dock :
The Expression " the Limits of this Act " shall mean and include
not only the Dock and the Works of the Company to be
constructed under this Act in connexion with the said Dock and
with the Harbour of the Company, but.also the Limits of the
recited Act as therein defined, being that Part of the River Ely
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