River Arun Navigation and Portsmouth and Arundel Navigation Act 1821

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Citation1821 c. lxii
ANNO PRIMO & SECUNDO
GEORGII IV. REGIS.
Cap.
Ixii.
An Act for giving further Powers to the Company
of Proprietors of the River Arun Navigation, and
for confirming certain Agreements entered into
between the said Company, and the Company of
Proprietors of the Portsmouth and Arundel Navi-
gation. [28th May 1821.]
W
HEREAS by an Act passed in the Twenty-fifth Year of the
Reign of His late Majesty King
George
the Third, intituled An 25G.3.C.100.
Act for amending and improving the Navigation of the River
Arun, from Houghton Bridge, in the Parish of Houghton, in the
County
of,
Sussex, to Pallenham
Wharf,
in the Parish ^"Wisborough Green, in the
said
County;
and for
continuing
and
extending the
Navigation of
the
said Rivet
Arun from the said
Wharf,
called Pallenham
Wharf,
to a
certain
Bridge
called New Bridge, situate in the Parishes of Pulborough and Wisborough
Green, in the said
County
of Sussex j several Persons therein named were
united into and made a Body, Politic, and Corporate, by the Name of
*
The Company of Proprietors of the River Arun Navigation,' for carry-;
ing the Purposes of the said Act into Execution; and the said Company
of Proprietors were (amongst other Things) authorized and empowered
by the said Act, to amend and improve the said River Arun, and the
Navigation
thereof,
from
Houghton
Bridge aforesaid, through or near the'
several Parishes of
Houghton,
Amber ley, Bury, Wiggenholt,
Cold-waltbairi,-
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Greaiham, Hardham, Pulborough, and
Stopham,
to Pallenham
Wharf,
in the
said Parish of
Wisborough
Green, and to make a new navigable Cut from
one Part of the said River to the other, through Greatham
Brook,
between
Greatham Bridge and Stopham Bridge, in a straight Line, or otherwise
and in such Place as they should think proper, and in, through, over,
and across, such other Lands, Soil, and Grounds, as to the said Cbrtipany
of Proprietors should seem meet and expedient,- and also to extend and
continue the said Navigation of the said River Arun, from tfie said
Wharf,
called Pallenham
Wharf,
by making a navigable" Cut through the Lands
and Grounds" Situate in or near the several Parishes of
Pulborough,
Billing-
hurst,
Wisborough
Green, and Hardham, in the said County, to a certain
Bridge called New Bridge, situate in
Pulborough,
and Wisborough Green
aforesaid, and to make and complete the same navigable and passable at
all Times for Boats, Barges, Lighters, and other Craft : And whereas by an
Act passed in the Fifty-seventh Year of the Reign of His said late Majesty
57G.3.
c.63.
KJug
George
the Third, intituled An Act for making and
maintaining
a
Navigable Canal from the River Arun to Chichester Harbour, and from
thence
to Langstone and Portsmouth Harbours, ivith a Cut or Branch from
Hunston Common to ornearthe City ^Chichester; and for
improving
the
Navigation of the Harbour of Langstone and Channels of Langstone and
Thorney; several Persons therein named were united into and made a
Body Politic and Corporate;; by the Name of
«
The Company of Pro-
prietors of the Portsmouth and Arundel Navigation,' for the Purpose of
making and maintaining a Navigation from the River Arun to the Har-
bour of
Portsmouth
and to the City of
Chichester,
and thereby complete
the Navigation from the River Thames to those Places, which Works are
in a very forward State: AnH whereas it hadi been found expedient,
and is intended by the said Company of Proprietors of the River Arun
Hafigptibn, and it will be of great public Benefit, arid greatly facilitate and
feneourage the Inland Navigation between the River Thames and the Town
and Port_of Portsmouth and City of Chichester, and the several other
Places adjacent, to widen, straighten, and impfdve certain Parts of the
JNavigation of the said Riv6r
Aruh>
frdrri the said Bridge called
Houghton
Bridge, in the said Parish of
Houghtofi,
to Pallenham Wharf and the
navigable Cut from one Part of the said River to the other between
Gredthafn Bridge and Stopham Bridge, and to make a Cut to take the Sur-
plus Water running from the River Rother to the River Arun, in the
Parish of Hardham, and also to widen, straighten, and improve the navi-
gable Gut from the said Wharf called Pallenham Wharf to New Bridge,
and to make and maintain Towing Paths in certain Parts of the said River
Arun Navigation, between
Houghton
Bridge and New Bridge ; and also to
widen and raise the principal Arch of the said Bridge called
Stopham
Bridge,
which is at present too narrow and too lbw for the Passage of Barges at
all Times through the same; and it is also found expedient and intended
by the said Company of Proprietors qf the River Arun Navigation, and
it will be of great public Benefit, and tend further greatly to facilitate and
encourage the Inland Navigation between the River Thames and the Town
and Port of Portsmouth and City of
Chichester,
and the several other Places
adjacent, to widen that Part of the River Arun which is immediately on
the South Side of Houghton Bridge, the Navigation of which is at present
very confined j and it is also intended to make and maintain a sufficient
Towing Path on the East Side of the River Arun, through the Parishes
of North Stokeand Burpham, or some Part of them, for the Want of
8 which

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