River Cart Navigation and Paisley Harbour Act 1835
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Citation | 1835 c. xxxii |
| Year | 1835 |
ANN0
QUINT0
GULIELMI
IV.
REGIS.
Cap.
xxxii.
An
Act
to amend an
Act
for improving the Navi-
gation
of
the River
Cart,
and for deepening
and
extending
the
Harbour
of
Paisley
in the County
of
Renjrew
.
[17th
Jztne
1835.1
NEREAS
an Act was passed in the Twenty-seventh Year
of
the Reign of His Majesty King
George
the Third, intituled
vv
An
Act
for
enabling the Magistrates and
Town
Council
of
27G.3.c*56.
Paisley
io
improve
the
Navigation
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the
River
Cart,
and
io
make
a
Navigable
Cut
or
Canal
across
the Turnpike Road leading
from
Glasgow
to
Greenock
:
And whereas, in consequence of the Powers vested in the said Magistrates
and Town Council by the said recited Act, considerable Sums of Money
have been expended
in
deepening, straighting, cleansing, and otherwise
improving the said River
of
Cart,
forming
a
Towing Path on the Side
thereof, and in erecting and maintaining Quays and Wharfs
at
the said
Town
;
but the Navigation
of
the said River
is
susceptible of much greater
Iniprovenient than has yet been effected thereon: And whereas the
Population and Manufactures of the said Town
of
Paisley
have been much
increased and extended, and
it
would be
of
great Advantage to the
Merchants, Traders, and Inhabitants thereof, and of the Places adjacent
thereto, and to the Public at large, if the Quays and Harbour
of
the
said
Town
were
to
be improved, extended, and enlarged for the Reception,
Accommodation, and speedy loading and unloading
of
Vessels resorting
thereto, and
if
the Navigation of the said River were still further improved
so
as
to
admit Vessels
of
greater Burden
to
pass
thereon, by the Con-
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GULIELMI
IV.
Cap.
xxxii.
tinuation of the Works already formed, and by Execution of such
additional Works and
by
such other Operations as may be deemed
expedient for that Purpose, and by the Erection
of
Sheds, Storehouses,
Cranes, and Weighing Machines on or adjacent
to
the said Quays, and
if
a
Police for the said Harbour and River were to be established, and if
all Vessels navigating the said River and resorting to the said Harbour,
and particularly Vessels propelled by the Power of Steam, were subjected
to salutary Regulations
;
but these Purposes cannot be accomplished
without the Authority
of
Parliament: May
it
therefore please Your
Majesty that
it
may be enacted
;
and be
it
enacted
by
the King's most
Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice of the Lords Spiritual and
Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by
liecitecl
Act
the Authority of the same, That the said recited Act,
so
far as the same
iu
partie-
relates to the Rates and Duties thereby granted, and the Exemptions
pealed.
from such Rates and Duties, and to
the
Appointment
of
Commissioners
for auditing Accounts, and generally
so
far as inconsistent with the Pro-
visions of this Act, shall be and the same
is
hereby repealed
;
but pro-
viding that the said recited Act, and all and every the Powers, Provisions,
Penalties, Forfeitures, Matters, and Things whatsoever, therein contained,
save and except such
as
are hereby varied, altered, or repealed, shall be
as good,
valid,
and effectual for carrying the said recited Act itself and
this Act into execution as if the same had been repeated and re-enacted
in the Body
of
this Act.
'rrustees
ap.
pointed.
11.
And be
it
further enacted, That from and after the passing
of
this
Act the Magistrates and Town Council for the Time being of the said
Town
of
Paisley,
and their Successors in Ofice, shall be and are hereby
appointed Trustees for carrying into effect the Purposes and Provisions
of
~lieir~o\sers.
the said recited Act and
of
this Act
;
and the said Trustees shall be and
they are hereby empowered and authoiized, by themselves, their Deputies,
Agents, Workmen, Servants, and Assigns, not only to continue the
Works authorized
by
the said recited Act, but also to carry on and
execute such new and additional Works as they shall think proper for the
Improvement
of
the Navigation of the said River of
Cart,
from the
Abbey
Bridge
of
Paisley
or from the
Sneddon Bridge
of
Paisley
to
the
River
Ckyde,
until the said River
of
Cart
be Twelve Feet deep in all
Parts thereof within the aforesaid Limits at Neap
Tides,
and for the
enlarging, extending, and improving the Harbour
of
Paisley
and the
Quays thereof; and in particular
to
straighten, widen, enlarge, cleanse,
and scour out the said River of
Cart,
and the Bed and Channel thereof;
to
remove Sand Banks, Shoals, and other Obstructions to the Navigation
thereof;
to
maintain, alter, and improve the present Towing Paths, and
to
construct and maintain such additional Towing Paths as to them may
seem necessary for the Purposes of the said Navigation
;
to alter, widen,
and deepen the
Cut
or
Canal by the said recited Act authorized to be
made and maintained, until the same be Twelve Feet in Depth and Fifty
Feet in Width at
the
Bottom,
and Eighty-six Feet in Width at the Top
;
and to take down, widen, and re-erect the Drawbridge, or erect a Swing.
bridge across the said
Cut
or Canal in the Line of the Turnpike Road
from
Glasgow
to
Greenock;
to
construct and maintain such Bulwarks,
Jetties, connecting Walls and Banks, Fences, Sluices, Drains, and other
Workc, along the said River
Curt,
as may be deemed requisite by the
said Trustees; to extend, enlarge, cleanse, scour out, and deepen the
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Harbour
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GULIELM1
IV.
Ccm.
xxxii.
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IIarbour
of
Pairley;
to
alter, improve, and extend, or to take down,
remove, and re-erect, the Quays and Wharfs
of
the said Harbour, and
to
construct and erect such new and additional Quays, Wharfs, and Dock.j
as
to them may seem necessary for the Trade
of
the said River
;
and to
erect and maintain such Sheds, Storehoum, Lofts, Cranes, Weighing
Machines, and other Buildings, Works, and Conveniences for the
Accom-
modation
of
the said Trade, as they may think
fit
;
to erect and maintain
Lightho\ises, Lamp Posts,
I,amps,
and Beacons
at
my
Part or Parts
of
the said Harbour and Quays, and along the Sides
or
within the Channels
of the said River and Cut or Canal
;
and to take and acquire Lands,
Grounds, and other Heritages for
the
aforesaid Purposes
;
they the said
Trustees doing
as
little Damage
as
may be in the Esecution
of
the afore-
said Works, and making Satisfaction in manner herein-after provided
to the Owners and Occupiers
of
the
Lands,
Grounds, and other Heri-
tapes adjacmt to the aforesaid River, Cut
or
Canal, and Harbour,
which
may
be taken, occupied, injured,
or
damaged by the aforesaid
Operations.
111,
Provided always, and be
it
enacted, That where
it
may
be necessary
Regulating
to
Bridges.
to
erect or build the foresaid Bridge or any other Bridge across the said
the
River or Cut or Canal, for connecting any public Road, the Ascent
to
such Bridge or Bridges shall not be more than One Foot in Twenty,
and
a
good and suficient Fence
shall
be made on each Side of every such
Bridge, which Fence shall not be less than Four Feet above the Surface
of
such Bridges.
IV.
And
be it enacted, That the said Trustees
shall
execute and
Prtivipion
as
maintain at their own Expence in
all
Time coining the Bridge along
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the said Turnpike Road from
Renfrew
to
Grcerznck,
where it intersects
Road,
the said Navigation,
all
in
a
substantial, durable,
safe,
and steady Manner,
arid
so
as
to
be convenient at all 'limes for the 'l'rafic along the said
Turnpike Road, and that at the Sight or
to
the Satisfaction of the Trustees
on
the said Turnpike Road, or
of
their Surveyor for the Time being
;
and the
s
.id 'Trustees shall not alter the present Levels
or
Inclination
of
the said Turnpike
Road
or
Communication without Consent
of
the
said
Turnpike Trustees
;
and in erecting, maintaining, and working the said
Drawbridge
or
Swingbridge
the
said Trustees shall
so
conduct their
Works
or Operations that the whole Operations connected with the said
l'urnpike Conimunication or the
said
Bridge shall be begun and finished
within the shortest practicable Space, and
so
as
to interrupt the said Turn-
pike Communication
zs
little
as
possibly may be, and the said Trustees
providing sufficient temporary Accommodation for the Public during the
Execution
of
the said
Works
or
other
Opera-ions
;
and the slid Trustees
shall pay and free
arid
relieve the
said
Turnpike Trustees
of
a11 just and
lawful Claims and Charges whatsoever
which
shall or may in anyways
lawfully arise or
be
made against or demanded from the said Trustees for
or
in
respect
of
the said Operations, or the Interruption of the said
Com-
munication, or the Insuftjciency or Instability or ohjectionable Mode
of
working the said Bridge, or otherwise in the Premises.
the proposed Improvements and Extension
of
the said Navigation and
ference
to
Harbour, and the Lands and Heritages in,
tlirough,
or
upon which the
Plan
and
V.
And whereas
a
Map or Plan describing the Lines
and
Bounds
of
Book
of
Iie-
retiinin
witli
of
the
Same
Peace.
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