River Welland Navigation Act 1837
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1837 c. cxiii |
ANNO PRIMO
VICTORLE REGIME.
Cap.
cxiii.
An Act to increase the Tonnage Rates and Duties
granted by an Act passed in the Fifth Year of
the Reign of His late Majesty King George the
Fourth, for improving the Outfall of the River
Welland in the County of Lincoln; and to alter
and enlarge the Powers of the said Act.
[12th July 1837.]
W
HEREAS an Act was passed in the Fifth Year of His late
Majesty King George the Fourth, intituled An Act for 5G.4. c.96.
explaining, amending, and rendering more effectual an Act of
His late Majesty, for improving the Outfall of the River Welland in the
County of Lincoln, wherein it was among other things recited, that
it was expedient that further Powers should be granted for the
Removal of Shoals in the Channel of the said River Welland, from
and below the Staunch then fixed across the said River above the Town
of Spalding in the said County of Lincoln, and in and through the said
Town, to Fosdike Bridge, and for training or directing the Passage of the
Waters in and through Fosdike Wash in the said County, and the
Removal of Shoals and other Impediments to the Discharge of the Waters
therein : And whereas by the said recited Act certain Persons, to be elected
and nominated as therein mentioned, were constituted and appointed
Trustees for the Maintenance, Support, and Improvement of the new Cut
or Channel, Banks, Sluices and other Works therein mentioned or re-
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Trustees for
the Execu-
tion of Act.
Seven Trus-
tees may act
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Tonnage
Rates granted
by recited
1° VICTORIA, Cfljo.cxiii.
ferred to, and authorized to be made and executed, and for the Drainage,
and Navigation
thereof,
and for executing the other Purposes of the said
now reciting Act; and any Seven or more of them Were authorized to act
therein j and the said Trustees Were thereby authorized and empowered,
from and after the Twenty-fourth Day of June One thousand eight hun-
dred and twenty-four, to ask, demand, take, and recover the several Rates,
Tolls,
or Duties therein-after mentioned, for and in respect of all
Materials, Merchandize, and other Goods, Matters, and Things which
should be carried or conveyed along any Part of the said new Cut or
Channel already made or thereafter to be made below a certain. Place
called the Reservoir, in the Parish of Surfleet in the said County of Lin-
coin,
and Powers, Remedies, and Provisions were thereby given, granted,
and reserved to and in favour of the said Trustees, for recovering, levy-
ing, and enforcing the Payment of the said Rates, Tolls, and Duties re-
spectively : And whereas the Rates, Tolls, and Duties by the said recited Act
granted and authorized to be taken have been found inadequate and in-
sufficient to and for the Execution and Performance of the several Works
and the Accomplishment of the several Purposes in and by the said
recited Act mentioned and contemplated, and the State and Condition of
the said River from and below the Staunch aforesaid, and thence through
the Town of Spalding, to
Fosdike
Bridge aforesaid, and the Outfall of the
said River in and through
Fosdike
Wash, hath become and is deteriorated,
and the Navigation of the said River hath consequently become and is
obstructed and impeded, to the Prejudice and Injury of the Trade and
Commerce of the said Town of Spalding and the contiguous Country:
And whereas, for carrying into effect the beneficial Intents and Pur-
poses of the said recited Act of the Fifth Year of His said late Majesty,
it is expedient and necessary that other Rates, Tolls, and Duties, pro-
ductive of greater Proceeds, should be granted and be made payable to
the Trustees of and under the said recited Act, to be by them applied in
and towards the several Works and Purposes in the said Act and herein-
after mentioned and referred to: May it therefore please Your Majesty
that it maybe 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, That the several Persons now acting as Trus-
tees,
and from Time to Time hereafter (pursuant to and in conformity
with the Directions of the said recited Act) to be elected and nominated
Trustees, for the Execution of the said recited Act, shall be and they are
hereby constituted and declared to be Trustees of and under this Act, for
the Execution and Performance of the several Purposes
hereof,
as herein-
after enacted and provided for.
II.
And be it further enacted, That all Acts, Matters, and Things
hereby directed or authorized to be done by the said Trustees shall
and may be done and executed by any Seven or more of them, and that
the same shall be as valid and effectual as if done and executed by all
the said Trustees for the Time being.
III.
And be it further enacted, That the Rates, Tolls, and Duties whigh
in and by the said recited Act were granted and made payable to and
recoverable by the said Trustees, for and in respect of all Materials,
Merchandize, and other Goods, Matters, and Things carried or conveyed
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