South Molton Markets and Improvement Act 1862
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1862 c. xxvii |
| Year | 1862 |
ANNQ
VICESIMO
QUINT0
VIC
0
Cap.
xxvii.
An
Act
for
the
building
of
a new Market
House
iii
the
Borough
of
South
Molton;
for
the
regu-
lating of Markets and Fairs
in
the Borough;
for the Improvemeat in other respects
of
the
Borough
;
and
for
other Purposes.
[Sd
Jurde
1962.1
HEREAS
the Borough
of
South
.2%oZton
is
a
very ancient
Eorough, which is regulated in part by
a
Charter granted
by
Queen
Elizabeth
and another Charter granted
by
Icing
Charles
the Second: And whereas the Mayor and Burgesses
of
the
Borough (in this Act called the Corporation) hold
in
the Borough
divers Markets, being respectively the Pannier Market, and the Meat
Market, and the Cattle Market, and the Cattle, Sheep, and Pigs
Market, and the Corn and Grain Market, and
Two
Fairs yearly, and are
entitled to the
Tolls
and
Payments arising from the Markets and Fairs
:
And whereas the Meat and Pannier Market and the Corn
and
Grain
Markets respectively
are
held in
a
Square or open Space in the Borough,
in which Market Place
is
an
ancient and inconvenient Market House
:
And whereas the Corporation are desirous
and
it is expedient that they
be authorized to build
a
new Market House, and to remove thereto the
Meat
and
Pannier Market
ancl
the
Corn
and Grain Market: And
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whereas,
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VICTORIE,
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South
Molton
Markets
and
Improvement
Act,
1862.
whereas, with
a
view to the bnilding of the intended new Market House,
the Corporation lately purchased the Land specified in the First Schedule
to this Act annexed, which adjoins
to
the present Market Place, and that
Land would be
a
proper Site for the intended Market House: And
whereas
a
Doubt has been raised with respect to the Competency
of
the
Corporation to make that Purchase, and
to
appropriate and hold that
Land
for the Purposes of the intended new Market House, and it
is
expedient that the Doubt be removed
:
And whereas it is expedient that
a
Market for
Wool
and other marketable Commodities be established in
the Borough: And whereas it is expedient that further Provision be
made with respect to the Regulation of Markets and Fairs in
the
Borough, ancl the hawking
of
marketable Commodities within the
Borough, and with respect to the Tolls and other Payments arising from
the Markets and Fairs
:
And whereas it
is
expedient that further Provi-
sion be made with respect to the Improvement
of
the Borough, and the
Preservation
of
the Health
of
the Inhabitants thereof, and in order thereto
the several Acts relating to the Puldic Eealth and
Local
Government be
incorporated with this
Act,
and
be carried into effect within the Borough
by the Corporation, as
if
they were the Local Board
of
Health for the
District
of
the Borough
:
And whereas the Lands specified in the Second
Schedule to this Act annexed are Parts
of
the ancient Corporate Estates
of the Corporation, and
the
legal Estate in Fee Simple thereiii is vested
in Trustees thereof for the Corporation, and the Rents, Issues, and Profits
of those Lands are Part
of
the Corporate Revenues
of
the Corporation
:
And whereas the Corporation are desirous and
it
is expedient that Provi-
sion be made with respect
to
the Sale
of
Parts of those Lands, and the
Application
of
the Proceeds thereof for Purposes
of
this
Act
:
And whereas
it is expedient that the Corporation be authorized to raise Monies for
the Purposes
of
this Act
:
And whereas the Objects of this Act cannot
be attained 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 ancl with the Advice and Consent
of
the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Par-
liament assembled,
and
by the Authority of the same,
as
follows
;
(that
is to
1.
This Act
may
for
all
Purposes be cited
as
“
South
Molton
Markets
and Improvement Act,
1862.”
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short
Title.
18.
in-
corporated.
2.
1845,”
and
‘‘
The Lands
1860,”
(save
so
far
as
any
of
the
Sections and Provisions thereof are excepted
or
varied by this Act,)
are incorporated with this Act
;
provided that this Act shall not authorize
the Purchase
of
any Lands otherwise than by Agreenicnt, except in any
Casein which
the
Purchase is made in accordance with the Provisions of
the Local Government
Acts
incorporated with
this
Act.
3.
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The
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