St. Helens Improvement Act 1869
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Citation | 1869 c. cxx |
[32^M?«D#3 TkhSi.Helemlm^vefmniAciitWS. [Oft.©XX.]
CHAP. cxx.
An Act to dissolve the Local Boards of the districts of Sutton
A.D.
1869.
and Parr in the borough of Saint Helens in the county of
Lancaster, and to repeal the Saint Helens Improvement
Act, 1855, and to constitute the Corporation of the said
borough the Local Authority therein for the improving
and governing of the said borough; to enable the said
Corporation to extend their Waterworks and to purchase
the Undertakings of the Saint Helens Waterworks Com-
pany and the Saint Helens Gas Company; and for other
-purposes. [12th July 1869.]
W
HEREAS by an Act (local) passed in the sixth year of the 6
& 7
Vict.
reign of Her present Majesty, chapter twenty-three, the Saint e-xxlll>
Helens "Waterworks Company (herein-after called the water
company) were incorporated with power to establish waterworks
and to supply water within the then town of Saint Helens, otherwise
the hamlet of Hardshaw-within-Windle, in the county of Lancaster,
and also the several townships of Windle, Parr, Sutton, and
Eccleston in the same county:
And whereas the water company executed the said waterworks,
and supplied water within the said town until the date of the con-
tract for the lease herein-after recited:
And whereas by " The Saint Helens Improvement Act, 1845,"
8 & 9
Vict.
certain commissioners thereby constituted were empowered to pave, c"c xn'
light, cleanse, and regulate the then town of Saint Helens, and to
establish markets therein, and to agree with the water company for
the purchase or lease of all their lands, buildings, reservoirs, engines,
plant, pipes, mains, and conveniences, with the appurtenances, and
with " the Company of Proprietors of the Saint Helens town hall,"
for the purchase or lease of all their land with the buildings thereon,
commonly called or known as the town-hall buildings, with their
appurtenances:
[Local.-! 20.] A 1
14
& 15
Vict
c. cxxxii.
[Ch. CXX.] The St. Helens Improvement Act, 1869. [32
&
33 VICT.]
A.D.
1869. And whereas by " The Saint Helens Improvement Act,
1851,"
the last-recited Act was repealed, and the Saint Helens Improvement
Commissioners were incorporated, and among other things em-
powered to carry into effect the said contract for a lease of the
undertaking of the water company, and to purchase water from the
Corporation of Liverpool and to distribute the same within the
limits of the Act now in recital, and for those purposes to execute
new waterworks:
Indenture And whereas by an indenture of lease dated the first day of
dated 1st Oct. Qc^er one thousand eight hundred and fifty-one, and made
between the water company of the one part and the said commis-
sioners of the other part, the water company in consideration of
the payment to them or on their account by the said commissioners
of certain annual rents, amounting in the whole to the yearly rent
of six hundred and ten pounds, demised their undertaking to the
said commissioners for a term of five thousand years from the
twenty-fifth day of December one thousand eight hundred and fifty:
18& 19Vict. And whereas by "The Saint Helens Improvement Act, 1855,"
c. xxiv. ^e iast_recited Act was repealed, but the said commissioners were
continued incorporated and seised, possessed of, or entitled to all
property of or to which they were seised, possessed, or entitled at the
time of such last-mentioned repeal, and the said lease was continued
a good and valid lease, and power was given them to purchase by
agreement the reversion of the undertaking of the water company,
and to purchase by agreement or lease the said town-hall buildings,
and to purchase water from the Corporation of Liverpool and to
distribute the same within the said townships of Eccleston, Parr,
Sutton, and Windle:
Adoption And whereas " The Local Government Act, 1858," was adopted
of
Local
on the seventeenth day of December one thousand eight hundred
Government * ™
Act,
1858,
in and sixty-three by the township of Sutton, and on the twenty-
Sutton and seventh day of April one thousand eight hundred and sixty-five
by so much of the township of Parr as lay without the town of
Saint Helens:
Charter of And whereas by letters patent dated the fifth day of March, in
da0tePd°rati0n'
the
ttoWy-frs*
year of the reign of Her present Majesty, the inhabi-
5th March tants of the town of Saint Helens, and of the said districts of Sutton
1868.
and Parr, and of parts of the said townships of Windle and Eccle-
ston contiguous to the said town of Saint Helens, were incorporated
by the name or title of the mayor, aldermen, and burgesses of the
town of Saint Helens, and the powers and provisions of the Muni-
cipal Corporations Acts were extended to the inhabitants of the
thereby constituted town of Saint Helens (herein-after referred to as
the borough) :
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[32&33 VICT.] The St. Helens Improvement Act, 1869, [Ch..CXX.]
And whereas, under the authority of the Act passed in the A.D. 1869.
twentieth and twenty-first years of the reign of Her present Majesty, T
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Ghapter fifty, the said commissioners did, on the twenty-eighth day commis-
of July one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, transfer to the sioners t0.
said mayor, aldermen, and burgesses (herein-after called the Corpo- rpora
ration),
all their the said commissioners rights, powers, estates,
property, and liabilities:
And whereas the divided jurisdiction now existing within the
borough in matters connected with the local government and
improvement thereof is productive of great inconvenience and
additional expense, and it is expedient that the local boards of the
said districts of Sutton and Parr should be dissolved, and that their
estates, property, rights, duties, and liabilities should be transferred
to the Corporation, and that the Corporation should he constituted
the sole local authority within the borough for all matters connected
with the improvement and local government
thereof:
And whereas it is expedient that the Corporation he authorized to
purchase by agreement the said town-hall huildings, or to provide
some other suitable town hall, and to establish and maintain the
markets and fairs, museums, libraries, parks, baths, schools, and
other works now existing or by this Act authorized, and that the
powers of the Corporation for the better ordering, improving, and
governing of the borough should be amended and extended in
various respects:
Anjl whereas the supply of water is at present insufficient for the
inhabitants of the borough, and it is expedient that the Corporation
be enabled to extend their existing waterworks, and to make the
new waterworks by this Act authorized:
And whereas plans and sections of such new works, and a book of
reference to the said new
works,
containing the names of the owners
or reputed owners, lessees or reputed lessees, and occupiers of the
lands,
houses, and property required for the purposes thereof have
been deposited with the clerk of the peace for the county palatine of
Lancaster:
And whereas it is expedient that the Corporation should be
authorized to purchase by agreement, and the water company to
sell and transfer to the Corporation, the reversion in the under-
taking of the water company :
And whereas by " The St. Helens Gas Act, 1852," the St. Helens 15
&
16 Vict.
Gas Company (herein-after called the gas company) were incorpo- c' K'
rated with power to erect gasworks and supply gas within the limits
of the then town of St. Helens, Hardshaw-cum-Windle, and the
said townships of Windle, Parr, Eccleston, and Sutton, and the gas
• company by virtue of the said Act erected gasworks and are
supplying gas within their said limits :
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