Stockport Improvement Act 1847

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Citation1847 c. cclxxxiv
ANNO DECIMO & UNDECIMO
VICTORIA REGIN^E
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Cap.
cclxxxiv.
An Act to purchase and define the Manorial and
Market Rights of Stockport, to establish public
Parks,
to purchase or lease Waterworks, to build
Bridges, and to make other Communications within
the Borough of Stockport. [22d July 1847.]
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HEREAS the Mayor, Aldermen, and Burgesses of the
said Borough of Stockport, by the Council of the said
Borough, have negotiated with the Right Honourable
George John Warren Lord Vernon, Baron of Kinderton in the
County Palatine of Chester, (who in the Will of the Right Honour-
able Elizabeth Harriett Viscountess Bulkeley, deceased, was described
as George Sedley Vernon, and who is now Tenant for Life in Pos-
session, without Impeachment of Waste, (subject to certain Charges
and Incumbrances affecting the same,) of the Manor and Barony of
Stockport in the said Borough, with certain Houses, Buildings, and
Lands connected therewith, together with the Manorial Tolls, Rights,
Privileges, Right of Market, Market, Market Tolls, Dues, and accus-
tomed Payments of and relating to such Manor and Barony, Market
and Market
Place,
particularized in Schedule (A.) hereunto annexed, and
also of the Lands particularized in Schedule (B.) hereunto annexed,
with Remainder to the first and other Sons of the said George John
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Power for the
Mayor, &c.
of Stockport
to carry into
effect a Ne-
gotiation for
the Purchase
of certain
Lands and
Manorial
Rights
belonging to
LordVernon*
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Council of
Borough of
Stockport
empowered
to carry Act
into execu-
tion.
8 & 9 Vict,
c. 18. incor-
porated with
this Act.
Council may
appoint a
Committee
to carry
Act into
execution.
10° & 11° VICTORIA Cap.cclxxxiv.
Warren Lord Vernon severally and successively in Tail Male, "with
divers Remainders over, for a Sale to the said Mayor, Aldermen, and
Burgesses of the said Manor and Barony, Houses, Buildings, and
Lands, Manorial Tolls, Rights, Privileges, Right of Market, Market,
Market Tolls, Dues, and accustomed Payments of and relating to
such Manor and Barony, Market and Market Place, mentioned and
particularized in the said Schedule (A.), and for a perpetual Dedica-
tion of the Lands mentioned and particularized in the Schedule (B.)
hereunto annexed, to be for ever afterwards appropriated as a public
Park and Walks, and to be by the said Mayor, Aldermen, and
Burgesses laid out as such public Park and Walks, and for ever
hereafter be held by the said Mayor, Aldermen, and Burgesses in
trust for the Public, the said Mayor, Aldermen, and Burgesses
inclosing, laying out, and maintaining the same as such public Park
and Walks, under the Provisions of this Act, at and for the Price
and Sum of Twenty-two thousand and five hundred Pounds : And
whereas it would be of great local and public Advantage if Powers
were granted to the said Mayor, Aldermen, and Burgesses to carry
into effect the said Sale and Purchase so negotiated as aforesaid with
the said Right Honourable George John Warren Lord Vernon, and
if the Manorial, Market, and other Tolls, Dues, and Demands in
and affecting the said Borough of Stockport were regulated and
limited, and also if the said Land were so dedicated for the Pur-
pose of such public Park and Walks, and if the said Mayor, Alder-
men, and Burgesses were enabled to hold the same, and to inclose,
lay out, and for ever afterwards maintain the same, and if the
further Purposes of this Act were accomplished; but such Objects
cannot be effected 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 and with the
Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and
Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Autho-
rity of the same, That the Mayor, Aldermen, and Burgesses of the
Borough of Stockport shall, by the Council of the Borough, be and
and they are hereby empowered to carry this Act and the several
Powers thereof into execution.
IL And be it further enacted, That the " Lands Clauses Con-
solidation Act, 1845," shall be incorporated with and,form Part of
this Act.
III.
And be it enacted, That for the more conveniently carrying
this Act and the several Powers thereof into execution it shall be
lawful for the Council and they are hereby empowered to appoint
out of their Body from Time to Time One or more Committee or
Committees, consisting of such Number of Persons as they may think
fit, to manage and transact all or any of the Matters or Purposes
which they, the Council, are hereby directed or authorized to do,
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execute, or perform, which Committee or Committees shall have such
or so many of the Powers and Authorities and Discretion by this Act
given to and reposed in the Council as the Council shall think fit or
proper to delegate to such Committee or Committees.
IV. And

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