Sutton Harbour [Plymouth Port] Act 1847
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1847 c. ccxcvii |
ANNO DECIMO & UNDECIMO
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C^p.ccxcvii.
An Act for improving and regulating the Harbour
of Sutton Pool within the Port of Plymouth in
the County of Devon. [23d July 1847.]
w Reign
HEREAS by an Act passed in the Fifty-first Year of the
of His late Majesty King George the Third,
intituled An Act for the Improvement of the Harbour qf^\G
Sutton Pool in the Port of Plymouth in the County of Devon,
certain Persons therein named, with others, were incorporated into
a Joint Stock Company by the Name and Style of the Sutton Pool
Company, and His then Royal Highness George Augustus Frederick
Prince of Wales (the then Duke of Cornwall) was empowered to
grant to such Company such Leases as herein-after recited, and the
Proprietors in such Company were empowered to raise among them-
selves for the Purpose of such Act not exceeding in the whole the
Sum of Fifty thousand Pounds in Shares of Fifty Pounds each, and
His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales as Duke of Cornwall, His
Heirs and Successors, or such Company, or whosoever might have
such Lease as therein recited, were empowered to demand in respect
of the Use of such Harbour and otherwise certain Tolls and Dues as
therein mentioned, and such Company was empowered to make Quays,
Wet Docks, and Dry Docks, and to place Mooring Rings, Chains,
and Capsters, and otherwise to improve and manage such Harbour
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4398 10° & 11° VICTORIA, C^.ccxcvii.
Indenture
of as therein mentioned: And whereas by an Indenture of Lease, dated
^5th%ebtCd
^e Twenty-fifth Day of February One thousand eight hundred and
1812.
" twelve, between His said Royal Highness
George
Augustus Frederick
Prince of Wales of the one Part and the said Sutton Pool Company of
the other Part, in pursuance of the said recited Act, His said Royal
Highness as Duke of Cornwall did demise all that Water, Soil, and Pool
of Sutton situate, lying, and being near the Borough of Pit/mouth in
the said County of Devon, called Sutton Pool, within certain Places
near the said Borough called the Barbican and Causey, and within
the Flux and Reflux of the Sea at ordinary Tides, with the Rights,
Members, and Appurtenances thereunto belonging, Parcel of the
Possessions of the Duchy of Cornwall, together with the Profits of
the said Water or Pool as therein mentioned, and all Sums of Money
and other Fees, Duties, and Profits as therein mentioned, and all
Rates and Dues whatsoever imposed by the said recited Act, and
payable in respect of the said Premises or any .Part
thereof,
and also
all and singular the Dwelling Houses, Storehouses, Lofts, Edifices,
Structures, Cellars, Wharfs, Quays, Yards, and Curtilages
.
erected
and built upon the Ground or Soil of the said Pool or any Part
thereof,
with the Appurtenances, excepting nevertheless and reserving
Five several Pieces or Parcels of the then unoccupied Soil and
Ground therein described, Parcel of the said Pool of Sutton, and
subject to a certain Indenture of Lease of a Dwelling House and
Courtlage, Part of the said demised Premises, and also excepting
and always reserving Prizage, Butlerage, Wrecks, Customs, and other
Profits as therein mentioned, all wThich said Premises were then and
still are Parcel of the Possessions of the Duchy of Cornwall in the
said County of Devon, unto the said Sutton Pool Company, and their
Successors.and Assigns, for the Term of Ninety-nine Years from the
Twenty-fifth Day of December One thousand eight hundred and
ten, under the yearly Rent, until the Twenty-fifth Day-of December
One thousand eight hundred and forty-one, of Thirteen Pounds Six
Shillings and Eight-pence, and Ten Pounds Eight Shillings and Six-
pence for Land Tax, and after that Period during the Residue of
the same Term at the yearly Rent of Seven hundred Pounds, with
Powers to erect Houses, Edifices, Cellars, Wharfs, Quays, and other
Structures or Improvements in, upon, or out of the said Water and
Indenture of Pool, or any Part
'thereof,
except as before excepted: And whereas
Leaseofeven \yy another Indenture of Lease of even Date with and made between
?a!t d*?- ^e same P^rties aS were Pities to the said-recited Indenture of
denture. Lease* in pursuance of the said recited Act, His said Royal Highness
as Duke of Cornwall did demise all those the said Five Pieces or
Parcels of Soil and Ground therein described,-Part of the said Pool
of Sutton otherwise Sutton Pool, situate, lying, and being near the
Borough of Plymouth in the said County of Devon, and Parcel of
the Possessions of the said Duchy of Cornwall, and which were
excepted from the said 'first-recited Lease a& aforesaid, and also full
Liberty to inclose the same by the Erection of
Dams,
Moles, orBanks,
or by any other Means requisite for enabling such Company to con-
struct Docks, Wharfs, Quays, Houses, or other Structures, or to
make any other Improvements in the same Pieces of Soil and Ground
(excepting and reserving certain Profits, Sums of Money, and other
Fees,
Duties, and Profits as therein expressed), and all Houses,
5 Edifices,
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