Thorne Moor Drainage and Improvement Act 1848
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Citation | 1848 c. cl |
ANNO UNDECIMO & DUODECIMO
VICTORLE REGINTE.
• 4
Cap.
cl.
An Act for draining, warping, and otherwise im-
proving Thorne Moor in the West Riding of
Yorkshire. [14th August 1848.]
W
HEREAS there is in the Parish of Thorne in the West
Riding-of Yorkshire a large Tract of Moorland, con-
taining about Four thousand Acres, and known as Thorne
Moor, which is entirely unproductive, but which could be rendered
fertile, with great Advantage to the Public, if it were properly
drained, warped, and otherwise improved : And whereas an Act was
passed in the Fifty-first Year of the Reign of King George the Third,
intituled An Actfor enclosing Lands in the Parishes o/'Hatfield, Thorne,
51G.3.
c.30.
and Fishlake, in the Manor o/^Haitefield in the West Riding of the
County of York ; and another Act was passed in the Fifty-third Year of
the same Reign, intituled An Act for enclosing Lands in the Town- 53G.3.C.177.
ships of Crowle, Eastoft, and Ealand in the Parish of Crowle in the
County of Lincoln, and extending into the West Riding of the County
of 'York: and another Act was passed in the Fifty-sixth Year of the
same Reign, for amending the last-recited Act, and for draining and
warping the said Lands and other Lands in the said Act mentioned :
And whereas the Persons herein-after mentioned are willing, at their
own Expense, to drain, warp, and improve Parts of the said Moor-
land'; but they cannot do so without the Authority of Parliament:
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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-
Provisionsof rity of the same, That "The Companies Clauses Consolidation Act,
8&9 Vict. •'- — ---- r .
cc.
16.
and 18.
incorporated ~ . . 0 , . . , . . . .
with
this
Act.
Provisions ot the same may be varied by this Act.
1845,
n and "The Lands Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845, v be incor-
porated with and form Part of this Act, excepting in so far as the
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Short
Title.
II- And be it enacted, That in citing this Act in other Acts of
Parliament, and in legal and other Instruments, it shall be sufficient
to call the same "The Thome Moor Drainage and Improvement
Subscribers
incorporated.
Act, 1848/'
III.
And be it enacted, That Richard Ellison, Edmund Denison,
Robert Baxter, Makin Durham, and all other Persons and Corpora-
tions who have already subscribed or shall hereafter subscribe to
the said Undertaking, and their respective Executors, Administrators,
Successors, and Assigns, shall be united into a Company for the
Purpose of draining, warping, and otherwise improving the said
Tract of Moorland as herein-after defined, according to the Pro-
visions of this Act and of the Acts incorporated herewith, and for
other the Works and Purposes herein and in the said Acts contained ;
and for the Purposes aforesaid such Company shall be incorporated
by the Name of " The Thome Moor Improvement Company, " and
by that Name shall be a Body Corporate, with perpetual Succession,
and shall have a Common Seal, and by that Name shall sue and be
sued, and shall have Power to purchase, hold, and sell Lands for the
Purposes of the Undertaking, with the Restrictions herein and in the
recited Acts contained, and shall have all such other Powers as are
given by this Act or by the Acts incorporated herewith.
Capital. IV. And whereas the estimated Expense of the said Drainage,
Warping, and Improvement, and of the Works incident thereto, is
Thirty-seven thousand Pounds: Be it enacted, That the Capital of
the Company shall be Thirty-seven thousand Pounds.
Number and
Amount of
Shares.
V. And be it enacted, That the Number of Shares into which the
Capital shall be divided shall be One thousand eight hundred and
fifty, and the Amount of each Share shall be Twenty Pounds.
Calls
Power to
borrow
Money on
Mortgage.
VI.
And be it enacted, That Two Pounds per Share shall be the
greatest Amount of any One Call which the Company shall make on
the Shareholders, and that Ten Pounds shall be the greatest aggre-
gate Amount of Calls that may be made in any One Year upon any
Share, and that One Month's Notice at the least shall be given of
each Call.
VII.
And be it enacted, That it shall be .lawful for the Company
to borrow on Mortgage or Bond any Sums not exceeding in the
whole the Sum of Twelve thousand Pounds, but no Part of such
Sum shall be borrowed until the whole of the said Capital or Sum of
Th irty-seven
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