Walsall Corporation Act 1890
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1890 c. cxxx |
[53 & 54 VICT.] Walsall
Corporation
Act, 1890. [Oh. CXXX.]
CHAPTER cxxx.
An Act to extend the boundaries of the Borough of Walsall
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to make better provision for the health local government
and improvement of the Borough to provide for the
creation and issue of Corporation Stock and for other
purposes. [25th July 1800.]
TT7HEREAS the borough of Walsall in the county of Stafford is
» v a municipal borough under the government and local manage-
ment of the mayor aldermen and burgesses of the borough (in this
Act called the Corporation) and the Corporation acting by the
council are the urban sanitary authority for the district of the
existing borough :
And whereas the existing borough is a county borough within
the meaning of the Local Government Act 1888:
And whereas the unrepealed provisions of the following local
Acts and Orders confirmed by Parliament are in force within the
existing borough (that is to say) The Walsall Improvement and
Market Act 1848 the Walsall Improvement and Market Amendment
A.ct 1850 and the Walsall Gas Purchase and Borough Extension
Act 1876 (in the Sixth Schedule to which last-mentioned Act nre
contained the unrepealed provisions of the other two Acts) the
Order relating to the borough of Walsall confirmed by the Local
Government Board's Provisional Orders Confirmation (Artizans'
and Labourers' Dwellings) Act 1877 and the Walsall Corporation
(Loans) Order 1882 all which Acts and Orders-are in this Act
collectively referred to as the recited Acts and each of the said
Acts is separately referred to as the Act of the year in which it was
passed :
And whereas the existing municipal borough of Walsall com-
prises a part of the parish of Walsall and a part of the parish of
Rushall and the parliamentary borough of Walsall comprises the
whole of the existing municipal horough and a further portion of
the parish of liushall and it is expedient that the municipal limits
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Corporation
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of the borough should be extended so as to include the portion of
the parish of Rushall beyond the existing municipal borough but
within the parliamentary borough so as to make the boundary of
the borough co-extensive for parliamentary municipal and sanitary
purposes:
And whereas in order to settle the division into wards of the
extended borough it is desirable that a commissioner be appointed
as in this Act mentioned:
And whereas the existing borough is a school board district and
it is expedient that that district should be extended as by this Act
provided:
And whereas it is expedient that better provision should be made
with reference to streets buildings and sewers within the borough
and the powers of the Corporation in relation to the health local
government and improvement of the borough should be enlarged
and the recited Acts should be in divers respects amended:
And whereas it is expedient that the Corporation should be
invested with further powers in regard to their markets and fairs:
And whereas the Corporation are or claim to be the owners of
certain lands in Bath Street in the borough on which they erected
many years ago out of corporate funds eleven almshouses (known
as the Corporation almshouses) in lieu of a certain penny dole
formerly payable by them to the inhabitants of the borough and of
the extra-municipal portions of the parishes of Walsall and Rushall
And whereas the said almshouses are out of repair and in many
respects unfit for use as almshouses and it is expedient that the
Corporation should be empowered to rebuild the almshouses on
other lands belonging to or to be acquired by the Corporation and
that the Corporation should be empowered to sell the site of the
existing almshouses and other lands belonging to them in Bath
Street and to apply the proceeds in or towards the erection of the
new almshouses or otherwise as provided by this Act and it is
expedient that the obligation on the part of the Corporation to
provide and maintain almshouses and otherwise in relation thereto
as mentioned in this Act should be declared to be a charitable
trust.
And whereas the Corporation are possessed of certain parks or
recreation grounds known as the Arboretum Palfrey Park Reeds
Wood Bloxwieh Green and other recreation grounds and it is
expedient that tbe Corporation should he empowered to make
regulations in regard to such parks and recreation grounds and
any other parks or recreation grounds that they may hereafter
acquire:
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Corporation
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And whereas it is expedient that the Corporation should be A.T). 1890.
empowered to regulate the erection and continuance of over-head
wires:
And whereas the outstanding loans of the Corporation amounted
on the twenty-ninth day of September one thousand eight hundred
and eighty-nine to the sum of two hundred and thirteen thousand
two hundred and forty-seven pounds six shillings and. sixpence as
set forth, in the First Schedule to this Act and in addition to the said
outstanding loans a yearly sum of one thousand three hundred
pounds is payable by the Corporation to the corporation of Bir-
mingham in respect of the purchase of a portion of their gas
undertaking which annuity may be redeemed by the payment of
the capitalised value
thereof:
And whereas it is expedient that the Corporation be empowered
to exercise their statutory borrowing powers for the time being by
means of the creation and issue of Corporation stock :
And whereas the Public Libraries (England) Acts 1855 to 1889
are in force within the borough but the rate authorised by those
Acts is insufficient for the proper maintenance and improvement of
the library and museum established thereunder and it is expedient
that the limit on the rate imposed by those Acts should be altered :
And whereas it is also expedient that better provision should be
made for the levying and collection of municipal rates within the
borough :
And whereas it is expedient that the power of the Corporation
to demand and take an additional charge for the supply of gas in
certain outlying parts of the borough should be repealed :
And whereas the objects aforesaid cannot be attained without the
authority of Parliament:
And whereas an absolute majority of the whole number of the
conncil at a meeting held on the eleventh day of November one
thousand eight hundred and eighty-nine after ten clear days' notice
by public advertisement of the meeting and of the purpose thereof
in the " Walsall Free Press " a local newspaper published and circu-
lating in the borough such notice being in addition to the ordinary
notices required for summoning that meeting resolved that the
expense in relation to promoting the Bill for this Act should be
charged on the borough fund and rate :
And whereas that resolution was published twice in the " Walsall
Advertiser" a local newspaper published and circulating in the
borough and has received the approval of the Local Government
Board:
And whereas the propriety of the promotion of the Bill for this
Act was confirmed by an absolute majority of the whole number of
the council at a further special meeting held in pursuance of a
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