Warrington Extension and Water Act 1890

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Citation1890 c. ccxxxvi
Year1890
[53 & 54 VICT.] Warrington Extension and [Oh. CCXXXVi.]
Water Act, 1890.
CHAPTER ccxxxvi.
An Act to extend the Boundaries, of the Borough of War-
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rington to provide for Testing the Undertaking of the
Warrington Waterworks Company in the Mayor Alder-
men and Burgesses of the Borough of Warrington and
for other purposes. [14th August, 1890.]
HEREAS the existing borough of Warrington is a municipal
borough subject to the Acts relating to municipal corporations
and under the government of the mayor aldermen and burgesses of
the borough (in this Act called " the Corporation"):
And whereas the Corporation acting by the council of the borough
are the urban sanitary authority for the district of the existing
borough with the powers and obligations of an urban sanitary
authority:
And whereas the following local Acts are wholly or partially in
force within the existing borough (that is to say):
The Warrington Gas Act 1847;
The Warrington Improvement and Market Act 1854;
The Warrington Gas Act 1871;
The Warrington Corporation Gas Act 1877 ;
The Warrington Corporation Lighting and Improvement Act
1879:
And whereas it is expedient that the boundaries of the existing
borough should be extended in manner by this Act provided:
And whereas the Corporation are the burial board for the existing
borough and it is expedient that they be constituted the burial
board for the extended borough :
And whereas in order to make provision for the representation of
the area added to the borough and to settle the division into wards
of the extended borough it is desirable that a commissioner be
appointed as in this Act mentioned :
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And whereas the Corporation are the owners of the gas under-
" taking of the borough and under the powers of the recited Acts
manufacture gas and supply gas in the borough and in certain
adjoining townships and places:
And whereas the Warrington Waterworks Company (in this Act
called " the company ") are incorporated and authorised to supply
and are now supplying water within limits which comprise the
existing borough and several adjoining townships and places under
and by virtue of the following Acts :
The Warrington Waterworks Act 1855;
The Warrington Waterworks Act 1868; and
The Warrington Waterworks Act 1878:
And whereas the capital of the company consists of
Porty thousand pounds preference stock entitled to a preferential
dividend at the rate of four pounds ten shillings per centum
per annum:
Three thousand ordinary shares of ten pounds each entitled to
dividend at a rate not exceeding ten pounds per centum per
annum:
One thousand five hundred ordinary shares of ten pounds each
entitled to dividend at a rate not exceeding seven pounds ten
shillings per centum per annum:
Three thousand ordinary shares of ten pounds each entitled to
dividend at a rate not exceeding seven pounds per centum per
annum;
And whereas the company have a mortgage or bond debt of
twenty-eight thousand three hundred and nineteen pounds but
have not created any debenture stock and are indebted to their
bankers for moneys advanced:
And whereas the company and the Corporation have agreed for
the transfer to the Corporation of the undertaking rights powers
and privileges of the company on the terms and conditions herein-
after set forth and it is expedient that provision as herein-after
contained should be made for effecting that object and that the
Corporation should be invested with the powers of the company to
the extent herein-after mentioned :
And whereas it is also desirable to enable the Corporation to
acquire certain lands for the enlargement of their existing hospital
for infectious diseases:
And whereas the Public Libraries (England) Acts 1855 to 1889
arc in force within the borough and a free library museum and art
collections have at great expense been established and provided but
the rate authorised by the said Acts is insufficient for the purpose
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collections and it is therefore expedient that the amount of the rate
be increased:
And whereas the Corporation require to raise moneys for the
purposes of this Act and it is expedient that the Corporation be
authorised to raise moneys for the same in manner by this Act
provided:
And whereas the objects of this Act cannot be attained without:
the authority of Parliament:
And whereas a plan and a book of reference containing the names
of the owners or reputed owners and of the occupiers of the lands
required or which may be taken for the pm-poses or under the
powers of this Act were duly deposited with the clerk of the peace
for the county palatine of Lancaster and are in this Act respectively
referred to as the deposited plan and book of reference:
And whereas an absolute majority of the whole number of the
council at a meeting held on the nineteenth day of December one
thousand eight hundred and eighty-nine after ten clear days notice
by public advertisement of such meeting and of the purpose thereof
in the Warrington Examiner a local newspaper published and circu-
lating in the borough such notice being hi addition to the ordinary
notices required for summoning such meeting resolved that the
expense in relation to promoting the Bill for this Act should be
charged on the borough fund and borough rate :
And whereas such resolution was published twice in the said
"Warrington Examiner and has received the approval of the Local
Government Board and of the Secretary of State for the Home
Department as regards matters within their respective departments:
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
similar notice on the twenty-third day of April one thousand eight
hundred and ninety being no less than fourteen days after the
deposit of the Bill for this Act in Parliament:
And whereas the owners and ratepayers of the borough by resolu-
tion in the manner provided in the Third Schedule of the Public
Health Act 1875 consented to the promotion of the Bill for this
Act:
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 authority
of the same as follows (that is to say):
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