West Somerset Mineral Railway Act 1855
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Citation | 1855 c. cl |
| Year | 1855 |
ANNO DECIMO OCTAVO & DECIMO NONO
VICTORLE REGIME.
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Cap. cl.
An Act for authorizing the making and maintaining
of the
West Somerset Mineral
Railway, and the
improving and regulating of the Harbour of
Watches
in the County of
Somerset ;
and for
other Purposes.
[16th
July
1855.]
W
HEREAS Iron Ore has lately been found in the
Brendon
Hills
in the County of
Somerset,
and it is important for the
working thereof that additional Facilities for Communica..
tion between the
Brendon Hills
and the Coal and Iron Districts in
South. Wales
be provided, and it is expedient for that Purpose that
the Harbour, Port, and Quay of
Watchet
(in this Act called the
Harbour) be improved and regulated, and that a Railway between
the Harbour and the
Brendon Hills
be made and maintained : And
whereas the Persons in that Behalf named in this Act and others
are willing, if the Harbour be properly improved and regulated, to
make and maintain the Railway, and it is expedient that they be in-
corporated, with proper Powers and Provisions for that Purpose : And
whereas the Devisees in trust under the Will of
George
late Earl of
Egremont
are or claim to be the Lords of the Manor of
Watchet,
and as such Lords are or claim to be entitled to the Management and
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Regulation
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I8° & 19° VICTOR1Y,
Cap.
el.
West Somerset Mineral Railway Act,
1855.
Regulation of the Harbour, and the Collection and Application of the
Rates, Duties, and Charges authorized to be collected there : And
whereas those Rates, Duties, and Charges are authorized by the fol-
lowing Acts or some of them, to wit, the Act of the Sixth Year of
Ann. c. 8. Queen
Anne,
Chapter Eight, intituled
An Act for repairing the
Harbour and Key of
Watchet
in the County of
Somerset ; and
the
Act of the Tenth Year of Queen
Anne,
Chapter Fourteen, intituled
An Act for prolonging the Term for Payment of certain Duties
granted by an Act made in the Twelfth and Thirteenth
Years of
His
late Majesty King
William,
intituled An Act for recovering,
securing, and keeping in repair the Harbour of
Minehead,for
the
Benefit and Support of the Navigation and Trade of this Kingdom;'
and the Act of the Seventh Year of King
George
the First, intituled
7 G. 1.
c
i
14.
An Act for continuing the Duties grated by several Acts made in the
Sixth and Tenth Years of Her late Majesty': Reign,
for
repairing
the Harbour and Key of
Watchet
in the County of
Somerset; and
the Act of the Tenth Year of King
George
the Third, intituled
10 G. 3.c. 24.
An Act for further continuing the Duties granted and continued by
several Acts made in the Sixth and Tenth Years of the Reign of
Queen
Anne,
and in the Seventh Year of the Reign of King
George
the First, for repairing the Harbour and Key of
Watchet
in the
County of
Somerset ; and the Act of the Forty-ninth Year of King
49 G.3.
c.1. George
the Third, intituled
An Act for continuing the Term and
Powers of several Acts passed for repairing the Harbour and Quay of
Watchet
in the County of
Somerset : And whereas the Amount of
the Rates, Dues, and Charges collected at the Harbour is insufficient
to meet the Expense of improving it ; and inasmuch as the Improve-
ment of the Harbour would be of Benefit, not only with respect to
the Railway, but also with a view to public Advantage, it is expe-
dient to grant the Rates and Dues by this Act authorized in lieu of
those Rates, Dues, and Charges : And whereas in order to the early
Expenditure of an adequate Sum on the Improvement of the Harbour,
it is expedient to authorize a Lease of the Harbour to the
Company
incorporated by this Act : And whereas the Objects of this Act
cannot be attained 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 Com-
mons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority
of the same, as follows ;
k
to wit,)
Short Title.
I. This Act may be cited for
any
Purpose as "
West Somerset
Mineral
Railway Act,
1855."
Interpreta-
H.
The following Words and Expressions in this Act have the
Lion of
following Meanings, except where the Subject or Context excludes
Terms.
such Construction; (to wit,)
" The
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West Somerset Mineral Railway Act,
1855.
" The Admiralty " means the Lord High Admiral of the United
Kingdom of
Great Britain
and
Ireland,
or the Commissioners
for executing the Office of Lord High Admiral :
" The
Trinity House"
means the Corporation of the
Trinity House
of Deptford Strond :
"
Ballast " includes all Substances used as Ballast :
" Ballast Lighter" means any Vessel used for receiving or con-,
veying Ballast :
" Rubbish" includes Wreck, Ballast, Ashes, Filth, and other waste
Matters.
III. The several Words and Expressions to which, by the Acts
incorporated with this Act, Meanings are assigned, have in this Act
the same respective Meanings, unless there be in the Subject or
Context something repugnant to or inconsistent with such Con-
struction.
Same Mean-
ings to
Words in
incorporated
Acts and this
Act.
IV.
The " Companies Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845," the
8 & 9 Viet.
"
Lands Clauses Consolidation Act,
1845,
"
and the " Railways
cc. 16., 18.,
& 20. in or-
Clauses Consolidation Act,
1845,
"
save so far as the Clauses and
porated.
Provisions thereof respectively are expressly varied or excepted by
this Act, are respectively incorporated with this Act.
V.
Abraham Darby, Thomas Brown, William Tothill, Joseph
West Somer-
Robinson,
and
Frederick Levick,
and all other Persons who have
set Mineral
Rawa
already subscribed or who hereafter subscribe to the Undertaking,
Company
and their Successors, Executors, Administrators, and Assigns respec-
incorporated.
sively, shall be a Company for the Purpose of making and main-
taining the Railway by this Act authorized, and for other the Purposes
of this Act, and for such Purposes are by this Act incorporated by
the Name of the "
West Somerset Mineral Railway Company," and
by that Name shall be One Body Corporate, with perpetual Succes-
sion and a Common Seal, and with Power to sue and be sued, and to
purchase, take, hold, and dispose of Lands and other Property for the
Purposes but subject to the Restrictions of this Act, and to put this
Act in all respects into execution.
VI. The Capital of the Company shall be Fifty thousand Pounds,
Capital,
in Five thousand Shares of Ten Pounds each.
VII.
One Pound a Share shall be the greatest Amount of a_ Call,
Calls.
and One Month at least shall be the Interval between successive Calls ;
and the aggregate Amount of all Calls made on any One Share in
any Year shall not exceed Three Fourths of the nominal Amount of
the Share.
VIII.
The
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