A BILL то Confirm certain Provisional Orders under "The Local Govern- A.D. 1869. ment Act, 1858," relating to the districts of Aberystwith, Ashton-under-Lyne, Bath, Cleckheaton, Crompton, Newport (Monmouthshire), Reading, Southport, Stalybridge, and Weston-super-Mare; and for other purposes relative to the district of Gorleston and Southtown. W HEREAS the Secretary of State for the Home Department, being one of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, has, under the provisions of the Local Government Act, 1858, duly made certain provisional orders, which are contained in the schedule 5 to this Act annexed; and it is provided by the aforesaid Local Government Act that no such orders shall be of any validity whatever until they shall have been confirmed by Parliament, and it is expedient that the said orders should be so confirmed, and other provisions made with respect to the district of Gorleston under the 10 Local Government Act aforesaid: 15 Be it therefore 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: orders in 1. The provisional orders contained in the schedule hereunto Provisional annexed shall, from and after the passing of this Act, be absolute, schedule and be as binding and of like force and effect as if the provisions of confirmed. the same had been expressly enacted in this Act. board of town certain 2. Whereas the Local Government Act is in force in and for the Vesting in 20 district of Gorleston and Southtown in the county of Norfolk, and the local it is desirable that the local board for the said district should be Gorleston invested with powers of leasing, management, and control of certain and Southland set out, described, and appointed by an award in writing, bearing public lands date the twenty-ninth day of April in the fifty-third year of the in the district, with 25 reign of his late Majesty King George the Third (1813), and made power to in pursuance of the powers and authorities vested in the Commis- lease such lands and regulate them by byelaw. A.D. 1869. sioners for carrying into execution an Act passed in the forty-ninth year of the said reign, intituled an Act for enclosing lands in the parish of Corton, Hopton, and Gorleston in the county of Suffolk, as a "public way over such part of the common, marsh, and waste land, situate in the said parish of Gorleston, lying next the river Yarr, commonly called Yarmouth harbour, and running parallel "thereto, of the average breadth in its whole length of eighty feet "from low water mark to the foot of the marsh wall or bank then lately made thereon," as the same and the user and the duty of repairing thereof are described in the said award and map thereunto annexed: Act incor porated with 21 & 22 Vict. c. 98. Short title. 66 66 5 10 Be it enacted that the said land shall vest in and be under the management and control of the local board for Gorleston and Southtown, and the said local board may and is hereby authorized and empowered, by and with the consent in writing of one of Her 15 Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, from time to time to let such part or parts of the said land as to the said local board shall seem fit on lease, and not otherwise, for any term not to exceed twenty-one years from the date thereof, and to accept a surrender of any such lease, and from time to time to re-lease the same in manner 20 aforesaid, and accept a surrender of every such lease. And the said local board may and is hereby empowered to make and enforce byelaws for the management, regulation, and control of the said land, in the same way in all respects and subject to the same conditions as bye-laws made in pursuance of the said Local Government Act. 3. This Act shall be deemed to be incorporated with the Local Government Act, 1858, and shall be as if this Act and the said Local Government Act were one. 25. 4. In citing this Act in any other Act of Parliament or in any proceeding, instrument, or document whatever, it shall be sufficient 30 to use the words and figures "The Local Government Supplemental Act, 1869 (No. 2).. SCHEDULE of Provisional Orders referred to in the 5 1. ABERYSTWITH.-Extending the borrowing powers of the local board. 2. ASHTON-UNDER-LYNE.-Partial repeal of local Act, and extension of borrowing powers of town council. 3. BATH.-Putting in force Lands Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845, for the purchase and taking of lands otherwise than by agreement. 4. CLECKHEATON.-Separating the hamlets of Scholes and Oakenshaw from district. 10 5. CROMPTON.-Putting in force Lands Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845, for the purchase and taking of lands otherwise than by agreement. 15 9. STALYBRIDGE.-Extending the borrowing powers of the local board. 10. WESTON-SUPER-MARE.-Putting in force Lands Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845, for the purchase and taking of lands otherwise than by agreement. A.D. 1869. |