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ers of Sewers for Westminster, &c.

Saving Rights of Bedford

Level Corpo

ration.

dice, diminish, alter, limit, interfere with, take away, control, or suspend, any of the rights, privileges, jurisdictions, powers, and authorities vested in or belonging to the commissioners of sewers for the city and liberty of Westminster and part of the county of Middlesex, but that all such rights, privileges, jurisdictions, powers, and authorities shall be as good, valid, and effectual as if this Act had not been passed.

18. Provided always, and be it enacted, That nothing in this Act contained shall extend or be construed to extend to abridge, invalidate, lessen or diminish alter, or take away, any of the rights, powers, privileges, and authorities vested in the governor, bailiffs, and commonalty of the company of conservators of the great level of the fens called Bedford Level, or in the governor, bailiffs, and conservators of the Bedford Level corporation, by virtue of an Act passed in the fifteenth year of the reign of King Charles the Second, intituled An Act for settling the Drainage of the Great Level of the Fens called Bedford Levels, or by any other Act, statute, or charter, law of sewers, or otherwise howsoever; but that all rights, powers, and authorities which are now vested in the said governor, bailiffs, and commonalty, or in the said governor, bailiffs, and conservators, and every or any of them, shall for ever hereafter remain, continue, and be in the said governor, bailiffs, and commonalty, and in the said governor, bailiffs, and conservators, and every of them, as fully and amply to all intents and purposes as if this Act had not been passed.

CAP. XLVI.

An Act to empower the Commissioners for the Issue of
Exchequer Bills for public Works to complete the
Works authorized to be made by an Act of the sixth
and seventh year of His late Majesty King William the
Fourth, "for improving the Navigation and Harbour
of Tralee in the County of Kerry ;" and to extend the
Time for that purpose.
[21st June, 1841.]

CAP. XLVII.

An Act to amend an Act of the last Session, for continuing
and amending the Laws for the Relief of Insolvent
Debtors in Ireland.
[21st June, 1841.]

CAP. XLVIII.

An Act to render certain Municipal Corporations rateable to the Relief of the Poor in certain Cases.

[21st June, 1841.]

WHEREAS the municipal corporations of cities and boroughs named in the schedules (A.) and (B.) annexed to the Act passed

Municipal

in the sixth year of the reign of King William the Fourth, to provide for the regulation of municipal corporations in England and Wales, have been held not to be liable by law to be rated to the relief of the poor in respect of any lands, tenements, and hereditaments being the properties and in the occupation of such municipal corporations, by reason that the Income arising therefrom is applicable to public purposes only; and it is expedient that such municipal corporations should nevertheless in some cases be rateable and be rated to the relief of the poor in respect of such property: 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, That the Certain said municipal corporations named in the said schedules shall, from Corporations and after the passing of this Act, be rateable and be rated to the rated to the relief of the poor in respect of lands, tenements, and hereditaments Poor. being the property and in occupation of such municipal corporations, as if such lands, tenements, and hereditaments were not corporate property, any law, usage, or custom to the contrary notwithstanding: Provided always, that where such property lies in any parish which is situate wholly within the boundaries and limits of a city or borough named in the said schedules, and in which city or borough the poor are relieved by one entire poor rate, or in which city or borough the poor within the boundaries or limits thereof as existing for municipal purposes at the time of passing the said Act were then relieved by one entire poor rate, the exemption of such property from rateability shall continue as if this Act had not passed.

beneficial

2. And be it enacted, That any of the said municipal corpora- The said Cortions, being in the occupation of such lands, tenements, and porations to hereditaments as are herein-before described, shall be deemed and be deemed taken to be beneficial occupiers thereof, for all the purposes of Occupiers. rating, as if such occupation was for their own private advantage, and not for any public purposes or purpose, and shall be liable to be rated as such occupiers by their corporate style and title.

CAP. XLIX.

An Act to provide for repairing, improving, and rebuilding County Bridges. [21st June, 1841.] WHEREAS the Expence of maintaining, altering, widening, repairing, improving, and rebuilding County Bridges, and approaches thereto, is in some instances considerable, and it is expedient that the money required for that purpose should, in certain cases, be borrowed on security of the county rate: 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, That when it shall appear to the Justices Justices at assembled at any general or quarter sessions of the peace to beholden Sessions may

borrow Money at any time after the passing of this Act in any county, Riding, or

for repairing

County Bridges on the Credit of

the County Rate.

division in England or Wales, that the amount of any estimate approved by the said Justices for the upholding, maintaining, supporting, altering, widening, repairing, improving, or rebuilding of any county bridge or bridges, or the approaches thereto, or the land arches connected therewith, which any county is legally bound to repair or maintain, shall exceed one fourth of the amount of the ordinary annual assessment for the rate of any county, riding, or division (such ordinary assessment to be taken on an average of such rate for the last seven years preceding,) it shall be lawful for the Justices in quarter sessions assembled from time to time to borrow and take up on mortgage of such rate, by instrument in the from contained in the schedule to this Act annexed marked (A.,) or to the like effect, any sum of money not exceeding the amount of such estimate, in sums not less than fifty pounds each each, at interest, as to the said Justices shall appear necessary and expedient for the purposes aforesaid and to secure every such sum of money so borrowed upon the credit of the said rate; and it shall and may be lawful for the Justices so assembled and they are hereby authorized to treat and agree with any person for the loan of any such sums of money, and by their order to confirm every such Justices may agreement; and every such agreement, signed by the chairman and two or more other Justices present at time of making such order, shall be and the same is hereby declared to be effectual for securing every sum of money so advanced, with interest thereon, to the person or persons advancing the same, on such terms as in and by such agreement shall be stipulated; and copies or extracts of all such agreements shall be kept by the clerk of the peace; and it shall and may be lawful for every person who shall be entitled to the money thereby secured, and such person is hereby empowered, by endorsing his name on the back of such security, to transfer the same, and his right to the principal money and interest thereby secured, unto any other person; and every such assignee may in like manner transfer the same again, and so toties quoties; and the person to whom such security, or any such assignment thereof, shall be made, and his executors, administrators, and assigns, shall be creditors upon the said rate in an equal degree one with another, and shall not have any preference with respect to the priority of any monies so advanced.

agree with

Persons for
Loans.

Copies of

Agreements to
be kept by the
Clerk of the
Peace.

Justices may charge. the County Rate

with Interest

on the Money

2. And be it enacted, That it shall and may be lawful for the said Justices and they are hereby authorized and required to charge the rate to be raised upon such county, riding, or division, not only with the interest of the money so borrowed, but also with the borrowed and payment of such further sum as shall insure the payment of the whole of the sum borrowed within fourteen years from the time of borrowing the same; and such sums shall be assessed on the county, insure the Re- riding, or division in such manner as county rates are directed to be assessed under the laws in force for that purpose, and shall be paid and applied under the direction of the Justices, in discharge of the interest and of so many of the principal sums on the said securities as

such further sum as shall

payment thereof in fourteen. Years.

Payments.

such money will extend to discharge in each year, until the whole of the money for which such securities shall be made, and the interest thereof, shall be fully paid and discharged; and the Justices shall and they are hereby required to fix one or more day or days in each year on which such payment shall be made, and shall make orders for assessments in due time, so as to provide for the regular payment thereof; and such Justices shall also and they are hereby required to Books to be appoint a proper person to keep an exact and regular account of all kept of Rethe receipts and payments under the authouity of this Act, in a book ceipts and or books, separate and apart from all other accounts, and the same to adjust and settle in such manner that it may easily be seen what interest is growing due, and what principal money has been discharged, and what remains due, and the books or book so adjusted and settled to deliver into court at any general or quarter sessions to be held for such county, riding, or division; and the Justices shall also and they are hereby required at every such sessions carefully to inspect all such accounts, and to make orders for carrying the purposes of this Act into execution, in such manner as to them shall seem meet; and the Justices so assembled in sessions as aforesaid shall direct in what order shall securities shall be discharged, by drawing lots or otherwise, as they shall think fit, taking care to discharge, in the first place, all such securities as shall bear the highest rate of interest.

3. Provided always, and be it enacted, That the Justices shall Notice to be not make any order for the borrowing money upon mortgage of given of the rate for any of the purposes aforesaid, unless a notice in writing borrowing Money on of the intention to make the application, signed by two at least Mortgage of of the Justices usually acting in and for the division within which the County the bridge in question is situated, shall have been given to the clerk Rate. of the peace four weeks previous to the holding of the sessions at which such application is intended to be made, and shall also have been published in the newspaper or newspapers in which notice of holding the quarter sessions is usually published, together with such last-mentioned notice.

to

this Act.

4. And be it enacted, That an Act passed in the sixth year of Powers of the reign of His Majesty King George the Fourth, intituled An 6 G. 4, c. 40, Act to enable Justices of the Peace in England, in certain Cases, applied to borrow Money on Mortgage of the Rate of the County, Riding, or Place for which such Justices shall be then acting, and the several clauses, powers, and provisions in the said recited Act contained relating to the paying off of any debt or debts, and the borrowing of any money for such purpose, shall and may be applied in the paying off any money borrowed under the provisions or for the purposes of this Act, as fully and effectually as if such clauses, powers, and provisions were repeated and re-enacted in this Act,

5. And be it enacted, That this Act may be amended or repealed Act may be by any Act to be passed in this present session of parliament.

altered this Session.

SCHEDULE to which this Act refers.

(A.)

Form of Mortgage and Charge upon the County Rate for securing Money borrowed.

at

on the

WE, A. B., one of Her Majesty's Justices of the Peace and chairman of the court of quarter sessions of the peace holden day of for the county, et cætera of [as the Case may be,] C. D. and E. F. Esquires, two other of Her Majesty's Justices of the peace acting for the said county, et cætera, and assembled in the said court, in pursuance of the powers to us given by an Act passed in the fourth year of the reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, intituled et cætera [insert the Title of this Act,] do hereby in open court mortgage and charge all the rates to be raised within the said county, et cætera [as the Case may be,] under the description of county rates, by the laws now in being, with the payment of the sum of which G. H. of hath proposed and agreed to lend, and hath now actually advanced and paid, towards defraying the expences of upholding, maintaining, supporting, altering, widening, repairing, improving, or rebuilding [as the Case may be] a certain county bridge at or certain county bridges at [as the Case may be] in the said county, and the approaches thereto [as the Case may be] in the said county,et cætera, and we do hereby assign the same unto the said G. H., his executors, administrators and assigns, for securing the payment of the sum of and interest for the same after the per centum per annum, and do order the treasurer for the said county, et cætera, or other Person, [as the Case may be,] to pay the interest of the said sum of same shall become due, until the principal pursuant to the directions of the said Act.

rate of

and

half-yearly as the shall be discharged,

CAP. L.

An Act to make further Provision relative to the Returns to be made by Banks of the Amount of their Notes in Circulation. [21st June, 1841.]

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