& 16 Vict., 69. id, sec. 2. Sid, sec. 4. other than and except in such manner as the same respectively Local Government thereof The parish is governed by a Local Act (47 Geo. III., c. 111, Sess. 2), which received the Royal Assent on the 13th August 1807. By "The Public Health Supplemental Act, 1852," the provisional order of the General Board of Health, made in pursuance of "The Public Health Act, 1848," was confirmed, with these special provisions which the Act contained: : Nothing herein contained or referred to should sanction or Woolwich authorize any interference with the watching, paving, and Dockyard, &c. exempted lighting, or internal regulations for the time being of Her from operaMajesty's dockyard, or of any barracks, fortifications, military tion of Act. or other premises, under the control or authority of the officers of Her Majesty's Ordnance in or near the parish of Woolwich; and it should not be lawful for the Local Board of the said parish, or any person whomsoever, to enter into and upon any land which was then or which might at any time thereafter be vested in the principal officers of Her Majesty's Ordnance for the time being, or to make, construct, or set up any sewer, drain, or any work, article, or thing of any description, on, in, under, over, or through any such land or the foreshore in front of any such land, or which may affect the same land or foreshore, without the previous consent of the said principal officers of Her Majesty's Ordnance, signified in writing under the hand of the Secretary of the Board of Ordnance, and then according to such plan, and in such manner, and upon such terms and conditions, and under such restrictions, as might be signified in writing; and if any such sewer, drain, work, article, or thing be made, constructed, or set up, or be commenced to be made, constructed, or set up contrary thereto, it should be lawful for the principal officers of Her Majesty's Ordnance, if he or they think fit, to fill up, remove, and abate the same, and restore the site thereof to its former state and condition at the cost of the said Local Board. and nomina The first election of the eighteen persons to be elected First election to form a part of the Local Board of Health for the district of tion of Local Woolwich, for the purposes of the said Public Health Act, should Board for take place on the 18th day of August 1852, and that the Woolwich. nomination of the three persons to be nominated by the Superintendent of Her Majesty's Dockyard, the Commanding Royal Engineer, the Storekeeper of Her Majesty's Ordnance, and the officer in command for the time being of the Royal Artillery in the parish of Woolwich aforesaid, to form the other members of the Local Board of Health within and for the said district for the purposes of the said Public Health Act, shall take place on the 18th day of August 1852. Special pro vision as to Parish of Woolwich. Conservators may make Bye-laws for the Regulation of the River. "The Metropolitan Local Management Act" enacted, that, 18 & 19 Vin notwithstanding anything in the Act contained to the contrary, c.120, sec.2 the provisions should extend and apply to the parish of Woolwich only to the extent and in manner hereinafter mentioned (that is to say): A member of the Metropolitan Board of Works shall be from time to time elected by the Local Board of Health of Woolwich, at a meeting of such Board, as by this Act directed with respect to the vestry of each of the parishes mentioned in the Schedule (A). The said Metropolitan Board shall have and perform, within and in relation to the said parish, all the powers and duties vested in them under this Act, in like manner as within and in relation to other parishes mentioned in the said Schedule (A), save that the said Local Board shall be subject to all orders of the said Metropolitan Board in relation to sewerage and otherwise, and to all precepts requiring payment of money, in all respects as the vestries of other parishes in the said Schedule (A) are subject to the same, in lieu of the vestry of the said parish; and all sums required to be paid by such precepts shall be defrayed out of any moneys carried to the district fund account, or by means of a general district rate to be levied on the whole of the parish of Woolwich, or such part thereof as may be specified in the precept of the said Metropolitan Board. As to the Thames river. On the 17th August 1857 "The Thames Conservancy Act, c. 147, sec. 4 (L. & P.) The Conservators shall have full power and authority from 20 & 21 Vie time to time to make such bye-laws, rules, orders, and regulations as to them shall seem right and proper for the regulation, management, and improvement of the river and the navigation thereof, and for compelling vessels at anchor or otherwise to carry or exhibit lights from sunset to sunrise, and for the government, good order, and regulation of vessels in or upon the river, and of persons navigating the same, or using the towing-paths, piers, landing places, or any of the locks thereof, also for the mooring of timber, and for the government and regulation of the officers, servants, and workmen in their employ, as the conservators shall think proper, and from time to time to alter, vary or repeal such bye-laws, rules, orders, and regulations, or any of them, as they shall think fit, so that no such bye-law, rule, order, or regulation be contrary to the laws of England or to the provisions of this Act, and so as the same be reduced into writing, and shall be under the common seal of the conservators. 1 Amended by 27 & 28 Vict., c. 113 (L. & P.), and 29 & 30 Vict., c. 89 (L. & P.). & 21 Vict., may be It shall be lawful for the Conservators, by any such bye-laws, Penalties not 47, sec. 46. rules, orders, and regulations to impose and inflict such reasonable exceeding 57. fines and forfeitures for the breach or non-performance of such imposed by bye-laws, rules, orders, and regulations, or any of them, as they bye-laws. shall think fit, so that no one penalty or forfeiture shall exceed the sum of 57. for any one offence. Provided always, that such bye-laws shall be so framed as to allow the justices before whom any penalty imposed thereby may be sought to be recovered to order the whole or a part only of such penalty to be paid. id, sec. 47. bid, sec. 50. Bid, sec. 51 No bye-laws, rules, orders, or regulations made under the Bye-laws to be powers for that purpose herein contained shall be in force until approved and published in the same shall have been sent to the Lord Chief Justice of the newspapers. Court of Queen's Bench, the Lord Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas, and the Lord Chief Baron of the Court of Exchequer, and shall have been approved by one of them, nor until after 30 days after the same shall have been published twice in some London morning newspaper; and a copy of any such bye-laws, rules, orders, and regulations under the common seal of the Conservators, with a declaration thereon signed by the Secretary that the same have been so approved and published as aforesaid, with the date of such approval and publication, shall be received as evidence of such bye-laws, rules, orders, and regulations, and of the approval and publication thereof as aforesaid, in all Courts of Law and Equity and before all justices. the bed and All the estate, right, title, and interest of the Mayor and All the estate commonalty and citizens of the city of London in the bed and of the Corporation of soil and shores of the River Thames, from Staines in the county London and of Middlesex to Yantlett in the county of Kent, and all the the Crown in estate, right, title, and interest to which Her Majesty was on soil of River the 23rd day of February 1857, entitled in right of Her Crown Thames of, in, and to the bed and soil and shores of the River Thames vested in within the flux and reflux of the tides, bounded eastward by an Conservators. imaginary line to be drawn from the entrance of Yantlett Creek in the county of Kent on the southern shore of the said river to the City Stone opposite to Canvey Island in the county of Essex on the northern shore of the said river, and of, in, and to all encroachments, embankments, and inclosures therefrom or thereupon, except such parts thereof as are hereinafter specified, shall from and after the commencement of this Act be and the same are hereby vested in the Conservators; but the Mayor and commonalty and citizens shall continue liable to account for any moneys which may have accrued due to Her Majesty up to the commencement of this Act, under or by virtue of the herein before in part recited Articles of Agreement of the 18th day of December 1856, in respect of the revenues received or to be received since the 31st day of December 1853, as provided for in the eighth clause of these Articles. part of the Provided always, that the portion of the bed or soil or Reservation of shores of the River Thames, or any encroachment, embankment, bed and soil. or inclosure therefrom or thereupon, in front of or immediately adjacent to any lands, buildings, or hereditaments whereof or This Act not to extend to Her Majesty's ships or moorings or to affect the Act 54 Geo. whereto Her Majesty, or any person or body in trust for her, Nothing in this Act contained shall extend to any ships or 20 & 21 Vic III., c. 159. Rules and Bye-laws for the Regulation of the Navigation of the River Thames. The Conservators of the River Thames, in exercise of the powers and authority vested in them by the "Thames Conservancy Act, 1857," and of every other authority therein hereunto in anywise enabling do order and direct as follows, that is to say: 37. No steam vessel shall be worked, navigated, or placed upon, or anchored, or moored in the river within 360 feet of Her Majesty's dockyard or arsenal at Woolwich, or of Her Majesty's victualling yard or dockyard at Deptford. 55. Any person committing any breach of, or in any way infringing any of these bye-laws, shall be liable to a penalty of, and shall forfeit a sum not exceeding 5l., which said penalty shall be recovered, enforced, and applied according to the provisions of the said "Thames Conservancy Act, 1857." Under the Act summary proceedings before a justice must be taken within six months next after the commission of the offence. sec. 164. For protectary road tion of milibelonging to the Ordnance (L. & P.) Wormwood Scrubs. On the 2nd July 1847, "The Great Western (West London Widening and Branches) Railway Act, 1847," (10 and 11 Vict., c. 91) was passed, which enacts: (L. & P.) And whereas the branch railway from the Great Western 10 & 11 Vic Railway to join the West London Railway hereby authorised to c. 91, sec. 14 be made is proposed to cross a private military road in the parish of Hammersmith, belonging to the Master-General of Her Majesty's Ordnance, and numbered 40 on the plans of the said railway, deposited as aforesaid: Be it enacted, that the said company shall and they are hereby required to construct a bridge for the purpose of carrying the said road over and across 1 See Plan B, p. 238, as to the lands reserved. & 43 Vict., 60. the said railway; and such bridge, and the approaches thereto, Military exercising ground. On the 21st July 1879 the following Act received the Royal Whereas with a view to create a metropolitan exercising And whereas plans showing the said common coloured light red, and the said inclosed lands coloured dark red and purple respectively, have been deposited at the War Office and at the office of the Metropolitan Board of Works; And whereas the Secretary of State for War has proposed Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent 1. This Act may be cited as the Wormwood Scrubs Act, Short title. 1879. Scrubs and of 2. The common known as Wormwood Scrubs, in the manor Vesting of of Fulham, in the county of Middlesex, and containing 135 acres Wormwood or thereabouts, and the lands adjoining thereto and containing adjoining land 53 acres and 5 acres or thereabouts, which common and lands in Metro(in this Act referred to as the Scrubs) are shown in plans politan Board deposited at the War Office and the office of the Metropolitan Board of Works, and are therein coloured respectively light red, of Works. |