Dover Markets Act 1826

• Jurisdiction: UK Non-devolved
• Citation: 1826 c. v

ANNO SEPTIMO

GEORGII IV. REGIS,

Cap.

v.

An Act for enlarging the present Market, and

establishing Fish Markets, in the Town and Port

of

Dovor

in the County of Kent; and for removing

the Elections of Members and of Mayors of the

said Town from the Church of Saint Mary the

Virgin in Dovor. [22d March 1826.]

W

HEREAS the Inhabitants of the Town and Port of Donor

in the County of Kent have of late Years greatly increased:

And whereas a Market for supplying the Inhabitants of

the said Town and Port, and the Neighbourhood

thereof,

with Meat,

Poultry, Vegetables, Fruit, and other Provisions, hath been held, and

continues to be holden, in a certain Place called the Market Place,

situate in the said Town and Port, on Wednesday and Saturday in

every Week: And whereas the Mayor, Jurats, and Common Coun-

cilmen of the said Town and Port of Dovor are, by certain Charters,

or by Prescription and Usage, entitled to certain Customs, Rents,

Tolls,

Stallages, and Profits, arising, growing, or happening for or in

respect of all Articles of Provisions exposed for Sale in the said

Market, and hawked about the Town for the Sale

thereof:

And

whereas it would be great Convenience' and Accommodation to the

said Inhabitants, and to Persons frequenting the said Town on

Market Days, and would tend to remove Nuisances and Obstructions,

if Power was given to enlarge and extend the said Market Place,

and provide good and sufficient Stalls, Standings, and Accommoda-

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B b tions

S>8

Mayor, &c.

' empowered

to purchase

Houses or

Lands for

enlarging the

Market.

Form of Con-

veyance to

the Corpora-

tion.

7°GEORGII IV. Cap.v.

tions therein for all Persons frequenting the said Market, and if

proper Regulations were made arid established for the good Govern-

ment

thereof:

May it therefore please Your Majesty that it may be

enacted ; and be it enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty,

by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and

Temporal, arid Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and

by the Authority of the same, That it shall be lawful for the said

Mayor, Jurats, and Common Councilmen in Common Council assem-

bled, and their Successors, to treat, contract, and agree with the

Owners of or Persons entitled to or interested in all or any Messuages,

Lands, and Hereditaments which shall be necessary for ^enlarging

the said Market Place, and the Approaches thereto, and which are

more particularly mentioned and described in the First Schedule to

this Act annexed, for the absolute Purchase of such Premises; which

said Premises, when purchased, shall be respectively conveyed to and

vested m the said Mayor, Jurats, and Common Councilmen, and their

Successors, in Fee Simple, for the Purposes of this Act.

II.

And be it further enacted, That all Sales, Conveyances, As-

signments, and Assurances of any Lands, Tenements, or Heredita-

ments, to be made to the said Mayor, Jurats, and Common Conncil-

men, and their Successors, shall be made in the Form or to the Effect

following; (that is to say),

T in consideration of the Sum of

to me paid by the Mayor, Jurats, and Common Coun-

cilmen of the Town and Port of Dovor in the County of Kent, by

virtue of an Act passed in the Seventh Year of the Reign of King

George the Fourth, intituled [here insert the Title of this Act], do

hereby grant arid convey to the said Mayor, Jurats,, and Common

Councilmen,, and their Successors, all [here

describe

the Premises to

he

conveyed%

and all my Estate, Right, Title, Term, and Interest to

and ift the sanie and every Part

thereof,

to hold to the said Mayor,

Jtirats,, and Common Councilmen, and their Successors, for ever.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my Hand and Seal, this

' Day of in the Year of our

'/lord

And eveKy such Sale* Comveyarices Assignment, and Assurance so

made shall be

good>:

valid^ and effectual,, to all Intents and Purposes

whatsoever, any Law* Statute, Usage, or Custom to the contrary

thereof notwithstanding: Provided always, that nothing herein con-

tained shall authorize of empower the said Mayor, Jurats, and Com-

mon Councilmen to take or purchase any House,, Buildings, Lands,

Tenements, or Hereditaments for the Purposes of this Act, without

the"

Consent of the Owners or Occupiers

thereof,

other than and

except those which are particularly mentioned arid specified in the

First Schedule hereunto annexed.

Purchases of III. Provided always, and be it further enacted, That in case the

the

Mes-

said Mayor, Jurats, and Common Councilmen of the said Town and

mentioned

in

*>ort> or ^eir Successors, shall not purchase the Messuages, Lands,

the Schedule Tenements, or Hereditaments, mentioned and described in the First

to

be

within Schedule of this Act, or any of them, within the Space of Five Years;

Five Years. 8 from

F &OMGII IV.

.v.

fmm tliei passing of this,

Act;,.

theiv and

m.

siicht Case iir shall. not, be

lawful

for?

the said; Mayor,.

Jurats*,

and Common, Councilmen,

OE

tHtsiis

Successors*.

to piirchaseaKy of

the:

said Messuages,,

Lands,:

Tenements^

on Hereditaments,

so

remaining unpurchased', without the Consent- m

Waiting- of the Owner or Owners thereof for that Purpose first-, had;

arid,

obtained;

IV. Provided always, and be it further enacted*. That' if any- of Misnomer in

the Houses, Buildings* Lands, Tenements* or Hereditamenta which/ describing

are mentioned or described ia the First Schedulej

ii®

this Act annexed, the Premises

or any of

the.

Owners

thereof;,

or of the Persons in'whose Occupation "^ Execu^

OK

Possession

the;

same or any Part thereof

are,

or is stated or described tion of

this

to

be*

shall- happen to be misnamed or inaccurately described, such Act.

Misnomer or inaccurate Description shall, nost prevent or retard the»

Execution; of

this:

Act, but the same Premises,, and every Part

thereof,

shall and maiy be purchased and conveyed, disposed of and applied to.

and for the Purposes of this Act, as fully and effectually

as.

if the same

were more properly named and described in the said Schedule

*

pro*

vided it shall appear to

any.

Justice of the Peace- for the County of

Kent, and be certified by Writing under his Hand, that, such Ornish

sion, Misnomer, or inaccurate Description proceeded from Mistake,

or that the real Owners or Occupiers of such Houses, IJuildings*

Lands, or Hereditaments, had previous Notice that the same respect-

ively would be wanted for the Purposes of this Act.

V. And whereas there is no Market or Place in the said Town Fish Market.

and Port for the Sale of Fish, which is attended with much Inconve-;

nience to the Inhabitants and Persons resorting thereto; and if a Fish

Market or Fish Markets: was or were established in the said Town

and Port, it would be the Means of preventing Nuisances therein by

the Exposure of Fish to Sale in improper Places ; be it therefore en-

acted, That the said Mayor, Jurats, and Common Councilmen in

Common Council assembled, and their Successors, shall and may,

and they are hereby authorized and empowered to treat, contract, and

agree with the Honorable Warden and Assistants of the Harbour of

Dovorj or with any other Person or Persons, for the Purchase, or for

a Lease for Years, of any Lands or Hereditaments which the said

Mayor, Jurats, and Common Councilmen shall deem most eligible,

proper, and convenient for the Scite or Scites of a Market or Mar*

kets for the Sale of Fish only ; and it shall and may be lawful to and

for the said Mayor, Jurats, and Common Councilmen, and their Succes-

sors,

and they are hereby authorized and empowered, to build, erect,

establish, and hold, or cause to be built, erected, established, and held,

a Market or Markets for the Sale of Fish only, upon the Lands so to be

purchased as aforesaid.

VI.

And be it further enacted, That it shall and may be lawful to Common

and for the said Mayor, Jurats, and Common Councilmen, and their Council may

Successors, to contract and agree with any Person or Persons for en- C011tract;

larging the said first-mentioned Market and Buildings, and complet-

ing the said Fish Market or Fish Markets, and all Stands, Stalls,

Shambles, and other Conveniences, and to contract with such Person

Or Persons for providing proper-Materials for all or any of the Pur-

poses