Limited Owners Reservoirs and Water Supply Further Facilities Act, 1877
LIMITED OWNERS RESERVOIRS AND WATER SUPPLY FURTHER FACILITIES ACT, 1877 | ||
CHAPTER 31. | ||
An Act to give further facilities to Landowners of limited interests in England and Wales and Ireland to charge their estates with the expenses of constructing Reservoirs for the storage of Water, and other similar purposes. [2d August 1877.] | ||
WHEREAS landowners of limited interests in England and Wales, with the approval of the Inclosure Commissioners, and in Ireland of the Commissioners of Public Works in Ireland, are enabled to charge their estates with sums expended by them in constructing reservoirs and other works for the supply of water, if it can be shown to the satisfaction of the said Commissioners that such works will effect a permanent yearly increase in the value of such estates for agricultural purposes exceeding the yearly amount proposed to be charged thereon, and are also enabled to charge their estates with sums subscribed for the construction of railways and navigable canals, if it can be shown to the satisfaction of the Commissioners that such railways and canals will effect a permanent yearly increase in the value of such estates for any purpose exceeding the yearly amount proposed to be charged thereon: | ||
And whereas in many places it would greatly conduce to the affording of a plentiful supply of pure water to the inhabitants of villages and towns and to the industrial requirements of the locality, if facilities were given to landowners of limited interests to charge their estates, subject to the approval of the Commissioners, with sums expended by them in constructing reservoirs and other works for the supply of water, of a character permanently to increase the value of such estates for other than agricultural purposes, or to be otherwise permanently productive of profit to the owners of the estates, and if such landowners were also enabled to charge their estates with sums subscribed by them for the construction of waterworks on the same terms and conditions as those on which they are now enabled to charge their estates with subscriptions for the construction of railways and canals: | ||
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: |