AN

ACT

FOR

Better paving, cleansing, lighting, watching, and improving. the Streets, Lanes, and other Public Places and Passages within the CITY OF ABERDEEN, and certain Grounds adjacent, for regulating the Police thereof, and for supplying the Inhabitants with Water.

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[ROYAL ASSENT, 14th May, 1829.]

HEREAS an act was passed in the fifty-eighth year Preamble. of the reign of his late Majesty, George the Third, intituled, An Act for better paving, cleansing, lighting, watching, and improving the Streets, Lanes, and other Public Places, and Passages of the City of Aberdeen, and the Roads and Avenues within the Freedom and Royalty thereof; and for supplying the Inhabitants of the said City with Water :

And whereas the powers and provisions contained in the said act, have been found in many respects beneficial, while in others, and particularly in regard to supplying the inhabitants of the said city with water, they have been found to be defective and inadequate; on which account it has become expedient that the said act should be repealed, and that new and more enlarged powers should be given for paving, cleansing, lighting, watching, and improving the streets, lanes, and other public passages within the said city, and grounds adjacent thereto, already built upon, or laid out in streets, or in the event of the same being laid out into streets, or built upon; and that powers should also be given to take water

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from the river Dee, for the use of the inhabitants of the said city and grounds aforesaid, and to borrow money to defray the expense attendant thereupon, and for other purposes relating to the improvement of the said city and grounds:

And whereas it would tend to the more easy and effectual execution of the powers necessary for the above purposes, if the said act were repealed, and all the said powers comprised

in one act:

May it therefore please your MAJESTY,

I. 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, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the 58 G. 3. repeal- same, That from and after the second Thursday of October, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine, the said recited act of the fifty-eighth year of the reign of his late Majesty George the Third shall be, and the same is hereby repealed.

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Property vested in commission

ers for this act.

II. And be it further enacted, That all the real and personal estate acquired by the commissioners acting under the authority of the said recited act, which shall be in their possession, or under their control on the said second Thursday of October, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine, and all debts due to the said commissioners, and all the rates, assessments, and monies made and levied under the authority of the said recited act, and all the arrears of the same, shall be and the same are hereby vested in the commissioners to be appointed under the authority of this act; and such debts, rates, and assessments shall be paid and payable to the said commissioners so to be appointed. And all bonds, securities for money, conveyances, contracts, and agreements made and entered into by the said commissioners under the said recited act, to or with any person or persons according to the provisions and conditions of the said act, shall remain in full force and effect, and be and continue valid in the law, and available in all courts until the same are fully paid and satisfied, performed and discharged, and the same shall be charged and chargeable upon the rates and assessments, to be levied, and the sums to be borrowed under the authority of this act; and all bonds, securities for money, conveyances, contracts, and agreements made or entered into by any person or persons to or with the said commissioners; and all debts owing to them according to the provisions and direc

tions of the said act, shall remain in full force and effect, and shall be and continue available in all courts of law and equity, until the same are fully satisfied and performed.

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III. And be it further enacted, That the clerks, surveyors, Former officers collectors, and all other officers, save and except the trea- to continue unsurer, who have been appointed under and employed in the execution of the said act, shall respectively continue to exercise their offices under this act, until they shall respectively be displaced or removed by the said commissioners, or be incapable of executing their offices, and shall be subject to the like rules and regulations, and pains and penalties in all respects whatsoever, as if they had been appointed under or by virtue of this act.

IV. And be it enacted, That the powers and regulations Boundaries dehereinafter contained, for the establishment of a general sys- scribed. tem of police, and for other purposes, shall extend over the grounds and houses locally situated and comprehended within the following limits; videlicet, within a line commencing at the point where the burn of Ferryhill enters the River Dee, and following the course of said burn westward until its confluence with the tail race or waste water lead of the mill of Ferryhill; then turning northward towards Bon-Accord Terrace, alongst the channel of the burn which leads in that direction: and then westward, still keeping the course of said burn across the Hardgate Road at Newbridge (where said burn is known by the name of Holburn,) and across the great south road leading from Aberdeen to Stonehaven; and continuing westward along the burn to the south-west corner of the wall which incloses Union Grove; thence northward to the Hazlehead or west burn of Rubislaw; thence along said burn to a point nearly as far westward as the site of the present Rubislaw toll bar; thence northward from said burn by a road which enters that branch of the Skene turnpike road which leads from Union Place, at a point twenty-seven paces, or thereby, eastward of said toll bar; thence westward to said toll bar; thence northward to a point at the east end of the dam of Stonietown distillery; thence North-eastward to the dam of Gilcomston; thence along the north side of said dam thence along the road leading from the said dam to the south-west corner of the wall which incloses Westfield; thence northward along the road which leads therefrom to the old Stocket Road; thence eastward to the road which leads from Steps of Gilcomston towards Barkmill; thence northward along the said last mentioned road to Hutcheon Street; thence eastward along the said street to the burn at Broadford, which divides the parishes of Saint Nicholas and

Division into wards.

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Old Machar; thence northward and eastward along the boundary between the said two parishes to the sea; thence along the beach to the mouth of the river Dee; and after there erossing that river, along the boundary between the parishes of Saint Nicholas and Nigg, to a point opposite to the extremity of the parish of Saint Nicholas, on the north bank of the said river, and there crossing it, and going along the bank of said river to the point at which the burn of Ferryhill enters the said river Dee, as aforesaid.

V. And be it enacted, That for the more effectual execution of the powers hereby granted, the said city and places within the limits hereinbefore described, shall be divided into nine districts or wards.

VI. And as the parish of Saint Nicholas, within which the greatest part of the said city is situated, has lately been subdivided into six parishes, videlicet, the east parish, the west parish, the north parish, the south parish, Greyfriars' parish, and Saint Clement's parish, and as it will be convenient for the purposes of this act that each of these parishes be deBoundaries of clared a ward; be it therefore enacted, That the first ward shall comprehend the whole of the east parish; that the se~ cond ward shall comprehend the whole of the west parish; that the third ward shall comprehend the whole of the north parish; that the fourth ward shall comprehend the whole of the south parish; that the fifth ward shall comprehend the whole of Greyfriars' parish; that the sixth ward shall comprehend the whole of Saint Clement's parish; and that the seventh ward shall comprehend the houses and grounds within the following limits, videlicet, beginning at Union Street Bridge, which crosses the Denburn, thence keeping the boundary between the said parishes of Old Machar and Saint Nicholas northward, and eastward to Hutcheon Street, thence westward and southward along the boundary line before described to the Dam of Gilcomston, thence along the waste water burn which leads therefrom eastward to the bridge, which crosses the said burn at Hardweird, thence southward along the road which leads from said bridge to Skene Street and Summer Lane, thence along said Lane to Union Street, thence along said street to the said bridge which crosses the Denburn; that the eighth ward shall comprehend the houses and grounds within the following limits, videlicet, beginning at a point in Union Street opposite to Summer Lane aforesaid, thence going southward along the road or street which leads to the old Hardgate Road, thence along said road to Newbridge, thence westward along Holburn, keeping the boundary line before described to the Rubislaw toll bar

thence northward and eastward to the point at which the boundary of the seventh ward touches the dam of Gilcomston, thence along the boundary of the said seventh ward to Union Street aforesaid; and that the ninth ward shall comprehend those parts of the said parish of Old Machar to which the provisions of this act extend, lying on the south side of Union Street, and east side of the aforesaid road or street leading therefrom to Newbridge by the said old Hardgate Road, the centre of the said several roads, streets, or lanes between the several wards being the boundary between these wards.

VII. And be it further enacted, That it shall and may be Power to alter lawful to the commissioners under this act, at any of the the wards. stated meetings to be held in manner hereinafter provided, to alter the limits or boundary of the wards, by adding to or diminishing the extent of any of them, as to the said commissioners may appear to be necessary or expedient; and the boundaries of the several wards to be fixed by the said commissioners, shall thenceforth (or till again altered as hereby allowed) be held to be the true boundaries thereof: Provided always, that no alteration of any of the wards shall be made unless intimation has been given and recorded, at the previous annual meeting appointed for imposing the assessment by this act authorised, of the intention to propose such alterations.

VIII. And be it enacted, That from the term of Whitsunday Provisions of in this present year, to the said second Thursday of October former act exthereafter, the powers, authorities, and provisions contained tended. in the said recited act of the fifty-eighth year of the reign of his said late Majesty George the Third, shall be, and the same are hereby, extended to all the houses, grounds, streets, squares, lanes, and passages within the limits before described, and to the inhabitants thereof; and all the monies that shall be expended by the said commissioners, in extending the provisions of the said recited act beyond the limits of which the operation thereof has been extended, shall form a charge against the rates and assessments to be levied under this act.

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IX. And be it enacted, That the provost, dean of guild, and Commissioners treasurer of the said city of Aberdeen, and the convener of for carrying the incorporated trades of the said city, for the time being, execution. and two commissioners for each of the said nine wards, qualified and to be elected in manner hereinafter directed, shall be and are hereby appointed commissioners for the purposes of this act; and in case of the absence from the said city of the