Local Government Supplemental Act of 1869

The Local Government Supplemental Act of 1869 was summarised as:

An Act to confirm certain Provisional Orders under "The Local Government Act, 1858," relating to the districts of Bideford, Bournemouth, Bowness, Bristol, Croydon (2), Fleetwood, Hanley, Harrogate, Litchurch, Litherland, Portsmouth, Rochdale, Ryde and Worthing ; and for other purposes relative to certain districts under that Act.


The following is a transcription of a historic article and may contain occasional errors.

3. Whereas on the seventh day of July one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight Her Majesty was graciously pleased, under the powers and authorities conferred in that behalf by the statute of the fifth and sixth of William the Fourth, chapter seventy-six, entitled "An Act to provide for the regulation of municipal corporations in England and Wales," and of the statute seventh William the Fourth and first Victoria, chapter seventy-eight, entitled "An Act to amend an Act for the regulation of municipal corporations in England and Wales," to grant a charter of incorporation to the inhabitants of the town of Huddersfield in the west riding of the county of York, as set forth in such charter: And whereas at the time of the grunting of the said charter the Local Government Act, 1858, had been adopted within the districts of Bradley, Deighton, Mold Green, Almondbury, Newsome, Lockwood, Marsh, and Lindley-cum-Quarmby, which are within the limits of the area incorporated by the said charter, and the powers, authorities, duties, properties, and liabilities of the local boards for the said districts have respectively ceased and determined, and have become vested in the council of the said borough: And whereas there are situated within the incorporated area of the said borough of Huddersfield the hamlet of Fartown, and the district or division of Dalton (the latter being such part of the township of Dalton within the said borough as is not comprised within the limits of the Mold Green local board district), and the council of the said borough of Huddersfield being desirous for the purpose of promoting the health and good government of the said hamlet of Fartown and district of Dalton, and of acquiring in and for the same respectively the powers of the Local Government Act, 1858, has accordingly, by resolutions of the council, duly passed at a special meeting convened in accordance with the provisions of the said Act, adopted the said Act in and for the hamlet and district respectively: And whereas under the peculiar circumstances of the district now comprised within the said borough before the grant of the said charter of incorporation doubts have arisen, respecting the validity and effect of the adoption of the said Act in the hamlet and district last aforesaid, which doubts it is desirable to remove: Be it therefore enacted, that the mayor, aldermen, and burgesses of the said borough of Huddersfield, by the council of the said borough shall be the local board for the hamlet or division of Fartown and for the district or division of Dalton respectively, as districts under the Local Government Act 1868, and that the said council shall have within the said districts respectively all powers and authorities which a local board may have and exercise in a district duly constituted under the Local Government Act, 1868.

4. Whereas the local boards for the said several districts within the area of the said borough of Huddersfield have by force of the thirty-third section of the Public Health Act, 1848, as amended by the twenty-sixth section of the Local Government Act, 1858, become merged and incorporated in the council of the said borough, and the said council has become for each such local board district, the local board for the same, and now acts as such for each of such districts and keeps separate accounts and levies separate rates for each of such districts: And whereas pursuant to the powers and authorities in that behalf conferred by the Act of the twentieth and twenty-first Victoria, chapter fifty, the improvement commissioners constituted by the Huddersfield Improvement Act, 1848, have by deed transferred to the council of the said borough of Huddersfield the rights, powers, estates, property, and liabilities of such commissioners: And whereas it is expedient and desirable that all the powers of the local boards of the said several districts and of the said improvement commissioners should be exercised by the council of the said borough in the name of the said council only, without adding any other designation whatsoever: Be it therefore enacted, that the said council shall be the local board of health for each of the districts comprised in the said borough, and shall or may in all matters and things in relation to each and any of the said districts, and in relation to the district and powers of the said Improvement Commissioners Act, be described by the name of the council of the borough of Huddersfield wit.hoot any other designation whatsoever, and that the said council may, as and when it thinks fit, appoint such and so many persons as it may deem necessary to be officers for carrying out all or any of the provisions or the Acts of Parliament applicable thereto respectively in all or any of the districts or divisions of the said borough for which the said council is constituted the local board, or is invested with the powers of the said improvement commissioners, and to remove at its pleasure all and any of such officers; and further that the said council may apportion and charge the salaries and expenses of all and any of such officers to the several districts or divisions aforesaid according to the rateable value of the property therein respectively, or otherwise as the said council shall deem fair and equitable.

[ Repealed: Improvement Act 1871 s. 5, and First Schedule, Part I. ]

9. This Act shall be deemed to be incorporated with the Local Government Act, 1858, and shall be as if this Act and the said Local Government Act were one.

10. In citing this Act in any other Act of. Parliament, or in any proceedmg, mstrument, or document whatever, it shall be sufficient to use the words and figures "The Local Government Supplemental Act, 1869."