College Lane were taken down," empower the University to purchase the houses and ground, paying for the same out of any money that shall be received for that purpose either by subscription or by public or private donation or bequest, to take down the buildings, and to add to the site of Hertford College so much of the ground as may be necessary for the intended improvements, for the use and benefit of the Principal and other Members of Magdalen Hall.] 18. Provided also, and be it further enacted, that nothing in this Act shall extend or be deemed or construed to extend to take away, diminish, or impede the exercise of any privilege or right whatsoever of the said University, or of any of the Magistrates, Officers, Ministers, or Servants thereunto belonging. [Section 19 is a general saving of all rights and titles.] 58 GEO. III, Cap. lxiv. An Act for lighting with Gas the University and [The Preamble of this Act begins with the averment that "the University and City of Oxford and the suburbs of the said City is a large and populous place," and that "it would be of great benefit to the Members of the said University and the citizens and inhabitants of the said City and to the public at large, if the Colleges, Halls, public highways, lanes, streets, passages, and other places were better lighted": and the first section of the Act declares certain persons named in it and their successors "to be one body politic and corporate by the name of 'The Oxford Gas Light and Coke Company," with perpetual succession, a common seal, and certain powers.] Gasometer 11. Provided always, and be it further enacted, that no Situation gasometer or depôt of gas, or buildings or machinery for the of the manufacturing or production of gas, shall be erected, made, &c. not to or established or used within two hundred yards of any two hunpublic building, garden, or walk belonging to, or held or dred yards of any be within College or repaired or maintained by, the said Chancellor Masters Dwelling House, &c. and Scholars of the said University, without first obtaining their consent under their Common Seal; or within two hundred yards of the Cathedral Church of Christ in the said University, or of the precincts, gardens, or walks of the same, without first obtaining the consent of the Dean and Chapter of the said Cathedral Church under their Common Seal; or within two hundred yards of any College in the said University, or of the precincts, gardens, or walks of any College, without first obtaining the consent of such College under its Common Seal; or within two hundred yards of any Hall in the said University, or of the precincts, gardens, or walks of any Hall, without first obtaining the consent of the Chancellor Masters and Scholars of the said University under their Common Seal and of the Principal of such Hall for the time being under his hand; or within two hundred yards of any public building, garden, or walk vested in or held by Doctor Radcliffe's Trustees, or the Trustees of the Oxford Market, or any Trustees for charitable or other purposes, without first obtaining the consent of the said respective Trustees in writing under their hands: provided also, that the said gasometer or depôt of gas, or buildings or machinery, shall not be made or established within two hundred yards of any messuage, tenement, or dwelling house in any place or situation in the said City of Oxford and suburbs and liberties and precincts of the said City, without first obtaining the consent and approbation of the owner or owners lessee or lessees for the time being of such messuage, tenement, or dwelling house under his, her, or their hand or hands. Limiting of the Com 33. Provided always, and be it further enacted, that the the profits clear profits to be received by the said Company of Propany. prietors from the said undertaking shall never exceed the sum of ten pounds per annum upon each share of one hundred pounds; and, in order to ascertain the amount of the clear profits of the said undertaking, the said Company shall and are hereby required, from the thirty-first day of December next after the expiration of two years from the time of passing this Act, to cause a true, exact, and par ticular account to be kept and annually made up and balanced to the said thirty-first day of December of the money collected or received by them or for their use by virtue of this Act, and of the charges and expences attending the supporting, maintaining, and using the said works; and if the clear profits of the said undertaking shall at any time amount to a larger sum of money than shall be sufficient to make a distribution amongst the said Proprietors of ten pounds per annum upon every such share, such per-centage to be computed and take place from the time of the passing of this Act, then and in such case the excess or surplus which shall be more than sufficient for the purposes aforesaid shall from time to time be placed in the hands of such person or persons, or on such Government or other security or securities, to answer any deficiencies that may happen in the next or any succeeding year or years, as the said Company shall for that purpose order or direct, until such excess or surplus shall amount to the sum of four thousand pounds; and the interest or dividends of such sum or sums so to be invested shall be paid and applied in like manner as the money to be received * So in orig. by or for the use of the said company by virtue of this Act to be paid or applied; and the total amount of every such annual account as aforesaid, together with an account of the dividends and interest to be from time to time received on all such money so to be placed out as aforesaid, shall be laid before the Vice-Chancellor of the said University of Oxford, or any other Magistrate acting for the said University, and the Mayor of the said City, or any other Magistrate acting for the said City, not interested in the undertaking, twenty-one days next after the making up of every such annual account, to be made on the twentysixth day of December; and if it shall appear that the clear profits of the said undertaking, after such sum shall have been so vested, including the said dividends and interest, shall, upon the average of three years then next preceding, have exceeded the rate of ten pounds per annum upon every such share, then and in every such case the said Company of Proprietors shall pay such surplus of the said clear profits, dividends, and interest to the said Com are * The soil or of the Market not to be broken up missioners for lighting, paving and cleansing the said University and City of Oxford, to be by them applied and disposed of towards and in aid of any rate or assessment, rates or assessments, made or to be made under the said Act; any thing in this Act to the contrary notwithstanding. 44. Provided also, and be it further enacted, that nothing pavement in this Act contained shall give any power or authority to the said Company to break up any soil or pavement whereon the Market is erected in the said City of Oxford, without the except with the consent and under the direction of the the Market Chancellor Masters and Scholars of the said University Commit- and the Mayor Bailiffs and Commonalty of the said City, or of the Committee by them appointed for regulating the said Market. consent of tee. No sewer, &c. to be made in 48. Provided always, and be it further enacted, that nothing in this Act contained shall in any manner authorize any place or empower the said Company, or any person acting in their belonging to the Uni- behalf, to carry, lay, or put any sewer, cut, main, trench, versity &c. or pipe, or any other matter or thing, through or into any without consent. No drain to be made, place belonging (whether in their own occupation or otherwise) to the Chancellor Masters and Scholars of the said University, or to the Cathedral Church of Christ in Oxford, or to any of the said Colleges or Halls, without first obtaining the consent of the said Chancellor Masters and Scholars, or of the said Dean and Chapter, or of such College, under their Common Seal respectively, or, in the case of a Hall, without first obtaining the consent of the said Chancellor Masters and Scholars under their Common Seal and of the Principal of the said Hall under his hand. 49. Provided also, and be it further enacted, that it shall for carry- not be lawful for the said Company to make or cause to ing off the washings be made any drain, cut, or sewer for the purpose of carrying or the con- off the washings or other waste liquid or materials which tents of any may flow from or be used in the prosecution of the works emptied, aforesaid, or to empty or cause to be emptied the contents within the of any drain, cut, or sewer, within the said University or University drain to be or City The Act here cited is 52 Geo. 3, c. lxxii. The "Commissioners" are now represented by the Local Board. * So in orig. City, or of the liberties or precincts of either of them, without without the consent in writing of the Chancellor Masters consent,&c. and Scholars of the said University, and of the Mayor Bailiffs and Common Council of the said City, under their respective Common Seals, first had and obtained. 67. And be it further enacted, that all penalties and Recovery forfeitures for all and every the offences in this Act men- cation of and applitioned, in relation to which the manner of convicting the penalties. offenders is not particularly mentioned or directed, shall be adjudged by and recovered before any Justice of the Peace for the said University or City of Oxford (as the case may be), in a summary way, by information upon the oath of any person or persons, or on the confession of the party offending, (which oath such Justice is hereby authorized to administer); * * * *. ters and 69. Saving always to the Chancellor Masters and Scholars Saving the of the University of Oxford, and to all persons matriculated the Chanrights of therein or being members thereof, their rights and privi- cellor Masleges of civil and criminal judicature and trial in the Scholars Courts of the said University alone, as the same have been &c. granted by the Charters of the said University, and confirmed by divers Acts of Parliament. 70. Saving always to the King's most excellent Majesty, General his heirs and successors, and to the Chancellor Masters and saving of all rights. Scholars of the said University and their successors, the several bodies politic, corporate, collegiate, or sole of the said University and their successors, the Mayor Bailiffs and Commonalty of the City of Oxford and their successors, the Commissioners for lighting, cleansing, and paving the said University and City and their successors, the Commissioners of Sewers and their successors, and to the Commissioners of the Thames Navigation and their successors, and all persons whomsoever, their respective rights, privileges, and franchises, in such and the same manner as if this Act had not been passed. |