Museums Act 1845
MUSEUMS ACT 1845 | ||
CAP. XLIII. | ||
An Act for encouraging the Establishment of Museums in large Towns. [21st July 1845.] | ||
Town Councils of certain Municipal Boroughs may purchase Lands and erect thereon Museums of Art and Science. | ||
‘WHEREAS it is expedient to promote the Establishment and Extension of Museums of Art and Science in large Towns, for the Instruction and Amusement of the Inhabitants thereof:’ Be it 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, That it shall be lawful for the Council of any Municipal Borough, the Population of which, according, and the last Account, from Time to Time taken thereof by Authority of Parliament, exceeds Ten thousand Persons, if such Council shall think fit so to do, to purchase Lands, and to erect thereon Buildings suitable for Museums of Art and Science, and to maintain and keep the same in good Repair, and to accept any Gifts, Grants, or Devises of Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments, for the Purpose of establishing, improving, or maintaining such Museums, or to contribute toward the Establishment and Maintenance of such Museums in any neighbouring Borough; and that the Costs and Charges of such Lands and Buildings, and the keeping of the same in good Repair, and the Payment of any Principal Money or Interest borrowed under the Authority of this Act, or of such Contribution, shall be chargeable upon and paid for out of the Borough Fund of such Municipal Borough, and for that Purpose the Council may levy with and as Part of the Borough Rate, or by a separate Rate to be levied in like Manner as the Borough Rate, such Sums of Money as shall be from Time to Time needed, so that the whole Amount of the Borough Rate be not increased in any One Year for the Purposes of this Act by more than One Halfpenny in the Pound, or if a separate Rate be levied so that such Rate do not in any One Year amount to more than One Halfpenny in the Pound of the annual Value of the Property in the Borough rateable to the Borough Rate. |