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BRIGHTON.
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Provisional Order of the Board of Trade for the Construction, Maintenance, and Regulation of a Pier at Brighton, in the County of Sussex.
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Preamble.
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Whereas, under The General Pier and Harbour Act, 1861, and The General Pier and Harbour Act, 1861, Amendment Act, the Brighton West Pier Company (Limited) made application by memorial to the Lords Of the Committee of Her Majesty’s Most Honourable Privy Council, appointed for the consideration of matters relating to Trade and Foreign Plantations, hereinafter called the Board of Trade, setting forth the necessity of a pier at Brighton, in the county of Sussex, and praying their Lordships to approve of the project thus submitted, and to grant a Provisional Order for its execution, containing powers and privileges for the complete execution of the works, and for the levying of rates and tolls:
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And whereas the estimated expenditure on the proposed works is twenty-two thousand pounds and no more:
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And whereas the promoters published the advertisements and deposited the documents which by the last-mentioned Act they were required to publish and deposit:
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And whereas the Board of Trade, after making such inquiries as they have thought expedient, have settled this present Provisional Order, and intend to cause a Bill to be introduced into Parliament for the Purpose of obtaining an Act for the confirmation of this Provisional Order (until which confirmation this Provisional Order will not be of any validity or force whatever):
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Now, therefore, the Board of Trade do by this their Provisional Order, in pursuance of The General Pier and Harbour Act, 1861, and The General Pier and Harbour Act, 1861, Amendment Act, and by virtue and in exercise of the powers thereby respectively in them vested, and of every other power enabling them in this behalf, order—
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That from and immediately after the passing of an Act of Parliament confirming this Provisional Order, the following provisions shall take effect and be in force:
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Undertakers.
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1. The Brighton West Pier Company (Limited), herein-after called the Company, shall be the undertakers of the works authorized by this Order.
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Power to take specified lands by agreement.
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2. For the purposes of the works authorized by this Order, the Company may from time to time, by agreement, enter on, take, and use all or any part of the lands shown on the deposited plans as intended to be taken for the purposes of the proposed works.
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Lands Clauses Acts incorporated.
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3. The Lands Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845, except so much thereof as relates to the purchase and taking of lands otherwise than by agreement, and The Lands Clauses Consolidation Act Amendment Act, 1860, shall be incorporated with this Order.
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Power to make works.
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4. Subject to the provisions of this Order, the Company may, on the lands and in the lines, and according to the levels, and within the limits of deviation shown on the deposited plans and sections, make and maintain the works shown on the deposited plans.
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Description of pier.
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5. The works authorized by this Order comprise the following:
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A pier on iron piles commencing at a point on the esplanade opposite Regency Square, in the town of Brighton, in the parish of Brighton, in the county of Sussex, and extending seaward in a southerly direction one thousand one hundred and fifty feet or thereabouts.
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Power to levy rates according to Schedule.
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6. The Company may demand and receive in respect of the persons, vessels, and things in the Schedule hereto described any sums not exceeding the rates in that Schedule specified.
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Restriction on use of pier.
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7. Nothing in this Order shall entitle vessels or boats to ship or unship at the pier any sheep, cattle, or merchandise, or any things other than those in the Schedule hereto described.
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Company may contract with persons for the use of the pier.
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8. The Company may grant to passengers and promenaders or others pass-tickets for the use of the pier on such terms, and for such a period not exceeding one year, may be agreed upon, but so that no preference be given to any particular person.
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Pass-tickets not to be transferable.
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9. Any pass-ticket from time to time granted by the Company shall not be transferable, and shall not be used by any person except the person for whom it is granted, or by any person after the period limited for its use. If any person acts in any way in contravention to this provision, or uses or attempts to any false or counterfeit ticket, he shall for every such offence, upon a summary conviction for the same before a Justice or Justices of the Peace, be liable to a penalty not exceeding twenty shillings.
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Custom House Officers exempt from rates.
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10. Officers of Customs being in the execution of their duty shall at all times have free ingress, passage, and egress to, on, along, and from, the pier by land and with their vessels and otherwise without payment.
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Lands for extraordinary purposes.
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11. The Company shall not purchase for extraordinary purposes land exceeding in extent in the whole two acres.
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Short title.
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12. This Order may be cited as The Brighton West Pier Order, 1864.
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Board of Trade, Whitehall.
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Dated this 5th day of March 1864.
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(Signed) T. H. FARRER, Marine Secretary.
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Brighton.
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The SCHEDULE to which this Order refers.
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I. —RATES ON PASSENGERS AND PROMENADERS USING THE PIER.
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£
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s.
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d.
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For every passenger or other person who shall land on the pier from, or embark from it on board of, any ship, vessel, packet, or passage boat, for each and every time, any sum not exceeding
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0
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0
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6
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For every person who shall use the said pier for the purpose of walking for exercise, pleasure, or any other purpose, except for embarking or disembarking, for each and every time, any sum not exceeding
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0
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0
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4
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For every bath or sedan chair taken on the pier, for each and every time, any sum not exceeding
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0
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0
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6
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For every perambulator
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0
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0
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2
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For every master of any vessel, boat, or wherry, being an inhabitant of the town of Brighton, and using the said pier for the purpose of going to or returning from his own vessel, boat, or wherry, an annual sum not exceeding
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1
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0
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0
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II. —RATES, ON PASSENGERS LUGGAGE.
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£
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s.
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d.
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For every trunk, portmanteau, box, parcel, or other package within the description of luggage, exceeding 28 lbs. and not exceeding 112 lbs.
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0
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0
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2
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And for every 112 lbs. weight, or fractional part thereof, in addition
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0
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0
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3
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III. —RATES ON VESSELS USING THE PIER.
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For every vessel under the burden of 15 tons per ton
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0
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0
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4
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For every vessel of the burden of 15 tons and under 50 tons
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0
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0
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6
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For every vessel of the burden of 50 tons and under 100 tons
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0
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0
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8
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For every vessel of the burden of 100 tons and under 150 tons
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0
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0
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10
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For every vessel of the burden of 150 tons and upwards
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0
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1
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0
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For every lighter for each trip
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0
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0
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2
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IV. —RATES FOR LAYING WATER MAINS ON PIER.
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