of Havering-atte-Bower: Be it therefore enacted as follows: Nothing in this Act shall be deemed to apply to Havering-atte-Bower, or to the justices or corporation, or reputed corporation thereof, save that it shall be lawful that an Order in Council be made for uniting Haveringatte-Bower to the county of Essex, in pursuance of the recited Act, upon the petition either of the justices of the said county or of the justices of Havering-atte-Bower. Sect. 18. Local Act 19. Notwithstanding anything in this Act, the cor- Saving for poration referred to in the Alnwick Corporation Act, relating to 1882, shall continue to be a corporation, and to hold and Alnwick. administer the property vested in such corporation at the passing of this Act, and shall apply the same for the purposes mentioned in the said Alnwick Corporation Act, 1882, and the maintenance as heretofore of the corporation schools, or for any other public or charitable purposes; and the provisions of this Act with respect to an inquiry by the Privy Council or the Local Government Board, or with respect to a scheme by the Local Government Board, shall not apply to Alnwick, and this Act shall not affect the provisions of the said Alnwick Cor poration Act, 1882. Laugharne bury. 20. Whereas, in Laugharne and Malmesbury, divers Saving as to members of the corporation, whether called burgesses, and Malmeslandholders, or any other name, have the right to occupy without rent, or at low rents, certain property belonging to the corporation, and it is expedient to make provision with respect to such property: Be it enacted as follows: (1) In the event of a charter not being granted to Laugharne or Malmesbury (a), the property of the corporation of the place to which a charter is not so granted shall continue to be held, managed, and enjoyed as heretofore, in like manner as if a scheme of the Charity Commissioners, in pursuance of this Act, had provided for such holding, enjoyment, and management, Sect. 20. Saving for and for that purpose the corporation in the said place shall continue undissolved in like manner as if it were constituted by the said scheme: (2) The corporation of such place, subject to the approval of the Charity Commissioners, may sell all or any of the property of the corporation for the best price that may be got for the same; and, after compensating or saving the rights of any person in such property, whether existing or prospective, may pay the proceeds to any public authority in the locality, to be applied by such authority for the benefit of the inhabitants of the said place: (3) The provisions of this Act and of the Municipal Corporations Act, 1882, for saving the rights and interests of freemen and of persons who might have become freemen, shall extend to the rights and interests of persons who are, or if this Act had not passed, might have become landholders, assistant burgesses, or capital burgesses, in Malmesbury, and for that purpose freemen of Malmesbury may continue to be elected landholders, assistant burgesses, and capital burgesses. (a) No charter has been granted to Laugharne. A charter was granted to Malmesbury on the 16th of September, 1886. 21. Whereas it appears from the report of the Commissioners of 1876 that the office of mayor of Newport (Pembroke) is purely honorary, and that the corporation has no revenue and no municipal functions: Be it therefore enacted as follows: Nothing in this Act shall be deemed to prevent the election of the mayor of Newport (Pembroke) as heretofore, or to dissolve the corporation of Newport (Pembroke), or deprive the lord of the manor or the burgesses of any tolls, rights of common, or other rights of a pecuniary value. Over. 22. Whereas it appears from the Report of the Com- Sect. 22. missioners of 1876 that the corporation of Over has no Saving for revenue, and no municipal function, and that the mayor of Over, elected at the court leet, has a magisterial but no other jurisdiction: Be it therefore enacted as follows: Nothing in this Act shall be deemed to prevent the holding of the court leet, and the election by such court of the mayor of Over as heretofore, but such mayor shall not, as such, have the jurisdiction of a justice, whether for criminal, licensing, or any other purpose. Altrincham. 23. Whereas it appears from the Report of the Com- Saving for missioners of 1876 that the corporation of Altrincham has no municipal function, and that the mayor of Altrincham elected at the court leet has no jurisdiction: Be it therefore enacted as follows: Nothing in this Act shall be deemed to prevent the holding of the court leet, and the election by such court of the mayor of Altrincham as heretofore, but such mayor shall not have any jurisdiction, magisterial, municipal, or other. lord of the 24. Nothing in this Act shall deprive the lord of the Saving for manor of Corfe of any title enjoyed by him under any manor of charter. Corfe Castle. certain rights. 25. (1.) Nothing in this Act shall diminish the Saving for liability of the owner or occupier of any tenement to any rent or sum payable under any charter granted to any corporation mentioned in the schedules to this Act, and any person entitled to receive such rent or sum shall have the same right and remedy for recovering the same as prior to the passing of this Act, and also upon the abolition by this Act of the corporation under the charter shall have the power of such corporation or of any officer of such corporation to enforce payment of such rent or sum. Sect. 25. Repeal of Acts and charters. (2.) The provisions of this section and of the other parts of this Act for protecting the rights of persons interested shall have effect in favour of her Majesty, her heirs and successors, and of any body corporate, not being a corporation abolished by this Act, in like manner as if her Majesty, her heirs and successcrs, and such body corporate, were included in the term person. (3.) Nothing in this Act shall affect the legal proceedings pending at the passing of this Act on the information of the Attorney-General against the corporation of the mayor and burgesses of Holt, and certain members of that corporation, and for the purpose of such proceedings the said corporation shall continue to be and to act as a corporation, and the mayor, bailiffs, and burgesses shall continue to be elected and appointed in like manner as if this Act had not passed, and any liabilities of such corporation under any judgment, decree, or order in such legal proceedings shall be deemed for the purposes of this Act to be liabilities of the corporation existing at the time of the abolition thereof. 26. (1.) So much of any Act, law, charter, or usage as is inconsistent with this Act is hereby repealed (a). (2.) The Act of the session of the seventeenth and eighteenth years of the reign of her present Majesty, chapter seventy-one, intituled "An Act to amend the law concerning the making of borough rates in boroughs not within the Municipal Corporation Acts," shall, on and after the first day of January one thousand eight hundred and eighty-six, or such later day, not after the first day of September one thousand eight hundred and eightysix, as her Majesty in Council may appoint, be repealed, without prejudice to any rate previously made in pursuance of that Act, and without prejudice to the making of any rate which is by this Act authorized to be made; and any such rate may be made, levied, collected, and applied, as nearly as may be, as if the said Act had not been repealed. (a) Cf. sect. 1 of the repealed Municipal Corporations Act of 1835. Sect. 26. 27. In this Act, unless the context otherwise re- Definitions. quires, The expression "Privy Council" means the Lords of her Majesty's most honourable Privy Council, or any The expression "Committee of Council" means a Committee of the said Lords: c. 50. The expression "Municipal Corporation Acts" has the 45 & 46 Vict. same meaning as in the Municipal Corporations Act, 1882: The expression "Charity Commissioners" means the Charity Commissioners for England and Wales: The expression "official trustees" means, as respects real property the Official Trustee of Charity Lands, and as respects all other property the Official Trustees 16 & 17 Vict. of Charitable Funds, acting under the Charitable 32 & 33 Vict. Trusts Acts, 1853 to 1869. c. 137. c. 110. [SCHEDULES. |