HC Deb 23 July 1879 vol 248 cc1138-40

Order for Committee read.

Bill considered in Committee.

(In the Committee.)

Preamble postponed.

Clauses 1 to 6, inclusive, agreed to.

SIR ROBERT PEEL

asked who had charge of the Bill?

MR. SALT

said, he had.

SIR ROBERT PEEL

wished to know if the hon. Gentleman could give any information with regard to the continuance of the Tamworth trusts?

MR. SALT

said, he was afraid that he could not give any information at that moment with regard to that particular trust. It was a matter of great detail. He would be happy to furnish the right hon. Gentleman with any information in his power to obtain.

SIR ROBERT PEEL

said, some years ago, he brought this subject under the notice of the House. The town of Tamworth, which he had the honour to represent, was encircled by a net-work of turnpikes. One could not move two or three miles out of that town without having to pay toll. He did not know why the Tamworth trusts should he continued, while so many other turnpikes had been abolished; and he should like to know why they were continued as an exception to the general rule?

MR. SALT

said, there were two classes of trusts, some of which came before the Turnpike Trusts Committee every year, which dealt with each one upon its merits. Sometimes the trusts were continued up to a certain date by the Committee, with a view to their consideration again, at a particular date. For instance, certain trusts had been continued up to the 1st of November, 1880; they would be considered next year. There was another class of trusts whose Local Acts would expire in a particular year. Next year a certain number of these Local Acts would expire, and they would come in the usual course before the Committee. When the trust to which the right hon. Baronet referred came up it would be considered and disposed of by the Committee. There was also another class of trusts disposed of by this Bill, in which the trusts having come to an end, and the debts having been paid off, the trustees themselves applied for the trust to be discontinued. So soon as the interest to which the right hon. Baronet referred came under any one of these categories it would be dealt with. Any further information in his power to give he would be glad to supply.

Clauses 7 and 8 agreed to.

Schedules 1 to 4, inclusive, agreed to.

Schedule 5.

On the Motion of MR. SALT, the following Amendments were made:—In page 7, line 6, in column (County), insert "Chester;" page 7, line 6, in column (Name of Trust), insert "Stock-port and. Warrington and Washway, United;" page 7, line 6, in column (No. of Act), insert "3a. 7a;" page 7, line 36, in column (Date of Act), insert "7 and 8 G. 4, c. xcv;" page 7, in column (Title of Act), insert— 3a. An Act for more effectually repairing and otherwise improving the road from Cross-ford Bridge, in the county palatine of Lancaster, to Altrincham, in the county palatine of Chester; page 8, line 12, in column (Date of Act), insert "19 and 20 Vic. c. lxvi;" page 8, in column (Title of Act), insert— 7a. An Act for more effectually repairing certain roads in the county of Chester, of which the short title is 'Stockport and Warrington Road Act, 1856.'

Postponed Preamble read, and agreed to.

House resumed.

Bill reported; as amended, to be considered To-morrow.