Borough of Cheltenham TOWN CLERK's OFFICE, CHELTENHAM
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Borough of Cheltenham TOWN CLERK'S OFFICE, CHELTENHAM, 8th November, 1935. Dear Sir (or Madam), I beg to give you notice that a SPECIAL MEETING of the Council will be held at the MUNICIPAL OFFICES in the Borough on TUESDAY, the 19th day of NOVEMBER, 1935 at Three o'clock in the afternoon pursuant to the Local Government Act, 1933 to consider and decide as to the expediency of the Council promoting in the ensuing Session of Parliament jointly with the Mayor Aldermen and Citizens of the City of Gloucester in the County of the City of Gloucester (hereinafter called " the Gloucester Corporation ") a Bill for the following purposes (that is to say)— To establish a joint Board consisting of representatives of the Cheltenham Corporation and the Gloucester Corporation ; To transfer to the Board the Tewkesbury pumping station of the Cheltenham Corporation and the water main laid by that Corporation from that pumping station to Stonehouse Farm ; To empower the Board to construct :— An intake from the River Severn in the Borough of Tewkesbury. An extension of the existing treatment and filtration plant and pumping station in the Borough of Tewkesbury (belonging to the Cheltenham Corporation and to be transferred to the Board); A line or lines of pipes in the borough of Tewkesbury ; A line or lines of pipes in the borough of Tewkesbury and the parishes of Elmstone Hardwicke Deerhurst Leigh Boddington and Staverton in the rural district of Cheltenham and the parish of Churchdown in the rural district of Gloucester ; A covered service reservoir in the said parish of Churchdown ; A line or lines of pipes in the said parish of Churchdown ; An improvement of the public road leading from Churchdown over Churchdown Hill to Hucclecote to be situate in the said parish of Churchdown ; A diversion of the public footpath leading from Churchdown over Churchdown Hill to Gloucester to be situate in the said parish of Churchdown ; To empower the Cheltenham Corporation to construct a line or lines of pipes in the said parish of Churchdown, the parishes of Badgeworth Shurdington Up Hatherley and Leckhampton in the rural district of Cheltenham the borough of Cheltenham and the urban district of Charlton Kings. To empower the Gloucester Corporation to construct a line or lines of pipes in the said parish of Churchdown, the parishes of Hucclecote and Barnwood in the rural district of Gloucester and in the city of Gloucester ; To authorise the compulsory acquisition of land by the Board the Cheltenham Corporation and the Gloucester Corporation for the purposes of the works above described, and to enable the Board to purchase additional lands by agreement and to retain and sell lands ; To empower the Board to abstract water from the river Severn by means of the works transferred to and constructed by the Board or some of them, to provide for the apportionment between the Cheltenham Corporation and the Gloucester Corporation of the water so obtained by the Board and to impose upon the Board an obligation at the request of the Cheltenham Corporation or the Gloucester Corporation to carry out works for the purpose of affording and to afford an increased supply of water to the Cheltenham Corporation, or the Gloucester Corporation, or both Corporations To define the portions of the parish of Badgeworth in which the Cheltenham Corporation and the Gloucester Corporation shall in future be authorised to supply water, and repeal the power of the Gloucester Corporation to supply water in the parish of Shurdington ; To extend the limits for the supply of water by the Cheltenham Corporation and the Gloucester Corporation ; To provide for the repayment by the Gloucester Corporation to the Board of the sums expended by the Board in the purchase of land for and the construction of the works to be constructed by the Board specified in the Bill ; To extend and apply to the Board the provisions of the Local Government Act, 1933 relating to the borrowing of money by a local authority as if the Board were a local authority within the meaning of that Act ; To enable the Cheltenham Corporation and the Gloucester Corporation to borrow money for the purposes of the works to be constructed by them respectively under the powers of, and for other purposes of the Bill and to enable the Gloucester Corporation to borrow money for the purposes of the works to be constructed by the Board, the cost of which is to be borne by the Gloucester Corporation, and to enact other financial provisions ; To enable the Cheltenham Corporation and the Gloucester Corporation to lend money to the Board ; To provide for the apportionment between the Cheltenham Corporation and the Gloucester Corporation of the expenditure on revenue account including loan charges of the Board and the application of money received by the Board ; To confer upon the Cheltenham Corporation all necessary and convenient powers with regard to the supply of water by them ; To enact further provisions with reference to streets, buildings, sewers, drains and the health and good rule and government of the borough of Cheltenham ; To repeal the provisions of the Cheltenham Improvement Act, 1852 with regard to the market tolls etc. payable under that Act and to authorise the Cheltenham Corporation to demand, receive and recover in lieu thereof such tolls, rents and charges as the Cheltenham Corporation with the approval of the Minister of Health may prescribe ; To repeal the provisions of the Cheltenham Improvement Act, 1889 relating to the following matters :— The establishment of the Cheltenham Corporation Consolidated Loans Fund, the payments into that fund of sums for dividends and for redemption and extinction and purchase and extinction of stock, the sources from which those sums shall be provided, the collection of money and the levying of rates for those purposes, the application and accounts of the said fund, the application of income in the separate accounts of the said fund, and the determination of the revenues on which loans are to be charged ; and to apply, in lieu of those provisions, to stock issued under the powers of the said Act the following of the Local Authorities (Stock) Regulation, 1934, namely :— No. 5. Stock (Interest Account) ; No. 6. Stock (Sinking Fund) Account ; No. 7. (Sums to be credited to the sinking fund account) ; No. 9. (Application and investment of money in sinking fund account) ; No. 10. (Allocation of stock purchased from sinking fund account) ; No. 11. (Accumulations in respect of sums applied in redemption or purchase of stock) ; No. 13. (Application of money in sinking fund account for borrowing) ; and to make other consequential amendments of the provisions of the said Act of 1889. To confer upon the Gloucester Corporation power in certain circumstances to alter the day on which the sheep and horse fair known as Barton Fair shall be held ; and power to make Byelaws prohibiting or restricting the use by persons riding motor bicycles, bicycles, or other similar vehicles of any footways, alleys, or passages, to be defined in such Byelaws. And for other purposes, and of defraying any costs and expenses incurred by the Council in relation to the promotion of the Bill out of the General Rate Fund and General Rate or such other funds rates and revenues of the Corporation or partly out of one or other of such funds rates and revenues and in such proportions as may be determined by the Council. Yours truly, Town Clerk. TO EACH MEMBER OF THE COUNCIL. Borough of Cheltenham Municipal Offices, Cheltenham, 28th November, 1935. Sir, You are hereby summoned to attend the Monthly Meeting of the Cowbell, to be held at the MUNICIPAL OFFICES, PROMENADE, on MONDAY, the 2nd day of December, 1935, at THREE O'CLOCK in the Afternoon, at which Meeting the following Business is proposed to be transacted, and any other business that may legally be transacted at such Meeting. 1. To approve and confirm the Minutes of the last Meetings. 2. Communications by the Mayor. 3. To approve or otherwise, the proceedings of :—THE PUBLIC HEALTH COMMITTEE HOUSING COMMITTEE STREET AND HIGHWAY COMMITTEE STREET AND HIGHWAY AND WATER JOINT COMMITTEE TOWN PLANNING COMMITTEE TOWN IMPROVEMENT AND SPA COMMITTEE ELECTRICITY AND LIGHTING COMMITTEE WATER COMMITTEE GENERAL PURPOSES AND WATCH COMMITTEE ALLOTMENTS COMMITTEE PARKS AND RECREATION GROUNDS COMMITTEE ART GALLERY AND MUSEUM COMMITTEE BURIAL BOARD COMMITTEE PUBLIC LIBRARY COMMITTEE RATING COMMITTEE FINANCE COMMITTEE 4. EDUCATION COMMITTEE—To appoint a person acquainted with the needs of various kinds of Schools a member of the Education Committee to fill vacancy caused by the resignation of Mr. C. H. V. Hogg. 5. Memorials, Applications, Complaints, &c. Yours faithfully, To each Member of the Council. Town Clerk. Borough of Cheltenham At a Statutory Annual Meeting of the Town Council of the Borough of Cheltenham, duly convened and held at the Municipal Offices in the said Borough, on Saturday, 9th November, 1935, at 11.30 a.m. Present : The Mayor (Councillor Edward Lawrence Ward, J.P.) in the chair. The Deputy Mayor (Alderman Capt. John Henry Trye, C.B.E., R.N.). Aldermen Margrett, C.B.E., J.P., Moore, Pates, Pruen, Sawyer and Taylor ; Councillors Addis, Avery, Barnett, Bendall, Bettridge, Lt.-Col. Biggs, O.B.E., Compton, Davis, Rev. de Courcy-Ireland, M.A., Green, Grimwade, Dr. Curling Hayward, M.B.E., M.B., B.S., Howell, F.R.C.S., C.B.E., Ben James, Leigh James, Miller, E. W. Moore, Morris, Rogers, Smith and Waite. Apology—An apology for absence was received from Alderman Clara F. Winterbotham. 1—Election of Councillors—The Town Clerk reported the Election on the 1st instant of the following as Councillors :— The Rev.