QSR1920/3/10/1k

Declaration – HARRY SMITH, Deputy Town Clerk of the Bedford Town Council. Matters relating to the Stopping Up of Highways leading along the Northern bank of the River Ouse. (Embankment Bedford)

22nd October 1919

From: 1919 To: 1920

I HARRY SMITH of the Town Hall, Bedford in the County of Bedford, which district embraces the whole of the parish of Saint Cuthbert in which the public highway referred to in the resolution of the Town Council of Bedford hereinafter mentioned is situate, Deputy Town Clerk, do solemnly and sincerely declare as follows: - (1) I am Deputy Town Clerk of the Bedford Town Council and I was present at a meeting of the Council duly convened and held on the 22nd October 1919. (2) The said Town Council is the Urban Sanitary Authority for the said district under the Public Health Act 1875 and is therefore constituted Surveyor of Highways for this said district. (3) I was present at a meeting of the Council duly convened and held on the 22nd day of October 1919, when the following resolution was duly passed: - “That the Town Clerk and the Borough Surveyor, as to their several duties, be authorised to take all steps that may be necessary and in particular (1) the preparation and verification of a plan of the said highway showing the metes, bounds and admeasurements thereof (2) to make the application to the Justices to view and to certify their conclusions and (3) provided the Justices so direct, to give, affix and publish the notices required by the Statute in that behalf in the positions and ways required by such Statue and (4) that on completion of all Statutory requirements in that behalf (a) to file any certificate of the Justice aforesaid in accordance with the Statute and (b) to cause an application to be made to the Court or Courts of Quarter Sessions having jurisdiction in that behalf for an Order of Orders stopping up the old highway” (4) I have had the conduct of the proceedings since this resolution and I was present with Rev. Paul Williams Wyatt, clerk in Holy Orders, and Frederick William Conquest Esq., two of His Majesty’s Justices of the Peace for the County of Bedford and John Walton Carter Esq. and Henry Bacchus Esq. two of His Majesty’s Justices of the Peace acting in and for the said Borough of Bedford and who jointly viewed the highway set out in the plan then produced to the said Justices by Norman Greenshields, the Borough Surveyor. (5) On the said last mentioned date the Justices aforesaid gave to me direction for the giving, fixing and publishing of all Statutory Notices as directed by the Statute in that behalf relating to the stopping up of highways as being unnecessary. (6) To the best of my knowledge, information and belief all the Statutory directions aforesaid have been complied with. (7) I produce a bundle of newspapers marked H.S.1. to 8 containing the publication of a notice in the form or to the effect of Schedule No. 19 of the Highway Act 1835 in two several newspapers published and generally circulated in the Borough and adjacent parts of the County where the said highway lies for four successive weeks next after the view by the four Justices as aforesaid. AND I make this solemn declaration sincerely believing the same to be true and by virtue of the Statutory Declaration Act 1835. DECLARED at Bedford in the county of Bedford this 15th day of May, One Thousand Nine Hundred and Twenty. (signed) Harry Smith Before us: (signed) Paul W. Wyatt (signed) Frederick W. Conquest Justices of the Peace for the County of Bedford. Before us: (signed) J. W. Carter (signed) Henry Bacchus Justices of the Peace for the Borough of Bedford.

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Smith, Harry,
Wyatt, Paul Williams,
Conquest, Frederick William,
Carter, John Walton,
Bacchus, Henry

Bedford Town Hall, BEDFORD St. Cuthbert, BEDFORD, newspapers, highways, roadworks