take any water that flows to Martholme mill. The company to make and repair bridges, &c. The company liable to be indicted at common law, for not making ftone bridges over the canal; or for not keeping bridges, &c. in repair. The justices at feffions, in certain cases, to determine what bridge fhall be made. Liberty to place trunks and tunnels in Rufford. Company not to be liable to damage, after trunks placed between Sollom and Rufford locks, in cafe flood gates are kept thut. Directions relative to lying tunnels. Power for the company to raise a further fum cf 200,000l. for compleating the canal, and to affign tolls as a fecurity. No preference to be given in refpect of the priority of any money lent. Secu-* rities to be entered in books, and may be transferred. Interest shall be paid half-yearly. Limitation of the fum to be raised in act 23 Geo. 3. pealed. Directing what shall be done on alienation of shares by marriage or death, to pafs by will or administration. When and where the general affembly of the proprietors fhall be held in Lancashire, the third Friday in September yearly. So much of a clause in 23 Geo. 3. as relates to the advertifing the letting or altering the tolls, repealed; and another notice thereof to be given. Tonnage per mile on coals got in Lancashire and brought into Yorkshire, to be the fame as upon those which come down the Bradford navigation. Appointment of a committee clerk on the Lancashire fide; refervation of rights of the corporation of Liverpool. Publick act.

CA P. LXVI.

An act for paving, and otherwise improving, the city and township of Peterborough.

Commiffioners. Penalty for acting not being qualified. Power to provide lamps. Provifo for holding fairs and markets. Not to extend to Minler Clofe, nor to pave Boongate, &c. Trustees of certain eftates liable to pave and light certain parts of the city, to pay a composition in lieu thereof, of sool. Turnpikes may be erected. One across the road from Stilton to Peterborough Bridge, over the river Nene, at the junction with the road from Oundle to the faid bridge; another turnpike across the road from Lincoln to Peterborough, at the north end of Boroughbury Lane, with a fide bar across the lane, leading to Crawthorn Hill; another rofs Weftgate, near the workhoufe; another across Cowgate, and another in Peterborough, across Boongate, between Swanfpool and the common pound. Tolls; coaches drawn by 3 or more horfes, 9d.- 2 horfes, 6d.-1 horfe, 3d.-waggons by 6 or more horfes, 8d.-under 6 borfes, 3d.-carts, 2d.-horfes laden, id.-not laden, 2q.-oxen, &c. per fcore, sd.-fheep, &c. 2d. Recovery of tolls. Tolls payable once a day. Perfons changing horfes, &c. or stopping all night, not fubject to pay toll a fecond time. Exemption, going to or returning from fairs in the city, or at Fletton, inhabitants of the parish of St. John Baptist, Peterborough, or of Minster Clofe, or for carriages in hufbandry, &c. or poor, army on march, or mail carriages, or expreffes. Power to compound for the tolls.

CAP. LXVII.

An act for paving, cleansing, lighting, watching, and regulating the streets, lanes, ways, and publick paffages and places, within the city of Durbam, and borough of Framwelgate, and the fuburbs thereof, and streets thereto adjoining; for removing and preventing nuifances, annoyances, encroachments, and obftructions therein; for widening and rendering more commodious feveral of the faid ftreets, lanes, ways, and publick paffages and places; and for regulating and improving the markets within the faid city and fuburbs.

Commiffioners names. Qualification of commiffioners, a real estate of 201. per ann, and perfonal of 5ool. Commiffioners to be fworn. First and other meetings of commiffioners, on June 24, at the guildhall or toll booth, and after in the city or fuburbs, as any 7 fhall appoint. Chairman to be VOL. XXXVII.

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elected annually: to have a cafting vote. For electing another chairman when requifite, by 7 commiffioners. For chufing new commissioners, 7 may chufe another. Commiflioner not to vote in fuch cases, unless he has acted within twelve months. Commiffioners being juftices may act as fuch. Appointment of officers by 7 commiffioners. For compelling payment of the rates, and obliging officers to account. Officers neglecting to account may be fued; or juftices may commit them. For appointing temporary collectors. Collectors dying, or becoming bankrupt, executors, &c. to account. Officers not to take any fees or rewards, except as allowed by act, nor be concerned in any bargain or contract. Proceedings to be entered in books. Office of furveyor, where no roads, to cease. Treasurer to pay money. Rates, not more than 8d. in the pound annually, from May 12, 1790. One half of rate to be allowed by landlord to tenant. Only one moiety of the rate to be paid by persons not rated to the poor. Regulations relative to certain occupiers in Croffgate, Framwelgate, and Elvet barony and borough, in the parishes of St. Ofwald, and St. Giles, and farmers of lands, &c. Lands not to be rated for the purposes of this act, but houses only. Tenants to pay the rates. Affeffors to be appointed. If affeffors neglect to levy the rates properly, commiffioners may do it. Rates to be allowed by commiffioners. For recovery of rates in cafe of removal of occupiers, may be levied on the owner by diftress and fale. Rates to be paid by tenants quitting and entering, to be paid in proportion to the time each occupied, and in cafe of difputes, to be fettled by 7 commiffioners. Perfons aggrieved by rates may apply to commiffioners. For augmenting the fund, commiflioners may collect the following tolls; coaches with 6 horses, 1s. 6d.-4 horfes, Is-3 horses, 6d.-2 horses, 4d. 1 horfe ad.-waggons with 8 horfes, Is. 4d.-6 horfes, Is.-other carriages with 4 horfes, &c. 6d.-3 horfes, 4d.-2 horfes, 3d.-1 horse, 2d.-empty waggons, 4d.-horfes, &c. not drawing, 2q.-cattle per score, 3d. calves, fwine, &c. per fcore, id. 2q. and they may appoint perfons to collect them, within the ftrects; or commiffioners may erect toll gates or turnpikes; two on the great north road. Toll gates, &c. vefted in the commiffioners; who may bring actions against perfons injuring the fame. Exemptions from toll, poft, mail carriages, or expreffes, or carriages laden with coals, lime, manure, corn in the ftraw, hay, or materials of agriculture, milk, cattle going to or from pafture occupied by inhabitants of Durham or Framwelgate; waggons carrying goods to Newcastle, or Stockton, or Sunderland, or where toll hath been paid. Tolls to be paid but once a day. When all debts are paid, &c. the tolls to ceafe. Power to demife the tolls. Commiflioners may borrow money. Money may be borrowed on annuities. Notice to be given of the intention to borrow money. Securities for money lent, and annuities, may be transferred. Securities to be entered in a book. Money raised vested in the commiffioners for the purposes of the act. Commiffioners empowered to purchase houfes, &c. Notice to be given in a newspaper of meeting to purchase houfes, &c. Three months notice to be given to owners, &c. For making fatisfaction to owners of houfes which fhall be damaged. Power to fell houses, &c. To afcertain value, &c. of houfes, buildings, and grounds, by a jury. Warrant to fummon jury, &c. Challenge of jurymen. Penalty on theriff not returning jury, &c. 51. Penalty on jurymen, Ios. Fees to the fheriff and jurymen, 2s. 6d. per day. Expence of the jury, &c. is to be paid, if verdict for more than offered, by order of the commiffioners, but if for lefs, by the owner. Upon payment of the purchafe money conveyances to be executed. Payment being made, commiffioners may enter into poffeffion. Owners, &c. may compel purchase of the whole houfe, &c. Money payable to bodies corporate, &c. to be invefted in purchase of other eftates. Mifnomers, or wrong description in the schedule, not to prevent the execution of the act. Commiffioners empowered to fell ground not wanted for the purposes of the act. Pavements, fewers, and drains, vefted in the commiffioners. Commiffioners may order streets, &c. to be paved, and fewers and drains to be made. Commiffioners may contract with perfons for paving, &c. Surveyors to infpect works. Power to dig gravel and get materials. Penalty of interrupting workmen, for the first offence, 20s.-second, 30s.-third, 40s. Pave

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ments not to be altered without confent of commiflioners. Branches into drains not to be made without leave. Private drains to be repaired, &c. under the inspection of the furveyor, at owner's expence. Perfons liable to repair any part of the said streets to remain fo. Commiffioners may compound with perfons for work to be by them done. Differences about repairs to be fettled at the feflions. Foot pavements to be fwept 3 times a week, 4 feet from the house, (Sundays excepted) on penalty of 5s. for every neglect. Contractors to cleanse the other parts of streets, &c. No perfon to carry away foil but contractor. Perfons at liberty to keep or difpofe of dung made or kept in their houses, yards, &c. Penalty not to extend to rubbish, &c. occafioned by building. Penalty on breaking lamps, not above zos. nor under 10s. To prevent nuifances, not to kill or at up beafts or fwine in the ftrects, on penalty of 10s. befides other pe nalties by law. Commiffioners may take down figns. Penalty for making certain nuifances, 51. and power to remove the fame. For preventing arts, &c. ftanding in the streets, &c. No wheelbarrow to be rolled on the foot pavements, &c. To prevent accidents by driving carriages, penalty IOS. Power to compound penalties by 7 commiflioners. Power to ap point watchmen, &c. who may act as conftables. Watchmen not to gain fettlements by appointment. General power to levy penalties. Application. Limitation of recovering penalties, one calendar month. Commif fioners may fue or be fued in the name of their clerk. No action to be brought but by order of ten commiffioners. For regulating the fale of corn, not to be fold fave in the market place, or in houfes or fhops of dealers. Act not to prejudice the right of any perfon to demand toll on corn, &c. within the limits thereof. Inhabitants may be witneffes. Appeal against rates and penalties to the feflions. Diftrefs not to be deemed unlawful for want of form. Notice to be given before commencing actions. Proceedings not to be quafhed for want of form. Limitation of actions. General iffue. Treble cofts. Publick act.

An act for the better fupplying the town and neighbourhood of Leeds, in the county of York, with water; and for more effectually lighting and cleanfing the streets and other places within the faid town and neighbourhood, and removing and preventing nulfances, annoyances, encroachments, and obstructions therein.

Commiffioners of the water works appointed. Manner of appointing the fuccceding commiflioners in the veftry of the parish church of St. Peter, and 13 inhabitants to be commiffioners. Commiffioners incorporated. Meetings of the commiffioners annually, on Wednesday after nominated, and may act. Commiffioners to appoint officers. Commiffioners im powered to purchafe or erect works, lay pipes, &c. The commiffioners to make good the pavement, and level the ground. Corporations, &c. impowered to fell. In default of agreeing, the value of the premises to be fcertained by a jury; whose verdict shall be final. Upon payment of purchafe money, parties to convey. No fire engine to be erected within the bishop of Briftol's lands, or above Bondman's Dam. Mr. Sagar's right to Pittfall Mills, not to be affected. Prefent water works to become vested in the commiffioners, upon making compenfation. Reftrictions refpecting John Pate Neville's property, the pipes from the river Aire, to be 40 yards diftance, and not to affect the tenters upon his ground or roads thereto, &c. and if damage done, the commiffioners to amend the fame on a month's notice, or he to caufe the fame to be done at the expence of the commiffioners. The power of purchafing lands, not to extend to the King's Mills or Flaycrow Mills, or the property of John Pate Nevile, Nothing to be done to the injury of the King's Mills, and Flaycrow Mill. The intereft of the prefent occupier of the wood mill at Pittfall not to be affected, without his confent. Purchase money belonging to corporations, kc. to be laid out in the purchase of other eftates, to be fettled to the fame afes. Commiffioners may fell lands, &c. not neceffary for the purposes of the act. Inhabitants impowered to lay pipes to communicate with thofe Ki

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laid by the commiffioners. Such perfons to give 2 days previous notice to furveyors of the highways, and to pay him 4d. per square yard broken up, and if no notice given, penalty 5s. Power to take and use the water in cafes of fire. Penalty on obftructing the works, 51. and not less than 5s. one moiety to the treasurer for the works, and the other to the informer. Commiffioners may make rates on the fecond Saturday in May yearly. No perfon to be rated, but such as give notice to be supplied with water. Rites to be figned by commiffioners, and confirmed by two juftices. Recovery of rates after 10 days demand, by warrant of 2 juftices, by distress and file of goods Brewers, diftillers, &c. to pay an additional rate, to be fixed by the commiffioners. Poor persons exempt from rates, for rent under 585. per ann, and may take water from the publick cifterns in the town. Power to borrow money, and to affign the works, &c. as a fecurity. Securities may be transferred. Application of the money. Rates, &c. to be made exempt from taxes, &c. Proceedings of the commiffioners to be entered. Accounts of the commiffioners to be closed at the end of every year. Commiffioners may act as juftices. Act 28 Geo. 2. c. 41. for lighting the streets, &c. of the faid town, recited. Provisions of that act extended to fuch parts of the town as are not comprised therein, and to the neighbourhood. Signs, &c. projecting into the streets, to be removed. Penalty on occafioning annoyances in the streets, or within 1,000 yards of the bars, zos. for every offence. Water spouts regulated, to come within 6 inches of the ground, penalty 5s. per week. Power to cause the streets to be cleanfed. Recovery of penalties by diftrefs, to be redeemed in s days, or fold, and if not fufficient diftrefs, 2 juftices to commit offenders. Penalties to go one moiety to the informer, and the other to the poor of Leeds. Inhabitants deemed competent witneffes. Appeal to the quarter feffions. Limitation of actions on 3 days notice, and within 4 months to be laid in the county of York. General iffue. Treble cofts Rights of the corporation faved. Expences of the act to be paid out of constables rate. Publick a&t.

CA P. LXIX.

An act for amending and enlarging the powers of, and rendering more effectual, an act made in the twenty-eighth year of the reign of his prefent Majefty, intituled, An act for pulling down the church of Saint James at Clerkenwell, in the county of Middlefex, and for building a new church, and making a new church yard, or cemetry, in the faid parish, with couvenient avenues and paffages thereto; and for purchafing Pentonville chapel, and making the fame a chapel of cafe to the faid

church.

28 Geo. 3. c. 10. Trustees have proceeded in the execution of the act. Trustees empowered to purchase certain premifes to enlarge the church yard, and the ufual claufes relating to fuch purchases. The legal eftate of premises vefted in the trustees. Purchafe monies to be paid out of the bank, upon application to the court of chancery by the parties intitled, to be laid out in other purchases: and in the mean time dividends to be paid to the parties intitled. Money agreed for may be paid. Trustees inpowered to purchase Pentonville chapel and burial ground. Leafe for 21 years at 40l. per ann. renewable every 21 years; purchased at 5,cool. Trustees to give 50 bonds for 1ool. each, with intereft at 4 per cent. The bishop of London to confecrate the fame, and the parish to renew the leafe, fecuring to Mr. Penton certain pews, No. 39, 40, and 41 in the weft gallery, in the chapel, and a vault under the fame. To convey to trustees one acre of ground in the parish of St. Mary Iflington, at the north-weft end of Winchester Street. Clerk of the chapel to pay to the clerk of the church a proportion of the fees. Trustees may fell the vaults under the church and chapel, and may demife premises purchased under the former and this act. Trustees may fell fuch premises as are found to be unnecessary for the purposes of the act. Trustees may raise a further fum, not exceeding 13,000l. Apportioning the rates between perfons removing from, and perfons coming into any houfe, &c. Allowances to the veftry clerk, 201.

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and to collector 1ol. Truftees to pay balances due to the churchwardens. Legal eftates of premises left in truft for the parish to be divefted out of the heirs at law, &c. and vefted in the trustees. Powers of the former act (not altered by this act) extended to this act. Expences of the act to be paid. Publick act.

CA P. LXX.

An act to amend an act of the laft feffion of parliament, for providing an additional burial ground for the parish of Saint James, Weftininster, and erecting a chapel adjoining thereto, and alfo a houfe for the refidence of a clergyman to officiate in burying the dead.

Geo. 3. C. 47. Trustees may remove the reader, preacher, and offcers. Additional truftees. Bifhop of London, vifitor. It the money to be raised by the former act is infufficient, the deficiency to be made up out of the church rate. Trustees impowered to charge the church rates and the pews with the money to be borrowed. Power to raife all or part of the money by granting annuities at 10l. per cent. Annuities may be transferred. The manner of difpofing of the overplus, varied as the vestry fhall direct. How the chapel, &c. is to be built, according to a plan. Expences of the act. Publick act.

CA P. LXXI.

An act for taking down the church and tower belonging to the parish of Saint John at Hackney, in the county of Middlefex, and for building another church and tower for the use of the faid parish, and for making an additional cemetry or church yard.

Truftees. If trustees die, or refuse, or become difabled to act, new truftees to be appointed by the parishioners. Qualification of trustees, rated at gol. per ann. Not to act where interested. Meeting clautes as ufual. All acts done by five trustees to be valid. Proceedings to be entered. Trustees in the commiffion of the peace may act as juftices. Treasurer, &c. appointed. Actions in the name of treasurer. Power to trustees to purchate land in Church Field, for the fcite of the new church and the additional burying ground, containing 6 acres, I rood, and 4 perches. To Thomas Ryder and Mary Ryder, 8ool. and to Richard Benyon, and Peter Beauvoir, 1751. Purchase monies to be paid out of the monies to be raised under this act. Tenants to quit on three months notice. New church to be built, and additional church yard provided. New church not to be begun building until a plan, eftimate, &c. fhall have been formed and ap proved of. Refidue of the faid clofe or field may be let. Old church, &c. to be taken down, and materials fold, and such part of the fcite of the old church as may not be built upon to remain as confecrated ground. Power for trustees to inclose the old chancek. Building in the old church yard to be taken down. Church to be completed within three years. Name of new church and church yard, the parish church and church yard of St. John at Hackney, in the county of Middlesex; divine service, matrimony, baptifms, burials, &c. to be performed by the rector, vicar, or curate, in the old church and church yard. Old church yard to remain as fuch. Rights of the rector, and right of prefentation, preserved. Church and church yard to be vefted in truftees. Allotment of pews to the vicar and churchwardens. Dues and duties payable at the old church, luch and the fame to be paid and received at the new church. Pews or feats may be let to schools. Monuments to be taken down; and placed in the laite of the old, or in the new church. Marquis of Downfhire's chapel and vault to remain on its present fcite, and to be made good out of the money raised, as by agreement with the truftees. No burials in the new church; nor within twenty feet of the walls. Right of rector in new chancel, and may be used by him. Affeffment for rate to be made for raising money to answer the purposes of the act, not above sd. per pound. Rates payable quarterly. Tenants to pay the whole, and deduct half out