Manchester and Salford to be widened and improved by subscription, nd fubfcribers of 10l. or upwards, to be commiffioners. For vefting the honey fubfcribed, for making openings and improvements, in the comiffioners, for executing that part of the act. Commiffioners impowered purchafe houses mentioned in the schedule. Notice to be given in the ewspapers of a meeting to purchase houses. For making fatisfaction to wners of houfes which fhall be damaged. Power to fell houses. To fcertain value, &c. of houfes, buildings and grounds, by a jury. Warant to fummon jury. Challenge of jurymen. Penalty 20l. on the fheriff ot returning a jury. How the expence of the jury, &c. is to be paid. Upon payment of the purchase money, conveyances to be executed. Payment being made, commiffioners may enter into poffeffion. Commiffioners, &c. may purchase the whole houfe. Money payable to bodies corporate, to be invested in the purchase of other eftates. For fale of the exchange. Mifnomer, or wrong description in the schedule, not to preEvent the execution of the act. Commiffioners impowered to fell ground not wanted for the purposes of the act. Continuance of this act, as to widening streets, 20 years. For compelling attendance of witnesses. Manher of conviction for offences against this act. Inhabitants competent witneffes in all actions, &c. Directing the manner of ferving notice, &c. Penalties may be mitigated. For ascertaining and recovering cofts, &c. Proceedings to be within fix months. Perfons aggrieved may appeal to the feffions. Diftrefs not to be deemed unlawful for want of form. Proceedings not to be quafhed for want of form. Limitation of actions. General iffue. Treble cofts. In cafe of verdict given in favour of commiffioners, to be entitled to double cofts. Referving the rights of the lord of the manor of Manchester. That the scite of the building called the Exchange fhall remain open, in fuch manner as the commiffioners thall direct. That ftalls fhall not be erected, or goods depofited on the feite of the exchange. After the exchange is taken down, the fcite thereof to be repaired by the furveyors of the highways. Public act.

CA P. LXX.

An act for the better relief and employment of the poor of and belonging to the parish of Tewkesbury, in the county of Gloucester. Guardians incorporated by the name of " The Guardians of the Poor of the parish of Tewkesbury in the county of Gloucefter." Firft meeting, July 2, 1792. Quarterly meetings to be on the first Monday in January, April, July and October. Juftices may act as guardians or directors. Guardians and directors to defray their own expences. Directors and officers not to be concerned in any contract. For appointing a chairman or prefident. Appointing a treasurer, clerk, and other officers; and alfo directors. Parish to make out a lift of guardians to be proposed for directors to fill up vacancies in the direction. Churchwardens and overfeers required to call veftries. Directors, except Quakers, required to take an oath. Quakers to make an affirmation. Directors refufing to accept the office, to forfeit 201. No perfon to be re-elected to the office of director within five years after his having served. Guardians and directors to appoint officers; Governor. Steward. Matron. Clergyman. Allowance to be made to officers. May take fecurities from officers. Weekly meetings of directors. Special affemblies may be held. Directors may contract for the purchase of any lands or buildings. Purchase money belonging to corporations, &c. to be laid out in the purchase of other eftates. Houfes and lands purchased to be exempted from window duty, &c. Tenant at will, or for a year, to deliver up premises on fix months notice. On default sheriff to deliver poffeffion. Directors to furnish the buildings; and to have the management of the poor. Power to apprehend vagrants. Children provided for, and to be apprenticed. For apprenticing poor children to the governor. Poor children may be difcharged or hired out. May borrow 6,000l. upon mortgage of buildings and rates. Mortgages may be transferred. Money arifing by poor rates to be under the management of directors, and paid to their treasurer. Overfeers for not collecting rates, to forfeit not lefs than 40s. nor more than 1ol, Overfeers to pay money to the treasurer, within ten days after

receiving,

receiving, any fum amounting to 10l. What amount of rates are t railed every year. 100l. of debt to be paid off every year. M of paying off mortgages. If churchwardens and overfeers do not m rates, directors may. Money left for the benefit of the poor to be app according to the will of the donor. Parish officers to affift in the ex tion of the act. Directors may allow overseers to retain money for a fional relief. Property of goods, &c. vested in the directors. Direc not to do bufinefs but at meetings. Directors may grant certifica Certificates now in parifh officers hands, to be given to the clerk to corporation. Bonds given for the maintenance of baftard children te delivered to the clerk. Directors may make bye laws. Induftrious; may be rewarded. Proceedings of directors to be entered in bo Directors to state an account annually. Notice to be given of m contracts. Afcertaining fettlements of bastard children born in the ho Perfons rated may be witneffes. Juftices authorised by law to procee! complaint of overfeers, to proceed on complaint of directors. Charit benefactions to be difpofed of by directors. Directors may make cra and fewers from the workhoufe. Recovery and application of pen Appeal. Proceedings not to be quafhed for want of form. Expences this act to be firft paid. Limitation of actions. General issue. Tr cofts. Publick act.

CA P. LXXI.

An act for inclofing, dividing, and allotting a certain common or wa ground, called Bolton Moor, and other the commons and wafte grou within the township of Great Bolton, in the county palatine of Lanc ter; and for widening, paving, lighting, watching, cleanfing, and gulating the ftreets, lanes, paffages, and places within the towns Great Bolton and Little Bolton, and for fupplying the said towns w water, and for providing fire engines and firemen, and for remov and preventing nuifances, incroachments, and annoyances, and licenfing and regulating hackney coaches and chairs within the

towns.

Commiffioners, for the enclosure. Trustees for Great Bolton. Trufe for Little Bolton. Commiffioners, trustees and furveyors, to be fwor For appointing new commiffioners. For chufing new truftees. Qual cation of future trustees, to be resident, and for Great Bolton, to po an eftate real or perfonal, of 100ol. value, and for Little Bolton, an ef of fool. Survey and plan of commons to be made. Trustees to enqu into incroachments. All incroachments made within 20 years laft, to deemed part of the faid common. Roads to be forty feet broad. A gate to be erected across the roads. Surveyor to be appointed for fore ing the roads. Allotments for ftone and gravel, for amending roads Allotment to the lords of the manor of Bolton, one fifteenth part of the common. Power for commiffioners to fell the refidue of common and wafte at rol. per acre, and an annual chief rent, per acre, for 5000 years. Two third parts of the expences of paffing the act to be paid out of the fale of the common. Commiffioners to make an award. After execu tion and inrollment of award, all right of common to ceafe. Allotments to be inclosed as prescribed in the award. Proceedings to be entered in books. Commiffioners to account. Manerial rights faved. Power for the refpective lords to work mines. Perfons aggrieved may appeal to the feffions. Truftces for Great Bolton, to meet on the third Wednesday next, after the time appointed for leafing the common, and for Little Bolton, on the 27th of June 1792. No order valid, unless made at : publick meeting. Books to be kept. Truftees to appoint a treafuret, clerk, and collector. Actions may be brought in the name of the clerk. Officers dying or becoming bankrupt, trustees to be paid before other creditors. For appointing temporary officers. Power to put up lamp pofts and irons. Power for truftees to contract for paving, lighting, &c. Power to bring actions for breach of contract. For cleanfing the ftreets, &c. New ftreets, after being paved, to be under the direction of this act. No baker, &c. to lay faggots nearer than 100 yards to any houfe.

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To remove fpouts. Penalty on suffering chimnies to take fire, 10s. Power to break up the pavement to get water in cafe of fire. Property of the pavements, lamps, &c. vested in the trustees. Commiffioners may order the ftreets, &c. to be paved. Pavement not to be altered without confent of trustees. Power to get and convey water into the towns of Great and Little Bolton. Water to be free for the ufe of the inhabitants. To di. vide the towns into diftricts, for the purpose of watching. To appoint watchinen. No watchman, &c. to gain a fettlement by his office. Power to make bye laws, for regulating hackney coaches and chairs. Penalty on the driver of any coach plying without licence, 40s. Coaches and chairs to be numbered. Owners name and place of abode to be left at the office. Bye laws to be published in the Manchester newspapers. Power to build a house and office for the peace officers. To fix palings where buildings are pulled down, &c. Where any hole is made in the ftreets, lights to be fixed in the night. Grates to be fixed over holes into cellars, &c. Penalty on riding, &c. on the footways, and on committing various other offences, 208. Occupiers of houfes to sweep every day before their houfes. Not to flaughter cattle in the streets. No carriage to be fuffered to ftand in the ftreet. Signs and other projections to be taken down. Power to make fewers. Neceffary houfes to be emptied between ten at night and five in the morning. Names of the ftreets to be put up. A rate to be made in Little Bolton, for paying one third of the expence of this act. Power to raise money for lighting, &c. Little Bolton. Power to make affeffinents. Power to distrain on non-payment of rates. No house to be rated if under the value of 31. 108. per annum. To appoint affeffors and collectors. Power for trustees to regulate affeffments. No assessment valid, unless allowed by the truftees. Perfons removing, to pay a proportion of the tax. Power for trustees to give relief, where they think perfons are aggrieved. A rate may be laid on Great Bolton, if the rents of the allotments are infufficient. Trufees may borrow 10,000l. for Great Bolton, and 5,000l. for Little Bolton; and mortgage the rents, &c. as a fecurity. Money may be raised by annuities, not exceeding 91. per centum. Securities for monies lent, and annuities, may be transferred. Mortgages or annuities, and transfers, to be entered in a book. Applica tion of the money. If any overplus in Great Bolton, it is to go in aid of the poor rates. Treasurer to pay money as trustees fhall appoint. No funnel for conveying of fmoke to be fixed on the outfide of the front of any houfe, &c. Chimnies of velvet dreffers, &c. to be built of fuch a height, as trustees fhall direct. Power to contract for houses to widen and improve the ftreets. Notice to be given of intention to purchase. Trustees to make recompence for any injury to be done to any house, &c. Power to convey fettled eftates. Owners refufing to treat, a jury to fix the value. Trustees to iffue their warrant to the fheriff, to fummon a jury. Jurymen may be challenged. Ten pounds penalty on fheriff making default. If the jury thall give a verdict for more money than was offered, the expences to be paid by the truftees, otherwife by the owner. Upon payment of the money awarded by the jury, owners to execute conveyances to trustees. On payment of the purchase money trustees to enter. Where part of a building only fhall be neceffary to be taken, the owner may compel the truftees to purchase the whole. Purchase money of fettled estate to be laid out in the purchase of other lands, to be settled to the fame uses. Mifnomer not to retard the execution of this act. Power for the trustees to fell fuch land as shall not be wanted by them for the purposes of this act. Trustees may fue or be sued in the name of their clerk. Penalty, 51. on perfons fummoned as witneffes, refufing to attend or be examined. No perfon liable to pay any penalty, unless convicted before one juftice of the peace. Inhabitants to be competent witnesses. Leaving a fummons or a copy at the dwelling houfe, to be good fer. vice. Power for the juftice to mitigate penalties. All cofts which are not particularly otherwise directed by this act, to be ascertained by a justice of the peace. No penalty recoverable, unless the offender is profe. cuted within three calendar months after the offence is committed. Perfons aggrieved may appeal to the feffions. Perfon appealing, to have a copy of his conviction delivered to him. Want of form in making distress,

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not to make proceedings void, ab initio. Proceedings not to be void : want of form. No action to be commenced for any thing done und this act, unless twenty-one days notice fhall previously be given to the clerk. Treble cofts. If trustees bring an action and recover damage defendant to pay double cofts Publick act.

CA P. LXXII.

An act for vefting in James Turner, his executors, administrators, 20 affigns, the fole ufe and property of a certain yellow colour, of his t vention, throughout that part of Great Britain called England, t dominion of Wales, and town of Berwick upon Tweed, for a limit: time.

CA P. LXXIII.

An act for more effectually fecuring to Joseph Booth, and to the public the benefit of a certain invention or discovery therein mentioned, fr which he hath obtained letters patent under the great feal of Gre Britain.

An act for the maintenance and improvement of the harbour of Ramigat, in the county of Kent; and for cleanfing, amending, and preferving the haven of Sandwich, in the fame county.

Acts 22 Geo. 2. c. 40. 5 Geo. 3. c. 82. repealed. Commiffioners names Power to appoint new truftees. Provifo, that the trustees fhall not be obliged to elect, till the number is reduced to 200. Meetings of com miffioners at Guildhall, in the city of London, the first Wednesday every month. First meeting to be on June 27, 1792. A chairman and deputy chairman to be appointed. A committee of treasury. Duties Three pence per ton for fhips of 20 tons or upwards, and not exceeding 300 tons, and id. per ton for fhips exceeding 300 tons, and for every chaldron of coals, ort on of grindstones, Purbeck, Portland or other ftones, three halfpence. Duties to be published in the London Gazette. To nage to be afcertained, as directed by 26 Geo. 3. Power to vary rates Rates to be paid by foreign fhips. Perfons obftructing the meafure of fhips, to forfeit 1ol. Collectors to enter into and admeafure fhips. No veffel to be cleared till a certificate be produced of payment of dutie Merchants to make an allowance of the duty to the mafters. Collector to keep the accounts of the monies received. Copies of accounts to be tranfmitted to the receiver general of the cuftoms, and alfo of the receipts and disbursements. Twenty pounds penalty on officers neglecting their duty. Coafting veffels, colliers in ballaft, or fishermen, to pay once a year only. Power of diftrefs on non-payment of duties. Perfons eluding payment to continue chargeable. Truftees to remove obftructions. To purchase lands, &c. Incapacited perfons enabled to fell. Incapacite perfons indemnified. In cafe of refufal to treat, to impannel jury. Chal lenging jurors. Oaths to jury and witneffes. Verdict to be final, but notice to be given. Money allowed for lands, &c. taken, how to be charged and tendered. In cafe of not making out titles, or refufal to execute, or if perfons cannot be found, money to be invested in purchafe of ftock, &c. Eftates purchased, to veft abfolutely in the deputy mater of the Trinity Houfe. Perfons intitled to mefne profits, to have the divi dends. When purchafes are made from bodies corporate, or of fettled eftates, the money to be laid out in the purchase of other eftates; but not when there are tenants in tail in poffeffion. Conveyances under this act to be by feoffment, leafe and release, or bargain and fale. Charges of juries, &c. how to be paid. Fines on jurymen, &c. Penalty on giving falfe evidence, the fame as for perjury. By direction of trustees, the deputy mafter of the Trinity Houfe to fell or let freehold and leafe hold eftates. Money to be paid into the bank. Power to indict perfons fpoiling works, &c. Provifoes to be inferted in the leafes of wharfs, &c. not to take more for the ufe thereof than the truftees fhall allow of. Rates

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fhall be published annually in all the European languages. Trustees to agree with workmen, &c. for building and compleating the harbour. All acts, &c. to be determined by a majority. Chairman to have the cafting vote. To appoint collectors and other officers, and to difplace them. Trustees to take fecurity from collectors, &c. Former officers to continue till new ones are appointed. Power to make bye laws. Copies of the bye laws to be fixed in some confpicuous place near the harbour. Monies to be depofited in the bank, or at a banker's, until invefted. Cofts of paffing the act, to be defrayed first out of money in the truft es hands, and all money received under this or former acts to be expended in inproving, enlarging, &c. the harbour. Power to sell the 4 per cents, and to inveft the monies in the 3 per cents. Power to veft the momes raised in pursuance hereof in the 3 per cents. Dividends to be applied in the fame manner as directed, with respect to rates. Power to fell any part of the funded property for the purposes of the act. Confirmation of annui ties granted under the former acts. Trustees under former acts indemnified for granting annuities. Books to be kept refpecting the annuities. ¡No more money to be borrowed, except as by this act directed. Real and leafehold eftates vefted in the deputy mafter of the Trinity Houfe. Actions to be brought in his name. Auditors to be appointed to fettle annual accounts. Accounts when fettled to be fubmitted to the houfe of commons at the opening of the next feffion of parliament. No perfon shall empty any ballaft, &c. in faid harbour. Trustees impowered to remove" fhips out of the bafon. One hundred pounds penalty on perfons obftructing the removal of fhips. Proceedings, &c. to be entered in a book. Books may be perufed gratis. No truftee to hold an office of profit. Ships be| longing to Sandwich, exempted from the duties. Two hundred pounds per annum to be paid quarterly out of the rates to the mayor, &c. of Sandwich, for cleanfing, &c. the haven of Sandwich. Receipts for the annual payment to be given. Books of receipts and disbursements refpecting Sandwich to be kept. Duplicates thereof to be produced to the juftices at the quarter feffions for their allowances, &c. Juftices to make ailowance of the expence of executing the faid trufts, &c. Ten pounds I penalty on throwing ballaft into the river, or fixing piles within the channel without licence. No more than two fhips to lay abreast longer than one tide. The trustees empowered to apply 10.000l. for erecting fuch works as they fhall judge neceflary at the haven of Sandwich. For recovery of penalties and forfeitures. For want of diftrefs the perfon to be committed. All judgements to be final without any appeal. Distress to be kept five days, and may be redeemed within that time. Veflels belonging to Dover exempted from duties. Veffels belonging to Weymouth, and Melcomb Regis, and Lyme Regis, exempted. Veffels belonging to Great Yarmouth exempted. Recovery and application of penalties and forfeitures. Parties may appeal to quarter feflions. Direfs not to be void for irregularity, but in fuch action tender of amends may be made, or. money paid into court. Proceedings not to be quaihed for want of form. Saving the jurifdiction of the cinque ports. Limitation of actions. General iffue. Treble cofts. Publick act.

An act for further enlarging and improving the harbour of Whitehaven, in the county of Cumberland.

Former acts continued. Harbour to be enlarged, and limits to be from Redness Point, on the outside of a wall intended to be erected, until it reached within one hundred and twenty yards of the prefent outward works of the pier or quay of the prefent harbour; and from thence in a line, until it comes within forty yards of the prefent outward quay or pier; and from thence to the north fide of the Sugar Houfe Bulwark, and along the fea fhore, until it meets the aforefaid Redness Point. Powers. Erection of buildings. Rights or limits of the ground to be determined by arbitration. Impowering the truftees of the old harbour to appoint a clerk. Clerk to be appointed for the new limits. Actions to be brought in the name of the clerk, Publick act.

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