(4). That every Building through which, or through any part whereof any Boundary hereby established shall pass, shall be considered as within such Boundary; provided always, that if the Boundaries of any two or more of the Cities, Boroughs, and Places, whereof the Contents and Boundaries are hereby settled and described, shall pass through the same Building, or any part thereof, such Building shall be considered as within that one of such two or more of the said Cities, Boroughs, and Places which was before the passing of the herein before recited Act entitled to return Members or a Member to serve in Parliament, or if neither, or more than one of such two or more of the said Cities, Boroughs, and Places shall have been so entitled, then within that one of them whereof the area as hereby established is the smallest : (5.) That whenever any Boundary by this Act established is said to pass along any other Boundary, or along any Road, Lane, Path, River, Stream, Canal, Drain, Brook, or Ditch, the middle, as nearly as the same can be ascertained, of such other Boundary, or of such Road, Lane, Path, River, Stream, Canal, Drain, Brook, or Ditch, shall be understood: (6.) That the middle of any Road or Lane shall be understood as the middle of the carriage-way along the same: (7.) That when any Boundary by this Act established, is said to proceed along a Road, Lane, Path, River, Stream, Canal or Drain, from, or to an object, such Boundary shall be understood to proceed from, or to that point in the middle of such Road, Lane, Path, River, Stream, Canal, or Drain, from which the shortest line would be drawn to the centre of such object, as nearly as the centre thereof can be ascertained. (8.) That the point at which any Fence, Hedge, Wall, Boundary, Road, Lane, Path, River, Stream, Canal, Drain, Brook, or Ditch, is said to cut, meet, join, cross, reach, or leave any Fence, Hedge, Wall, Boundary, Road, Lane, Path, River, Stream, Canal, Drain, Brook, or Ditch, shall be understood as that point at which a line passing along the middle of the Fence, Hedge, Wall, Boundary, Road, Lane, Path, River, Stream, Canal, Drain, Brook, or Ditch, so cut, meet, joined, crossed, reached or left, would be intersected by a line drawn along the middle of the Fence, Hedge, Wall, Boundary, Road, Lane, Path, River, Stream, Canal, Drain, Brook, or Ditch so cutting, meeting, joining, crossing, reaching, or leaving, if such line were prolonged sufficiently far: (9.) That when a line is said to be drawn to a Road, Lane, River, Stream, or Canal, such line shall be considered as prolonged to the middle of such Road, Lane, River, Stream, or Canal: (10.) That by the words "Sea" and "Sea Coast," shall be understood the low-water mark : (11.) That if any deficiency shall be found to exist in the line of any Boundary described in the said Schedule to this Act Provision as to detached parts of parishes, &c. parochial places. annexed marked (O,) by reason of the intervention of any space between any two immediately consecutive points, such deficiency shall be supplied by a straight line to be drawn from the one to the other of such two immediately consecutive points. 37. That, notwithstanding the generality of any description contained in Schedule (O,) no City, Borough, or Place, the conand for extra tents whereof are specified in such Schedule, shall include any part of any Parish, Township, Hamlet, Chapelry, Tithing, Manor, or Liberty, which is detached from the main body of such Parish, Township, Hamlet, Chapelry, Tithing, Manor, or Liberty, if, by reason of including such detached part, the boundary hereby established of such City, Borough, or Place would not be continuous, unless such detached part shall, before the passing of this Act, have formed part of such City, Borough, or Place, for the purpose of the Election of Members to serve in Parliament; but that all Places, parochial or extra-parochial, which are surrounded by the contents of which any City, Borough, or Place is said in such Schedule (O,) to consist, but for which no provision is made in such Schedule (O,) shall be considered as included within such City, Borough, or Place, for the purpose of the Election of Members to serve in Parliament.* Misnomer not to vitiate, and the descriptions in to be consi dered as existing on 38. Proviso. That no misnomer or inaccurate description contained in this Act, or in any of the Schedules hereto annexed, Schedule(O.) shall in anywise prevent or abridge the operation of this Act with respect to the subject of such description, provided the same the 1st Oct. shall be so designated as to be commonly understood; and that for the purpose of identifying the descriptions contained in the said Schedule (O.) with the subjects of such descriptions respectively, such descriptions shall, if now inapplicable, be held to apply to such subjects as they existed on the first day of October, One thousand eight hundred and thirty-one. 1831. Act may be amended this Session. 39. Proviso, That this Act may be amended or altered by any Act or Acts to be passed during this present Session of Parlia ment. * This Section is of importance from the local provisions made by it in several instances. No detached parts of any parish, of which the main body forms part of any City; &c. is to be included in such City, &c. If the boundary of such City would cease to be continuous in consequence of its being so included; unless where such place, before thepassing of this Act, formed part of such City, &c. for returning Members to Parliament. On the other hand, any place, parochial or extra-parcchial, within the boundary line of any City, &c., is to be considered as included within the same. Bedfordshire.. Part of Ickleford Parish Hertfordshire... .... Northern Division. Oxfordshire. Berkshire. Part of Langford Parish Oxfordshire... Studley Parish,or Ham let in the Parish of Buckinghamsh. Caversfield Parish.. Cornwall Cornwall Oxfordshire... Oxfordshire. Stretton-in-the-Fields Leicestershire Derbyshire, Willesley. Derbyshire.. Part of Appleby. ... Oakthorpe Chilcote Part of Donisthorpe Part of the Parish of Southern Division. Derbyshire.. Ravenstone Northern Division. on the Cheshire side Derbyshire or Derbyshire, Devonshire.... Thorncombe Parish Northern Division. Dorsetshire. Dorsetshire.... Dorsetshire. Leicestershire Derbyshire, Staffordshire Southern Division. Staffordshire, Cheshire. .... Dorsetshire.. Downs and Easthay. Devonshire.... North Petherwin Parish Cornwall.... Part of Wirrington Pa-Cornwall or Devonshire..{rish, West of the Tamar Devonshire Cornwall or { that the isolated Parts should be annexed. Cornwall, Eastern Division. Devonshire, Northern Division. Devonshire, Devonshire, Devonshire. Cornwall or Devonshire. Northern Division. Dorsetshire.... Dallwood Township Devonshire.. .... The District of Nor-Northumber Southern Division. Devonshire, Northumberland, hamshire. land....... Northern Division. The Parish of Bedling-Northumber- Durham.... Gloucestershire Compton Parva Parish.. Warwickshire Gloucester- Sutton-under-Brails shire... Parish. } Warwickshire< North Riding of Northern Division. Southern Division. Gloucestershire Shennington Parish..... Oxfordshire ... Oxfordshire. Gloucestershire Part of Lea Parish. Herefordshire.. Herefordshire. Shropshire... 5 Shropshire, Worcester shire Southern Division. Worcestershire, Western Division. Herefordshire.. Litton & CascobTownship Radnorshire... Radnorshire. Hertfordshire.. Part of Coleshill Hamlet Buckinghamsh. Buckinghamshire. Part of Meppershall Bedfordshire Bedfordshire. Kent. ....... 5 Part Woolwich Parish Kent or Essex {Kent, Western Division. Monmouthshire Welsh Bicknor Parish.. Herefordshire.. Herefordshire. Oxfordshire... Boycot Township Buckinghamsh. Buckinghamshire. Oxfordshire... Lillingstone Lovell Parish Buckinghamsh. Buckinghamshire. Oxfordshire Hackamstead Chapelry.. Buckinghamsh. Buckinghamshire. Oxfordshire. ... Shropshire...{ Somersetshire ...... Grt. Lemhill Farm, Part Part of Hales Owen s Parish Holwell Parish,including BuckshallTithing North Ambersham and Hampshire South Ambersham Tithings, in Parish of Steep Staffordshire... Broom Parish.... Gloucester- Worcester & Gloucestershire, Eastern Division. Part of Wokingham Parish Berkshire..... Berkshire, ..... Berkshire. Berkshire, ..... Swallowfield Parish.... Berkshire..... Berkshire, Wiltshire ..... ..... Shinfield Parish Kingswood Parish. shire....... Gloucestershr. Western Division. Gloucestershire, Alderminster Parish... Eastern Division. S Gloucester- Gloucestershire, Wiltshire. Poulton Parish... Worcestershire .... ...... |