ing weight, collectors may weigh vessels. Weight of the lading to be marked on the vessels. Navigation to be free, upon payment of the rates. Power to compel payment of money subscribed to be lent. Rates to be assigned for securing such money. Power to raise a further fum of 14,3001. at interest, or by granting annuities. Securities may be transferred. If the trustees borrow a further sum than subscribed, a preference shall be given to the subscribers. Application of the money, to pay annuities, principal and intereft. Mortgages may be paid off by lot, if the trustees think fit. If more money be borrowed than the sum subscribed, the subscribers not to be paid off till the other money be discharged, unless they defire it. When mortgages and annuities are paid off, rates to be reduced. Lords of manors and land owners may erect warehouses, &c. on their lands; and may take the like rates as taken by the trustees. Commiffioners impowered to fix the rates of freight and porterage. Trustees, in their private capacity, not to be concerned in carrying goods for hire, without consent of commissioners. Trustees may, with confent of the commiffioners, carry goods for hire. Boats to be gauged. Penalty on floating timber, overloading boats, or not shutting drawbridges; or throwing ballaft into the river, 408. and on obstructing the navigation, 5 s. an hour. Penalty on opening locks, &c. gl. and not less than 40s. Damage done by the boats or crews to be made good. Punishing persons wilfully de stroying works, guilty of petty larceny. Trustees may make rules for regulating the navigation. Millers authorised to let off the water for repairing their flood gates or fluices. Rivers not to be under the power of commiffioners of fewers. Right of lords of manors to fisheries referved. Penalty on carrying fishing tackle on board any boats, 51. Land owners may use boats free of the rates, in certain cafes. If boats laden, to pay for ten ton. Trustees impowered to extend the navigation above Stowupland Bridge. Appointment of trustees upon vacancies by the commiffioners.. Meeting of the trustees within five miles of the navigation. Trustees may appoint officers; and shall take security from their treasurer and collectors. Victuallers not to hold places of profit under the act. Officers to account. Penalty on refusal, may be committed to gaol. Accounts and proceedings of trustees to be entered, and accounts to be annually audited by the commiffioners. In whose name actions may be brought. Trustees in their private capacities, not liable to any debts, &c. Commiffioners to take an oath. Meetings of the commissioners. Com. miffioners may hold meetings upon emergencies. Meetings to determine disputes, &c. Commissioners to appoint a clerk. Proceedings of the commiffioners to be entered. Commiffioners may act as justices. No justice or commissioner to act where interested, or holding a place of profit under the act. Penalty on trustees and commiffioners acting, ng, not being qualified. Re Recovery of forfeitures. Distress not deemed unlawful for want of form. Persons aggrieved may appeal to the quarter fessions. Limitation of actions. General issue. Treble costs. Rights of the corpo tion of Ipfwich saved.

CAP. LVIII.

An act for draining, dividing, and inclofing certain moors, commons, or waste lands, called Edington, otherwise Burtle Moor, East Heath, West Heath, and Clyde Batch, within the hamlet of Edington, and pa rish of Moorlinch, in the county of Somerset.

Commiffioners, Thomas Davies, Samuel Kingdon, and John Silke. New commiffioners, in the room of any of them dying, or refusing to act, to be elected in one month. Commiffioners not to be interested. Commiffioners to take an oath. The oath, Allowance to commiffioners. Regulations for commiffioners meetings. Notice of meeting. Incroachments made within 20 years to be deemed part of the moors. Commiffioners to perambulate. Claims affecting the boundaries. Time of delivering in claims. Claims not objected to the 2d, 3d, or 4th meeting of commiffioners, to be allowed, and final. Claims objected to, to be examined into by commiffioners. Notice of trial to be given, and allotments suspended. On neglect to proceed to trial, commiffioners to determine. Penalty

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Penalty on witnesses not attending, commitment to gaol for 6 months. Penalty for giving false evidence, same as perjury. Draining powers into the river Brue, in Somersetshire. Satisfaction for damages done to private poperty. Survey to be made. Roads 40 feet broad. Appointment of rveyor to repair roads. Parish roads, &c. to continue. For enabling commiffioners to borrow money. Allotments for sale to defray expences. Application of overplus monies, to be laid out in lafting improvements. Commitioners to account. Allotment in lieu of foil equal to one twenbirth part of the lands undisposed of. Allotment of residue of moor equally. Allotment for turbary rights on West Heath to be adequate to it. Allotments to be in bar of right of common. Regulation of the of copyhold or leasehold allotments. Repair of rhines, ditches, and ther fences. Power to exchange messfuages, farms, &c. Wills, &c. not be prejudiced. Leases at rack rent, &c. to be vacated. Award. Apxal to feffions. fions. Saving rights of lords of manors. General faving. Pub

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CAP. LIX.

An act for more effectually embanking the marsh called Malldraeth and Corsddaugau, in the county of Anglesey, and draining and preserving the fame, and the inclosed low lands contiguous thereto.-See 28 Geo. 3.

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hramble recites act 28 Geo. 3. Power to make a further rate upon the marih, and alfo a rate upon such inelosed lands as will be benefited by the bankment and drainage of the marsh. Commiffioners impowered to enter upon the inclosed lands, to afcertain improved value. Expences of the act. Publick act.

CAP. LX.

An act for effectually carrying into execution two acts, of the fixteenth and twenty-fifth years of his present Majesty, for making and main taining a navigable canal from the Stourbridge navigation to the Birmingham and Birmingham and Fazeley canal navigations, in the coun ties of Worcester and Stafford.

Gco. 3. c. 66. 25 Geo. 3. c. 87. Power to raise 10, rool. upon the Lew proprietors. Power to recover fubscriptions by action at law. Propietors may hold 35 shares. If fractions of shares be assigned to trustees, =they may act as proprietors. Interest to be paid to the new proprietors 5 per cent. When the extenfion is complete, a further sum may be borrowed, and the rates affigned as a security. Form of affignment. Affignments may be transferred. Form of transfer. Intereft to be paid prior to dividends. Power to open communications with coal and other mines near the canal. Clause in the 16 Geo. 3. reftraining the making reHervoirs on Penfent Chase, or on the fouth-eaft fide of a boundary leading from Knowle Brook House, in the parish of Dudley, repealed. Expences of the act. Publick act.

CAP. LXI.

An act for authorifing and enabling the right honourable George earl of Mount Edgcumbe, and Reginald Pole Carew esquire, to establish and maintain a common ferry over and across the river Tamer, between a certain place north of Plymouth Dock, in the parish of Stoke Damarel, in the county of Devon, and Torpoint, in the parish of Antony Saint Jacob, otherwise Antony in the East, in the county of Cornwall.

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The earl of Mount Edgcumbe and Reginald Pole Carew efq; authorised to establish a mentioned in the title of the act, and to remove obstructions, &c. bot pallengers each Id.-Horses, mules, Passengers in the ferry to pay the following tolls: for ules, or affes, laden or unladen, ad. Carriages drawn by one horse, &c. 18. 6d. By a horfes, 23. 6d.-By 4 herfes, 58. For an hearse, 10s. 6d.-For carts drawn by 1 or a horfes, theed By For horfes, ss. By cattle cach, with perfon attending, de

-For a calf, and do, 2d.-For a hog do, 2d.-For a score fheep, 11d.For a fcore hounds, 5d. - An hogshead of beer, or other liquor, 6d.Other goods, per ton, 6d.-Corn and grain, per bag, 1-2d. -Hampers, pots, or crooks, per pair 1-2 d. To pay double on Sunday. Power of distress. Ferry not to ply before four in the morning, and after ten at night, between March 24, and Sept. 29; and before fix in the morning, and eight in the evening, between Sept. 28, and March 25. Penalty for defrauding the ferry, 20s. Exception in favour of the office of ordnance. Penalty on finking or damaging any boat or vessel, &c. besides damage, sl. and not less than 208. Masters and owners answerable for damage done to ships, &c. Acts to be deemed wilful and negligent injuring ferry boat. Persons not to obstruct the ferry. No person liable to damages for landing at other than the regular landing places. Ferry boats may ply at North Corner. Property, &c. of the ferry vested in the earl of Mount Edgçumbe and Mr. Carew. Ferry not to be rated. Distress not to be deemed unlawful for want of form, &c. Persons aggrieved may appeal to the quarter sessions. Saving the rights of the prince of Wales. Limitation of actions. General issue. Treble costs. Publick act.

CAP. LXII.

An act for paving, cleanfing, lighting, and widening the streets, lanes, and passages; for removing and preventing encroachments, nuisances, and annoyances; and for regulating the porters and drivers of carts, within the borough of Truro, and part of the adjoining parishes in the county of Cornwall.

Meeting of the commiffioners: to defray their own expences. When commiffioners die new ones to be chosen. Number of commiffioners not to be less than 60. Qualification of commissioners, 20l. per ann. or sool. Oath. Commissioners may act as justices. Proceedings of the commif fioners to be entered in proper books to be kept for that purpose. Commiffioners to appoint officers, and required to take security from their treasurer. Property of the pavements, &c. vested in the commiffioners, who may order the streets to he paved, cleansed, and lighted. Power to get materials. Penalty on obftructing the works, 208. Pavement not to be altered without the confent of the commiffioners, or 7 of them. Power to provide lamps. Penalty on accidentally damaging lamps, &c. to pay damage. Commissioners are empowered to contract for paving, cleanfing and lighting the streets. Surveyors to inspect the works. Scavengers duty. Inhabitants to sweep the pavement before their houses. No perfon to carry away any foil, except the scavengers. Persons at liberty to keep or dispose of for their own use, dung, &c, made or kept in their houses or yards. Penalty not to extend to rubbish occafioned by erecting or repairing any building. Scavengers may lodge dirt in vacant places in the ftreet, with the commissioners consent Regulations touching the emptying of bog-houses. Penalty on caufing annoyatices in the streets, ros. befides other penalties by law. No carriage, to be left in the ftreet. Commiffioners may remove nuisances and annoyances. Power to take down the bow windows now erected. Expence of moving figns, &c. to be paid by the owners. Houses, &c. to be built or new fronted, to be made to rise perpendicularly. Nuifances to be removed. Limiting the number of horfes drawing on the new pavements, same as turnpikes, and wheels regulated. Names of the streets to be set up, and the houses to be numbered. For regulating the porters and carmen, and the carriages to be used by them. Commiffioners authorised to lay affefsments for defray. ing the expences attending the execution of the act, not above Is. 6d. per pound. Buildings not subject to be affessed while unoccupied. Power to recover the affefsments by distress and fale. Commiffioners empowered to borrow money upon the credit of the rates, not exceeding 1,0ool. Money borrowed on the rates to be charged with interest on the rates. Application of the monies raised for payment of money borrowed with interest, and then for repairs, &c. Commiffioners to cause their accounts to be stated annually. Surplus money to be placed in a banker's hands. Com

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Commiffioners not personally answerable for contracts, &c. The act not to difcharge the commissioners from payment of the rates. No action to be difcontinued on account of the death of the treasurer. Directing the recovery and application of penalties. Inhabitants may give evidence. Inhabitants discharged from statute work when streets are new paved. Jurifdiction of the mayor, &c. extended to Kenwyn, Calenick, and Clement Streets. May treat for the purchase of houses, &c. Incapacitated perfons empowered to fell and convey. If such persons refuse to treat, &c. a jury to be fummoned. Jurors may be challenged. Verdict of jury, &c. to be binding, and to be registered. Sheriff, &c. neglecting his duty, may be fined rol. Compenfation for premises held for life or long terms of years. On payment of purchase money, premises to be conveyed; on default thereof, or if any difpute in the title, the purchase money to be placed out for the use of the perfons intitled thereto. Purchase money for premises in fettlement to be laid out to the like uses. Market house and Middle Row to be pulled down, and laid into Fore Street. Market that may be built to be confidered as a publick market. County rates to continue to be raised in Kenwyn, Calenick, and Clement Streets. Right of the corporation to hold fairs referved. Appeal to the quarter feffions. Persons Citraining not to be deemed trefpaffers on account of defect in proceedings. No plaintiff to recover after tender of amends. Proceedings not to be removed by Certiorari. Limitation of actions. General issue. Treble cofts. Publick act.

An act for preferving the works made for fupplying the town of Bradford, in the county of York, and part of the township of Horton, in the parish of Bradford aforesaid, with water; and for the more easy recovery of the rents for the faid water, and to enable the proprietors thereof to borrow money for the improving such works.

From the spring at North Bierley. Proprietors incorporated by the name of The Company of Proprietors of Bradford Works. For laying the water into houses in Bradford and Horton. Pavement injured by laying down pipes, to be made good. No pipe to be affixed, &c. without the confent of the proprietors. For ascertaining the rents to be paid for water. Houfes under 31. per ann. 2s. above 3l. and not 61. per ann. 68. of 10l. per ann. Ios. -under 151. per ann. 158. - above 151. and not more than 20l. per ann. 11.-above 20l. per ann. 11. gs.-Inn of rol. per ann. 11.-do of 151. per ann. Il. 10s.-do of 20l. per ann. 21.-above 20l. per ann. 31. Brewers and other trades to be charged additional rents for water. Occupiers of houses under 31. to pay no more than 2s. Persons paying water rents, Sec. not to gain fettlements. Penalty on persons taking water, not having agreed with the proprietors for it. Pipes may be taken away from persons not paying the rent, or letting the water run waste. In case of fire, water may be taken without making any fatisfaction. For recovery of water rents not paid when due and demanded. Water rents exempt from all Laxes or rates. Rents to be divided among proprietors, &c. Punishing perfons damaging or destroying works, to forfeit 20s. and not under 58. Informations, &c. to be before one justice. Distress not unlawful for want of form. Form of conviction. Appeal to quarter sessions. Proceedings tot to be quashed for want of form. Act not to affect agreements made with owners of lands through which the water is conveyed: The proprietors impowered to borrow 2,00ol.; and to affign the water works as a lecurity. Form of affignment. Grants and assignments to be entered with the clerk; and may be transferred. Form of transfer. Interest to be paid half-yearly. General saving. Publick act.

CAP. LXIV.

An act for establishing a chapel at Ramsgate, in the parish of Saint Laurence, in the Ifle of Thanet, in the county of Kent, as a chapel of ease to the church of the fame parish.

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Ground and chapel vested in Mr. Harvey, Mr. Fagg, and Mr. Holman; upon truft to be used as a chapel of ease to the church of St. Laurence. Chapel to be for ever a chapel of ease to the church of St. Laurence A curate to be licensed to officiate in the chapel. Trustees to nominate a temporary curate during a vacancy in the curacy of the chapel. Curate made liable to the penalties of non-refidence. His duty described, to read prayers twice every Sunday, and to adminifter the facrament as the law requires, and read prayers every Wednesday and Friday from Lent to Michaelmas, and all faints days, and preach twice every Sunday, except on facrament days. Trustees to make allowance to the curate out of the profits to be made by letting out pews. Clerk, and servants of the chapel, to be appointed. Trustees to make profit by letting out the pews, and to keep the chapel in repair. Trustees to receive the rents of pews, upon trust to keep the chapel in repair, and to divide the remainder in ftated proportions. New trustees to be elected, in case of vacancy by death, or otherwife. Truftees to be answerable for their own acts. Exemption from parochial rates. Legal estate of the ground and chapel to defcend to heirs, according to common law. Saving the rights of the archbishop and archdeacon of Canterbury, and of the vicar and parish clerk of of St. Lau rence. General saving. Publick act.

CAP. LXV.

An act to enable the company of proprietors of the canal navigation from Leeds to Liverpool, to vary the line of the said canal navigation; and to raise a further sum of money for the purpose of compleating the faid canal navigation; and for other purposes.

Act 10 Geo. 3. c. 114. for making the Leeds and Liverpool canal from Leeds Bridge through the township of Leeds, and through the several townships, parishes and hamlets of Holbeck, Wortley, Armley, Bramley, Calverley, Ecclefall, Idle, Shipley, Bingley, Morton, Silfden, Kild. wick, Farnell, Bradley, Skipton, Sterton, Thorlby, Gargrave, Bank Newton, Marton, Coats, Barnolfwick, Barnoliwick, and Salterford, in the county of York, and Foulridge, Coln, Marsden, New Laund Laund, Filley Close, Padiham, Simonstone, Read, Whalley, Billington, Salisbury, Clayton, Osbaldifton, Balderstone, Samlsbuy, Cuerdale, Walton, Cuerden, Farrington, Leyland, Ulneswalton, Eccleston, Mawdesley, Bispham, Wrightington, Parbold, Newburgh, Latham, Burscough, Scarifbrick, Halsal, Down Holland, Lydiate, Aughton, Maghull, Melling, Aintree, Netherton, Ford, Litherland, Bootle and Kirkdale, in the county of Lancaster, to the North Lady's Walk, in the town or port of Liverpool, and from thence to communicate with the river Mersey. And for completing the said navigation, the company might raise 260,000l. and if not fufficient 60,000l. more. 23 Geo. 3. c. 47. for incorporating the river Douglas navigation with the Leeds and Liverpool. Proprietors impowered to make a deviation from the original line, and to complete the canal from Marsden, Pendle Foreft, Ightenhill Park, Gowthorp otherwise Gawthorp, Padiham, Hapton, Altham, Clayton, and Harwood otherwise Great Harwood, until the same shall communicate with the original intended canal at Nab or Banks Wood, in the township of Great Harwood. Company may enter lands for that purpose: and may erect buildings, and do other works. Breadth of the canal and towing path at Dean Clough in Harwood, not above 120 yards in breadth. Powers of former acts to extend to the deviation hereby authorised to be made. Company not to erect any other buildings, or do any other acts than what they are authorised to do by the former acts. Two parts of the plan and book of reference to be certified by the speaker. Canal to be made pursuant to the plan and book of reference. Names of land owners not being in the book of reference, to be no prejudice in making canal. Water not to be taken out of the river Aire, nor out of the streams flowing into the said river above Gargrave bridge. After the head level of the canal is navigable, Howden brook to be turned into the river Aire. Water not to be taken out of the river Ribble. Company not to take any water into the deviating cut from the river Henburn. Company not to take