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of the rent. Rates how to be levied where houses are let to several families, &c. to be paid by the landlord. Saving to landlords. Persons to pay only for the time occupying. Empty houses not to be rated. Not to affect agreements between landlords and tenants. Payment of the rate not to gain a fettlement Money loft by infolvency or otherwise, new rate to be made. Recovery of rates. Summons by a justice, and on nonpayment to be levied with costs by distress and fale. For recovery of rates from persons quitting the premises, rated on the parish. Power to fue for rates, penalties, and fines. Perfons aggrieved by the rate may appeal to the truftees. Money to be raised by annuities, or at 5 per cent. interest. Trustees to raise any fum not exceeding 12,500l. Money to be raised on the credit of the act. Annuities how charged and paid, out of the rates. Receipts and orders for payment of annuities to be given. Annuities affignable. Annuities how recoverable, in 3 months, with interest and costs; and if not paid in 20 days, annuitant to have the same power as the truftees. Books to be kept of annuities, &c. Separate account to be kept of -rates. All receipts, payments, and minutes of of contracts, &c. to be entered in a book, &c. Collectors to account; and pay the money in their hands over to the trustees. Collectors, &c. neglecting to account, may be committed. Treasurer, collector, &c. dying or becoming a bankrupt, executors or affignees to pay the money. Costs of this act to be paid. Distress not to be deemed unlawful for want of form. Penalties and forfeitures to be recovered and applied to the purposes of this act. Proceedings not to be vacated for want of form. General appeal to quarter sessions. Limitation of actions, after 21 days notice, within three months, and to be tried in Middlesex. General issue. Treble costs. Publick act.

CAP. LXXII.

An act for taking down the church, chancel, and tower belonging to the parish of Banbury, in the county of Oxford, and for rebuilding the fame.

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Trustees, the mayor, aldermen, capital burgess, assistant, and town clerk of Banbury, the vicar, churchwardens and others. If trustees die, or refufe to act, new ones to be appointed by ten trustees. Five trustees may act. Proceedings to be entered in a book, and signed by the clerk. Qualification of trustees (except the mayor, &c. and fubfcribers for 501.), unless rated to the poor at rol. per ann. Meeting clauses as usual. Clerk, treasurer, &c. to be appointed by the trustees. Rates to be made on all inhabitants in the parish (except the lands, &c. part of the prebend of Banbury, vested in the bishop of Oxford, and his lesfee, and the glebe lands and allotment for tythes in Banbury tything, and part of Spital Farm, and the first vesture of part of North Meadow, the property of Francis Eyre, and houses and lands of the vicar of Banbury) in any fum not exceeding 3s. 6d. per pound per ann. according to the church rates; and the money arifing vested in the trustees for the purposes of this act, and to be collected by the churchwardens in their respective districts, and paid into the hands of the treafurer, and take place from Aug. 1, Rates may continue in force for several years, as long as any money borrowed is owing. Tenants to pay the whole, and deduct half the rates out of the rent. Not to affect agreements. Rates where houses are let to several families to be paid by the landlord. Recovery of rates in 14 days, on demand in writing, and fubject to distress and sale of goods, by warrant of 2 justices for the borough of Banbury, or the counties o Oxford or Northampton, rendering the overplus to the owner, after deducting charges. Power to sue for rates above 20l. in courts at Weftminster. Power to borrow money by the trustees, and to affign the rates as a security. Form of affignment. Money to be raised by annuities. Form of grant. Manner of transferring securities. Form of transfer Churchwardens and collectors to account, &c. Collectors, &c. neglect. ing to account, may be committed. Church eftates to be fold towards the purposes of the act. Chancel to be taken down. New church, chancel, and tower to be erected. Directions respecting taking down monuments. Allotment of pews to the mayor, aldermen, and capital burgesses.

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and the town clerk and their ferjeants at mace, and also to the bishop of Oxford, or his leflees, and the vicar of the said parish; and for women coming to be churched, and for fschools, and for perfons repairing the church, and those subscribing 101. or upwards, for taking down and rebuilding the church, chancel, and tower; and the trustees may fell the reft, or let them, and the rents to go towards defraying the expence, and in aid of the rates. Allotments to fubfcribers to be in claffes. Pews to numbered. Subscriptions to be transferrable. Banns may be published, c. previous to building the church, by the vicar or curate, to be in ay place appointed (with approbation of the vicar) for publick worship, the church is finished. Remedy for recovery of fubfcriptions as trufas shall direct, by action in courts at Westminster. Application of moDes raifed, firft to charges of this act, and after in taking down the preint church, &c. and in erecting a new one, and paying debt and intereft, ad for an allowance to the organist, clerk, and fexton, as trustees think ft. Appeal to quarter sessions. Limitation of actions after 14 days no2, in 6 months in the county where the cause of action thall arife. General iffue. Treble costs. Publick act.

CAP. LXXIII.

An act for forming a junction between the Forth and Clyde navigation and the Monkland navigation; and for altering, enlarging, and explaining feveral former acts passed for making and maintaining the faid navigations.

Act 8 Geo. 3. c. 63. Act 10 Gro. 3. c. 105. Powers to form a junction between the two canals. Powers of former acts continued for that purpofe. Powers of the former act extended to the collateral cut. To convey water into the Monkland canal, and to use the fame as an aqueduct. Monkland canal to be kept in repair by the proprietors. Ascertaining the tonnage of ships paffing without unloading. Officers to give a copy of the pocket, tranfire, let-pass, or other clearance, upon being paid for the lame. Afcertaining the qu quantity of goods on board vessels, and for laying a penalty on persons producing false manifests, treble the amount of the tails. How vessels may pass at reduced rates; the company may reduce the tolls for goods carried on the canal without going through a lock, and to increase the tolls not above 2d. per mile on veffels passing short diftances and through locks. Duty of tonnage laid on vessels for ufing the bafon and wharfs: British vessels, per ton, Id. foreign vessels, per ton, 2d. timber, per ton, ad. per month. Goods above 24 hours on the wharfs, per ton, Id. per day. Powers given by the former acts for regulating birthing of veffels, &c. extended to basons now made or hereafter to be trected. Company empowered to regulate persons on land employed in the towing of veffels. Tolls may be leafed, Power to plant trees, and to use land unoccupied by the canal or towing paths. Former acts continued in force, 8 Geo. 3. C. 63. II Geo. 3. C. 62. 13 Geo. 3. С. 104. 14 Geo. 3. c. 59. & 27 Geo. 3. C. 55. New powers to continue and complete the Monkland canal to the river Calder. Powers in former acts continued. Powers to raise money, not exceeding 10,000l. Tolls to be lewied, not above Id. sterling per mile for coals, ftones, timber, dung, fuel, and other goods. Powers of former act to levy tolls extended to the Monkland navigation. Exemptions from tolls shall be allowed; for lime, and limestone to pay only 1-4th, iron stone 1-2; paving stones, gravel, and other materials for repairing roads (lime ftone excepted), and alfo dung, foil, marle, and all forts of manure for land, not to be charged with any rates, provided they do not pass through any lock, only when the waters of Monkland are discharging at the point of partition. Powers to lessen rates upon the whole or any part of the canal. Goods patling less than a mile, to pay tonnage for a mile. Goods, &c. remaining. beyond 24 hours on the wharfs, to pay wharfage dues. For reducing, the number of the committee of management of the Monkland canal to three, and not to exceed nine. Power to plant trees on the banks of the canal. Powers of former act continued (except where the fame are altered, or inconsistent, or repugnant to this act). Publick act.

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CAP. LXXIV.

An act to alter and amend an act, made in the fourteenth year of the reign of his late majesty King George the Second, intituled, An act for the effectual draining and preservation of Waterbeach Level, in the county of Cambridge; and to establish an agreement made between the lord of the manor of Waterbeach cum Denny, and the commoners within the faid manor.

Act 14 Geo. 2. C. 24. Agreement that Joyst Fen should be cleared of cattle from Candlemas day to March 25, yearly, horses excepted; Midlott, or Midload fen, from Candlemas to May 1; for each common the owner might feed 15 milched cows, or dry neat cattle, and 8 sheep, or 10 cows, and 5 mares or geldings, and to abate a cow for every colt of one year old, and 3 weanling calves of the 1st year deemed as one cow; and for every 4 commons to be kept one bull, from May 1, to October 10; and for every beaft fed contrary, the owner to forfeit ros. to the lord of the manor, for every offence, to be levied by distress and fale, and the agreement to be valid. New regulations as to the stocking of Joyst Fen and Midlott. Joyst Fen to be cleared of all cattle (except horfes) from Candlemas-day old ftile, to April 20, yearly, and of sheep from Candlemas-day old stile, to November 20; and Midlott cleared of cattle from Candlemas-day old stile, to May 12, and of all dry cattle (except weanling calves under one year old) from Candlemas-day old stile, to Aug. 12, and sheep from Candlemas-day old ftile, to December 31. New regulation as to the stocking of commonable lands, to feed 12 milched cows or dry neat cattle, and 4 mares or geldings, and 8 sheep, and one cow for every yearling colt or filly, and 3 weanling calves of the 1st year deemed as a cow, and one yearling neat beast the like; for every 8 commons to be kept one bull, from May 11, to November 1o. Regulations for mowing all the bouts and little hollows of the commonable or fen grounds, and the management of the other parts. For scouring ditches and mowing thistles on the refidue of the commons (except The Back Ditch). That four fifths of the occupiers of the commons may, from time to time, make regulations for the use of and enjoyment thereof. Every occupier of a common to have a vote. Penalty on persons depasturing cattle contrary to the regulation, instead of penalty by former act, to pay 20s. for cach beaft fed thereon, and may distrain such cattle, and detain them 5 days; and if fuch penalty and costs be not then paid, to fell, and one moiety of penalty to go to the lord of the manor, for his own use, and the other moiety to be retained by the fenreeves, and applied towards expences of the annual drift. Payment for cattle beyond the allowed stint, without wilul default of the owner, to pay the fenreeves 4 d. per head. For driving the commonable waste and fen grounds. Account of the number of cattle found on the drift to be given annually to the vicar of Waterbeach. Occupiers of commons depafturing other people's cattle shall be deemed the owners, &c. For paying the expences of the act. Where owners reside out of the parish of Waterbeach, their proportion to be paid by the tenants, who shall deduct it out of their rent. Powers of former act, unless where altered by this act, confirmed. Publick act.

CAP. LXXV.

An act to enable the company of proprietors of the Staffordshire and Worcestershire canal navigation to improve the navigation of the river Severn, from Stourport, in the county of Worcester, to a place called Diglis, near the city of Worcester.

Act 6 Geo. 3. c. 94. by which the company of proprietors of the Staffordshire and Worcestershire canal navigation were incorporated, and the navigation of the river Severn is affected by shoals, from the faid canal at Stourport to Diglis near Worcester. Staffordshire and Worcestershire canal company enabled to improve the navigation of the river. Company

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not to make locks or weirs. Paying the expences of paffing the act, and carrying the fame into execution. Power for company to raise a further fum of 12,000l. by assignment of their rates. Form of assignment. Afliguments may be transferred. Form of transfer. Intereft to be paid halfyearly. For making fatisfaction for damage done in improving the river. The company to maintain the works, so that they shall not be a prejudice to navigation. If satisfaction for damages not paid, commiffioners to levy it and costs, by diftress and fale. Penalty on persons obstructing works, to forfeit 208. at difcretion of the justice. River not to be under the commifhomers of sewers. Recovery of penalties, offenders may be committed to common gaol for 3 months, if penalty not paid, to go to the company of proprietors for the purposes of the act. Distress not unlawful for want of form. Form of conviction. Appeal to quarter feffions. Limitation of actions, 3 months. General issue. Double costs. Publick act.

CAP. LXXVI.

An act for forming and keeping in repair the streets, and other publick pallages and places, within a certain district in the parish of Saint Luke Chelsea, in the county of Middlesex, called Hans Town, and for otherwife improving the fame.

Henry Holland intitled to a large piece of ground in the parish of St. Luke in Chelsea, for a long term of years, under Charles Sloane, lord Cadogan, Welbore Ellis, and Christopher Doyley esq; on the fouth side of the village of Knightsbridge, fronting to north, partly on the high road leading through Knightsbridge, partly on the Swan inn yard, and land of Wm. Brown efq; and towards the fouth on White Lion Street; and bounded in part, on the east, by a rivulet or water creek, encompafling great part of the faid ground on the east side, and on the west, on lands of Wm. Bushnell, and others, and contains 89 acres; and the faid H. Holland hath made a carriage way, called Sloane Street, from Knightsbridge; and it would be beneficial to pave the said streets. Qualification of commiffioners zol. per ann. land, or occupier rated at 30l. or possessed of 2,0001. perfonal eftate. The oath. Meetings of the commissioners; clauses as ufual. Restriction as to revoking orders not to be altered, unless more commiffioners attend than before. Proceedings of the commiffioners to be entered in a book, and signed by a commissioner. Officers to be appointed by commiffioners. Officers to account. Penalty on neglect, commitment to the house of correction for 3 months, &c. Property of paveTments, &c. vefted in commissioners. Commissioners to cause the streets to be repaired, &c. Inhabitants to form, &c. the streets, in the first infrance. Lamps to be fet up. Commissioners may contract for performing the works. Incroachments to be removed. Penalty on occafioning nuifances, for every offence, 5s. Penalty on leaving carriages, &c. in the treets, 58. each offence. Hoards, &c. may be erected. Watchmen to be appointed by commissioners. Duty of watchmen, the fame as other watchmen, and to fecure fufpicious perfons, and persons for affaulting or refifting watchmen, penalty sl. and victuallers permitting watchmen on duty to remain in their houses, to forfeit 20s. each offence. Power to water the streets. Annual fum to be paid to the furveyors of the highfor the parish, in lieu of the highway rate, 41. on Sept. 29, yearly. The streets and highways within the limits of the act to be repaired diftinct from the other parts of the parish. Money to be raised by a rate of 28. 6d. in the pound on houses and gardens, and Is. in the pound on other land, according to the poors rate, from June 24, 1790, to be paid to the ⚫treasurer. Empty houses to be charged with half rates. Proportion of rates to be paid by persons removing. Recovery of rates by distress and fale. Landlords to bear so much of the rate as shall exceed 28. in the pound. Commiffioners may borrow money, and assign the rates as a security. Form of affignment. Money may be raised by annuities at rol. per cent. per ann. Form of grant. Security may be transferred. Form of transfer. Application of the money. Recovery of penalties, by warrant,

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rant, to commit to gaol for three months. Inhabitants may give evidence. Appeal to general or quarter feffions on 5 days notice, in 4 months. Limi. tation of actions, on 31 days notice, in 3 months. General issue. Treble cofts. Publick act.

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An act for the better paving, cleansing, lighting, and watching the city of Coventry, and the fuburbs thereof, and removing and preventing nuifances and annoyances therein; and for regulating the publick wells and pumps within the faid city and fuburbs.

3 Geo. 3. C. 41. Former act repealed. Commiffioners appointed, the mayor of the city and others. Election of new commiffioners upon vacancies. Qualification of commiffioners to be appointed in future. Lands, &c. 20l. per ann. perfonal, an. personal, 400l. Commiffioners not to act if interested; but may act as justices. Meetings of the commiffioners. Notice of meetings. Proceedings of the commiffioners to be done at meetings, and the majority at meetings (not being less than five) may act. Proceedings to be entered in a book signed by the commiffioners. Commissioners to appoint officers; and to take security from their treasurer. Officers to account. On failure of accounting, &c. to be committed. Pavement, materials, &c. vefted in the commissioners. Commissioners to cause the streets to be paved, &c. Wells and pumps to be regulated. Commissioners to cause lamps to be provided. No person to carry away foil, except contractor. Inhabitants may keep dung, &c. for their own use. Penalty on wilfully breaking lamps, or damaging the works, 40s. for each offence. Penalty on breaking lamps negligently or accidentally, to pay damage. Commissioners may contract for performing any of the works. Penalty on caufing annoyances in the streets, each offence 20s. (except stalls in the women's market place, on market or fair days, and the crosscheaping, for elections of members to parliament). Penalty on carriages, &c. left in the streets, 20s. for each offence, (except the butchers rows). No fwine to be kept or flaughtered within the city. Time of emptying necessary houses 'directed. Commiffioners may remove projections, &c. Spouts and gutters of buildings not to project. Posts, steps, rails, palisades, &c. to be removed. Notice to be given to occupiers before removing of projections, &c. Commiffioners may permit occupiers to remove projections, & c. and al'low them the expences. Not to extend to rubbish occafioned by building. Owners of water pipes may take up the pavement to repair the pipes. Commiffioners impowered to contract for the purchase of houses, &c. Perfons interested impowered to fell. Purchase money belonging to corporations, &c. to be laid out in purchase of other estates. Commiffioners to caufe buildings, &c. to be taken down; and the ground to be laid into the streets. Regulation of the watch (as usual). Rates to be made by affeffors to be appointed by the commiffioners, not above is. 6d. in the pound. Rates on divided houses. Publick buildings to be rated. By whom rates for publick buildings shall be paid, by the proper officer. Affeffors impowered to inspect, &c. vicars rates. Rates to be examined and confirmed by the commiffioners. Afsessors and collectors to obey commiffioners orders. Recovery of rates, by distress and sale of goods, by warrant. Collectors to collect arrears of former rates, and to pay the money to the commissioners. No collector to serve more than once in five years. St. Michael and St. John deemed one parish. Exemptions from rates, gardens and orchards, in the city for fruit, &c. for sale, lands and empty houses, stock in trade, money, and personal estate. Rates apportioned between occupiers quitting and coming into the premises. Power to mitigate rates, where rents do not exceed 31. a year. Rates not to be less than rs. 6d. in the pound, unless the creditors consent. Appeals againft rates to the quarter sessions. No alteration in rates, but where over or under-rated. Three days notice of the time of appeal. Inhabitants paying the rates, discharged from repairs of the strects. Commiffioners may borrow money, and affign the rates as a security.

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