15 SESS. 1814-18-55 GEO. III. AN ACT For taking down and rebuilding the whole, or part, of a certain Bridge across the River Isis, in or near the City of Oxford, called Folly Bridge, otherwise Friar's Bridge; and for widening the same Bridge, and improving the Approaches thereto. W [Royal Assent, 28th June, 1815.] HEREAS the Bridge over or across the River Thames, Preamble. or Isis, at or near to the south end of the City of Oxford, in the Parish of Saint Aldates, in the County of Berks, called Folly Bridge, is very ancient and greatly decayed; and is also very narrow and inconvenient, and does not afford safe or proper accommodation for the great increase of passage of carriages of all sorts over the same, arising from the improvement of the Roads, leading to the said Bridge: And whereas it would therefore be greatly for the benefit and advantage of the Inhabitants of the said City, and the neighbourhood thereof, and of great public utility, if the said present Bridge, called Folly Bridge, were wholly, or in part, taken down, and a wider and more convenient and substantial Bridge erected instead thereof, on or near to the scite of the present Bridge; and if the approaches thereto were widened, opened, and rendered commodious: And whereas the Mayor, Bailiffs, and Commonalty of the said City of Oxford are, and from time immemorial have been liable to maintain, support, and keep in repair the said Bridge; but the Funds of the said Corporation are very inadequate to the rebuilding, widening, and improving the said Bridge, and the approaches thereto; and the beneficial purposes aforesaid therefore cannot be effected without the aid and authority of Parliament. May it therefore please Your MAJESTY, That it may be enacted, and be it enacted by the King's Most B Power to ditional Trustees. Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, that the following Magistrates, Officers, and Members of the University of Oxford, and of all the Colleges and Halls therein, and of the City of Oxford, and of the Corporation of the said City, for the time being respectively, that is to say, the Vice-Chancellor, or Pro-Vice-Chancellor, of the said University, his Assessor in the University Court, all Heads or Governors of Colleges and Halls in the said University, the Canons of the Cathedral Church of Christ, the several Royal and other Professors of and within the said University, the Proctors of the University, the Public Orator, the Bodleian and Radclivian Librarians, and Registrar of the said University; The Mayor, Recorder, Aldermen, Assistants, Bailiffs, Town Clerk, and Solicitor of the City of Oxford, for the time being; together with the respective Rectors, Vicars, or other Incumbents, for the time being, of the several Parish Churches and Chapels of St. Aldates, Wytham, Cumner, North Hinksey, South Hinksey, Kennington, Wootton, Sunningwell, and Radley, in the County of Berks, and of St. Nicholas and St. Helens in the Town of Abingdon; and Sir George Bowyer, Bart. the reverend Henry Bowyer, Clerk, Richard Bradfield, John Bull, Thomas Burrows, Edward Child, Joshua Cooke, Richard Curtis, Thomas Fletcher, John Grosvenor, Nicholas Gunn, William Hall, William Halse, John Hickman, John Joy, John Ireland, Henry Knapp, Richard Knight, James Latham, John Latham, Edward Micklem, Benjamin Morland, Baker Morrell, James Morrell, Thomas Prince, Thomas Robinson, James Rowland, Samuel Sellwood, William Slatter, John Francis Spenlove, Thomas Richard Walker, William Winter, and Lawrence. Wyatt, and their Successors, to be elected in manner hereinafter mentioned, shall be, and they are hereby declared to be, Trustees for effecting the purposes aforesaid; and for otherwise carrying this Act into full and complete execution. And be it further enacted, that it shall be lawful for the said appoint ad- Trustees, or any five or more of them, and they are hereby authorised and empowered, at any of their Meetings to be holden in pursuance of this Act, to elect any number of Persons, not exceeding ten in the whole, to be Trustees for the purp ses of this Act, in addition to the Trustees hereby appointed; and such Trustees so elected, and being duly qualified, shall be and are hereby invested with the same powers and authorities for executing this Act, as if they had been herein named and appointed. No Act of the Trustees valid &c. And be it further enacted, that no act of the said Trustees shall be good, valid, or effectual, unless the same shall be done at some meeting to be holden in pursuance of this Act, (except in unless at a the cases hereinafter mentioned;) and that all the powers and Meeting, authorities by this Act granted to the said Trustees shall and may be exercised, from time to time, by the major part of them, who shall be present at any meeting to be holden in pursuance of this Act, the number of Trustees present at every such meeting not being less than five; and all the orders and proceedings of the major part of the Trustees present at such their several meetings shall have the same force and effect, as if the same were made or done by all such Trustees for the time being, (save and except as hereinafter mentioned ;) and that at every meeting of the said Trustees, a Chairman shall be appointed; and when and as often as it shall happen that there shall be an equality of Votes at any such meeting upon any Question, (including the Vote of the Chairman), then, and in every such case, it shall be lawful for such Chairman to give the casting or decisive Vote. tees. And be it further enacted, that upon the death, refusal, or Power to disability of any of the Trustees herein before named, or of appoint their Successors, to be elected in manner hereinafter mentioned, new Trus(save and except such as are herein appointed Trustees by virtue of their respective Offices), to act in the Execution of this Act, then, and in every such case, it shall be lawful for the surviving or remaining Trustees, from time to time, to elect and appoint one other person to be a Trustee in the room of each Trustee so dying, refusing, or becoming incapable to act; and notice of the time and place of the meeting, for every such election, shall be signed by the Clerk or Clerks to the said Trustees for the time being, and shall be inserted in the Newspapers, called the Oxford Journal, and Reading Mercury, or in some other Newspaper published or circulated in the said City of Oxford, and County of Berks, ten Days at least before such meeting; and every person so elected a Trustee, in manner aforesaid, shall be, and is hereby empowered to act in the execution of this Act, in as full and ample manner to all intents and purposes whatsoever, as the Trustee in whose stead he shall have been so elected. 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Provided always, and be it further enacted, that no person Qualifica shall be capable of acting as a Trustee, in the execution of this tion of Act, save and except the said hereinbefore mentioned Magistrates, Officers, and Members of the University of Oxford, and of the Colleges and Halls therein, and of the City of Oxford, and of the Corporation of the said City, and the said Rectors, Vicars, and Incumbents, for the time being respectively, unless he shall be in his own right, or in the right of his Wife, in the actual possession or receipt of the rents and profits of Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments, in the Counties of Oxford and Berks, or one of them, of the clear yearly value of fifty Pounds; or be possessed of, or entitled to, a personal Estate of the value of two thousand Pounds, after payment of all his debts: nor shall any person be capable of acting as such Trustee, (save and except in appointing the first meeting of the said Trustees, to be holden in pursuance of this Act, in case the same shall not be holden on the day herein appointed, and in administering the Oath, hereinafter mentioned, to the other Trustees), until he shall have taken and subscribed the Oath or Affirmation following, at a meeting to be holden by the said Trustees, by virtue of this Act, which Oath, or Affirmation, any one or more of the said Trustees is and are hereby authorized and empowered to administer, that is to say: |