Roads herein

mentioned,

III. And be it further enacted, That the Commissioners acting Advances to in Execution of the said recited Act of the Fourth Year of the be applied în Reign of His present Majesty, shall apply the Sums to be so making new advanced in manner following; (that is to say,) any Sum not exceeding the Sum of Four thousand Pounds in completing the new Cut or Piece of Road hereinbefore described, commencing at or near the Peahen Inn in the Town of Saint Albans, which said Cut or Piece of Road is within the Limits and District of the Saint Albans Trust, and in repairing the same, for the Period of Two Years after the same shall have been completed, and in making the new Branch or Communication Road hereinafter directed to be made in lieu of Kingsbury Lane; any Sum not exceeding the Sum of Five thousand Pounds in making and completing a new Cut or Piece of Road, leaving the present Road from London to Holyhead in the Town of Wednesbury at Camphill Lane, and falling into the same Road again near the Canal Bridge at Moxley, the same being within the Limits and District of the Bilstone Trust, and in repairing the same for the Period of Two Years after the same shall have been completed; any Sum not exceeding the Sum of Three thousand Pounds in lowering the Hill called Summer House Hill, on the said Road from London to Holyhead, the same being within the Limits and District of the Wolverhampton Trust, and in repairing the new Piece of Road which will be formed by lowering the said Hill, for the Period of Two Years after the same shall have been completed; and any Sum not exceeding the Sum of Four Thousand Pounds in lowering a Hill on the said Road from London to Holyhead called Knowles Bank, and in making a new Cut or Piece of Road, leaving the said Road from London to Holyhead at a certain Place called Llewellyn Cottage, and falling into the same Road at the End of the new Road at Priorslee, the same being within the Limits or District of the Shiffnall District of the Watling Street Trust, and in repairing the new Piece of Road which will be formed by lowering the said last mentioned Hill, and also the said last mentioned new Cut or Piece of Road, for the Period of Two Years after the same shall have been respectively completed.

provements

within the same Trust.

IV. And be it further enacted, That in case it shall be found Surplus (if any) that any Sum which shall have been advanced in pursuance of the applied in makDirections hereinbefore contained, by the said Commissioners of ing other ImHis Majesty's Treasury, to the said Commissioners acting in Execution of the said recited Act of the Fourth Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, shall be more than is required for the Purposes for which the same shall have been advanced, the Surplus thereof shall be applied by the said last mentioned Commissioners in making such other Improvements as they shall think proper on any Part of the said Road from London to Holyhead, which shall be within the same Trust.

V. And be it further enacted, That all the Powers and Authorities given by the said recited Act of the Fourth Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, to the said Commissioners acting in Execution thereof, either expressly or by reference to former Acts, and all the Clauses and Provisions therein contained, or such of the said Clauses and Provisions as are in any Manner applicable to the Purposes of this Act, shall be and they are hereNn 2

by

Powers of former Acts this, and Power of purchasing Lands.

extended to

4 G.4. c.74. $82.

by extended in such Manner as that the said Commissioners acting in Execution of the said last mentioned Act shall be enabled to make the Alterations and Improvements hereinbefore directed to be made, and shall have all Facilities and Advantages for enabling them to make the same, as fully, amply and effectually, to all Intents and Purposes whatsoever, as if the same Powers, Authorities, Clauses and Provisions were repeated and re-enacted in and by this present Act, with reference to the said Alterations and Improvements, and particularly that the said last mentioned Commissioners shall have the same Power of taking and acquiring any Ground which may be required for the Purpose of making the said Alterations and Improvements, as in and by the said recited Act of the Fifty fifth Year of His late Majesty King George the Third is given to the Commissioners acting under that Act, of taking and acquiring any such Ground as may be necessary for repairing, altering, making or constructing the Roads in that Act mentioned or referred to; and all the Clauses and Provisions contained in the said recited Act of the Fifty fifth Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Third, with respect to the taking or acquiring of any Ground to be so taken or acquired by the Commissioners acting under that Act, shall be and they are hereby extended and made applicable to the acquiring or taking by the said Commissioners acting in Execution of the said recited Act of the Fourth Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, of any Ground which may be required for the Purpose of making the Alterations and Improvements hereinbefore mentioned.

VI. And Whereas by the said recited Act of the Fourth Year of the Reign of His present Majesty it was enacted, that it should be lawful for the said Commissioners acting in Ex‹ecution of that Act to take down and remove all or any of the • Houses enumerated and described in the Schedule to that Act 'annexed, as the same Commissioners might deem necessary and expedient to remove for the Purpose of making the Deviation, Alterations and Improvements in the said Act mentioned or re'ferred to, on giving Six Months' Notice of their Intention' so to do, to the Owners or Occupiers of the Houses intended to be taken down and removed, and also to take and make use of any ' of the Gardens, Lawns, Orchards or Grounds attached to such Houses, or specified and described in the said Schedule, first 'making such Satisfaction to the Owners or Occupiers of such ‹ Houses, Gardens, Lawns, Orchards or Grounds, as should be agreed upon between them and the said last mentioned Com'missioners, or as should be ascertained by a Jury in manner 'directed by the Acts in the said Act of the Fourth Year of the Reign of His present Majesty severally mentioned, or any or either of them: And Whereas, for the Purpose of making • several of the Alterations and Improvements mentioned in the said recited Act of the Fourth Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, and also of making several of the Alterations and Improvements hereinbefore directed to be made, it will be ex'pedient and necessary also to take down and remove the Houses described in the Schedule to this Act annexed, and to take and 'make use of the Gardens, Lawns, Orchards and Grounds at'tached to such Houses, or specified and described in the said • Schedule

'Schedule to this Act annexed, and it will be adviseable to make the Provisions and Enactments hereinafter contained, as well 'with reference to the said Houses specified and described in the • Schedule to this Act annexed, and the Gardens, Lawns, Orchards and Grounds attached thereto, or specified and described in the same Schedule, as also with reference to the Houses specified ' and described in the said Schedule annexed to the said recited Act of the Fourth Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, ' and the Gardens, Lawns, Orchards and Grounds attached thereto, or specified and described in the same Schedule;' Be it therefore further enacted, That it shall and may be lawful for the said Commissioners acting in Execution of the said Act of the Fourth Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, to take down and remove all or any of the Houses described in the said Schedule to this Act annexed, and also to take and make use of any of the Gardens, Lawns, Orchards or Grounds attached to such Houses so described in the said Schedule, if they shall deem it necessary or expedient to remove, take, or make use of the same for the Purpose of making the Alterations and Improvements in the said recited Act of the Fourth Year of the Reign of His present Majesty or in this Act mentioned; but the said last mentioned Commissioners, previously to their removing or taking any such last mentioned Houses, Gardens, Lawns, Orchards or Grounds, shall give Six Months' Notice in Writing to the Occupier or Occupiers thereof, of their Intention so to do, and shall also first make such Satisfaction to the Owner or Owners, Occupier or Occupiers of such House or Houses, Gardens, Lawns, Orchards or Grounds, as shall be agreed upon between him, her or them and the said last mentioned Commissioners, or as shall be ascertained by a Jury in the Manner hereinafter directed.

Power to take down Houses

in Schedule, on

giving Notice and tendering Satisfaction.

VII. Provided always, and be it further enacted, That if any Proviso against of the Houses mentioned and described in the said Schedule to Misdescription this Act, or any of the Persons in whose Possession or Occupation of Houses. the same or any Part thereof are or is stated or described to be, shall happen to be omitted, misnamed or inaccurately described, then and in such Case, if it shall appear to any Two or more of His Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the County, City or Place wherein the same shall be situated, and be certified by Writing under their Hands, that such Omission, Misnomer or inaccurate Description proceeded from Mistake, it shall not prevent or retard the Execution of this Act; but the same Premises, and every Part thereof, shall and may be purchased and sold, or assessed and valued, in Manner herein mentioned, and conveyed, disposed of, and applied for and to the Purpose of making the Alterations and Improvements hereinbefore mentioned, as fully and effectually as if the same was or were properly named and described in the said Schedule.

VIII. And be it further enacted, That it shall and may be lawful for all Bodies Politic, Corporate or Collegiate, whether Ecclesiastical or Civil, and for all Corporations Aggregate or Sole, and for all Tenants in Fee Simple and in Fee Tail, whether General or Special, and for all Tenants for Life or for Years determinable on any Life or Lives, whether their respective Estates shall be in Possession, Reversion, Remainder, Expectancy,

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Con

Bodies Politic and incapaci

tated Persons empowered to sell.

Satisfaction to

Contingency or otherwise, and for all Husbands, Guardians, Trustees and Feoffees in Trust for charitable or other Purposes, Committees, Executors and Administrators, and all other Trustees and Persons whomsoever, not only for and on behalf of themselves, their Heirs and Successors, but also for and on behalf of their Cestuique Trusts, whether Infants, Issue unborn, Lunatics, Idiots, Femes Covert, or other Person or Persons, and for all Femes Covert who are or shall be seised or possessed of or interested in their own Right, or entitled to Dower or other Interest therein, and for all other Persons whomsoever who are or shall be seised, possessed of or interested in any of the said Houses specified in the said Schedule annexed to the said Act of the Fourth Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, or any of the Gardens, Lawns, Orchards or Grounds attached to such Houses, or specified in the same Schedule, or any of the said Houses specified in the Schedule to this Act annexed, or any of the Gardens, Lawns, Orchards or Grounds attached to such Houses, or specified and described in the said Schedule to this Act annexed to contract for, lease, sell and convey the same or any Part thereof to the said Commissioners acting under the said recited Act of the Fourth Year of the Reign of His present Majesty ; and all such Contracts, Agreements, Leases, Sales, Conveyances and Assurances shall be made at the Expence of the said Commissioners, and shall be kept by the Clerk or Clerks to the said Commissioners, who shall from time to time, when requested, deliver attested Copies thereof to any Person or Persons interested therein requiring the same, and shall have and receive Sixpence for every One hundred Words of each such attested Copy, and so in proportion for any less Number of Words; and every such Contract, Agreement, Lease, Sale, Conveyance and Assurance, shall be valid and effectual to all Intents and Purposes whatsoever, any Law, Statute, Usage or Custom to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding.

IX. Provided always, and be it further enacted, That all and Parties entitled. every Bodies Folitic, Corporate or Collegiate, Ecclesiastical or Civil, and Tenant and Tenants for Life, and Tenant and Tenants in Fee Simple or Fee Tail, General or Special, or for Years determinable on any Life or Lives, whether in Possession, Remainder, Reversion, Expectancy or otherwise, and all Feoffees in Trust, Executors, Administrators, Femes Covert, Husbands, Guardians, Committees, Trustees, and all and every other Person or Persons, who is, are or shall be seised, possessed of or interested in any of the said Houses, Gardens, Lawns, Orchards or Grounds, may accept and receive Satisfaction for the Value of such Houses, Gardens, Lawns, Orchards or Grounds, or for any Damage to be occasioned thereto; and in case the said Parties interested, or any of them, and the said Commissioners, cannot agree as to the Amount of such Satisfaction, the same shall be settled and ascertained as is hereinafter directed.

If Parties dis

satisfied, a Jury to be impannelled to decide the Matter.

X. Provided always, and be it further enacted, That if any such Body Politic Corporate or Collegiate, or any Feoffee or Feoffees in Trust, Executors, Administrators, Husbands, Guardians, Trustee, Committee, or any Feme Covert or any other Person or Persons so interested or entitled as aforesaid, or claiming

to

to be so interested or entitled as aforesaid, cannot agree with the said Commissioners acting under the said recited Act of the Fourth Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, respecting the Purchase of the said Houses, Gardens, Lawns, Orchards or Grounds, or respecting the Compensation to be made for any Damages to be occasioned thereto, and shall give Notice in Writing to the Clerk of the said Commissioners, requiring a Jury to be summoned for the Purpose of determining such Purchase or Compensation; or if any Body Politic, Corporate or Collegiate, or Notice of Disany Person or Persons so interested or entitled as aforesaid, or agreement. claiming to be so interested or entitled as aforesaid, shall, upon Notice in Writing given by the Clerk of the said Commissioners to the principal Officer of any such Body Politic, Corporate or Collegiate, or to such Feoffee or Feoffees in Trust, Executors, Administrators, Husband, Guardian, Trustee, Committee or other Person or Persons so interested or entitled as aforesaid, or claiming to be so interested or entitled as aforesaid respectively, or left at the last or usual Place or Places of his, her or their Abode, or with the Tenant or Tenants, Occupier or Occupiers of Houses or other Hereditaments to be made use of for the Purposes aforesaid, for the Space of Twenty one Days next after such Notice, neglect or refuse to treat, or shall not agree with the said Commissioners, or cannot be found, or by reason of Absence or other- Proceedings. wise shall be prevented from treating, or through Disability by Nonage, Coverture or other Impediment, cannot treat for themselves, or make such Agreement or Agreements as shall be necessary for the Purposes aforesaid, or shall not within the before mentioned Space of Twenty one Days, produce and fully disclose the State of the Title to the Premises which he, she or they respectively may be possessed of, or claim to be entitled to or interested in, or shall not within the before mentioned Space of Twenty one Days be able to make a good Title, to the Satisfaction of the said Commissioners, to the Premises which he, she or they may be so interested in or entitled to, or may claim to be so interested in or entitled to, then and in every such Case the said Commissioners shall and they are hereby empowered and required, within Ten Days after the Receipt of such Notice by the Clerk to the said Commissioners, in case Security in Manner herein required shall be given, or after the Expiration of Twenty one Days after the Delivery of such Notice by the said Clerk (as the Case may be), to issue a Warrant under their Hands, directed to the Sheriff or Sheriffs of the County, City or Place wherein such Houses, Gardens, Lawns, Orchards or Grounds shall be situate, and in case the said Sheriff, or his Undersheriff, Proceedings shall be interested in the Matter in question, then to any One of interested, the Coroners of the County who shall not be so interested as aforesaid, and in case all the said Coroners of the County shall where Coroner be so interested as aforesaid, then to the last Person or Persons interested. who filled the Office of Sheriff of the County, City or Place wherein such Houses, Gardens, Lawns, Orchards or Grounds shall be situate, who shall not be interested as aforesaid, commanding such Sheriff, Undersheriff, Coroner or such other Person, to impannel, summon and return a Jury; and the said Sheriff, Undersheriff, Coroner or such other Person or Persons, are and is

where Sheriff