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Irish Act,

17 & 18 Car. 2. c. 7.

33 G.3. c.56.

more Person or Persons the Whole or any Part of the Duties or Powers belonging to the Office of Governor, as to the said Committee shall seem meet; and such Person or Persons shall be as fully competent to discharge and exercise the Powers and Duties so delegated and intrusted to him or them, and shall be as fully responsible for the proper Discharge and Exercise thereof, as the Governor of the said Penitentiary now is or hereafter shall be by virtue of any Act or Acts relating to the said Penitentiary; and all the Officers, Servants, and Convicts in the said Penitentiary shall be bound to obey the Person or Persons so exercising, under the Order of the said Committee, any of the Powers of the Governor, and shall be subject to the same Punishment and Consequences for Disobedience as if the Person disobeyed was actually the Governor of the said Penitentiary.

CA P. XXXIV.

An Act to amend the Acts relating to the Provision of Ministers in Cities and Corporate Towns in Ireland.

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[21st June 1827.]

WHEREAS by an Act made in the Parliament of Ireland in

the Session holden in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Years of the Reign of King Charles the Second, among other Things for Provision of Ministers in Cities and Corporate Towns 'in Ireland, it is enacted, that it shall be lawful for the Lord 'Lieutenant or other Chief Governor or Governors, and Six or more of His Majesty's Privy Council in Ireland, to allot, ascer'tain, set forth, and charge certain Sums of Money to be paid 'to the several Incumbents within the City and Suburbs of 'Dublin, and Liberties thereunto adjoining, and other Cities and Towns Corporate in Ireland, who have actual Cure of Souls in each Parish respectively, out of the Houses belonging to such Parish respectively, according to the yearly Value of each 'House, to be allotted and charged on the Inhabitants in Manner in the said Act mentioned; and that the Sum so allotted and charged shall be received by the Churchwardens of each Parish respectively, and by them paid to the several and respective Incumbents; and in case of Refusal or Delay of Payment, such 'Churchwardens are by the said Act empowered to levy such Sums by Distress and Sale; and on Failure of their Duties therein, such Churchwardens are punishable as in the said Act is provided: And Whereas by an Act made in the Parliament of Ireland in the Thirty third Year of the Reign of King George the Third, intituled An Act respecting the Collection of Public Money to be levied in the County of the City of Dublin by Presentment, the Churchwardens in the respective Parishes in the 'County of the said City are required to return to the Treasurer of the Public Money an exact Account of the gross Sum of 'Ministers Money payable by the Inhabitants of each and every such Parish: And Whereas the Performance of the Duties required by the said Acts by the Churchwardens of Parishes is in many respects grievous to such Churchwardens;' Be it therefore enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by

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Ministers

shall have like

recited Acts.

by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, That at any Time after the Incumbents passing of this Act it shall and may be lawful for the several and may appoint respective Incumbents, and their respective Successors, within Collectors of the City and Suburbs of Dublin, and Liberties thereunto adjoin- Money in Dub ing, and within other Cities and Towns Corporate in Ireland, who lin and other have actual Cure of Souls in each Parish respectively, and such Cities and Incumbents are hereby respectively authorized, empowered, and Towns; and required from time to time, by any Writing under the Hand of such Collectors any such Incumbent respectively, to nominate and appoint any Power in colPerson or Persons willing to act as such, to be a Collector or Col- lecting, &c. lectors of all Sums allotted or charged according to the said recited such Money, as Act of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Years of King Charles Churchwardens the Second, for Ministers Money, upon the Inhabitants of the have under respective Houses in any and every such Parish respectively; and every such Collector so appointed shall collect and receive all Sums so allotted or charged, and shall pay the same to the several and respective Incumbents, in like Manner as Churchwardens are directed to do by the said recited Act; and in case of Refusal or Delay of Payment of any Sums so allotted or charged, it shall be lawful for any and every such Collector to levy and distrain for the same in like Manner as Churchwardens are empowered to do by the said recited Act; and it shall be lawful for any and every such Collector, and he and they is and are hereby authorized and empowered, to do and perform all such Matters and Things, and shall be subject to all such Liabilities as any Churchwarden or Churchwardens is or are authorized or required to do or are subject to with respect to any Sums so allotted or charged for Ministers Money as aforesaid, under or by virtue of the said recited Acts or either of them, or any other Act or Acts relating to such Ministers Money, in force in Ireland immediately before the passing of this Act.

CAP. XXXV.

An Act for the further Improvement of the Road from London
to Holyhead, and of the Road from London to Liverpool.
[21st June 1827.]

WHEREAS an Act was passed in the Fifty-fifth Year of the

Reign of His late Majesty King George the Third, intituled

• An Act for granting to his Majesty the Sum of Twenty thousand 55 G. 3. c.152. 'Pounds, to be issued and applied towards repairing Roads between London and Holyhead, by Chester, and between London and Bangor, by Shrewsbury; and by the said Act certain Commis'sioners were appointed for carrying the same into Execution: 'And Whereas an Act was passed in the Fifty ninth Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Third, intituled

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An Act to amend an Act passed in the Fifty fifth Year of His 59 G. 8, c. 48. present Majesty, for granting to His Majesty the Sum of Twenty

thousand Pounds, towards repairing Roads between London and Holyhead, by Chester, and between London and Bangor, by Shrewsbury; and for giving additional Powers to the Commis⚫sioners therein named, to build a Bridge over the Menai Straits, P 4 ' and

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1&2 G.4. c.380.

4 G. 4. c. 74.

6 G. 4. c. 100.

7 G. 4. c. 76.

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• and to make a new Road from Bangor Ferry to Holyhead in the
County of Anglesea: And Whereas an Act was passed in the
First and Second Years of the Reign of His present Majesty,
'intituled An Act for further improving the Roads between London
and Holyhead, by Coventry, Birmingham, and Shrewsbury: And
'Whereas an Act was passed in the Fourth Year of the Reign of
His present Majesty, intituled An Act for vesting in Commis-
'sioners the Bridges now building over the Menai Straits, and the
River Conway, and the Harbours of Howth and Holyhead, and
the Road from Dublin to Howth; and for the further Improve-
'ment of the Road from London to Holyhead; and by the said
Act certain Commissioners have been appointed for carrying the
same into Execution, and various Powers have been given to the
'said Commissioners: And Whereas an Act was passed in the
Sixth Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, intituled An
"Act to extend the Powers of an Act for vesting in Commissioners
'the Bridges building over the Menai Straits and the River Conway,
' and the Harbours of Howth and Holyhead, and the Road from
Dublin to Howth, and for the further Improvement of the Road
from London to Holyhead: And Whereas an Act was passed in
the Seventh Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, intituled
'An Act for further extending the Powers of an Act for vesting
in Commissioners the Bridges building over the Menai Straits and
'the River Conway, and the Harbours of Howth and Holyhead,

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and the Road from Dublin to Howth, and for the further Improvement of the Road from London to Holyhead, reciting the 'several hereinbefore-mentioned Acts of the Fifty fifth and Fifty ' ninth Years of the Reign of His late Majesty, and of the Fourth and Sixth Years of the Reign of His present Majesty, and reciting that it would be of great Public Benefit if the Com'missioners of His Majesty's Treasury were authorized to advance to the Commissioners for carrying into Execution the said Act of the Fourth Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, such Sum of Money as was thereinafter mentioned, to enable them to make other Alterations and Improvements on the Line of Road from London to Holyhead; it was enacted, that it should and might be lawful to and for the said Commis'sioners of His Majesty's Treasury, or any Three or more of them, and they were thereby authorized, if they should think proper so to do, on Application being made to them by the said Commissioners for carrying into Execution the said recited Act of the Fourth Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, by Warrant or • Warrants under their Hands, to direct the Auditor of the Receipt of His Majesty's Exchequer to make forth and pass Debentures from time to time for issuing, out of the growing Produce of the • Consolidated Fund, to the said Commissioners for carrying into Execution the said Act of the Fourth Year of His present Ma'jesty's Reign, any Sum or Sums of Money not exceeding in the whole the Sum of Thirty two thousand Pounds; and it was further enacted, that upon any such Advance being made to the 'said Commissioners for carrying into Execution the said recited Act of the Fourth Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, the said last-mentioned Commissioners, or any Three of them, • should execute an Instrument in Writing, in such Form as the

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'said Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury should direct ' and appoint, in which Instrument the said Commissioners for carrying into Execution the said recited Act of the Fourth Year ' of the Reign of His present Majesty should acknowledge the Receipt of the Money for the Time being advanced, and should ' undertake to apply the Produce thereof in the Manner in which the same ought to be applied in pursuance of the Directions thereinafter contained, and should also undertake to pay the 'same, and the Interest thereof, when and as the same should be ' received by them, under the Provisions thereinafter contained, into the Exchequer, to the Account of the Consolidated Fund, as thereinafter directed, and should also undertake to put in 'force, if necessary, the several Powers and Remedies therein' after given them for obtaining Payment thereof; and it was thereby further enacted, that the Commissioners acting in the Execution of the said Act of the Fourth Year of the Reign of 'H.s present Majesty should apply the Sums to be so advanced in Manner following; (that is to say), any Sum not exceeding the Sum of Fourteen thousand Pounds in making and completing a new Cut or Piece of Road, leaving the present Road from Lon'don to Holyhead in the Town of Barnet, and falling into the same Road again at South Mims, the same being within the Limits and District of the Saint Albans Trust; any Sum not exceeding the 'Sum of Five thousand Pounds in making Alterations and Improvements in the Road from London to Holyhead between Old Stratford and Dunchurch, the same being within the Limits and District of the Dunchurch and Stratford Trust, and in repairing the new Pieces of Road which would be formed in making such Alterations and Improvements, for the Period of Two Years ' after the same should have been completed; and any Sum not exceeding the Sum of One thousand Pounds in completing the new Cut or Piece of Road commencing at or near the Peahen 'Inn in the Town of Saint Albans, which said Cut or Piece of Road was within the Limits of the Saint Albans Trust, and in repairing the same for the Period of Two Years after the same 'should have been completed, and in making the new Branch or • Communication Road directed to be made in lieu of Kingsbury 'Lane in and by the said recited Act of the Sixth Year of the Reign of His present Majesty: And Whereas, after appropri 'ating the several Sums of Fourteen thousand Pounds, Five thou 'sand Pounds, and One thousand Pounds, directed by the said Act of the Seventh Year of the Reign of His present Majesty 'to be applied in carrying the several Alterations and Improve'ments therein mentioned into Effect, the Sum of Twelve thousand 'Pounds, Residue of the said Sum of Thirty two thousand Pounds, ' mentioned in the said last-mentioned Act, will remain to be ap'plied by the said Commissioners for carrying into Execution the 'said Act of the Fourth Year of the Reign of His present Ma'jesty, in making other Alterations and Improvements in the Line of Road from London to Holyhead: And Whereas it would be ' of great Utility and Advantage to the Public if the Commis'sioners for carrying into Execution the said recited Act of the 'Fourth Year of the Reign of His present Majesty were au'thorized and empowered to apply the Sum of Twelve thousand

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• Pounds,

12,000l. may be applied towards Im. provement of Dunchurch

Road.

Power to take down Houses

in Schedule, on giving Notice and tendering Satisfaction.

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'Pounds, Residue of the said Sum of Thirty two thousand Pounds as aforesaid, in forming, making, and completing a new Piece of Road, commencing at the Seven Stars Public House at Whitley in the County of the City of Coventry, and extending from thence to the Village of Allesley in the County of Warwick: And Whereas the Communication between London and Liverpool is of great Public Importance, and in order to improve the same it is desirable that such Powers as are hereinafter contained, with respect to the Line of Road from London to Liverpool by Lichfield, Newcastle, and Northwich, should be given to the said Commissioners for carrying into Execution the said recited Act of the Fourth Year of the Reign of His present Majesty' May it therefore please Your Majesty that it may be enacted; and be it enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, That it shall and may be lawful to and for the Commissioners acting in the Execution of the said recited Act of the Fourth Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, to apply the Sum of Twelve thousand Pounds, Residue of the said Sum of Thirty two thousand Pounds authorized by the said recited Act of the Seventh Year of the Reign of His present Majesty to be advanced to them by the Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury as aforesaid, in making and completing a new Cut or Piece of Road, leaving the present Road from London to Holyhead at the Seven Stars Public House at Whitley in the County of the City of Coventry, and passing from thence in nearly a direct Line to within a short Distance of the Southern End of Little Park Street in the City of Coventry, and from thence into Hertford Street in the same City, and leaving the said City at Saint John's Church, and passing from thence in a direct Line to the Village of Allesley in the County of Warwick, the same being within the Limits and District of the Dunchurch and Stonebridge Trust, and in or towards the repairing and maintaining such Parts of the said new Piece of Road as hereinafter mentioned, for the Period of Two Years after the same shall have been completed and opened to the Public.

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II. And Whereas, for the Purpose of making the Alterations ' and Improvements herein directed to be made, it will be expedient and necessary to take down and remove the Houses de'scribed in the Schedule to this Act annexed, and to take and 'make use of the Gardens, Lawns, Orchards, and Grounds attached to such Houses, or specified and described in the 'said 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 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 this Act mentioned; but the said last-mentioned Commissioners, previous to their removing or taking any such Houses, Gardens, Lawns, Orchards,

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