7. All the deeds, records, minutes, accounts, account books, minute books, and other documents, papers, and writings of the Commissioners with respect to any of the purposes of the five Local Acts respectively, other than the purposes thereof with respect to the Markets, shall be the property of the Local Board, and shall forthwith be delivered to them by the Commissioners accordingly, the Local Board giving to the Commissioners, if so required by them, a schedule of and a receipt in writing for the same; but the same shall at all seasonable times be open to the inspection and transcription of the Commissioners and their agents in that behalf, and, if and when requisite for enforcing any claim or demand by or resisting any claim or demand against the Commissioners, shall, at their request and expense, be produced in any court of law or equity or elsewhere. 8. Wherever in the Act of the 58th year of George the 3rd, chap. 64, intituled "An "Act for lighting with Gas the University and City of Oxford and the Suburbs "of the same City," the Commissioners are named or referred to, the Local Board instead of the Commissioners shall be deemed to be named or referred to, and that Act shall be read and have effect accordingly. 9.-For the purposes of all Acts from time to time in force with respect to the removal or prevention of nuisances, and also with respect to the well ordering of Common Lodging Houses, the Local Board instead of the Commissioners shall be the Local Authority with respect to the execution of those Acts within the District. 10. Notwithstanding the repeal of parts of the five Local Acts respectively, and the transfer by this Order to the Local Board of parts of the property, powers, rights, and liabilities of the Commissioners, and except only as is by this Order otherwise expressly provided, everything before the coming into effect of this Order done, suffered, and confirmed respectively under or by the five Local Acts respectively shall be as valid as if the repeal and transfer had not happened, and the repeal and transfer and the operation of this Order shall accordingly be subject and without prejudice to everything so done, suffered, and confirmed respectively, and to all rights, liabilities, claims, and demands, both present and future, which, if the repeal and transfer had not happened, would be incident to or consequent on everything so done, suffered, and confirmed respectively; and with respect to everything so done, suffered, and confirmed respectively, and to all those rights, liabilities, claims, and demands, the Local Board shall to all intents represent the Commissioners. 11.-The accounts of the Commissioners with respect to the several purposes of the five Local Acts respectively, other than the purposes thereof with respect to the Markets, shall forthwith be made up and stated and audited; and if the accounts show a balance in the hands of the Commissioners, then the amount of the balance shall thereupon be paid by them to the Local Board, or if the accounts show that the debts and liabilities of the Commissioners are not fully paid or discharged, then the lawful debts and liabilities of the Commissioners remaining unpaid or undischarged shall be paid or discharged by the Local Board. 12. Provided that this Order shall not give to the Mortgagees of the Tolls to be demanded and taken in respect of Magdalen Bridge and the Mileways any security, right, or remedy in excess of the securities, rights, and remedies which they would have if this Order were not confirmed, and shall not relieve the Parishes of Cowley, Iffley, and St. Clement, or either of them, nor any person or persons, body or bodies politic or corporate, from any liability with respect to the repair of the Mileways or Magdalen Bridge, and shall not impose on the Local Board any liability with respect to the repair of Magdalen Bridge and the Mileways to which the Commissioners would not be subject if this Order were not confirmed. 13.-If any Rates duly assessed under the provisions of the said five Local Acts shall not have been collected at the time that this Order shall begin and have effect, as first herein-before mentioned, the Local Board shall have all the powers for the recovery of the said uncollected Rates which were heretofore possessed by the said Commissioners, and the monies which shall be collected or recovered shall be applied by the Local Board for their general purposes as if they had been part of a General District Rate. 14.-The 14.-The accounts of the Commissioners to be made up, stated, and audited, as by this Order provided, and the accounts of the Local Board, shall be audited by the Auditor of the accounts of the Guardians of the Poor within the City of Oxford, under the Oxford Poor Rate Act, 1854, and there shall be paid to him by the Commissioners, and from time to time by the Local Board respectively, the like remuneration for his services in so auditing their respective accounts as is from time to time paid to him for his services in auditing the accounts of the Guardians. 15.-The Local Board from time to time, if and when they think fit, may, within the district, cleanse any parts of the Rivers Cherwell and Thames or Isis respectively, and of the streams running into those rivers respectively, and may prevent or remove any encroachments on any of those rivers and streams respectively, and may convert any parts of any of those streams into which any sewer or drain is from time to time emptied into a covered sewer, and may do and execute all works and things which the Local Board shall think requisite for or incidental to any of those purposes. 16. Where the Local Board shall so convert any part of any of those streams into a covered sewer, the arch or other covering over the same, and all works executed by them for the purpose of covering over the same and incidental thereto, shall be by this Order vested in the Local Board. 17.-Except as regards any sewer or drain which now is lawfully emptied into any of those rivers and streams before mentioned, the Local Board may prevent the emptying of any sewer or drain into any of those rivers and streams, and may do and execute all works and things which they shall think requisite in such case. 18.-Where any present or future sewer of the Local Board is within 100 feet from any sewer or drain which now is lawfully emptied into any of those rivers and streams respectively, the Local Board may divert the sewer or drain so that it shall thenceforth be emptied into the sewer instead of into such river or stream, and may do and execute all works and things which they think requisite in such case; but the Local Board shall not so divert any sewer or drain without providing for it a proper and sufficient outfall into their own sewer. 19. All properties whatsoever within the District which are or hereafter may be assessable to any Rate for the Relief of the Poor shall be assessable to the General District Rates to be made and levied by the Local Board, in the same manner in all respects as is provided by Section 55 of the "Local Government Act, 1858," and all exemptions from Rates heretofore allowed under any or either of the five Local Acts shall henceforth cease. 20.-The several powers by this Order conferred on the Local Board shall be in addition to and not in any respect restrictive of their other powers. 21.-Except only as is by this Order expressly provided, nothing in this Order shall take away, lessen, prejudice, alter, or affect any privilege or right whatsoever of the University, or of any of the Magistrates, Officers, Ministers, or Servants thereunto belonging, or any privilege or right whatsoever of the City, or of any of the Magistrates or Servants thereunto belonging, or any exercise of any such respective privilege or right. Given under my hand this Thirty-first day of May One thousand eight hundred (Signed) HINCKSEY (OXFORD DISTRICT). Provisional Order for altering the Boundaries of the District of Oxford, under the Local Government Act, 1858. WHEREAS the Local Government Act, 1858, has been duly adopted within the University and City of Oxford, the Suburbs thereof, and the adjoining Parish of Saint Clement, by the Oxford Commissioners mentioned in the 82d section of the said Local Government Act, and and acting as Local Board under its provisions: And whereas a Petition has been duly presented to me, as one of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, under the provisions of the 77th section of such Act, from the said Commissioners acting as such Board, praying that their District might be extended by including therein a certain detached portion of the Parish of North Hincksey in the County of Berks, as described in their Petition. AND WHEREAS, in pursuance of the said Local Government Act, inquiry has been directed and duly held in respect of the several matters mentioned in the said Petition, and report has been made to me thereon by Robert Rawlinson, Esquire, the Inspector appointed for the purpose. AND WHEREAS it appears expedient to issue a Provisional Order in relation to the said matters, but no such Order can be valid without confirmation by Parliament. NOW, THEREFORE, in pursuance of the powers vested in me by the said Local Government Act, I, as one of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, do, by this Provisional Order under my hand, direct, That from and after the passing of any Act of Parliament confirming this Order,1.-The District of Oxford aforesaid shall be extended by including within its boundaries all that detached portion of the Parish of North Hincksey in the County of Berks which adjoins the Liberty of Grandpont in the Parish of Saint Aldate in the said County, and is bounded by the Shirelake Ditch, and including the same on the north, Grandpont in the Parish of Saint Aldate on the east, the northern side of the towing-path adjoining the river Isis on the south (excluding such towing-path), and the riyer Isis on the south-west and west, including the said river, and which said portion of the Parish of North Hincksey is shown on the map accompanying such Petition, and is coloured yellow thereon. 2. The Local Board for the time being for the District of Oxford shall be the Local Board for the District as altered by this Order and the Act of Parliament confirming the same. Given under my hand this Twentieth day of May, in the year One thousand eight hundred and sixty-five. Provisional Order for altering the Boundaries of the District of Oxford, under the Local Government Act, 1858. WHEREAS the Local Government Act, 1858, has been duly adopted within the University and City of Oxford, the Suburbs thereof, and the adjoining Parish of Saint Clement, by the Oxford Commissioners mentioned in the 82d section of the said Local Government Act, and acting as Local Board under its provisions: And whereas a Petition has been duly presented to me, as one of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, under the provisions of the 77th section of the Local Government Act, 1858, from owners and ratepayers of the Parish of Cowley, comprising the Townships of Church Cowley and Temple Cowley, partly in the City and Borough of Oxford and partly in the County of Oxford, praying that the District of the said Oxford Local Board might be extended by including therein certain pieces or parcels of land in the said Parish of Cowley as described in the said Petition, and delineated on the map accompanying the same, the boundary thereof being coloured brown thereon. AND WHEREAS, in pursuance of the said Local Government Act, inquiry has been directed and duly held in respect of the several matters mentioned in the said Petition, and report has been made to me thereon by Robert Rawlinson, Esquire, the Inspector appointed for the purpose. AND WHEREAS it appears expedient to issue a Provisional Order in relation to the said matters, but no such Order can be valid without confirmation by Parliament, Now, Now, THEREFORE, in pursuance of the powers vested in me by the said Local Government Act, I, as one of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, do, by this Provisional Order under my hand direct, That from and after the passing of any Act of Parliament confirming this Order,- 2.-The Local Board for the time being for the District of Oxford shall be the Local Given under my hand this Twentieth day of May, in the year One thousand eight CA P. CIX. (Signed) G. GREY. An Act for transferring the Ulster Canal to the Commissioners of Public Works in Ireland. [5th July 1865.] HEREAS an Act was passed in the Sixth Year of the Reign of His late Majesty 6 G. 4. c. 193. Canal from Lough Erne in the County of Fermanagh to the River Blackwater near the Village of Charlemont in the County of Armagh, which Act was amended by an Act of the Session held in the Ninth Year of His said late Majesty, Chapter Ninety-six, and 9 G. 4. c. 96. 1 & 2 W. 4. c. 56. by a further Act of the Session held in the Tenth Year of His said late Majesty, Chapter 10 G. 4. One hundred and nine, and by a further Act of the Session held in the Second Year of c. 109. His late Majesty King William the Fourth, Chapter Fifty-six: And whereas considerable • Progress was made in the Execution of the said Canal, being commonly called the Ulster Canal, by the Company authorized to be formed and incorporated by the said firstly-recited Act, under the Style of the Ulster Canal Company: And whereas, the Commissioners acting in the Execution of an Act made and passed in the Fifty-seventh Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Third, being an Act to authorize 28 & 29 VICT. 3 U • the 6 W. 4. c. 72. 'the Issue of Exchequer Bills, and the Advance of Money to a limited Amount out of the • Consolidated Fund for the carrying on of Public Works and Fisheries in the United 'Kingdom, and of the subsequent Acts amending the same (which Commissioners were then commonly called the Exchequer Loan Commissioners), did on or about the Twelfth Day of August One thousand eight hundred and thirty-three, under the Provisions of the said last-mentioned Acts or some of them, consent to advance to the said Ulster Canal Company a Loan of One hundred and twenty thousand Pounds, by Six several Instal'ments of Twenty thousand Pounds each: And whereas Three of the said Instalments were respectively advanced to the said Canal Company on the Twelfth Day of August One thousand eight hundred and thirty-three, the Fourteenth Day of April One thousand eight hundred and thirty-five, and the Thirteenth Day of October One thousand eight hundred and thirty-five, and the Repayment thereof secured to the said Loan Commissioners by Three several Indentures of Mortgage, under the Common Seal of the said Canal Company, bearing Date respectively the Twelfth Day of August One thousand eight hundred and thirty-three, the Fourteenth Day of April One thousand eight hundred and thirty-five, and the Thirteenth Day of October One thousand eight hundred and thirty'five, whereby, for the Considerations therein mentioned respectively, the said Canal Company conveyed to John Strettel Brickwood, the Secretary of the said Commissioners, all the Rates and Tolls of the said Canal receivable under the said Acts authorizing and enabling the Construction of the same, and all the Freehold and Leasehold Tenements and Premises of the said Company, subject to Redemption on Payment by the said • Company of the said Principal Sums so advanced, and of all Interest thereon, by such Instalments as were thereby provided: And whereas an Act was passed in the Sixth Year ' of His said late Majesty King William the Fourth, being an Act to amend and enlarge the Powers and Provisions of the several Acts for making and maintaining the Ulster Canal in the Counties of Fermanagh, Monaghan, and Armagh in Ireland, and thereby the said Canal Company was empowered to make certain Deviations from the Line or Course of the said Canal, and to make and maintain a certain Reservoir at Quigalough in the County of Monaghan, for the Purpose of supplying the said Canal with Water, with Aqueducts, Pipes, and other Works necessary for such Reservoir, and for the Purpose of such Deviations and of such Reservoir and other Works; and the said Company was empowered to acquire other Lands as therein provided; and it was thereby enacted, that all Powers, Authorities, Lands, Works, and Property whatsoever which should become vested in the said Company by virtue of the said Acts should form Part of the Premises and Property so assigned and conveyed by way of Mortgage to the 'said John Strettel Brickwood as aforesaid: And whereas Three several further Sums of Twenty thousand Pounds each were advanced by the said Loan Commissioners to the said Canal Company, and by Three several further Indentures of Mortgage of the said Canal and Undertaking, bearing Date respectively the Seventh Day of June One thousand eight hundred and thirty-six, the Eleventh Day of October One thousand eight hundred and thirty-six, and the Ninth Day of May One thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven, the Repayment of the said Three several last-mentioned • Sums was secured to the said Commissioners, payable by Instalments as therein respectively provided: And whereas by virtue of the Provisions of the said Six several Indentures of Mortgage it was provided, that the said Six several Sums of Twenty thousand Pounds should be repaid by the Payment of Six several Sums of Five thousand Pounds each on the Twelfth Day of August One thousand eight hundred and thirtyeight, and by Fifteen subsequent equal yearly Instalments on the Twelfth of August in the Fifteen subsequent Years: And whereas by a certain Indenture of Mortgage, bearing ‹ Date the Thirty-first Day of October One thousand eight hundred and forty, and made between the said Ulster Canal Company of the First Part, Sir John Fox Burgoyne, Brooke Taylor Ottley, and John Radcliffe, Esquires, Commissioners of Public Works in Ireland, of the Second Part, and Henry Richard Paine, then Secretary to the said Commissioners of Public Works, of the Third Part, in consideration of a further Sum of Ten thousand Pounds agreed to be advanced by the said Commissioners of Public Works to the said • Ulster Canal Company, all the said Canal and Undertaking, and the Rents and Tolls thereof, and all the several Hereditaments and Premises in the said Indenture of Mortgage ' particularly |