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up on Mortgage of the Rate of any County such Sum of Money and for such Purposes as therein mentioned, and to secure every such Sum of Money so borrowed upon the Credit of the said • Rate; and by the now reciting Act the said recited Act of the 'Sixth Year of the Reign of His said Majesty King George the Fourth, and the several Clauses, Powers, and Provisions in the said recited Act contained, relating to the paying off of any 'Debt or Debts, and the borrowing of any Money for such Purpose, were made applicable to the paying off any Money borrowed under the Provisions or for the Purposes of the now reciting Act: And whereas by an Act passed in the Session of 'Parliament holden in the Fifth and Sixth Years of the Reign 5&6 Vict. c.98. of Her present Majesty, intituled An Act to amend the Laws 'concerning Prisons, some of the Restrictions imposed by the said recited Act of the Fourth Year of the Reign of King George the Fourth upon the Power thereby given to borrow Money on Mortgage of the Rate of any County, for the Purposes therein ' mentioned, were repealed, and in lieu thereof other Restrictions were imposed upon the Power given by the said last-mentioned 'Act to borrow Money for the Purposes therein mentioned: And whereas the Rates of the County of Middlesex are now charged 'with the Payment of a large Amount of Money, under the • Provisions of the several herein-before recited Acts, or some of 'them, and of certain other Acts: And whereas it may from Time to Time be necessary to borrow on Mortgage of the same Rates further Sums of Money, to be applied for the Purposes ' mentioned in the said several recited Acts of the Fourth, 'Seventh, and Ninth Years of the Reign of His said Majesty 'King George the Fourth, and the said Act passed in the Session of Parliament holden in the Fourth and Fifth Years of the Reign of Her present Majesty; but such of the Restrictions imposed by the same several Acts respectively, and by the said recited Act passed in the Session of Parliament holden in the Fifth and Sixth Years of the Reign of Her present Majesty, upon the Powers given to borrow Money for the Purposes aforesaid, as still remain unrepealed, make the borrowing of Money on Mortgage of the Rates of the said County of Middlesex for the Purposes afore'said unnecessarily burdensome to the Rate-payers of the said 'County; and the Provisions contained in the said several recited Acts of the Fifth, Sixth, and Seventh Years of the Reign of His said Majesty King George the Fourth, and in the said recited Act passed in the Session' of Parliament holden in the Fourth and Fifth Years of the Reign of Her present Majesty, enabling 'Justices of the Peace to borrow Money for the Purpose of paying off or discharging Money borrowed under the Provisions or for the Purposes of the said recited Acts, or some of them, may render it difficult for the Justices of the Peace of the said County ' of Middlesex to borrow Money on Mortgage of the Rates of the same County, for the Purposes aforesaid, upon Terms advantageous to the said Rate-payers; and it is therefore expedient that so much of the said several recited Acts as authorizes the 'Justices of the Peace to borrow Money on Mortgage of County Rates for any other Purpose than that of paying off or discharging Money which at the Time of the passing of this Act hath been • borrowed

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'borrowed on Mortgage of the Rates of any County should be repealed, so far as relates to the County of Middlesex; and that 'the Justices of the Peace for the same County should be autho'rized to borrow on Mortgage of the Rates of the same County 'such Sums of Money as may be hereafter required for the Purposes mentioned in the said several herein-before recited 'Acts of the Fourth, Seventh, and Ninth Years of the Reign of His said Majesty King George the Fourth, and the said Act 'passed in the Session of Parliament holden in the Fourth and Fifth Years of the Reign of Her present Majesty respectively, (other than for paying off or discharging Money hereafter to be 'borrowed on Mortgage of the Rates of the same County,) without 'being subject to the Restrictions by the same several Acts and 'the said recited Act passed in the Session of Parliament holden in the Fifth and Sixth Years of the Reign of Her present 'Majesty respectively imposed upon the Powers thereby given to borrow Money for the Purposes aforesaid, but subject to such

relates to the

County of

Middlesex.

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' other Restrictions as are herein-after imposed :' Be it therefore So much of the enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the recited Acts as Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and authorizes the Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the borrowing of Money on Authority of the same, That so much of the said several recited Mortgage of Acts as authorizes the Justices of the Peace for any County to the Rates reborrow Money on Mortgage of the Rates to be raised upon such pealed, so far as County for any Purpose (other than the Purpose of paying off or discharging any Money which at the Time of the passing of this Act hath been borrowed on Mortgage of the Rates of such County), so far as the said several recited Acts respectively relate to the said County of Middlesex, shall be and the same is hereby repealed. II. And be it enacted, That from Time to Time, when any Justices for the Estimate shall have been approved by the Justices of the Peace County of Midfor the said County of Middlesex in General or Quarter Sessions dlesex emassembled, for the building or rebuilding, repairing or enlarging borrow Money, any Gaol or House of Correction in and for the said County, on Security of under the Powers of the said recited Act of the Fourth Year of the County the Reign of His said Majesty King George the Fourth, and also Rate, for buildwhen any Estimate shall have been approved by the Justices of ing or repairing the Peace for the said County in General or Quarter Sessions assembled, for the building or rebuilding, repairing, improving, or enlarging any Shire Hall, County Hall, or other Building in and for the said County, under the Powers of the said recited Act of the Seventh Year of the Reign of His said Majesty King George the Fourth, and also when it shall seem necessary and expedient to the Justices of the Peace for the said County in General or Quarter Sessions assembled to borrow and take up on Mortgage of the Rates to be raised upon the said County any Money, in order to defray the Charge and Costs of carrying the said recited Act of the Ninth Year of the Reign of His said Majesty King George the Fourth, relating to County Lunatic Asylums, into execution, so far as the same relates to the said County, and also when any Estimate shall have been approved by the Justices of the Peace for the said County in General or Quarter Sessions assembled for the upholding, maintaining, supporting, altering, widening, repairing, improving, or rebuilding of any County

Gaols, &c.;

and to charge the County Rate with the Interest, and

so much more as will repay the Principal in Thirty Years.

Expences of
Act.

Public Act.

Bridge or Bridges, or the Approaches thereto, or the Land Arches connected therewith, which the said County is legally bound to repair or maintain, it shall and may be lawful for the Justices of the Peace for the said County in General or Quarter Sessions assembled from Time to Time to borrow and take up at Interest on Mortgage of the Rate of the said County, by Instrument in the Form contained in the Schedule to this Act annexed, or to the like Effect, any Sum or Sums of Money, not exceeding the Amount of such Estimates, or of such Charge and Costs as aforesaid respectively (as the Case may be), as to the said Justices shall appear necessary and expedient for the Purposes aforesaid, and to secure every such Sum of Money so borrowed upon the Credit of the said Rate.

III. And be it enacted, That from Time to Time when the Justices of the Peace for the said County shall borrow any Money under the Powers of this Act, the said Justices shall charge the Rate to be raised upon the said County, not only with the Interest of the Money so borrowed, but also with the Payment of such further Sum as will ensure the Payment of the whole Sum borrowed within Thirty Years from the Time of borrowing the same; and such Sums shall be assessed on the said County in such Manner as County Rates are directed to be assessed under the Laws in force for that Purpose, and shall be paid and applied, under the Direction of the said Justices, in discharge of the Interest and of so many of the Principal Sums on the said Securities as such Money will extend to discharge in each Year, until the whole of the Money for which such Securities shall be made, and the Interest thereof, shall be fully paid and discharged; and the said Justices shall and they are hereby required to fix One or more Day or Days in each Year on which such Payment shall be made, and shall make Orders for Assessments in due Time, so as to provide for the regular Payment thereof; and such Justices shall also and they are hereby required to appoint a proper Person to keep an exact and regular Account of all the Receipts and Payments under the Authority of this Act in a Book or Books separate and apart from all other Accounts, and the same to adjust and settle in such Manner as that it may easily be seen what Interest is growing due, and what Principal Money has been discharged, and what remains due, and the Book or Books so adjusted and settled to deliver into Court at every General or Quarter Sessions to be held for the said County; and the said Justices shall also and they are hereby required at every such Sessions carefully to inspect all such Accounts, and to make Orders for carrying the several Purposes of this Act into execution, in such Manner as to them shall seem meet.

IV. And be it enacted, That the Costs and Expences of preparing, obtaining, and passing this Act, and all other Charges incident or relating thereto, shall be paid by the Treasurer of the said County of Middlesex out of the First Monies which shall be in his Hands on account of the County Rates.

V. And be it enacted, That this Act shall be deemed and taken to be a Public Act, and shall be judicially taken notice of

as such.

VI. And

VI. And be it enacted, That this Act may be amended or Alteration repealed by any Act or Acts to be passed in this present Session of Act. of Parliament.

The SCHEDULE referred to in this Act.

WE
One of Her Majesty's Justices of the
Peace, and Chairman of the Court of General [or Quarter]
Sessions of the Peace for the County of Middlesex, holden at the
Sessions House situate at
in and for the said

County on the

Day of

and

Two others of Her Majesty's Justices of the Peace acting for the said County, and assembled in the said Court, in pursuance of the Powers to us given by an Act passed in the

Ireland, which

Year

of the Reign of Her present Majesty Queen Victoria, intituled
[here insert the Title of this Act], do hereby in open Court mort-
gage and charge all the Rates to be raised within the said County
under the Description of County Rates with the Payment of the
Sum of
of lawful Money of Great Britain and
hath proposed and agreed to
lend and hath now actually paid to the Treasurer of the said
County of Middlesex, upon the Credit of the said Rates, to defray
the Expence of [state the Purpose to which the Money is to be
applied; and we do hereby confirm and establish the same unto
the said
his Executors, Administrators, and Assigns,
for securing the Repayment of the said Sum of
Interest for the same after the Rate of
One hundred Pounds for a Year; and do order the Treasurer
for such County of Middlesex to pay the Interest of the said
Sum of
or of so much thereof as shall from Time
to Time remain undischarged, half-yearly on the

and the

Day of

and

for every

Day

in every

of
Year, as the same shall become due, until the Principal shall be
discharged, pursuant to the Directions of the said Act; and to pay
One equal Thirtieth Part or Share of the said Principal Sum of
to the said
his Executors, Admi-

Day of

nistrators, and Assigns, on the
which will be in the Year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred
and
and One other equal Thirtieth Part or Share
Day of

of

in

of the said Principal Sum on the
each and every succeeding Year, until the whole of the said Sum
shall be fully paid and discharged, pursuant
to the Directions of the said Act. As witness our Hands and
Seals, the Day and Year first above written.

Signed, sealed, and delivered

in the Presence of

CA P. XXXIII.

An Act for consolidating in One Act certain Provisions
usually inserted in Acts authorizing the making of Rail-
ways in Scotland.
[21st July 1845.]

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WHEREAS it is expedient to comprise in One general Act

sundry Provisions usually introduced into Acts of Parlia'ment authorizing the Construction of Railways in Scotland, and

Operation of the Act confined

to future Railways.

Interpretations in this Act:

"special Act:"

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that as well for the Purpose of avoiding the Necessity of repeating such Provisions in each of the several Acts relating to such Undertakings, as for ensuring greater Uniformity in the • Provisions themselves: And whereas a Bill is now pending in Parliament, intituled An Act for consolidating in One Act 'certain Provisions usually inserted in Acts authorizing the taking of Lands for Undertakings of a public Nature in Scotland, and which is intended to be called "The Lands Clauses Consolidation (Scotland) Act, 1845 :" Be it therefore enacted by the Queen'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 the Provisions of this Act shall apply to every Railway in Scotland which shall by any Act which shall hereafter be passed be authorized to be constructed, and this Act shall be incorporated with such Act; and all the Clauses and Provisions of this Act, save so far as they shall be expressly varied or excepted by any such Act, shall apply to the Undertaking authorized thereby, so far as the same shall be applicable to such Undertaking, and shall, as well as the Clauses and Provisions of every other Act which shall be incorporated with such Act, form Part of such Act, and be construed, together therewith, as forming One Act.

And with respect to the Construction of this Act, and other Acts to be incorporated therewith, be it enacted as follows:

II. The Expression "the special Act" used in this Act shall be construed to mean any Act which shall be hereafter passed authorizing the Construction of a Railway, and with which this prescribed:" Act shall be so incorporated as aforesaid; and the Word

"the Lands: "

"the Undertaking."

Interpretations in this and the special Act:

Number:

Gender:

"Lands:"

"Lease :"

"prescribed" used in this Act in reference to any Matter herein stated shall be construed to refer to such Matter as the same shall be prescribed or provided for in the special Act, and the Sentence in which such Word shall occur shall be construed as if, instead of the Word "prescribed," the Expression "prescribed for that Purpose in the special Act" had been used; and the Expression "the Lands" shall mean the Lands which shall by the special Act be authorized to be taken or used for the Purposes thereof; and the Expression "the Undertaking" shall mean the Railway and Works, of whatever Description, by the special Act authorized to be executed.

III. The following Words and Expressions both in this and the special Act shall have the Meanings hereby assigned to them, unless there be something in the Subject or Context repugnant to such Construction; (that is to say,)

Words importing the Singular Number only shall include the
Plural Number, and Words importing the Plural Number
only shall include also the Singular Number:

Words importing the Masculine Gender only shall include
Females:

The Word "Lands" shall include Lands, Houses, Tenements,
and Heritages of any Tenure :

The Word "Lease" shall include a Missive or an Agreement for a Lease:

The

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