YARLIAMENTA RY FORMS. Private Act No. CCCCXIX. An Act for adding the Surname of a Devisor to that of a Devisee in pursuance of the Devisor's Will (1). WHEREAS, &c. [recital of the will of the devisor.] May it therefore please your most Excellent Majesty, (at the humble suit of your Change of name. dutiful and loyal subject ,) that it may be enacted, and Such change not to affect descents, &c. be it enacted, that the said [or as the case may require,] and the first and other sons of the said on the body of the said of , Provided always, and it is hereby further enacted and declared by the authority aforesaid, That the said alteration to the surname of or addition of the surname of to the surname shall not in any sort destroy, prevent, or prejudice the descent of any lands, tenements, or hereditaments, which the said first and other son and sons or any other person or persons as shall take upon him or themselves the surname of (1) As to the petition, and where names and arms may be assumed without the authority of Parliament, see ante, "PRACTICAL DIRECTIONS", Chap. I. , by virtue of the said will are or may be entitled unto by the he, they, and every of them shall and may have and take all such PARLIAMENTA RY FORMS. Private Act And be it further enacted, That this present act shall be and is The act to save condition, &c. hereby declared to be a compliance with and performance of the terms and conditions of the said will in relation to the changing of the said surname, saving &c. (other than and except such persons who shall claim or pretend to claim for or under any pretended breach of the said condition, or any neglect or omission in the performance thereof,) all such right, &c. (1) (1) See ante, p. 389. PARLIAMENTA RY FORMS. Private Act Navigation (canal). No. CCCCXX. A Bill or Private Act for the making of a Canal (1) 1. The notice of application to Parliament (2). NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that application is intended to be made of the parish of [naming them]: And for making and maintaining a basin or harbour for boats, a complete navigation for boats, barges, and other vessels, through the said intended cut or canal, and basin or harbour from to And it is further intended to take power by the said act, to charge tolls or duties on all vessels navigating the said intended cut, canal, harbour, or lock, not exceeding per ton. (Solicitor). (1) See ante, "PRACTICAL DIRECTIONS", Chap. II. sec. iii. (2) See ibid. pl. 1. 2. The Petition for leave to bring in the Bill. To &c. (1). The humble Petition of the several persons whose names of PARLIAMENTA RY FORMS. Private Act Navigation (canal). of SHEWETH, That the making and maintaining of a navigable cut or canal from and the making and maintaining of a basin or harbour for boats, a complete navigation for boats, barges, and other vessels through the said intended cut or canal, and basin or harbour, from to and the charging of tolls, rates, or duties on vessels so navigating the said intended cut, canal, harbour, or lock, not exceeding per ton, would be of great advantage to your petitioners and to the public at large, and would also tend to the improvement of the adjacent towns by expediting the conveyance of goods, wares, and merchandize. Your Petitioners therefore humbly pray, &c. (2) 3. THE BILL. An Act for making and maintaining a Navigable Canal from WHEREAS the making and maintaining a navigable canal from and (1) See ante, p. 46. PARLIAMENTA HY FORMS. Private Act Navigation (canal). of hath agreed to make the same (or as the case may be) at his own expence, but the same cannot be accomplished 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 Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by Power to make the authority of the same, that his heirs and assigns, a canal, &c. to be called " 1 shall be, and he and they is and are hereby fully authorized and em- boats, barges, and other vessels from and out of the river of to join and communicate with, &c.; and also to make a reservoir for water on the side of the said intended canal, , in the said parish and shall and may be filled which said intended reservoir is marked and delineated in the plan hereinafter mentioned to be deposited with the clerk of the peace for the county of with water from all such springs as may be found in making the same; and also to supply the said intended canal, at all times for ever while making, and after the same shall be made, with water from all such brooks, springs, streams, rivulets, waters and watercourses adjacent to the said canal, or which are or shall flow to or be found in digging or making the said canal; and also to make, - sink and drive such and so many wells, soughs, tunnels, levels, perforations, feeders and aqueducts, and to make, erect and set up such and so many weirs, steam-engines, water-wheels and other machines, with proper shafts and tunnels thereto, for supplying the said canal and reservoir with water, and for conveying water to or from the same or either of them, or to or from the one to the other of them, and for the purpose of navigation, or for any other purpose necessary for the better making and maintaining of such canal, as he the said his heirs and asigns, shall from time to time think proper and expedient; and also, for effectuating the purposes of this act, to enlarge, widen, divert, alter or vary such roads or ways, and the |