Property in order to entitle them to vote at the said First Election shall be given to the said Hugh Sears, at Park House Farm, Aldershot, or in case he shall refuse or be unable to receive the same, then to the said James Elstone at his Residence within the aforesaid Parish of Aldershot. IX. In citing this Act in any other Act of Parliament, or in Short Title. any Proceeding, Instrument, or Document whatsoever, it shall be sufficient to use the Words and Figures "The Public Health Supplemental Act for Aldershot, 1857." CAP. XXIII. An Act to authorize the Commissioners of Public WHEREAS an Act was passed in the Session of Par liament holden in the Fifth and Sixth Years of Her 'Majesty, intituled An Act to promote the Drainage of Lands 5 & 6 Viet.c.89. and Improvement of Navigation and Water Power in connexion 'with such Drainage in Ireland, which Act was amended by an Act passed in the Session of Parliament holden in the Eighth ' and Ninth Years of Her Majesty, Chapter Sixty-nine, and an 'Act passed in the Session of Parliament holden in the Ninth and Tenth Years of Her Majesty, Chapter Four, and an Act 'passed in the Session of Parliament holden in the Tenth and Eleventh Years of Her Majesty, Chapter Seventy-nine, and by an Act passed in the Session holden in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Years of Her Majesty, Chapter One hundred ́ and thirty, and an Act passed in the Session of Parliament holden in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Years of Her Majesty, Chapter One hundred and ten, and an Act passed in the Session holden in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Years of Her Majesty, Chapter Sixty-two: And whereas under and by virtue of the Provisions of the said firstly-recited Act the 'said Commissioners are empowered to make and acquire new Sites of Mills and Factories and Water Power, and Premises 'connected therewith, and to sell the same, with such Rights of Pre-emption to the Owners of the Estates to which the said. Sites originally belonged, or to the Owners of the adjoining Estates, as are therein provided, and the Purchase Monies of such Sites and Premises are directed to be applied to such Purposes as are therein set forth: And whereas the said < Commissioners, in execution of the Works authorized by the 'said Acts, have been enabled within certain Districts to make and acquire various new Sites for Mills and Factories upon Parcels of Ground duly taken by them for that Purpose, by virtue of the Powers and Provisions relating to the taking of Lands by the said Commissioners in the said Acts contained, or acquired in the Progress of such Works, and the All Mill Sites to continue vested in the Final Award. < same and the Water Powers connected therewith have become vested in the said Commissioners for the Purposes 'aforesaid, and the said Commissioners may hereafter become 'entitled in like Manner to various other such Sites: And whereas it is not expedient that the making of any Final Award by the said Commissioners, under the Provisions of the 'said Acts or any of them, should be delayed by reason of the Inability of such Commissioners to sell such Sites and Water Power in connexion therewith, for such Prices as may be adequate to the Value thereof:' 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, as follows: I. That in all Cases where, under and by virtue of the Provisions of the said Acts or any of them, any such Sites for Mills Commissioners, or Factories have been or shall be acquired by the said Comnotwithstanding missioners in any District, either by the making of the same in the Progress of any Works, or by the taking of any Lands for that Purpose, the said Sites and all Water Powers connected therewith shall remain and continue vested in the said Commissioners, on trust to be sold, notwithstanding that such Commissioners may have made or may make any Final Award relating to the District wherein such Sites shall be situate, previously to any Sale by them of such Sites or Water Powers connected therewith as aforesaid. Power to sell within Five Years after Final Award. II. It shall be lawful for the said Commissioners, at any Time such Mill Sites within Five Years after the making of any such Final Award or Awards in any such District wherein such Sites are or shall be situate as aforesaid, or whether such Awards shall have been made before or after the passing of this Act, to sell and dispose of the said Site or Sites or Water Powers, or other Premises connected therewith, for such Price or Prices as to them shall seem reasonable, and the Proceeds of any such Sale shall be disposed of as herein-after mentioned: Provided always, that the said Commissioners before they shall sell or dispose of any of such Mill Sites or Water Powers as aforesaid shall first offer the same to the Person to whose Estate the same originally belonged (if any such Person there be), and then to the Person whose Estate shall adjoin thereto; and such Premises shall not be sold to any other Person at such Price as the Persons so entitled to a Preference shall be willing to give for the same, or at any less Price. Application of Sale of Sites, &c. III. The Proceeds of the Sale of all such Sites, Water Powers, and Premises as shall be so sold after the making of any such Final Award as aforesaid shall by the said Commissioners be paid over to the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, to be applied by them to any or either of the Purposes after mentioned; that is to say, in reimbursing to the said Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury the Monies expended on the District in connexion with which such Sites shall have been been acquired, in Cases where the Amount chargeable on such District shall have been reduced, pursuant to the Provisions of the Acts of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth of Her Majesty, Chapter One hundred and thirty, or Eighteenth and Nineteenth of Her Majesty, Chapter One hundred and ten; or in discharging an equivalent Amount of the Principal Monies chargeable on such District by virtue of any Final Award, in Cases where no such Reduction shall have been made; and in Cases where such Portion of the Monies so chargeable shall be so discharged as last aforesaid, the said Commissioners of Public Works shall make such rateable Reduction of the Portions of such Amount charged by such Award, or such Alteration with respect to the Duration or Amount of the Instalments payable under the same, as the said Commissioners of the Treasury shall think fit; and the said Commissioners of Public Works shall thereupon make a Supplemental Award in the Manner set forth in the said Act of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth of Her Majesty, Chapter One hundred and thirty, and to which Supplemental Award all the Provisions and Enactments of the said lastly-mentioned Act shall be taken to apply: Provided always, that in case any Proprietor shall, under the Provisions of the said Acts, have paid off the whole of the Principal Monies charged upon his or her Lands by any such Award, he or she shall be entitled to the Benefit of any Reduction so directed as aforesaid, and to be reimbursed accordingly. as One. IV. The several Acts mentioned in this Act and this Act Acts recited shall be construed as One Act, and the several Words and and this Act Expressions to which an extended Signification is given in the to be construed said Acts or any of them shall have the like Signification in this Act, and (save when such Construction shall be inconsistent with the Context) the Expression "the Commissioners," when used in this Act, shall mean the Commissioners of Public Works in Ireland. CAP. XXIV. An Act to continue certain Turnpike Acts in Great All Turnpike Acts expiring of next Session before the End I. Every Act now in force for regulating, making, amending, or repairing any Turnpike Road in Great Britain which will expire on or before the End of the next Session of Parliament shall be continued until the First Day of October One thousand continued to eight hundred and fifty-eight, and to the End of the then next Session of Parliament, except as herein-after mentioned. E [No. 5. Price 2d.] II. The 1st Oct. 1858. Acts in Schedule continued till II. The Acts mentioned in the Schedule to this Act annexed shall continue in force until the First Day of November One 1st Nov. 1858. thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight, and no longer, unless Parliament shall in the meantime continue the same respectively. Short Title. Extent of Act. III. In citing this Act in other Acts of Parliament and in legal Instruments it shall be sufficient to use the Expression "The Annual Turnpike Acts Continuance Act, 1857." IV. This Act shall not apply to Ireland. 54 G. 3. c. xv. 54 G. 3. c. xlix. 54 G. 3. c. liv. 55 G. 3. c. xiv. 55 G. 3. c. xix. 55 G. 3. c. xxxviii. 59 G. 3. c. XXV. 59 G. 3. c. xcix. 1 G. 4. c. xiv. SCHEDULE, An Act for enlarging the Term and Powers of Two Acts of His present Majesty, for repairing the Road from the Warwick Road near Solihull to the Guide Post in Kenilworth, and from Stonebridge to meet the aforesaid Road at Balsall Common in the County of Warwick, so far as respects the said Road from Stonebridge to Balsall Common, and from thence to the said Town of Kenilworth. An Act to continue the Term and alter and enlarge the Powers of Three Acts of His present Majesty, for amending the Road from Besselsleigh through Wantage to Hungerford in the County of Berks, and other Roads in the said Acts mentioned, in the said County and in the County of Wilts. An Act for making and maintaining a Road from Balderston to Burscough Bridge in Walton-in le-Dale in the County Palatine of Lancaster. An Act for repairing the Road from Haslingden through New Church and Bacup to Todmorden, and for making and maintaining several Branches therefrom, all in the County Palatine of Lancaster. An Act to continue the Term and alter and amend the Powers of Three Acts of His present Majesty, for repairing the Road from Lawton in the County of Chester to Burslem and Newcastle-underLyme in the County of Stafford, and other Roads therein mentioned; and also to make a new Road from Burslem aforesaid to Cobridge, and a Branch therefrom to Burslem Church. An Act to continue the Term and alter and enlarge the Powers of Two Acts of His present Majesty, for amending the Road from the Bottom of Galley Hill to the Cross in Clanfield in the County of Oxford. An Act for repairing the Road from Shelton's Lane in Bury in the County of Huntingdon to a House formerly called The Spread Eagle in the Hamlet of Stratton in the Parish of Biggleswade in the County of Bedford. An Act for continuing and amending Three Acts of His late and present Majesty, for repairing the Roads from Brown's Lane in Great Staughton in the County of Huntingdon to the Way Post near Wellingborough Bridge in the County of Northampton, and from the Pound in Kimbolton to the Way Post near Brington Bridge in the said County of Northampton. An Act for continuing the Term and altering and enlarging the Powers of an Act of His late Majesty's Reign for amending the Road leading out of the Highway from Wigan to Golborn and Warrington into the Road from Wigan to Ashton in Ashton in Mackerfield in the County Palatine of Lancaster. An An Act for amending, diverting, altering, straightening, improv- 1 G.4. c. xxxiii. ing, completing, and keeping in repair several Roads leading from the Market House in the Town of Ludlow and elsewhere in the County of Salop. An Act for more effectually repairing and improving the Roads 3 G. 4. c. xlix. leading from Bishop's Castle and from Montgomery to the Road at Westbury, and from Brockton to the Road at Minsterley, and other Roads therein mentioned, in the Counties of Salop, Radnor, and Montgomery, and for amending, widening, and improving several other Roads therein mentioned in the said County of Salop. An Act for enlarging the Term and Powers of several Acts passed 3 G. 4. c. lxvii. for repairing the Road from the Town of Guldeford to the Directing Post near the Town of Farnham in the County of Surrey. An Act for continuing the Term and enlarging the Powers of an 3 G. 4. c. xcvi. Act of the Forty-first Year of His late Majesty King George the Third, for repairing the Road from the Town and Port of Dover to the Town and Port of Sandwich, and also the Road from the present Turnpike Road leading from Dover to Barham Downs, up Kersney Court Hill to the Parish of Whitfield, otherwise Beausfield, in the County of Kent. An Act for repairing, widening, and maintaining the Road leading 4 G. 4. An Act for more effectually repairing and improving the Roads 6 G. 4. from Sheet Bridge to Portsmouth, and from Petersfield to the Alton c. lxxxvii. and Alresford Turnpike Road near Ropley, in the County of Southampton, and for making and maintaining a new Branch of Road to communicate therewith. An Act for more effectually amending and improving the Road 7 & 8 G. 4. from Bawtry Bridge in the County of Nottingham to Hainton in the c. lvii. County of Lincoln, and other Roads therein mentioned. An Act for more effectually repairing, widening, and otherwise 9 G. 4. c. xxiii. improving the Road from the South End of Milton Street in the Town of Nottingham to the West End of Blind Lane in the Town of Mansfield in the County of Nottingham. An Act for amending and maintaining the Turnpike Road from 9 G. 4. c. xlvi. the Northern End of the Village of Balby in the County of York to Worksop in the County of Nottingham. An Act to continue the Powers of the Commissioners under an Act of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Years of Her Majesty concerning the University of Oxford and the College of St. Mary Winchester, and further to amend the said Act. [10th August 1857.] WHEREAS an Act was passed in the Session holden 17 & 18 Vict. in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Years of Her c. 81. Majesty, Chapter Eighty-one, to make further Provision for 'the good Government and Extension of the University of Oxford, of the Colleges therein, and of the College of St. Mary Winchester, and the said Act has been amended by an E 2 Act |