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• Account aforesaid, in like Manner for the Purpose of Accumulation in the meantime and until the said Fund should be <required for and appropriated by Parliament to the Execution ' of Improvements in the Metropolis: And whereas in pursuance of the said last-recited Act the Monies received from the Thirtyfirst Day of December One thousand eight hundred and forty'five to the Twenty-fifth Day of March One thousand eight hundred and forty-six, in respect of the said Duty of One Penny 'per Ton on Coals, Cinders, and Culm so created, imposed, and extended as aforesaid, have been laid out and invested in the Names of the said Commissioners in the Purchase of Three thou'sand and thirty-one Pounds Seven Shillings and Eight-pence Three Pounds per Centum Consolidated Bank Annuities, and such 'Annuities are now standing in the Names of the said Commis'sioners on the Account directed by the said Act: And whereas by an Act of Parliament passed in the Session held in the Third and Fourth Years of Her present Majesty, intituled An Act to 3&4 Viet. c. 87. ' enable Her Majesty's Commissioners of Woods, Forests, Land • Revenues, Works, and Buildings to make additional Thorough'fares in the Metropolis, it was amongst other things enacted, that it should be lawful for the said Commissioners, by and out ' of certain Monies and Funds therein specified, to form several new Streets and Improvements therein particularly mentioned, and, ' among others, a new Street from the London Docks to Spitalfields Church; and in the Act now in recital were contained divers Powers and Provisions for enabling the said Commissioners of Her Majesty's Woods, Forests, Land Revenues, Works, and 'Buildings to construct the several Streets therein mentioned, and to purchase the necessary Land and other Hereditaments, and for ascertaining the Value of such Land or Hereditaments, and for the Payment of the Purchase Money for the same, and otherwise: And whereas the Commissioners appointed by Her ⚫ most Gracious Majesty to inquire into and consider the most • effectual Means of improving the Metropolis, and of providing ⚫ increased Facilities of Communication within the same, did, by their Report, dated the Twenty-third Day of April One thousand eight hundred and forty-five, (which has been laid before both Houses of Parliament by Her Majesty's Command,) humbly • recommend to Her Majesty, that, out of any Monies to be thereafter raised as a Fund for Metropolitan Improvements, Provision • should be made for the Completion of a Line of Street from Spitalfields Church to the Station of the Eastern Counties Railway in Shoreditch, in continuation of the new Street and Improvement now in progress of Formation by the said Commissioners of Her Majesty's Woods under the Authority of the ⚫ said last-recited Act: And whereas Her Majesty has been graciously pleased to approve of the Recommendation of Her said • Commissioners; and it is expedient, in accordance therewith, that the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Woods, Forests, Land Revenues, Works, and Buildings should be empowered to form and open (in continuation of the Street from the London Docks to Spitalfields Church herein-before mentioned) a new Street and Thoroughfare from the North End of Commercial Street, Spitalfields, into Shoreditch, such new Thoroughfare or Street

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'to commence at the North End and in continuation of Com'mercial Street aforesaid, crossing the West End of Fashion Street and the East End of White's Row, and to pass North'wards in or nearly in a Line with and along Red Lion Street, crossing the Ends of Union Street and Church Street and the Ends of Lamb Street and Brown's Lane, and from thence to " run in a North-west Direction across Vine Street, Vine Place, Wheeler Street, Fleur de Lis Street, Maidenhead Court, Elder • Street, and Blossom Street, to Shoreditch, South of and adjoining the present Terminus of the Northern and Eastern Counties Railway; and for the Purpose of providing a Fund to enable the 'said Commissioners of Her Majesty's Woods, Forests, Land Revenues, Works, and Buildings to effect the Objects aforesaid, it is expedient that the said Commissioners should be authorized to raise out of or to charge the said Funds and Duties by the said recited Act of the Eighth and Ninth Years of Her present Majesty made applicable to the Improvement of the Metropolis, as herein-before is mentioned, with a Sum or Sums not exceeding in the whole the Sum of One hundred and twenty thousand Pounds: And whereas the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Woods, Forests, Land Revenues, Works, and Buildings have, with the Consent and Approbation of the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, caused a Survey and Plan to be made of the said intended Thoroughfare or new Street herein-before mentioned, and the said Survey and Plan have been submitted to the said Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, and have been approved by them :' May it therefore please Your Majesty that it may be enacted; and be it 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 ParCommissioners liament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, That it of Woods, &c. shall be lawful for the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Woods, empowered to Forests, Land Revenues, Works, and Buildings for the Time being, make a new Street from and they are hereby authorized and empowered, to make, form, Spitalfields to and complete the said intended new Street from the North End Shoreditch. of Commercial Street, Spitalfields, into Shoreditch, and to carry the Purposes of this Act into execution in manner herein-after mentioned, and according to such Plan as aforesaid.

Commissioners of Woods, &c. incorporated for the Purposes of this Act.

II. And be it enacted, That for the Purposes of this Act, and of all Matters and Things hereby authorized to be done under the Authority of this Act or of any other Act, the said Commissioners of Her Majesty's Woods, Forests, Land Revenues, Works, and Buildings for the Time being shall be and they are hereby constituted a Corporation by the Name and Style of "The Commissioners of Her Majesty's Woods, Forests, Land Revenues, Works, and Buildings," in order to enable them to execute and carry into effect the several Powers and Purposes of this Act, and such other Powers and Purposes as aforesaid; and by that Name, for the Purposes aforesaid, they the said last-mentioned Commissioners shall and may have perpetual Succession, and use a Common Seal, to be by them from Time to Time altered as they shall think fit, and shall and may sue and be sued, implead and be impleaded, and take Lands and Hereditaments to them and their Successors for ever, for the Purposes of this Act.

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III. And be it enacted, That for providing a Fund for the Commissioners Purposes of this Act, it shall and may be lawful for the Commis- of Woods, &c. sioners of Her Majesty's Woods, Forests, Land Revenues, Works, empowered to raise 120,0Col. and Buildings, from Time to Time, with the Consent and Appro- by Sale of or bation of the Lord High Treasurer, or of the Commissioners for Charge upon executing the Office of Lord High Treasurer, or any Three or the Metropolis more of them, from Time to Time, or at any one Time, to levy Improvement and raise, by the Sale of the whole or any Portion of the Stocks, Fund. Funds, and Securities from Time to Time constituting the said Fund called "The Metropolis Improvement Fund," so created or appropriated by the said Act of the Eighth and Ninth Years of Her present Majesty as aforesaid, or by Charge upon all and singular the Duties and Revenue in and by the same Act made applicable to the Formation of such Fund, any Sum or Sums of Money not exceeding in the whole the Sum of One hundred and twenty thousand Pounds, together with Interest on the Sum or Sums to be charged from the Time of charging the same, not exceeding Five Pounds per Centum per Аппит.

IV. And be it enacted, That the Duties and Revenue so to be Fund to be charged as aforesaid shall be paid and applied in satisfaction and applied in satisdischarge of all Monies to be charged thereon by the said Com- faction of all Charges missioners for executing this Act as aforesaid, and the Interest thereon. thereof, in such Manner and from Time to Time as the same shall be received, and as the said Commissioners for executing this Act shall direct.

V. And be it enacted, That for the Purposes of this Act it shall Commissioners, be lawful for the said Commissioners for executing this Act, with with Consent of the Treathe Consent and Approbation of the Lord High Treasurer, or the Commissioners for executing the Office of Lord High Treasurer, row 120,000l. sury, may borfor the Time being, or any Three or more of them, to borrow upon the Credit and raise any Sum or Sums of Money, not exceeding in the whole of Monies the Sum of One hundred and twenty thousand Pounds, upon the chargeable Credit of the said Monies and Interest so made chargeable as by this Act. aforesaid, and thereupon to assign and dispose of such Monies and Interest, in such Shares, and by way of Debenture or otherwise, and with such Priorities, and in such Manner, as the same Commissioners shall think fit, as a Security for the Monies so to be borrowed; and such Monies so to be raised shall be paid into the Office of the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Woods, Forests, Land Revenues, Works, and Buildings, by such Instalments, in such Proportions, at such Times, and in such Manner, as the same Commissioners shall direct.

VI. And be it enacted, That the Sum and Sums of Money Application of which the said Commissioners for executing this Act are hereby Monies raised. authorized to raise or charge, or which may be borrowed at Interest by the same Commissioners in pursuance of the Powers of this Act, shall be applied, in the first place, in paying all the Charges and Expences of or incident to the obtaining and passing this Act, and afterwards in paying and discharging the necessary Expences of surveying, designing, laying out, making, and completing the said intended new Street.

VII. And be it enacted, That the Receipts in Writing of any Receipts of Two of the said Commissioners for executing this Act, for any Commissioners Monies payable to them under or by virtue of this Act, shall be of Woods, &c. 9 & 10 VICT.

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Discharges for sufficient Discharges for the same to the Persons paying the same, Monies received who shall not afterwards be liable for any Misapplication thereof: by them. Provided nevertheless, that it shall be lawful for the said Commissioners to invest all or any Part of the Monies which may be raised for the Purposes of this Act in the Names of them, or any Two of them, in the Purchase of Public Stocks or Funds of Great Britain, or of Exchequer Bills, as a temporary Investment until such Monies shall be wanted for the Purposes of this Act.

Monies received

by Commission-
ers of Woods,
&c. to be paid

into the Bank
of England to
their Account.

Monics for casual Pay

ments not ex

ceeding 1,000 may be lodged with private Bankers.

Commissioners

to make all Payments by Drafts on the Bank of England.

VIII. Provided always, and be it enacted, That, subject as aforesaid, all Sums of Money, Bills, and Drafts which shall be received by the said Commissioners for executing this Act shall from Time to Time, within Two Days after the same shall have been received, or within Two Days after any Bill shall have been accepted, completed, and perfected, if the same shall not be accepted, completed, and perfected at the Time it shall be received, be paid by them into the Hands of the Governor and Company of the Bank of England, for which the Receipt of the Cashier or One of the Cashiers of the Bank of England shall be a sufficient Discharge; and all such Monies, Bills, and Drafts so to be paid as aforesaid shall from Time to Time be placed to the Account in the Books of the said Governor and Company, intituled "The Account of the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Woods, Forests, Land Revenues, Works, and Buildings, making the Improvements in the Metropolis," and shall be applied and disposed of by the said Commissioners for executing this Act for and towards the carrying the several Purposes thereof into execution.

IX. Provided nevertheless, and be it enacted, That it shall be lawful for the said Commissioners for executing this Act to reserve, out of the Monies to be received by them by virtue of this Act, for casual and ordinary Payments for the Purposes thereof, in the Hands of any private Banker, any Sum not exceeding at any One Time One thousand Pounds, to be drawn for by the said Commissioners for executing this Act, or any One of them; and if at any Time the Sum so reserved shall be reduced below Three hundred Pounds, then it shall be lawful for the Commissioners for executing this Act from Time to Time to make up the same to the Sum of One thousand Pounds by Drafts upon the Funds to be deposited in the Hands of the Governor and Company of the Bank of England as aforesaid.

X. And be it enacted, That the Commissioners for executing this Act shall make all Payments required to be made out of the Monies to be deposited in the Bank of England by Drafts on the said Bank, to be signed by Two of the said Commissioners, and shall specify in every such Draft the particular Service, or other Charge, Purpose, or Cause, for which such Draft shall be given; and every such Draft shall also have marked in the Margin thereof a Figure corresponding to the Page of a Book to be kept by the said Commissioners, wherein Entry shall be made of the particular Service, Salary or other Charge, Purpose or Cause, for which such Draft shall be given.

Drafts drawn XI. And be it enacted, That all Drafts drawn pursuant to the pursuant to this Directions of this Act shall be sufficient Authority to the Bank of Act to be a suffi- England to pay the Amount thereof to the Persons mentioned in cient Authority such Drafts, or to the Bearer of them, and that the said Commissioners

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sioners for executing this Act, observing the Rules and Regulations to the Bank to hereby prescribed, shall not be answerable, either collectively or pay them. individually, for any Money which they or any of them shall have so paid into the Bank of England, and that the Governor and Company of the said Bank shall be answerable for all Monies which shall be actually received by them from the said Commissioners.

XII. And be it enacted, That there shall be yearly laid before Annual Aceach House of Parliament, within Twenty-one Days after the counts to be meeting of Parliament, a true Account, made up to the Thirty- rendered to first Day of December in the preceding Year, of the Receipts and both Houses of Applications of the Sums of Money which shall be received and are directed to be applied by virtue of this Act.

Parliament.

XIII. And be it enacted, That the said Map or Plan describing Plan to be dethe Line of the said intended Street, and the Places, Buildings, posited in the Tenements, and Hereditaments on the Site of which the same Office of Woods, Street is proposed to be made, shall, when signed by the Lord &c., and be open to Inspection. High Treasurer or the Commissioners for executing the Office of Lord High Treasurer, or any Three or more of them, be deposited at the Office of the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Woods, Forests, Land Revenues, Works, and Buildings; and the Map or Plan so deposited at the Office of the said Commissioners shall remain at the said Office, to the end that all Persons may at all seasonable Times have Liberty to inspect and peruse the same at their Will and Pleasure, paying the Sum of One Shilling for every such Inspection.

XIV. And be it enacted, That no Alteration or Change shall No Alteration be made in the Line of the said intended Thoroughfare or Street to be made in as shown in such Plan, unless the same shall be approved by the Plan, unless apLord High Treasurer, or the said Commissioners for executing Treasury. proved by the the Office of Lord High Treasurer for the Time being, or some Three or more of them.

XV. And be it enacted, That the said Commissioners for exe- Limits of Devicuting this Act, in making the said intended new Street, Altera- ation from Plan. tions, and Improvements, shall not deviate more than Fifty Feet from the Line described in the aforesaid Map or Plan, without the Consent and Approbation of the Person or Persons, Bodies Politic, Corporate, or Collegiate, through whose Lands or Tenements such Deviation shall be made.

and Officers.

XVI. And be it enacted, That the said Commissioners for Commissioners executing this Act shall and may and they are hereby empowered of Woods, &c. from Time to Time to appoint such and so many Clerks and other empowered to Officers and Persons as they shall deem necessary to employ in the appoint Clerks Execution of this Act, and may from Time to Time remove such Clerks, Officers, and other Persons, or any of them, and appoint others in their Stead, and also shall and may, out of the Monies to be raised by virtue of this Act, allow to such Clerks and other Officers, and such other Persons as shall be assisting in or about the Execution of this Act, such Salaries or Allowances as to them the said Commissioners shall seem meet, and as shall be approved of by the said Lord High Treasurer, or the said Commissioners for executing the Office of Lord High Treasurer for the Time being, or any Three or more of them; Provided always, that the said Commissioners for executing this Act shall and may, if they shall

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