Evesham Improvement Act 1824
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1824 c. lxvii |
ANN0
QUINT0
GEORGII
I
REGIS.
Cap.
lxvii,
An
Act
for paving, cleansing, lighting, watching,
regulating, and improving the Borough
ofEvesham
in the County
of
Worcester;
for repairing, improv-
ing,
and
maintaining the Bridge over the River
Avon
within the said Borough,
and
for selling
certainwaste Lands within the said Borough, and
for appropriating the Monies arising from
such
Sales
towards
the
Purposes
therein
mentioned.
[28th
May
1824.1
HEREAS
the Borough
of
Evesham
in the County
of
Wor-
cester
is
a
large and populous Borough, consisting
of
the
W
Parishes
of
All
Saints, Saint Lawrence,
and
Bengworth,
and the Footways in the several Streets, Lanes, public Passages, and
Places within the said Borough are ill-paved, and the said several
Streets, Lanes, Passages, and Places are not sufficiently cleansed,
lighted, and watched, and are subject to various Obstructions,
Nui-
sances, and Annoyances, and in many respects are incommodious and
unsafe
for
Travellers and Passengers
;
and the Bridge over the River
Avon
between the said Parish
of
AZZ
Saints
and the said Parish of
Bengworth
is very ancient, and requires great and continual Repairs,
and
is
by
reason
of
the increased travelling over the same too narrow,
and
is
very incommodious, and Foot Passengers are subject
to
great
Danger
and
Inconvenience, and
it
would greatly tend
to
the Benefit,
Convenience,
and
Safety
of
the
Inhabitants
of
the
said
Borough, and
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16
A-
of
1462
5"
GEORGII
IV.
Cap.
lxvii.
of Persons resorting thereto and passing through the same, if the said
Footways were properly paved, and the said several Streets, Lanes,
Passages, and Places were well and sufficiently repaired, cleansed,
lighted, watched, regulated, and otherwise improved,
and
if the
said Bridge were widened, repaired, improved, and maintained
in
repair, and
if
the Avenues and Approaches thereto were widened
and made safe and commodious, and all Obstructions,
Nui-
sances, and Annoyances removed, and for
the
future prevented
throughout the said Borough
:
And whereas there are within the said
Parish of
AllSaints
certain small Pieces
of
Common
or
Waste Lands,
of littlevalue in their present State, and there are also within the said
Parish of
Saint Lawrence
certain small Pieces of Common or Waste
Land of little Value in their present State
;
which said Common
or
Waste Lands altogether contain by Admeasurement Twenty Acres
or thereabouts
:
And whereas
Edward Rudge, Anthony
Roper,
and
divers other Persons are possessed
of'
certain Messuages, Lands, and
Hereditaments in the said Parish of
All
Saints,
and the said
Edward
Rudge
and
HUliam Bonalier
and others are possessed of certain Mes-
suages, Lands, and Hereditaments
in
the said Parish
of
SaintLaw-
rence,
and by reason thereof have or claim to have Common
of
Pas-
ture for their commonable Cattle
in,
through, and over the said
Corn-
mon and Waste Lands within the said Parishes respectively
:
And
whereas
it
is expedient, and the several Persons interested in the said
Commons or Waste Lands have consented and agreed, that the said
Commons or Waste Lands or certain Parts thereof, as herein-after
specified, should be sold or otherwise disposed of, and that the Monies
to arise from such Sale, or other Disposal of the same, should be
ap-
plied in Aid of the Sums necessary to be raised for the Purpose
of
carrying into Execution the Improvements and Repairs herein-before
mentioned
;
but the beneficial Purposes aforesaid cannot be effected
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 Parlia-
Commission-
ment assembled, and by the Authority of the same, That the Mayor,
ers.
Aldermen, Capital Burgesses, Recorder, and Chamberlain of the
Borough of
Evesham
for the Time being, and their Successors,
John
Acton, John
Agg,
Samuel Amos, James Atkins, William Barnes, Tho-
mas
Blayney,
Sir
William Edward
Rome
Boughton
Baronet,
William
Bonaker, William Baldwin Bonal'cer
Clerk,
Richard Burlingham,
Wiz.
liam Byrch, John
MosZey
Gilbert Cheek,
Sir
Charles Cockerell
Baronet,
Henry Portmore Cooper
Clerk,
Thomas Beale Cooper
Doctor
of
Me-
dicine,
George Day, Daniel Edge, Thomas Foster, Nathaniel Hart-
land
the
younger,
Abraham Hughes, John Wayord
Izod,
Joseph
Wemey Lavender, Benjamin Murrell
the younger,
Anthony New
the
elder,
John
New, James Perrins, George
Wigley
Perrotb, William
Law PheZps, William Phillips, Thomas Cliinnall Porter, Benjamin
Pratt,
John
Procter, Anthony Boper, Edward Rudge, Edward
John
Rudge,
Edward
Savage, Benjamin Smart, John Shaw
Clerk,
John
Smith,
William
Soky,
John
II'Jtomas, Re$amin Workman,
and their
Successors, to be elected and appointed in Manner herein-after
directed, shall be
and
they are hereby appointed Commissioners
for
carrying this Act into Execution.
6
11,
And
3"
GEORGII
Cap.
lxvii.
1463
11.
Abd
be
it
further enacted, That
it
shall be lawful for the Corn-
Power
to
misgioners hereby nominated, and they are hereby authorized and
appeint
ad-
empowered,
at
any of their Meetings to be holden in pursuance
of
missioiiers.
this Act, to elect any Number
of
Persons not exceeding Seven
in
the
whole
to
be Commissioners for the Purposes
of
this Act,
in
addition
to
the
Commissioners hereby appointed
;
and such Commissioners
SO
elected, and being
duly
qualified, shall be and are hereby invested with
the
same Powers and Authorities for executing this Act
as
if they
had
been herein named
and
appointed.
ditional
Coni-
111.
Provided always, and be
it
further enacted, That
no
Person
Qualification
shall be capable
of
acting as Commissioner in the Execution of this
of
Commis-
Act,
who
shall refuse or neglect for the Space
of
Six Calendar Months
to
act,
or
shall become Bankrupt, or shall hold any Place of Trust
or
Profit
under this Act, or shall be concerned
or
interested in any
Contract under the said Commissioners, or in any Case in which
h'k
shall be in anywise personally or beneficially interested in the Matter
in question, except as a Creditor
on
the Rates
or
Assessinents to he
imposed and levied
by
virtue of this Act, nor unless he shall be in his
own Right,
or
in Right
of
his late or present Wife, in the actual
Receipt, Possession, and Enjoyment
of'
the Rents and Profits
of
Messuages, Lands, or Tenements
of
an Estate
of
Inheritance, or for
Life
or Lives, or for any Term of Years
of
Ninety-nine Years or
upwards, either absolutely or determinable
on
any Life
or
Lives,
of
the yearly Value of Thirty Pounds above Reprizes, or be possessed
of
such Estate or Estates as last-mentioned and
a
Personal Estate
jointly, or
a
Personal Estate alone, to the Amount or Value
of
Two
thousand Pounds, or shall be Heir Apparent of
a
Person seised
of
Lands or Tenements of Inheritance of the clear yearly Value
of
One
hundred Pounds above Reprizes,nor unless he shall
also
be an
Occupier
of
Lands, Tenements, and Hereditaments within the Limits
of
this Act, nor until he shall have taken and subscribed the Oath or
Affirmation herein-after prescribed
;
(that is to say),
sioners.
A.
B.
do swear
[or
being
one
of
the
People
called
Quakers,
do
Oath.
1
solemnly declare and affirm], That
I
am really and
bond$de,
in
4
my
own
Right
[or
in the Right of my Wife, late or present,
as
the
6
Case
may
be,)
now in the actual Receipt and Enjoyment of the
6
Rents and
Profits
of
Messuages, Lands, or Tenements within the
L
Borough
of
Ewsham,
of
an Estate
of
Inheritance,
[or
for Life or
4
Lives,
or
for
a
Term or Terms
of
Years, either absolutely or deter-
&
minable on
a
Life or Lives,
as
the
Case
may
be,]
of the clear yearly
4
Value
of'
Thirty Pounds above Reprizes and Incumbrances,
[or
am
6
Heir Apparent
of
a Person seised of such Lands
or
Tenements
of
*
Inheritance
of
the clear annual Value of One hundred Pounds above
6
Reprizes,
or
am seisedor possessed
of
Real or Personal Estate, or
of
6
both together, of the full Value
of
Two thousand Pounds above the
6
Payment
of
all my Debts]
;
and that
I
will faithfully and impartially,
6
according to the best of my Skill and Judgment, execute
and
'
perform all the Powers and Authorities reposed in me
as
a
Commis-
'
sioner
by
virtue of an Act passed in the Fifth Year
of
the Reign
of-
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