Richmond [Yorkshire] Burgage Pastures Act 1853
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1853 c. cci |
| Year | 1853 |
ANNO DECIMO SEXTO & DECIMO SEPTIMO
VICTORLE REGIN.E
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An Act for regulating
nagement the depasturing and Ma-
of certain Pastures in the Parish of
Richmond in the County of York.
[15th August 1853.]
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HERE AS an Act of Parliament was passed in the Forty-
second Year of the Reign of His Majesty King George
the Third, intituled An Act for dividing, allotting, and
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inclosing the several Open Fields, Stinted Pasture, and
Common
within
the Parish of Richmond in the North Riding of the County of York,
which Act recited that there was within the Parish oi Richmond in
the North Riding of the County of York (among other Lands
specified in such Act) a Common Field or Stinted Pasture called
Whitcliffe Pasture, containing about Nine hundred and fifty Acres,
and that the Mayor and Aldermen of the Borough of Richmond
claimed to be seised and possessed in their corporate Capacity, for
the Use and Benefit of certain Inhabitants of the said Borough, of
the said Stinted Pasture, and of the Soil and Freehold thereof save
and except that Thomas Lord Dundas, John York, William Chaytor,
Esquires, and divers other Persons, as Owners of ancient Burgage
Houses within the said Borough, were entitled to and did hold and
enjoy, in respect to each such Burgage House, a Right of Pasture for
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The Richmond Burgage Pastures Act, 1853.
One Horse or One Beast in the said Stinted Pasture between the
Fifth Day of April and the Tenth Day of October in every Year, sub-
ject to the yearly Payment of Two Shillings and Sixpence for each
such Horse or Beast to the said Mayor and Aldermen, and save and
except that the Owners of Three Farms within the said Parish of
Richmond, called Applegarth9 Jefferson's, andStapleton's, did hold and
enjoy for the Time aforesaid certain Rights of Stint or Eatage in the
said Pasture in right of the said Farms, under the yearly Payment of
Seventeen Shillings to the said Mayor and Aldermen for such Stint
or Eatage; and such Act also recited that the said Stinted Pasture
was in its then present State incapable of any considerable Improve-
ment, neither could such Lands be occupied with such Convenience
and Advantage as they respectively might if the same were divided,
allotted, and enclosed in manner therein-after mentioned; and such
Act, after such Recitals as aforesaid, appointed a Commissioner for
executing the Powers vested in him by that Act and the therein-
recited Act, and such Act provided for the Inclosure and Allotment
of certain Lands,. including so much of the said Stinted Pasture as
such Act did not, as herein-after is mentioned, appropriate, or provide
for being appropriated, for the Owners of Burgage Tenements; and
it was by the said Act enacted that that Part of the said Common
Field or Stinted Pasture called Whitcliffe which had been for several
Years past used as a Race Ground, and whereon the Stand for viewing
the Races was erected, and also so much of that Part of the said
Common Pasture which had been used as Training Ground for Horses
as the said Commissioner should deem necessary, not exceeding Fifty
Acres in the whole for such Training Ground, should remain in the
. same State and Condition as the same then were, in order that the
same should or might be depastured from Time to Time thereafter by
the several Owners of the ancient Burgage Tenements in the Borough
of Richmond aforesaid having Right of Pasturage thereon in common,
in the same Manner as such Owners had been theretofore used and
accustomed to depasture the whole of the said Common Pasture, but
subject to such Regulations and Restrictions as to the Manner and
Time of stinting, and as to the Number of Cattle to be stinted in
respect of every such Burgage Tenement, as the said Commissioner in
his Award should direct: And whereas the said Commissioner, in and
by his Award bearing Date the Twenty-third Day of April One
thousand eight hundred and ten, stated that he had staked or set out,
and did thereby appoint that Part of the said Common Field or
Stinted Pasture called Whitcliffe Pasture which had been for several
Years then past used as a Race Ground, and whereoa the Stand for
viewing the Races was erected, admeasuring in the whole Eighty-one
Acres Three Roods and Twenty-six Perches, bounded as in such
Award mentioned, and also Forty-four Acres and Eight Perches, to
be called Upper Pasture in that Part of the said Common. Pasture
which
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