St. Mary Islington Improvement Act 1824

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Citation1824 c. cxxv
ANN0
QUINT0
GEORGII
IV.
REGIS.
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An Act
to
repeal
several
Acts for the Relief
and
Employment
of
the
Poor
of
the Parish of
Saint
Mary
Islington
in
the County
of
Middlesex;
for
lighting, and watchiiiw,
and
preventing Nuisances
and Annoyances therein
;
for
amending; the Road
from
Highgate
through
Maiden
Lairze,
and
several
other
Roads in the said Parish
;
and
for
providing
a
Chapel
of
Ease
and
an
additional
Burial
Ground
for
the
same
;
and
to
make
more
effectual
Provi-
sio3s
in
lieu
thereof.
[
17th
June
1824.1
B.
NEREAS an Act was made in
the
Seventeenth Year
of
His
the Parish
of
Saint Mary Islington
in
the
County
of
Middlesex,
and
for
building
a
Workhouse
for
the said Parish:
And whereas One other
Act
was
made in the Forty-second Year
of'
the Reign
of
His
late
Majesty,
intitulecl
An
Act
to amend and render more efictual an Act mude
in
4zG.3. c.28.
the
Sevenieenth Year
of
His
then Majesty's Reign
j?r
the better Reliej'
and
Employment
of
the Poor
of
the Parish of
Saint
Mary
Islingtoil
in
fie
County
of
Middlesex
:
And whereas One other Act was macle in
the
Fifty-thild Year
of'
the Reign
of
His
late Majesty, intituled
An
53G.3.c.21.
Act
for
altering and amending
Two
Acts passed
in
the Sewenteenth and
Forty-second Years
of
His said late Majes@for the better Relief and
EmP@jrnent
of
the Poor
of
the Parish
@
Saint Mary Islington
in
the
laie
Majesty King
George
the
Third,
intituled
An
Act
for
i7~.3.
c.5.
the better Relief and Employment of the Poor
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IV.
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County
of
Middlesex,
and
for
building a Mrorkhouse
for
the said
Parish:
And whereas
One
other Act was made in the Twelfth
12
G.3.c.17.
Year of'the Reign
of'
His late Majesty, intituled
An
Act
for
lighting
such Part
of
the Town
of
Islington
as
lies
in
the Parish
of
Saint
Mary Islington
in
flze Cozciity
of
Middlesex,
and
for
establishing
a
regular nightly Watch tJierein:
And whereas One other Act was
made in the Forty-sixth Year
of
the Reign
of'
His
said late Majesty,
46
G.3.
c.1
.
intituled
An
Act
./"or
altering and amending an Act passed in the
Twelfth Year
of
His said late Majesty, intituled
An
Act
for
lighting
such Part
of
tlze
Town
of
Islington
as
lies in the Parish
of
Saint
Mary Islington
in
the County
of
Middlesex,
and
for
establishing
a
regular nightly Watch tlzerein, and
for
removing and preuenting Nui-
'
sances and Annoyances within the said Town and Parish
:'
And whereas
One other Act
was
made in the Thirty-fifth Year of the Reign
of
His
35G.3.c.141.
said late Majesty, intituled
An
Act
for
amending, iniprouing, and
keeping
in
Repair the Road leading
Jkom
the Hamlet
oj'
Highgate
in
the County
of
Middlesex,
through a certain Lane called
Maiden Lane,
in
the Parish
of
Saint Mary Islington,
to
a certain Place called
Battle Bridge,
in
the same County, and the severul otJm- Highways
and Footlaths
in
the said Parish
of
Saint Mary Islington
(mhick
are
not included
in
any Turnpike Acts), and
to
enable t?ie Inhabitants
of
the said Parish
to
raise Money
for
that and other the Purposes therein
mentioned:
And whereas One other Act was made in the Fifty-first
51G.3.c.134.
Year
of
the Reign
of'
His
said late Majesty, intituled
An
Act
for
providing
a
Chapel
of
Ease and an additional Burial Ground
for
the
Parish
of
Saint Mary Isliiigton
in
the County
of
Middlesex: And
whereas the Trustees and Commissioners
of
the said
Parish,
appointed
by the said several Acts, have proceeded in the Execution
of
the said
Acts, and have completed inany
of'
the Objects thereof: And whereas
the
Inhabitants
of
the said Parish in Vestry assembled have deter-
mined, that if the said several Acts were repealed, and the several
Powers and Clauses therein contained were consolidated and reduced
into One Act, it would tend greatly to facilitate the Execution
thereof'
:
And whereas several Amendments and Alterations have
been found wanting in the Provisions
of'
the said Acts, and further
Powers are stiIl required
:
May it therefore pIease Your Majesty that
it may be enacted; and be it enacted bythe King's most Excel-
lent 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, That from and after
the passing
of'
this Act the said several recited Acts, and all the
several Matters and Things therein contained, shall be and they
are hereby repealed.
Acts
re-
pealed.
All
Convey-
and
Annuities
confirmed,
11.
And be it further enacted, That all Bonds, Mortgages, Assign-
ments, Annuities, Grants, Conveyances, Leases, and other Securities,
made or granted to or by any Person or Persons, Body or Bodies Politic,
Corporate, or Collegiate, or any other Persons whomsoever, acting by
virtue
of
or on the Credit or under the Authority
of
the said several
recited Acts, shall be as good, valid, and effectual, to all Intents and
Purposes whatsoever,
as
if the said several recited Acts had not been
repealed
;
and all Bonds, Mortgages, Annuities, and Assignments
given or granted as
a
Security for any Monies lent or advanced
on
the
Credit
1w.
Credit
of
such Acts shall be charged, and they are hereby respectively
chwged upon the Rates or Assessments herein directed to be made
for the Purposes ofthis Act
;
and the Person or Persons from Time to
Time
entitled to the sa,me respectively shall have, receive, and enjoy all
Interest due and to grow due
on
such Bonds, Mortgages, Annuities,
and Assignments respectively, until the same shall be paid
off
and
discharged, as herein provided, and
all
Interest due and to grow due
on the said respective Annuities, during the Term of'the natural Lives
of'
the Persons for whose Lives such Annuities respectively were
granted, out
of'
the Rates and Assessments herein directed to be
in
ade.
111.
l'rovided always, That any Contract or Contracts, Agreement
Contracts
or Agreements, made or entered into by virtue
of'
the said recited Acts,
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shall be and be deemed to be
as
good and valid, arid Performance
good.
thereof'
arid
Compliance therewith cornpelled by the same Ways and
Means until the Expiration thereof, as if the said recited Acts had
not been repealed
j
any thing herein contained to the contrary
not-
withstanding.
1V.
And be it further enacted, That
Josiah Bradshaw, Bneas
Bark&,
Appoint-
Peter
Clarke
Blount,
JosepJi
Bell,
Richard Chapman, Nathaniel Clgton,
ment
of
Richard
l'liomas
Corboidd,
TVilliam
Casson,
TVilliam Collins, Francis
Trustees.
d")orrell,
JoJin Edis, Edrcard
Flotcer,
Thonaas
FletcJzcr, Samuel Fish,
Edward
Fraiiks,
George
Grz@lhs,
William Grfitlz, Edmund
Gould-
smitJi, John Greig, Benjamin Holmes, Richard Howard, Samuel
Row-
ad,
Edward Hughes, Thomas
Hull,
William
Idenshall,
Jonathan
Harrison,
William
Hanky,
Charles
TIanaor
Hill,
John
IlonE,
William
Ilott,
James Johnson, William
KnigJzt,
Ricfiard LuycocJc, Thomas
Loveland,
Robert
Meacoclz,
George
Notley,
John
Nicholls,
John
OwtJmaite,
Reverend
William Parker,
Bichurd
Percivrrl
the Younger,
Robert Prince, James
Rhodes,
Reverend
Joseph
Pntten awe, Charles
Wilkes
Rowe,
Joseph
Samuel,
George
Sturdy, William Seabrook,
Robert Stanton, Henry Triskana, JoJm Tlawaites, Jamcs Henry Trye,
John
Ustonson,
Richard
WinIdes,
William Wilson, George ?Vol&$-ang
FVidt, Samuel Wilson, Robert Wilkinson,
Thonzas
Walker,
Wzlliam
Wix,
and
William Wickings,
being Sixty Occupiers
of'
Houses, Lands,
Tenements, or Hereditaments within the said Parish, and their SUC-
sessors to be appointed in Manner hereinafter mentioned, shall be and
they are hereby appointed Trustees for carrying this Act into Exe-
cution, and shall be called
''
The Trustees
of'
the Parish
of'
Saint
Mary
Islington
in
the County
of
&/fiddlesex."
V.
Provided always, and be it further enacted, Tliat the present Vicar
The
Vicar,
and Churchwardens and Overseers
of
the Poor
of'
the said Parish,
Church-
and the future Vicar, Churchwardens, and Overseers
of
the Poor
\;;~~~~~~d
for the Time being, and each and every
of'
them, shall be and they
to
be
Trus-
are hereby declared to be Trustees
of'
the said Parish,
and
shall
have
tees.
full Power and Authority, together with the several Trustees hereby
appointed and their Successors
(to
be
f'rcrrn
'I'ime to Time nominated
and
appointed
as
herein mentioned), to act
as
such Trustees
to
all
Intents and Ptirposes
as
if'
they had been appointed by this Act,
or
ejected and chosen in Manner and Form herein prescribed,
but
only
during

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