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172 XV. And be it also further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that this present Act shalbe Proclaymed in the next quarter Session or Sessions in every County, and in such other Market townes or places, as by the more part of the Justices of the Peace in the said Sessions shall be agreed and appointed. This Act to endure to the end of the first Session of the next Parliament

Anno Reg., Regis Angl. Scotiæ, Franc. & Hybern. viz. Angl. Franc. & Hybern. quarto, Scotiæ xl.

HEREAS of late in the Parliament holden at Westminster, in the third yeere of the reigne of our Sovereigne Lord King, an Act was made for the bringing of a fresh Streame of running water to the North parts of the Citie of London, as by the fame Act appeareth, now, for that sithence the making of that Law, upon view of the grounds through which the waters are to passe, by men of skill, and upon advised consideration of the premisses, it is thought more convenient and lesse damage to the ground, that the same running water bee brought and conveyed in and through a trunke or vault of Bricke or stone inclosed, and in some places where neede is, raised upon Arches, then in an open Trench or Sewer, which maner of conveyance of the same water in a trunke or vault of Bricke or stone, is doubtful whether by the words of the former Law it may bee lawfully effected by the Lord Maior and Communalty, and Citizens of the Citie of London, albeit they doe duely perforate every part, clause, matter and thing in the said Statute conteined, which on their part are by the true intent of that Law to be performed:"

For cleering of which doubt, and plaine declaration of the true meaning of the said Law, bee it enacted by our Sovereigne Lord the King, and by the Lords spirituall and temporall, and Commons of this present Parliament assembled, and by the authorise of the same, that at any time or times after the laying out of such convenient limits of ground for the making of the Trench, or conueyance of water to the North partes of the said Citie of London, at the breadth of tenne foote, and not above, as to the Maior, and Communalty, and Citizens of the Citie of London, and their deputies, and workemen, with the allowance of the Commissioners in the said former Act mentioned, or any seven of them shall bee seene convenient and meete for the same, and in that place that they shall finde to be most apt and meete for that purpose, according to the true intent of the said Statute, that the Maior and Communalty, and Citizens of the said Citie of London, and their successors, deputies and workemen, for the consideration in the said former Act expressed, shall have libertie not onely to digge the same ground to bee employed for the said River, or new cut, as in the said former Act is expressed, but also in the same place, where they shall thinke most meete for the said new cut, or passage of water, to srame, erect, and make a trunke or vault of Bricke or Stone for the passage of the said water to the North parts of the said Citie of London, not exceeding tenne foote in breadth, in such maner and forme to be layed in the earth or upon Arches, as to the Maior and Communalty and Citizens of London shall seeme meete: and from time to time for ever to mainteine and preserve the same Trunke or vault of Bricke or Stone, and for that purpose to have like libertie and free passage to and from the said Trunke or vault of Bricke or Stone, for making, erecting, mainteining, and preserving thereof from time to time for ever, as they had or might have had by the intent of the said former Act, to, and from the said new cut or River, with men, horses, cart and carriages, at all times convenient, and in places convenient, for the making of the said new cut or Trench, and for the presercing of the same from time to time for ever: any thing in the said former Statute, or in any other Law or Statute to the contrary thereof in any wife notwithstanding. Anno