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xii The TITLES of the STATUTES. lix. An Act to enlarge the Term, and alter and enlarge the Powers, of several Acts, relating to the Harbour of Liverpool; and for making two additional Wet Docks and Piers in or near the Port of Liverpool; and for rendering more safe and commodious the said Port and Docks. Page 227

lx. An Act for authorizing the Company of Proprietors of the Stratford upon Avon Canal Navigation to vary the Course of certain Parts of the said Canal, directed to be made by an Act passed in the thirty-third Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, and also to make a Branch out of the said Canal, and also to vary the Course of a navigable Cut directed to be made from the said Stratford upon Avon Canal, in the Parish of Lapworth, into the Warwick and Birmingham Canal, in the Manor of Kingswood, in the County of Warwick, by another Act passed in the thirty-fifth Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, and for amending the said Acts. Ibid.

lxi. An Act for paving the Footways, and for cleaning, lighting, and regulating, the Streets, Lanes, and other Publick Passages and Places, within the Town of Trowbridge, in the County of Wilts; and for removing and preventing Nuisances, Annoyances, and Obstructions, therein. Ibid.

lxii. An Act for continuing, for twenty-one Years, and from thence to the End of the then next Session of Parliament, the Term, and altering and enlarging the Powers, of an Act passed in the thirteenth Year of the Reign of His present Majesty King George the Third, intituled, An Act for enlarging the Term and Powers of three Acts, passed in the first, ninth, and twenty-second Years of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Second, for repairing and enlarging the Road leading from the House called The Sign of the Bells, in the Parish of Saint Margaret, in Rochester, to Maidstone, and other Roads therein mentioned, in the County of Kent. Ibid.

lxiii. An Act for more effectually repairing and improving the Road from The Green Man, in the Chapelry of Seend, in the County of Wilts, through Trowbridge, to Beckington, in the County of Somerset, and several other Roads communicating with, or lying near to, the said Road; and for making and maintaining certain Pieces of New Road in Trowbridge aforesaid. Ibid.

lxiv. An Act for continuing for twenty-one Years, and from thence to the End of the then next Session of Parliament, the Term, and enlarging the Powers of an Act passed in the thirty-third Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, intituled, An Act for repairing, widening, altering, diverting, and turning the Road from Ardwick Green, near Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, to the Bridge at the Corn Mills at Wilmslow, in the County of Chester.

lxv. An Act to continue for twenty-one Years, and from thence to the End of the then next Session of Parliament, the Term, and alter and enlarge the Powers of an Act passed in the seventeenth Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, intituled, An Act for more effectually amending, widening, and keeping in Repair, several Roads therein mentioned, leading from a Gate, in the Town and County of Poole, called Poole Gate; and for repealing two Acts of Parliament, of the twenty-ninth and thirtieth Years of His late Majesty, relating to the said Roads; and also for applying a certain Sum of Money therein mentioned, towards paving and repairing a certain Street or Way within the said Town and County. Ibid.

lxvi. An Act to empower the Right Honourable Henry Earl Fauconberg to charge his Settled Estates in the Counties of York and Chester with the Sum of fifteen thousand Pounds, in lieu of the Right of him the said Henry Earl Fauconberg, and the other Tenants for Life of the said Estates, to cut down Timber growing thereon; and to grant Building Leases of such Parts of the said Settled Estates as are near, or adjoining to, the Town of Macclesfield, in the said County of Chester; and for vesting the Manor and other Hereditaments of and in Sutton in the Forest, in the said County of York, other Part of the said Settled Estates, in Trustees, in Trust to sell the same, and, out of the Money arising from the Sale thereof, to discharge the Incumbrances on the said Settled Estates. Page 227

lxvii. An Act for more easily effectuating the Sale of Part of the Freehold Estates late of James Duberly Esquire, deceased, and for applying the clear Monies to arise therefrom upon the Trusts of the Marriage Settlements of his five Daughters. Ibid.

lxviii. An Act for vesting the Fee Simple of several Estates in the County of Chester, (devised by the Will of Philip Egerton Esquire, deceased, to a Trustee for a Term of Years, for the Purpose of discharging his Debts, with Remainder to the Uses therein mentioned,) in Trustees, to be sold for discharging the said Debts, and to lay out the Surplus (if any) of the Monies arising by such Sale in the Purchase of Lands to be settled to the same Uses. 228

lxix. An Act for rendering more commodious, and for better regulating the Port of London. Ibid.

lxx. An Act for enabling the Grimsby Haven Company to finish and complete the Navigation of the said Haven, and for amending an Act passed in the thirty-sixth Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, for widening, deepening, enlarging, altering, and improving, the Haven of the Town and Port of Great Grimsby, in the County of Lincoln. 256

lxxi. An Act for empowering the Company of Proprietors of the Forth and Clyde Navigation to repay, into the Court of Exchequer in Scotland, the Sum advanced to them for the Purpose of completing the said Navigation; for repealing so much of an Act, of the twenty-fourth Year of His present Majesty, as relates to the said Company; add for enabling the Barons of the said Court of Exchequer to advance Part of the Sum so to be received to the Company of Proprietors of the Crinan Canal, on certain Conditions. Ibid.

lxxii. An Act for settling the Right of Patronage or Presentation of or to the new Chapel of Cradley, in that Part of the Parish of Halesowen which lies in the County and Diocese of Worcester, and for other Purposes. Ibid.

lxxiii. An Act for making and maintaining a Tunnel, or Road, under the River Thames, from or near to the Town of Gravesend, in the County of Kent, to or near to Tilbury Fort, in the County of Essex. Ibid.

lxxiv. An Act for making a new Street from the Haymarket into Charles Street, St. James's Square, within the City and Liberty of Westminster. 260

lxxv. An Act for amending, widening, altering, and keeping in Repair, the Road leading from Cheadle, through Alveton, to the Uttoxeter and Ashborne Turnpike Road, at or near Quickshill Bank; and also the Road leading from the Stone and Uttoxeter Turnpike Road, at Bear's Brook, through Hollington, to the said Uttoxeter and Ashborne Turnpike Road, at or near the Churnet Bridge at Rocester, in the County of Stafford, to continue in Force for twenty-one Years, and from thence to the End of the then next Session of Parliament. Ibid.

lxxvi. An Act to continue, for twenty-one Years, and from thence to the End of the then next Session of Parliament, the