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(Public Local and Personal,) 39 & 40 GEO. III. xxiii xvi. An Act for amending, altering, improving, and keeping in Repair, the Road leading from the Turnpike Road in Witney to the Turnpike Road on Swerford Heath, and also the Road leading from the Turnpike Road from Woodstock to Birmingham, through Charlbury, to the Turnpike Road from Chipping Norton to Burford, all in the County of Oxford. Page 483

xvii. An Act for making and repairing the Road from the Town of Stonehaven, through the Slug-mount, to the new Bridge over the River Dee at Cobleheugh, in the County of Kincardine. Ibid.

xviii. 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 two Acts made in the thirty-second Year of the Reign of his late Majesty King George the Second, and in the eighteenth Year of the Reign of his present Majesty for repairing the Road from Wakefield to Austerlands, in the West Riding of the County of York. 484

xix. 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, made in the twenty-ninth Year of the Reign of his present Majesty, for amending, widening, turning, varying, altering, and keeping in Repair several Roads therein mentioned, in the County Palatine of Lancaster, so far as the same relates to the Road from Haslingden to Todmorden, being the second District of the said Roads; and for making and maintaining a Branch therefrom at or near a Place called Fearns in Wolfenden Booth, to Edge Side in the same Booth and another Branch therefrom at or near a Place called Robert’s Mill in Bacup Booth, into the Rochdale Turnpike Road in the Parish of Spotland, all in the said County Palatine of Lancaster. Ibid.

xx. An Act for more effectually repairing the Road from Alemouth, through Alnwick and Rothbury, to Hexham, and a Branch from the said Road, between Alnwick and Rothbury, to Jockey’s Dike Bridge, in the County of Northumberland. Ibid.

xxi. An Act for dividing, allotting, inclosing, draining, and preserving the Open Fields, Commons, Fens, and Waste Grounds within the Parish of Ludham, in the County of Norfolk. Ibid.

xxii. 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 two Acts, passed for widening and repairing the High Road leading from Heron Syke, which divides the Counties of Lancaster and Westmorland, to the Town of Kirbey in Kendal, and from the said Town of Kirkby in Kendal, through the Town of Shap, to Emont Bridge, in the said County of Westmorland. Ibid.

xxiii. An Act for making and maintaining a navigable Canal from the River Thames, near to the Town of Gravesend, in the County of Kent, to the River Medway, at a Place called Nichoson’s Ship-Yard, in the Parish of Frindsbury, in the said County; and also a certain Collateral Cut, from White Wall in the said Parish, to the said River Medway. Ibid.

xxiv. An Act for amending the several Acts passed for making, extending, finishing, and completing the Canal Navigation from Manchester to or near Ashton-under-Lyne and Oldham, and the several Cuts and other Works authorised to be made and done by the Company of Proprietors of the said Canal Navigation; and for granting to the said Company further and other Powers. Ibid.

xxv. An Act for lighting the Streets and Lanes of the Borough of Berwick-upon-Tweed, and the Quays and Wharfs belonging to the said Borough, and that Part of the Bridge over the River Tweed, which lies within the Liberties of the said Borough, and also the Street of Castle-gate, within the said Borough or the Liberties thereof; and for paving the Foot-paths of the Streets of the said Borough and of Castle-gate aforesaid; and for preventing Obstructions, Nuisances, and Annoyances therein. Page 484

xxvi. An Act to alter, explain, amend, and render more effectual, an Act passed in the twenty-ninth Year of the Reign of his late Majesty King George the Second, intituled, An Act for draining and preserving certain Fen Lands in the Isle of Ely and County of Norfolk, lying between The Hundred Foot River and the Ouze, and bounded on the South by the Hard Lands of Mepall, Wicham, Wentworth, Wichford, Ely, Downham, and Littleport; and for empowering the Governor, Bailiffs, and Commonalty of the Company of Conservators of the Great Level of the Fens, commonly called Bedford Level, to sell certain Lands lying within the Limits aforesaid, commonly called Invested Lands. 485

xxvii. 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 two Acts, passed in the thirty-first Year of the Reign of his late Majesty King George the Second, and in the nineteenth Year of the Reign of his present Majesty, for repairing and widening the Road from The Swan Inn at Leatherhead, to the May Pole at the upper End of Spital or Somerset-Street, in the Parish of Stoke near the Town of Guldeford, in the County of Surrey. Ibid.

xxviii. 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 two Acts, passed in the thirty-first Year of the Reign of his late Majesty King George the Second, and the tenth Year of the Reign of his present Majesty, for repairing several Roads in the Counties of Dorset and Devon, leading to and through the Borough of Lyme Regis, and from the Turnpike Road on Uplyme Hill to the Turnpike Road at The Three Ashes, in the Parish of Crewkerne, in the County of Somerset, and other Roads therein mentioned. Ibid.

xxix. 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 two Acts made in the twenty-ninth Year of the Reign of his late Majesty King George the Second and ths twentieth-Year of the Reign of his present Majesty, so far as the same relate to repairing and widening the Road from the Borough of Ripon, by Ingram Bank, to the Town of Pateley Bridge, in the County of York. Ibid.

xxx. 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 twenty-first Year of the Reign of his present Majesty, intituled, An Act for more effectually repairing the Road leading from the Town of Denbigh to the Town of Saint Asaph, and from thence to the Town and Port of Ruthland, in the Counties of Denbigh and Flint; and for repealing an Act, made in the thirty second Year of his late Majesty King George the Second, so far as the same relates to the said Road. Ibid.

xxxi. 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 the Powers of two Acts, passed in the thirtieth Year of the Reign of his late Majesty King George the Second, and in the nineteenth Year of the

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