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xxiv The TITLES of the STATUTES. Reign of his present Majesty, for amending, widening, and keeping in Repair, several Roads therein mentioned, so far as the said Acts relate to the Road leading from the Town of Wrexham in the County of Denbigh, to Pentre Bridge in the County of Flint. Page 485

xxxii. An Act for repealing an Act passed in the thirty-fifth Year of his present Majesty's Reign, intituled, An Act for making and repairing certain Roads in the County of Aberdeen; and for the more effectually amending, widening, repairing, and keeping in Repair the said Roads, and other Roads in the said County, and for levying a Conversion Money in lieu of the Statute Labour, and otherwise regulating the making and repairing the High Roads and Bridges in the said County. Ibid.

xxxiii. An Act for draining, improving, and preserving the Low Lands and Grounds within the Townships of Croston, Mawdesley, Rufford, Bispham, Tarleton, and Bretherton, in the County Palatine of Lancaster. Ibid.

xxxiv. An Act for enlarging the Powers of so much of two Acts made in the twenty-ninth and thirty-third Years of the Reign of his present Majesty, for making and repairing certain Roads in the County of Perth, as relates to the Road from Perth to Cupar, or the Neighbourhood thereof, towards Glammis, as far as the Confines of the said County. Ibid.

xxxv. An Act for the better Relief and Employment of the Poor of the Parish of Saint John Hampstead the County of Middlesex. 486

xxxvi. An Act for better enabling the Company of Proprietors of the Rochdale Canal to raise Money for completing the said Canal, and to vary the Line of the said Canal, and to alter, explain, and amend, the Act, passed in the thirty-fourth Year of the Reign of his present Majesty, for making the said Canal. Ibid.

xxxvii. An Act to enable the Dearne and Dove Canal Company to finish and complete the said Canal, and the several Collateral Cuts branching therefrom; and for explaining, amending, and enlarging the Powers of an Act passed in the thirty-third Year of the Reign of his present Majesty, for making and maintaining the said Canal and Collateral Cuts; and for encreasing the Tolls thereby granted. Ibid.

xxxviii. An Act for altering and amending an Act passed in the thirty-fourth Year of the Reign of his present Majesty, for making and maintaining the Peak Forest Canal; and for granting to the Company of Proprietors of the said Canal further and other Powers. Ibid.

xxxix. An Act for enabling the Huddersfield Canal Company to finish and complete the Huddersfield Canal; and for amending the Act, passed in the thirty-fourth Year of the Reign of his present Majesty, for making and maintaining the said Huddersfield Canal. Ibid.

xl. An Act for amending and making more effectual an Act passed in the twelfth Year of the Reign of his present Majesty, for embanking, draining, and preserving certain Fen Lands and Low Grounds, in the Parish of Ramsey, in the County of Huntingdon, and in the Parishes of Doddington, March, Benwick, Wimblington, and Chatteris, within the Isle of Ely, in the County of Cambridge; and for amending the Road from a certain Bridge in the Parish of Chatteris aforesaid, called Carter's Bridge, by a Drain called Vermuyden's, or The Forty Feet Drain, to a Bridge called The Forty Feet Bridge, in the said Parish of Ramsey; so far as the said Act relates to embanking the Lands therein described, called by the Name of The Upper District or Division. Ibid.

xli. 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 eighteenth Year of the Reign of his present Majesty, for building a Bridge across the River Tawey, at a Place called The Wich Tree, in the Parish of Llansamlett, to the opposite Shore in the Parish of Llangefelach, in the County of Glamorgan; for making proper Avenues or Roads to and from the said Bridge, and also for repairing and widening the Road from Pentre Brock, near a Place called Aberdwyberthy, in the Parish of Saint Johns, near Swansea, to the said intended Bridge. Page 486

xlii. An Act for raising a further Sum of Money for carrying into Execution two several Acts, passed in the thirty-fifth and thirty-eighth Years of the Reign of his present Majesty, for widening and improving the Entrance into the City of London, near Temple Bar, for making a more commodious Street or Passage at Snow Hill, and for raising, on the Credit of the Orphans' Fund, a Sum of Money for those Purposes; and for explaining and amending the said Acts. 487

xliii. An Act for making and maintaining a Road from, or from near, Lightpill Gate, on the Road leading from Bath to Dudbridge, in the Parish of Rodborough, to join the Turnpike Road from Painswick to Cheltenham, at or near to Birdlip, in the Parishes of Brimpsfield and Cowley, or one of them, all in the County of Gloucester. 489

xliv. An Act for shutting up and discontinuing certain Roads and Foot Paths, leading through the Grounds of Sir Richard Brooke Baronet, in the Townships of Norton and Halton, in the Parish of Runcorn, and County Palatine of Chester, and for making and maintaining other Roads instead thereof. Ibid.

xlv. 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 twentieth Year of the Reign of his present Majesty, for repairing and widening the Roads from Chapel Bar, near the West End of the Town of Nottingham to Newhaven, and from the Four Lane Ends, near Oakerthorpe, to Ashborne, and from the Cross Post on Wirksworth Moor, to join the Road leading from Chesterfield to Chapel-en-le-Frith, at or near Longston, in the County of Derby, and from Selfton to Annesley Woodhouse, in the County of Nottingham. Ibid.

xlvi. An Act for more effectually repairing, widening, altering, and improving, the Road from a Place called The Stone Pillar or Cross Hand, in the Parish of Chippenham, in the County of Wilts, to or near to a Bridge called Knox Bridge, in the Parish of Westerleigh, in the County of Gloucester, and several other Roads therein mentioned, in the said Counties of Wilts and Gloucester. Ibid.

xlvii. An Act for making Wet Docks, Basons, Cuts, and other Works, for the greater Accommodation and Security of Shipping, Commerce, and Revenue, within the Port of London. Ibid.

xlviii. An Act for providing a Workhouse for the Use of the Parish of Aldbourne in the County of Wilts; and for appointing an additional Overseer for the better Government of the Poor of the said Parish. 499

xlix. An Act for forming, paving, cleansing, lighting, watching, watering, and otherwise improving, and keeping in Repair, the Streets, Squares, and other Publick Passages and Places, which are and shall be made upon certain Pieces or Plots of Ground, in the Parish of Saint Pancras, in the County of Middlesex, belonging to the Most Noble Francis Duke of Bedford. 501

l. An Act for enclosing and embellishing the Centre of an Area of a certain Square, intended to be called Russell Square, purposed to be made in the Parish of Saint George

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