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(Public Local and Personal,) 39 & 40 GEO. III. xxv Bloomsbury, in the County of Middlesex, and for forming and making the same into a Pleasure Ground, and fur continuing and keeping the same in Repair. Page 501

li. An Act for the repairing the Parish Church of Chelmsford, in the County of Essex. 502

lii. An Act for explaining, amending, and continuing an Act made in the fifteenth Year of the Reign of his present Majesty, intituled, An Act for repairing the Highways and Bridges in the Shire of Argyll. Ibid.

liii. An Act for repealing so much of an Act passed in the twenty-fifth Year of the Reign of his present Majesty, intituled, An Act for the Removal and Rebuilding of the Council Chamber, Guildhall, and Gaol of the City of New Sarum, and for ascertaining the Tolls of the Market, and regulating the Chairmen within the said City, as requires the Mayor and Commonalty of the City of New Sarum to build a new Gaol within the said City, or the Suburbs or Precincts thereof; and for authorising the Commitment of Felons and other Persons within the Limits of the said City and the Close thereof, to the Gaol of the County of Wilts; and for explaining and amending the said Act. Ibid.

liv. An Act to alter, amend, and enlarge the Powers of an Act, passed in the thirty-first Year of the Reign of his present Majesty King George the Third, for improving the Navigation of the River Ouse, between Newhaven Bridge and Lewes Bridge, in the County of Sussex, and for the better draining of the Low Lands lying in Lewes and Laughton Levels, in the said County. 503

lv. An Act for enabling the Company of Proprietors of the Navigation from the Leicester Navigation to Melton Mowbray, in the County of Leicester, to complete their Navigation, and to discharge the Debts contracted by them in the making thereof; and for amending the Act, passed in the thirty-first Year of the Reign of his present Majesty, for making and maintaining the said Navigation. Ibid.

lvi. An Act to enable the Company of Proprietors of the Oakham Canal to raise Money for completing the said Canal, and also for altering and amending an Act passed in the thirty-third Year of the Reign of his present Majesty, for making the said Canal. Ibid.

lvii. An Act for better enabling the Company of Proprietors of the Lancaster Canal Navigation to complete the same. Ibid.

lviii. An Act for dividing, allotting, and inclosing, the Common Fields, Marsh Meadow, and Waste Lands, in the Manor of Forebridge, and in the Parish of Castle Church, in the County of Stafford, and for embanking and draining Part of the said Common Fields, Marsh Meadow, and Waste Lands, and certain other Low Lands and Grounds in the said Parish of Castle Church, and in the adjoining Parishes, Townships, and Places of Sow Saint Thomas, otherwise Saint Thomas upon Sow, Coton, Berkswich, and Saint Mary in Stafford, in the said County of Stafford. Ibid.

lix. An Act for building a new Bridge over the River Chelmer, or Blackwater, at Fullbridge, in the Town of Maldon, in the County of Essex. Ibid.

lx. An Act for establishing and well governing the Charitable Institution commonly called The Asylum, or House of Refuge for the Reception of Orphan Girls, the Settlements of whose Parents cannot be found, and for incorporating the Subscribers thereto; and for the better empowering and enabling them to carry on their charitable and useful Designs. Ibid.

lxi. An Act for repealing two Acts, one made in the twenty-sixth Year of the Reign of King George the Second, and the other in the seventeenth Year of the Reign of his present Majesty, for repairing the Road from the Half-way House, in the Parish of Lower Compton, in the County of Dorset, through the Towns of Yeovil, Crewkerne, and Chard, to the East End of the Town of Axminster, in the County of Devon, and several other Roads therein mentioned; and also, for repealing so much of an Act, made in the eighteenth Year of the Reign of his present Majesty, for repairing several Roads leading from the Town of Taunton, in the County of Somerset, as relates to repairing the Road from the Direction Post in Widcombe Moor, through Street Ash Lane, to Chard, and for making more effectual Provision for those Purposes, and for altering and diverting certain Parts of the said Roads. Page 504

lxii. An Act for reviving, continuing, and amending an Act, passed in the sixteenth Year of the Reign of his present Majesty, for repairing the Road from Elsdon high Cross, near the Town of Elsdon, in the County of Northumberland, to the Red Swyre, upon the Mid Border between England and Scotland. Ibid.

lxiii. An Act for continuing the Term and enlarging the Powers of an Act passed in the twenty-first Year of the Reign of his present Majesty, for repairing and widening the Road leading from the Port of Borrowstounness, by the West of the Borough of Linlithgow, and by the Towns of Torpichen, Bathgate, and Whiteburn, and from thence Southward to the Confines of the County of Linlithgow, at or near Hollhouseburn. Ibid.

lxiv. 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 two Acts, passed in the thirty-third 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 and widening the Road from the Bars at Boughton, within the Liberties of the City of Chester, to Whitchurch, and from thence to Newport in the County of Salop, and several other Roads therein mentioned, so far as the said Acts relate to the Road leading from Newport aforesaid to the Village or Place called Welsh Harp, in the Township of Stonnall, in the County of Stafford, being the third District of the said Roads. Ibid.

lxv. An Act for more effectually repairing, widening, altering, and improving, the Roads therein mentioned, leading from the Town of Leominster, in the County of Hereford.

lxvi. 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 thirtieth 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 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 Ruthin, in the County of Denbigh, to the Town of Mold, in the County of Flint. Ibid.

lxvii. 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 several Acts, passed for amending the Highway between Hockliffe and Woburn, in the County of Bedford, and for repairing the Road leading through Woburn to Tickford Bridge, in Newport Pagnell, in the County of Bucks. Ibid.

lxviii. 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 twenty-ninth 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 amending, repairing, and widening the Roads leading from the