Barnstaple Roads Act 1827
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Citation | 1827 c. xiv |
ANNO SEPTIMO & OCTAVO
GEORGII IV. REGIS.
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Cap.
xiv.
An Act for more effectually improving and keeping
in repair the several Roads leading to and from
the Town of Barnstaple in the County of Devon;
and for making certain new Lines of Road to
communicate with the same. [2d April 1827]
HEREAS an Act was passed in the Third Year of the
Reign of His late Majesty King George the Third, inti-
tuled An Act for repairing,
widening,
and keeping in repair 3Gt 3 c 35
several Roads
leading
from tlie Town of Barnstaple in the County of
Devon : And whereas another Act was passed in the Twenty-fourth
Year of the Reign of His said late Majesty, intituled An Act for 24G.3.C.31.
continuing the Term and altering and enlarging
the
Powers of an Act
of
the
Third Year of
the
Reign of His present Majesty, for
repairing^
widening, and keeping in repair
several
Roads leading from the Town
of Barnstaple in the County of Devon : And whereas another Act
was passed in the Forty-sixth Year of the Reign of His said late
Majesty, intituled An Act for continuing the Term and altering and 46G3#C-I39
enlarging the Powers of Two Acts, passed in the Third and Twenty-
fourth Years of His present Majesty, for repairing several Roads
leading from $tf Tbzew o/"Barnstaple in the County of Devon: And
whereas in execution of the said several Acts considerable Sums of
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Money have been borrowed on the Credit of the Tolls thereby
granted and continued, which still remain due and owing : And
whereas the said Roads may be greatly improved, and it would be of
general Public Utility if Powers were given to widen, divert, turn,
vary, or alter several Parts of the said Roads; and also to widen,
divert, turn,, vary, alter, improve, make Turnpike, and maintain in
repair, several Pieces of old Road herein-after mentioned, now com-
municating with the said Roads j and also to make and maintain in
repair certain new Roads herein-after mentioned, to communicate
with the said Roads: And whereas the Money due on the Credit of
the said Tolls cannot be repaid, nor can the said Roads be effectually
made, amended, diverted, varied, altered, widened, improved, and
maintained in repair, unless the Powers and Provisions of the said
recited Acts are enlarged and altered, and the Tolls increased: And
whereas an Act was passed in the Third Year of the Reign of His
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present Majesty, intituled An Act to amend the General Laws now in
being
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regulating Turnpike Roads in that Pari qf Great Britain
catledl&w£2m&: And whereas another Act was passed in the Fourth
4G.4.
c.95. Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, intituled An Act to explain
and
amend
an Act passed in
the
Third Year of
the
Reign of His present
Majesty, to amend the General Laws
now
in being for regulating Turn-
pike Roads in
that
Part of Great Britain
called
England: And whereas
another Act was passed in the Fifth Year of the Reign of His present
5G.4.
o.69. Majesty, intituled An Act to enable Justices of the
Peace
for Ridings,
Divisions, or Sokes, to act as Trustees for repairing and maintaining
Turnpike Roads: May it therefore please Your Majesty that it may
be enacted; and be it enacted, by the. King's most Excellent Majesty,
by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and
Temporal, and Commons, u\ this present Parliament assembled, and
Repeal
of
the
by the Authority of the same, That from and after the First Day of
£rSt
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e ay *">tt®
t^01183^
**^ht hundred and twe»ty-se.v«n, the mi recited
Acts of the Third, Twenty-fourth* an4 Eoftyvxib. Years f His late
Majesty shall be and the same are hereby declared to he repealed;
Term and and that this Act, and the Term and Toils hereby granted respect-
Tolls of
this
ively, shall thencefcacth commence and take effect, apd shall be- and
Debtsduet0 are nereDy made subject and liable to the Payment of all Monies
under former which have been borrowed and are now due and owing oe the
Acts.
Credit of the said, recited Acts, or either of them, and of all Interest
due and\ to grow ,dtie thereon respectively, as fully to all Intents
and Pwposes as if such Monies hasd b$en borrowed or become due
on the Credit or on account of this Act.,
Roadssubject IL, And
be-
it further enacted* That, this Act shall he put inexe-
to this Act: cwtioifc for the Purpose of making, amending; diverting, varying,
altering* wideningy improving, aj*4 maintaining in- repair the several
RoadsJ^rem-afte* mentioned;. (that is to say,,) the present Turnpike
SouthMolton Road leading from the East End of Litchdm Streetin the Town of
Road-
Barnstgpfe;:
afewresaid, through the several Parishes of Barns^lmk,
Bishop's
T&pton,
Landhey, and Swimbridge, to
a-
certain Place called
Kerscott JSillin Swimbridge aforesaid, from whence the South Motion
Turnpike leads to the Town of South Motion in the said County ;
also the present Turnpike Road leading from the said last-mentioned
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