Egham Inclosure Act 1814
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Citation | 1814 c. cliii |
ANNO QUINQUAGESIMO QUARTO
GEORGII III. REGIS.
Cap.
153.
An Act for inclosing Lands in the Parish ot Egham,
in the County of
Surrey.
[17th
June
1814.]
W
HEREAS there are within the Parish of Egham, in the County
of Surrey, divers Open Fields, Open Meadows, Lammas
Lands, Commons, and Waste Grounds: And whereas the
King's most Excellent Majesty, in right of his Crown, is Lord of the
Manor of Egham aforesaid, and as such is entitled to the Right of Soil
of such of the said Commons and .Waste Lands as are situate within
the said Manor, subject to a Lease granted of the same to the Right
Honourable William Earl Harcourt,
in
Trust for the King's most Excellent
Majesty : And whereas the Master, Fellows, and Scholars of the College of
Saint John the Evangelist, in the University of
Cambridge,
are Lords of
the Manor of
Broomhall,
which is partly situate within the said Parish of
Egham, and as such are entitled to the Right of Soil of such of the' said
Commons and Waste Lands as are situate1 within the said Manor :
And whereas George Simon Harcourt Esquire, an Infant, is seised of
the Manor of Ankerwyke Purnish, within the said Parish of Egham, and
in respect thereof claims to be entitled to the Soil of all the Waste
Lands within the said Manor of Ankerwyke Purnish: And1 whereas
the King's most Excellent Majesty, the said Master, Fellows, and
Scholars, the President and Scholars of Corpus Christi College in the
University of
Oxford,
the Right Honourable Viscount Bulkeley, the
Right Honourable Viscount Ashbrook, Sir William Blackett Baronet,'
Sir Henry Tempest Baronet, William Henry
Fremantle,
Culling Charles
Smith,
Esquires, and divers other Persons^ are ihe Owners ah'd'Prbp'rietors of
the several Messuages, Lands, and Tenements within-the''said'Parish,
and as such are respectively entitled to Rights of Common' and other1
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2806 54'GEORGII III.
Cap. 153.
Interests in, upon, and over the said Commons and Waste Grounds:
And whereas an Act was passed in the Forty-first Year of the Reign
of His present Majesty, intituled An Act for
consolidating
in one Act
certain Provisions usually inserted
in
Acts of Inclosure, and for facilitating
the
Mode of proving
the
several Facts usually required
on
the passing of such Acts:
And whereas the Lands and Grounds of the respective Proprietors
in the said Open Fields, Open Meadows, and Lammas Lands, lie
intermixed and dispersed, and are at present very inconveniently situated
for the Cultivation
thereof,
and the said Commons and Waste Grounds
in their present State are incapable of much Improvement; and it would
be of great Advantage to the several Persons interested therein, if all the
said Opeb jFfeld^iiOpenu'Meadows, Lammas Lands, Commons and
Waste Grounds were divided and inclosed, and specific Parts thereof
allotted to the said several Proprietors in proportion to their respective
Property, Rights of Common, and other Interests therein ; but forasmuch
as such Objects cannot be obtained or effectually carried into Execution
without the Aid and Authority of Parliament: May it therefore please Your
Majesty that it may be enacted ; and be it enacted by the King's most Ex-
cellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual
and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by
Appointment the Authority of the same, That Sir William
Gibbons
of Stanwell in the
of
Commis-
County of Middlesex, Baronet, Abraham Purshouse Driver of Kent Road,
«ioners. jn
tne C0Unty of Surrey, and Thomas Denton of Staines in the County of
Middlesex, Gentlemen, and their Successors, to be elected in Manner
herein-after mentioned, shall be and, they are hereby appointed Commis-
sioners.
for- dividing,'allotting, and inclosing the said Open Fields, Open
Meadows, \Lanimas: Lands, Commons and Waste Grounds within the
said Parish of Egham, and also for setting out, allotting, arid dividing all
such old Inclosures of Land within the said Parish in which there are
Lands belonging to different Proprietors, and also such other old
Inclosures of Land within the said Parish, to which the present Pro-
prietors thereof will have no Access through their own Lands, or by any
of the Public Roads to be set out by the said Commissioners, and for
carrying this Act and the said recited Act into Execution, under and
subject to such of the Orders and Directions contained in the sajd recited
Act, as are not varied or altered, or controlled by,' or repugnant to any
of the Provisions of this Act; and that all Acts, Matters, and Things
authorized and necessary to be done and executed by the said Commis-
sioners for effecting the Purposes aforesaid, may be done and executed
by any Two of them, and the same shall be as valid and effectual as if
such Acts, Matters, and Things had been done and executed by all the
said Commissioners herein nominated or appointed, or their Successors.
Appointment Jfr, 4°^ be it further enacted, That in case the said Sir William
Gibbons
and
of new Com- Thomas
Denton,
or either of them, their or either of their Successors to be
missioners m appointed as hereinafter mentioned, shall die, or refuse,or neglect or,decline
Death. to act or •qualify themselves or
himself,
or;'shall be incapable of acting'in the
Execution of this and the said recited Act, then and in every such Case it
shall and maybe lawful to and for the major Part in Value of the Persons in-
terested in the said Division, Allotment, and Inclosure (such Value to be as-
certained according to the Land-Tax Assessment for the said Parish of Eg-
ham,
as well redeemed as unredeemed), who shall be present at a Meeting to
be holden for that Purpose, in the Vestry Room of the said Parish, within
i Twenty.
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