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Fortifications. Act 1709

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JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Anno Regin A N N , Regin octavo. An Act for vesting certain Lands, Tenements, and Hereditaments in Trustees, for the better fortifying and securing the Harbours and Docks atPortsmouth, Chatham and Harwich .

(8 Ann.) C A P. XXI. (23)

'W H E R E A S in pursuance of an Actof Parliament passed in the seventh Year of her now Majesty's Reign, intituled,An Act for appointing Commissioners to treat and agree for such Lands, Tenements and Hereditaments, as shall be judged proper to be purchased for the better fortifying Portsmouth, Chatham and Harwich, her Majesty was pleased by Letters Patents under the Great Seal of Great Britain , bearing Date at Westminster the seventeenh Day of June in the eighth Year of her Reign, to authorize certain Persons therein mentioned, or any five or more of them, to make Surveys of and particularly describe all such Lands, Tenements and Hereditaments, as are proper to be purchased for the Uses and Purposes aforesaid, and to execute all Powers, Directions, Clauses, Matters and Things in the said Act contained: And whereas five or more of the said Commissioners, have made Surveys of, and particularly described by Lines, Stakes, Boundaries and Plans, such Lands, Tenements and Hereditaments, as they judged proper to be purchased for the Uses and Purposes in the said Act mentioned, and have likewise treated and agreed with several of the Owners and others interested in the said Lands, Tenements and Hereditaments, who were able and willing to treat and agree for the same: And whereas several Proprietors of Lands, Tenements and Hereditaments, in the respective Places of Portsmouth, Chatham and Harwich , which were by five or more of the said Commissioners judged proper to be purchased, have insisted upon extravagant Rates, and refused to agree with the said Commissioners, without unreasonable Gain to themselves; and other Proprietors by Reason of Nonage, Coverture, or especial Limitations in Settlements, were disabled to treat and agree as aforesaid; for which Reasons five or more of the said Commissioners, pursuant to the said Act, issued out their Warrants to the Sheriffs of each County, where the said several Lands, Tenements and Hereditaments respectively lay, to impanel and return before them, at such Times and Places as by such Warrants were appointed, a sufficient Jury, and at such Times and Places respectively, a sufficient Jury appeared, who upon their Oaths did enquire into, and...

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