Great Milton (Oxfordshire) inclosure Act 1840
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1840 c. 9 |
ANNO TERTIO
VICTORLE REGIN^.
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Cap.
9.
An Act for inclosing Lands in the Township of
Great Milton in the County of
Oxford.
[4th June 1840.]
"THEREAS there are within the Township of Great Milton
I in the Parish of Great Milton in the County of Oxford
divers open and Common Arable Fields, Meadows, Pas-
tures,
Commonable Lands, Commons, and Waste Grounds, containing
altogether by Estimation One thousand three hundred Acres, or
thereabouts: And whereas Walter Long Esquire is Lord of the
Manor of Great and Little Milton, and Lord of the Prebend Manor
of Mycli Milton otherwise called the Manor of Great and Little
Milton and the Prebend, and is or claims to be entitled to the Soil of
all *ne Commons and Waste Lands within the said Township of Great
Milton : And whereas the said Walter Long, the Reverend William
Lowfield Fancourt Doctor in Divinity, Prebendary of the Prebend of
Milton Ecclesia in the Cathedral Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary
of Lincoln,
Charles
Spencer Ricketts Esquire,
Charles
Alexander Shep-
pard Esquire, the Reverend Thomas Ellis Clerk,
Charles
Coiding,
and
divers other Persons, are the Owners and Proprietors of or inter-
ested in thesaidOpen and Common Arable Fields, Meadows, Pastures,
Commonable Lands, Commons/and Waste Grounds: And whereas an
Act was passed in the Forty-first Year of the Reign of His Majesty 41
King
George
the Third, intituled An Act for
consolidating
in One Act c.
[Private."] 31 certain
M
258 3° VICTORIA, Cap.9.
certain Provisions usually inserted
in Acts oflnclosure,
and
for facili.
tating the
Mode of proving the
several Facts usually required
on the
passing
of
such
Acts: And whereas an Act was passed in the First
and Second Year of the Reign of His Majesty King
George
the Fourth,
l
& 9G.4
intituled An
act to amend the
Laws
respecting the Inclosure
of
Open
c
23^
T" Fields,
Pastures,
Moors,
Commons,
and Waste Lands in
England:
And whereas the Lands and Grounds of the several Proprietors in the
said Open and Common Fields, Meadows, Pastures, and Commonable
Lands lie very much intermixed with each other, and dispersed in
small Parcels, so as to render the Cultivation and Management
thereof inconvenient and expensive ; and it would be of great Ad-
vantage to the Owners and Proprietors, and other Persons interested,
if the said Lands, together with the said Commons, Waste Lands, and
Grounds, were divided, and specific Parts and Shares were allotted
unto and amongst the several Persons interested therein, according
to their several and respective Rights and Interests, and such Allot-
ments were inclosed so as to be held in Severalty : But inasmuch as
the several beneficial Purposes aforesaid cannot be effected without
the Aid and Authority
of"
Parliament, May it therefore please Your
Majesty that it may be enacted ; and be it enacted by the Queen's
most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the
Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parlia-
ment assembled, and
by
the Authority of the same, That all and every
the Open and Common Arable Fields, Meadows, Pastures, Common-
able Lands, Commons, and Waste Lands and Grounds within the said
Township of
Great Milton
(except any Waste Lands or Grounds
being Part of the Streets of the Village of
Great
Milton) shali be
Commission, divided, allotted, and inclosed ; and that
Frederic James
Kelsey of
Harnham in the County of
Wilts,
Gentleman, and
Samuel Druce
of
Ensham
in the said County of
Oxford,
Gentleman, and their Suc-
cessors, to be nominated and elected as herein-after mentioned, shall
be and they are hereby appointed Commissioners for dividing, al-
lotting, setting out, and inclosing the said Open and Common Arable
Fields, Meadows, Pastures, Commonable Lands, Common and Waste
Lands and Grounds within the said Township of Great Milton, and
for putting this and the said recited Acts into execution, in manner,
and subject to the Powers, Rules, Regulations, and Provisions, con-
tained in the said recited Acts, which shall be applied, deemed, and
taken as Part of this Act, except in such Cases only where the same
are hereby varied, altered, or otherwise provided for, or where the
same are repugnant to or inconsistent with the Powers and Provisions
of
this
Act.
II.
And be it further enacted, That if the said
Frederic James
Kelsey, or any Commissioner to be appointed in his Place, shall die,
or shall become incapable of acting, or shall refuse or neglect for the
Space of Two Calendar Months to act, as a Commissioner in the Ex-
ecution of this Act, before all the Powers and Authorities of this Act
shall be executed and completed, then and in every such Case it shall
be lawful to and for the said Walter Long, or the Lord or Lords,
Lady or Ladies of the said Manor of
Great
and Little Milton for the
Time being, by Writing under his, her, or their Hand or Hands,
within Thirty Days after such Death, Incapacity, Refusal, or Neglect
to
Appoint-
ment of fu-
ture Com-
missioners.
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