Lands for Ordnance Services, Woolwich Act 1802
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1802 c. 89 |
| Year | 1802 |
(42 Geo. 3) C A P. LXXXIX.
[22d June 1802]
'WHEREAS it is expedient for promoting the Service of his Majesty's Ordnance atWoolwich , to extend and enlarge the Premises occupied and employed in the said Service, and for that Purpose, to purchase the Lands herein-after mentioned: And whereas the said Lands are or may be the Estates of Infants, Femes-Covert, Trustees, or other Persons who by Law are disabled to make any Contracts or Conveyances; in all which Cases, as likewise when any Owner or other Person entitled to or interested in the same, designing to obstruct the public Service, or to make any unreasonable Gain to themselves, insist on extravagant Rates, it will be necessary to have Recourse to the same Methods that have been taken in Cases of the like Nature; to the End therefore, that the true and real Value of the said Estates may be ascertained, and the Owners and Proprietors thereof may have a just and reasonable Satisfaction for the same;' 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 in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, That all that Piece or Parcelof Land calledCommon Lane Field , containing by Admeasurement, seven Acres one Rood and twenty Perches, or thereabouts, and also all that other Piece or Parcel of Land called Callas's Field , containing by Admeasurement, five Acres three Roods and fourteen Perches, or thereabouts; and also all that other Piece or Parcel of Land calledThe Twelve Acres , containing by Admeasurement, twelve Acres two Roods and thirty Perches, or thereabouts; and also all that other Piece or Parcel of Land called The Further Five Acres , containing by Admeasurement, five Acres and nineteen Perches, or thereabouts; and also all that other Piece or Parcel of Land called Wood's Barn Field , containing by Admeasurement, five Acres two Roods and nine Perches, or thereabouts; and also all that other Piece or Parcel of Land called The Ruffs , containing by Admeasurement, fourteen Acres three Roods and nine Perches, or thereabouts; and also all that other Piece or Parcel of Land called The Horse Close , containing by Admeasurement, seven Acres two Roods and twenty-nine Perches, or thereabouts; and also...
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