Oundle Improvement Act 1825
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1825 c. xxxii |
| Year | 1825 |
AMNO
SEXTO
GEORGII
ITe
REGIS.
Cap.
xxxii.
An Act for lighting, watching, paving,
cleansing,
regulating,
and
otherwise improving
the
Town
of
Ozcndle
in
the
County
of
Northampton,
C2d
ililaay
1825.3
HEREAS
the Town
of
Oundle
in the County
ofNorthamp-
ton
is
an ancient Town, and large and populous, and
a
Place
of
considerable Thoroughfare, and the several
Streets, Lanes, Entries, and other public Passages and Places within
the same are not sufficiently paved, cleansed, lighted, or watched,
and are subject to various Nuisances and other public Inconvenien-
ces
:
And whereas
Jesse
Watts
Russell
Esquire claims to be
Lord
of'
the Manor
of
OundZe,
with the Rights, Members, and Appurtenances
thereoc and
to
be intitled
to
the Customs, Tolls, and Duties
of
and
arising
fiom
the Fairs and Markets held within the same Town
:
And
whereas it would tend greatly to the Saf'ety, Cotivenience, and Ad-
vantage, not only
of
the Inhabitants
of
the said Town and
the
Neigh-
bourhood,
but
to
all Persons resorting. to
and
travelling through the
same, if the said Streets, Lanes, Entries,
and
other public Passages
and Places were properly paved, 'cleansed, lighted, watched, widened,
regulated, and improved under the Authority
of
Commissioners to be
appin
ed
fur
that
Purpose, and
if'
some
of
the
said
Streets, Lanes,
Entries, public
Passages,
01-
Places were stopped
up,
altered,
or
diverted, and certain Buildings used
as
Butchers' Shambles and
CLocaZ.1
10
c
Slaughter
838
6'
GEORGII
W.
Cap.xxsii.
Slaughter Houses were taken down, and
if
all Obstructions, Nui-
sances, and Annoyances therein were totally removed, and in future
prevented
;
biit such 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
King's
most
Excellent Majesty,
by
and with the Advice and Consent
ofthe Lords Spiritual
and
'Temporal, and Commons, in this present
Commissioo-
Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, That the
erskmes.
Lord
of
the Manor
of
Oundle
for the Time being, the Vicar
of'
the
Parish of
Oundle
for the Time being, the Head Master
of'
the Free
Grammar School for the Time being, the Steward of the
Lord
or
Lady
of
the Manor of
Oundle
for the Time being, the Churchwardens
and Overseers
of'
the Poor
of
the Parish of
Oundle
for the Time being,
together with
John
Adson, John Arnsby, JoJm AsJcJinnz,
John
Bal-
derston, William Balderston, John Ball, Thomas
Ball,
Nathaniel Ball,
William
Ball,
Thomas Earnes, John
Beal,
Anthony Bell, Thomas
Bell, Edward Bell, William Bodgener, James
Brown,
Thomas Bulli-
vant, Thomas
Burton,
Clfton Burton, John Campion, Joseph Chadwidk,
John Chapman, Samuel Chapman, Mark Coaten, Jeremiah
Marlhg
Coles, Robert Coles, William Corbett, George Cuming, James Cumber-
land, John Cuniiington, John Curtis, Matthew Dunford, William
E
kins,
William Ellis, William Everest, John Falkner, Thomas Fountain,
William
Fox
the elder,
William
Fox
the younger,
Charles
Foz,
William
Caster Gates, John Godfrey, William Goodlife, John Greene, Thomas
Baggerly Greene, William Hailey, Robert Hames, Thomas Harrison,
Nathaniel Haynes, fl'illiam Sanders
Hill,
Thomas Holditch, William
Holloway,
John
Holloway, John Jenkins, Charles JinJcs, William
Johnson, George Johnson, Stephen Kingston, Beniamin
Knibb,
Richard
Ladds, Joseph Langley, George Linnell, Samuel George Leigh, Joseph
Lettice, Charles Lockington, Joseph Charles Martin, Henry
Page,
John Pole, John Quenby, Richard Ragsdell, William Reachlous, John
Ridsdale, Samuel Rippiner, Robert Sherard, W-illiam Shilcock, John
Smith, Thomas
Smith,
John Collins Staines, Thomas Summers, Andrew
Tale, John Tebbutt, Samuel Tibbitts, Richard Tibbitts, Benjamin Todd,
Robert Todd, William Walcot, John Wallis,
John
Warner, Daniel
Websier, Peter Westcott, Thomas Wildash, Charles Frederick Yorke,
and their Successors, to
be
elected and appointed in manner herein-
after mentioned, shall be and they are hereby appointed Commis-
sioners
for
carrying this Act into Execution.
Forsupply-
jnl:
(
'ommiis-
sioners.
11.
And be
it
further enacted, That when and
so
often
as
the
Commissioners herein named, or hereafter to be elected by virtue
of
this Act, shall by Death, Refusal to
act,
or
by any of the Causes
of'
Disqualification herein-after mentioned, be reduced
to
the Number of
Forty (exclusive of such Persons as are herein-before appointed Com-
missioners by virtue of their Offices or Situations as aforesaid), it shall
be lawliil for the surviving or remaining Commissioners,
and
they
are hereby empowered
at
any Meeting to be held for that Purpose in
pursuance
of
this
Act, to elect and appoint some other Person or
Persons, to the Number
of
Ten, in the Place or Stead
of
such Com-
missioner
or
Commissioners
so
dying, refusing, or becoming inca-
pable or disqualified to act as herein-before mentioned
;
and Notice
in
Writing
or
printed, signed
by
the Clerk or Clerks for the
Time
4
being
cap.
xxxii.
being
of
the said C'omwissiqners, or
by
any Five or mar6
of
tiit:
said
Commissioners, ofthe Time and Place of such Meeting,
and
of
the
Purpose thereof, shall be previously given to or left at the House or
last
Plake
of'
Abode within the.Limits of this Act,
of
each
of
the said
remaining Commissioners, Fourteen
Days
at least (exclusive
.of
the
Day
of
deliveriiig the sane, and
of
tlie Day of Meeting)
;
and
all
and
every Persoiis and Person
so
from Time to Time elected and appointed
in manner herein-before directed, (being qualified
as
aforesaid), shall
be Commissioners and
a
Commissioner, and be joined with the other
Commissioners,
aiid
have the like Powers and Authorities vested
in
them and him in
all
respects whatsoever, for putting this Act in
Execution, as
if
they
or
he had been named Commissioners or
a
Coni-
missioner
in
and by the same.
111.
And be
it
fiirtlier enacted, That
no
Person shall be capable
of
Qualification
acting as a Cotqrniis&ger
in
the Execution
of
this Act, (except
such
~~~~~~'
Persons as are herein appointed Commissioners by virtue
of
their
Offices or Situations), unless he shall reside within the Limits
of'
this
bet,
-and shall really and
bondJide
be possessed
ol'Real
or
Personal
Property, qr both Species
of
Property taken together, amounting
to
&he Valwe
of
Five hundred Pounds above Reprizes,
or
who
shall
refuse to act, or shall became Bankrupt
;
and every Person, before
he
shall act as
a,
Commissioner
in
the Execution of this Act (except
in
administering the Oath
or
Afirmation herein-after mentioned), shall
take and subscribe, before some Justice of the Peace acting
for
the
County
of'
Northampton,
or any Two or more
of
the Pereons qualified
as
herein-after mentioned present
at
any
Meeting
to
be
held
in
pur-
suance of this Act, an Oath
or
AfZirmation
in
the Form or
to
the
Effect following, (except such Persons as are herein appointed
Com-
missioners by virtue
of
their Offices or Situations as aforesaid)
;
which
Oath or Affirmation
any
Justice
of
the Peace
as
aforesaid, or any
Two
of
the said Persons
so
qualificd,
is
:md
are hereby empowered
to
administer
;
that is
to
I
A.
B.
clo
swear
[or
b&g
one
of'the People
called
Quakers,
do
Oath.
6
solemnly afirtn], That
I
am
really and
bondcfide
possessed
of
Real Property
(or
Personal Property, or Real and Personal Property
4
added together,
as
the
Chse
may
be,)
amounting to the Value
of
'
Five hundred
Pounds
above Reprizes, and that
I
will faithfully,
'
truly, and impartially, according to
the
best of
my
Skill and Judg-
6
ment, execute
and
perforni
all
and every the Powers and Authori-
ties reposed in me
as
a
Commissioner by virtue
of'
an
Act
passed in
'
the Sixth Year
of
the Reign
of'
King
George
the Fourth, intituled
'
[here
setjbrtfi
Ike
Title @'this
Act.)
So
help
me
GOD.'
[Or
being
a
Qtsa?rer,
onzit
the
Words
6
So
help me
God.']
r.
IV.
Provided always, arid be
it
filrther enacted, 1hat
if'
any
Per-
Penalty
on
son
not being
so
qualified, or being disqualified by any
of
the Causes
disqualified
herein mentioned, or not having taken and subscribed such Oath
or
Persohs
Afirmation,
shall
act as
a
Commissioner in the Execution
of
this
acting.
Act,
such
Person shall for every such Ofience forfeit and pay the
Sum
of
Fifty Pounds, with full Costs of
Suit,
to any Person
who
shall
sue
for
the same in
any
of"is Majesty's Courts
of
Record at;
West.
mzizster,
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