former Acts, and all the Clauses and Provisions therein mentioned, or such of the said Clauses and Provisions as are in any Manner applicable to the Purposes of this Act, shall be and they are hereby extended in such Manner as that the said Commissioners acting in execution of the said last-mentioned Act shall be enabled to make, as well the Alterations and Improvements hereinbefore authorized to be made on the said Line of Road from London to Liverpool, as also the said new Cut or Piece of Road from the Seven Stars Public House at Whitley to Allesley, and a Communication therefrom to the Craven Arms Inn, and shall have all Facilities and Advantages for enabling them to make the same, as fully, amply, and effectually, to all Intents and Purposes whatsoever, as if the same Powers, Authorities, Clauses, and Provisions were repeated and re-enacted in and by this present Act with reference to the said Alterations, Improvements, new Pieces of Road and Communication, and particularly that the said last-metioned Commissioners, besides the Powers hereinbefore specially given, of taking the Houses, Gardens, Lawns, Orchards, and Grounds specified in the Schedule to this Act annexed, shall have the same Power of taking and acquiring any Ground or Materials which may be required for the Purpose of making the said Alterations and Improvements, new Piece of Road and Communication, as in and by the said recited Act of the Fifty fifth Year of His late Majesty King George the Third is given to the Commissioners acting under that Act, of taking and acquiring any such Ground or Materials as may be necessary for repairing, altering, making, or constructing the Roads in that Act mentioned or referred to.

XLVIII. Provided always, and be it further enacted, That the several Clauses, Powers, and Provisions in the said recited Act of the Seventh Year of the Reign of his present Majesty contained, with respect to the purchasing or otherwise acquiring of and making Satisfaction for Injury or Damage to the Houses, Gardens, Lawns, Orchards, and Grounds by that Act authorized to be purchased, acquired, used, or taken by the said Commissioners acting in execution of the said recited Act of the Fourth Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, shall equally apply to the purchasing or otherwise acquiring by the said Commissioners, under the Powers of this Act, and to the paying and making Satisfaction for the Houses, Gardens, Lawns, Orchards, Grounds, and Land by this Act authorized to be purchased, acquired, taken or used, in the same Manner, or as nearly so as Circumstances will admit, as they would if the same were so purchased, acquired, taken, or used by the said Commissioners under the Powers and Provisions of the said Act of the Seventh Year aforesaid, for the Purposes in this Act mentioned.

XLIX. And be it further enacted, That it shall be lawful for the said Commissioners acting in execution of the said recited Act of the Fourth Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, and they are hereby authorized and empowered to appoint One or more fit and competent Person or Persons to examine the State and Condition of the present Mail Coach Road from London, by Coventry, Lichfield, and Newcastle, to Liverpool; and the said Person or Persons so appointed shall from time to time make out

and

Power to

Commissioners to enquire into the State of the

Trusts on the Mail Coach

Roads between

London and

Holyhead, and

between London and Liverpool.

and present to the said Commissioners Reports on the State of the said Roads between London and Liverpool, distinguishing the respective Trusts under which the said Roads shall be repaired, maintained, and supported, in which Reports shall be stated the Title or Application by which the Trustees are severally known or designated, the Extent of Road repaired and maintained by them, the Breadth and Form of such Road, the Kind of Materials used in the Repairs thereof, and the Manner of preparing and applying such Materials, the State of the Surface of the Road from Side to Side, the Condition of the Side Drains, Cross Drains, and Field Drains, the Condition of the Hedges or other Fences bordering the Road, and whether such Road is overshadowed by Trees, Hedges, Shrubs, or Banks of Earth, or any other Impediment to the free Access and Operation of the Sun and Air.

L. And be it further enacted, That it shall be lawful for the said Commissioners acting in execution of the said recited Act of the Fourth Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, to enquire into the State of the several Trusts in which the several Roads forming the Lines of Communication by which His Majesty's Mails travel between London and Holyhead, and between London and Liverpool, are comprised, and to ascertain the Amount of the annual Income from Tolls and Expenditure of such several Trusts, and of the Proportions of such Income and Expenditure received and expended in respect of maintaining and repairing the said several Roads forming the said Communication; and also to enquire into the Method in which the said Roads are maintained and repaired; and for the Purposes aforesaid, it shall be lawful for the said Commissioners, or any Three of them, to summons before them any Surveyors, Treasurers, Clerks, or other Officers employed by the said Trustees or Commissioners in respect of the said Roads; and the said Surveyors, Treasurers, Clerks, and other Officers shall, if required, produce all Books of Account, Plans, Maps, Papers, Documents, and Writings in their Possession respectively, and shall allow the said Commissioners, or any or either of them, or any Person or Persons appointed for that Purpose by them or any Three of them, by any Writing under their Hands, to inspect, examine, and take Copies of or Extracts from the same, or any or either of them; and if any such Surveyor, Treasurer, Clerk, or other Officer shall neglect or refuse to attend any Summons of the said Commissioners, or any Three of them, or refuse to give a full and satisfactory Answer to any Question which he shall be by the said Commissioners, or any Three of them, required to answer, or shall refuse or neglect to produce any Book of Account, Plan, Map, Paper, Document, or Writing in his Possession, relating to the Roads as to which he shall be so employed, or shall obstruct the said Commissioners, or any or either of them, or any Person to be appointed as aforesaid, in inspecting, examining, or taking any Copy of or Extract from the same, every Person so offending shall forfeit for such Offence any Sum not exceeding Ten Pounds and not less than Five Pounds, at the Discretion of any Justice or Justices of the Peace before whom Complaint of such Offence shall be made; and the Sum so forfeited shall be paid to the said Commissioners, and applied by them in making the Alterations and Improvements by this Act authorized to be made. LI. And

State of the

LI. And be it further enacted, That the said Commissioners Commissioners shall, on or before the Twenty fourth Day of June in every Year, to report to report in Writing to His Majesty and to both Houses of Parlia- Parliament the ment their Proceedings, and the State and Condition and Repair Roads between of the Roads, and of all new Works and Improvements carrying London and on in or upon the said Roads or any of them, forming the afore- Liverpool. said Line of Communication between London and Liverpool; and present an Account of the Money advanced to and expended by the said Commissioners on each of the said Roads in the Year ending the Fifth Day of April then last past, together with any Observations they may think proper.

The Treasury

to have Power to appoint

Three additional Commis

Acts.

LII. And be it further enacted, That it shall and may be lawful for the Lord High Treasurer or the Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury for the Time being, or any Three or more of them, at any Time or Times hereafter, by Writing under his or their Hand or Hands, to nominate and appoint any such Person sioners for the or Persons, not exceeding Three in the Whole, as they may think Purposes of proper, to be Commissioners for the Purposes of this Act and of the this and the said recited Acts, in addition to the Commissioners already ap- said recited pointed as aforesaid; and such Commissioner or Commissioners so to be appointed as last mentioned shall be, and he and they is and are hereby invested with the same Powers and Authorities for executing this Act and the said recited Acts, as if he or they had been already appointed for that Purpose as aforesaid. LIII. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall be deemed Public Act. and taken to be a Public Act, and shall be judicially taken Notice of as such by all Judges, Justices, and others, without being specially pleaded.

Part of a Garden St. Michael's. City & County William Little,

John Woodcock,
Esq.

Do.

George Stott and
John Wyley.
Mr. Thomas John-

son.

Corporation of Robert Healy John Barnet.

Bunny

P. G. R. Jarvis, John Carr

Henry Collins.
Edward Cox.

Adams.

Steane.

An Act to continue until the First Day of January One thousand eight hundred and twenty eight, and from thence until

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the End of the then next Session of Parliament, an Act 6 G. 4. c. 102. passed in the Sixth Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, respecting deserted Children in Ireland.

CAP. XXXVII.

[21st June 1827.]

An Act to make further Regulations for preventing corrupt Practices at Elections of Members to serve in Parliament, and for diminishing the Expence of such Elections.

[21st June 1827.]

WHEREAS it is expedient to make further Regulations

'bers to serve in Parliament, and for diminishing the Expence of such Elections;' Be it therefore 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 from and after the Fifth Day of July One thousand eight hundred and twenty seven, if any Person shall, either during any Election of a Member or Members to serve in Parliament for any County, County of a City, County of a Town, City, Borough, Cinque Port, or other Place, or within Six Calendar Months previous to such Election, or within Fourteen Days after it shall have been completed, be employed at such Election as Counsel, Agent, Attorney, Poll Clerk, Flagman, or in any other Capacity, for the Purposes of such Election, and shall at any Time, either

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before,