36. Trustees, &c. competent Witnesses.

37. Definition of Terms.

38.

Act to be deemed Public.

39. Commencement of Act.

40. Act may be ameuded or repealed.

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as aforesaid, to be used according to the rules thereof; and that on
the dissolution of any such Loan Fund Society, or its ceasing to act
for the purposes for which it was established, or its being deprived
of the benefit of this Act, the whole of the clear net profits not
previously appropriated, after payment of all debts, of all claims
thereon, and of all losses, shall be appropriated to such Hospital or
Infirmary, or to such other local beneficial purposes as the Trustees
of such Society, with the approbation of the Society hereby incor-
porated, shall think proper: Provided nevertheless, That nothing
herein contained shall prevent the Society hereby incorporated from 10
paying to One, but not more than One, member of the said Society
such salary or remuneration as to the said Society may appear
proper.

And be it Enacted, That on the trial of any action, indictment, or other proceeding, respecting the property of any Society en- 15 rolled under the authority of this Act, or in any proceedings before any Justice of the Peace, any Trustee, Manager, Member, Officer, Clerk or servant of such Society shall be a competent witness, and shall not be objected to on account of any interest he may have in the result of such action, indictment or other proceeding.

And be it Enacted, That in the construction of this Act, the word "Lands" shall extend to messuages, tenements and hereditaments, and of every or any tenure.

And be it Enacted, That this Act shall be deemed a Public Act, and shall extend to England, Wales, Berwick-upon-Tweed, and the Islands of Guernsey, Jersey and Isle of Man, and shall be judicially taken notice of as such by all Judges, Justices and other persons, without the same being specially shown or pleaded.

And be it Enacted, That this Act shall commence and take effect from and after the

in the present year One thousand eight hundred and Forty-three.

And be it Enacted, That this Act may be amended or repealed by
Act to be passed in this Session of Parliament.

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BILL

To empower the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Woods to
appropriate to Building Purposes the Area of Thatched
House Court, and to widen and improve Little Saint
James' Street, in the Parish of Saint James, Westminster.

[Note.-The Words printed in Italics are proposed to be inserted
in the Committee.]

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HEREAS The QUEEN's most Excellent

Excellent Majesty, in Preamble. right of Her Crown, is seised to Her Majesty, Her heirs and successors, of a Plot of Ground situate in the Parish of Saint James, Westminster, in the County of Middlesex, abutting Eastward on Saint James's Street, Northward on Little Saint James's Street and Catherine Wheel Yard, Westward on a Plot of Ground, now or heretofore Garden, belonging to Bridgewater House, and Southward on the north wall of a capital Messuage in Saint James's Street aforesaid, known as the Albion Club-house, and on Stable Buildings in Russell. 10 Mews in the rear of the said Club-house, containing in the whole by estimation, Two Roods and Twenty Perches, or thereabouts, and including the open Area of a Court called Thatched House Court, with the entrance thereto from Little Saint James's Street aforesaid; subject nevertheless, as to the last-mentioned area and entrance, to the power and superintendence of the paving, repairing, cleansing and lighting the same, vested in "The Commissioners for paving and improving the Parish of Saint James, Westminster;" part of which said Plot of Ground hereinbefore described, with the Messuage or Tenement heretofore erected and standing thereon, was demised by his late Majesty 20 King GEORGE the Third to Richard Henry Alexander Bennett, by Letters Patent, dated Tenth May One thousand eight hundred and Three, for a term which will expire on the Tenth day of October One thousand eight hundred and Sixty-one; other part thereof, with

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the several Messuages or Tenements heretofore erected and standing
thereon, was demised by his said late Majesty King GEORGE the
Third to Maria Deborah Grosvenor, spinster, Thomas Grosvenor
and Robert Grosvenor, by Letters Patent, dated Third March One
thousand eight hundred and Ten, for a term which will expire on the
Tenth day of October One thousand eight hundred and Sixty-seven;
and another small portion thereof was demised by Indenture of Lease,
dated Twentieth November One thousand eight hundred and Twenty-
two, to Sir Richard Sutton, Baronet, for a term which will expire on
the said Tenth day of October One thousand eight hundred and 10
Sixty-one :

And whereas all and singular the houses, erections and buildings which heretofore stood on the said Plot of Ground, including all the houses, erections and buildings which stood in the said Court, called Thatched House Court, have lately been pulled down, or are now in 15 progress of being pulled down, with the view of new houses and buildings of a superior class being erected on the site thereof; and there being no longer any need or occasion for keeping open the area of the said Court, called Thatched House Court, or the entrance thereto, it is expedient that the same should form part of the building 20 site of the said intended new houses, and be discharged from all rights way into, in or over the same, and from the jurisdiction of the said Commissioners for paving and improving the Parish of Saint James, Westminster, who will thereby be relieved from the charge of paving, cleansing and lighting the said Court for the future:

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And whereas the said Street, called Little Saint James's Street, is of irregular width, and for the most part inconveniently narrow, being at its entrance from Saint James's Street of the width of Ten Feet only, or thereabouts, and it is proposed to improve and widen, and render the same more commodious for the passage of Carriages and Foot- 30 passengers, by throwing into the said Street, and leaving open for the use of the Public, so much of the North side of the before-mentioned Plot of Ground belonging to Her Majesty abutting on the South side of Little Saint James's Street and Catherine Wheel Yard aforesaid, as will make the said Street, called Little Saint James's Street, of the 3.5 uniform width of Twenty-four Feet throughout; and Her Majesty is graciously assenting thereto;

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

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Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament I. assembled, and by the Authority of the same, THAT from and after the passing of this Act, the Ground and open Area of the said Court,

Area of
Thatched
House Court

vested in Her

called