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an Eftate for the Ufe and Benefit of the faid Chancellor, Masters, and Scholars, and the faid Mayor, Bailiffs, and Commonalty, and their Succeffors, for ever, equally, Share and Share alike.

And be it further Enacted, That no Nomination, Appointment, Information, Depofition, Order, Judgment, Conviction, Warrant, Leafe, Mortgage, Affignment, Transfer, or other Security, for the Borrowing of Money, or any other Writing whatsoever, under the Hand and Seal, or Hands and Seals, of, or only figned by, any Commiffioner or Commiffioners for putting this Act in Execution, or any Leffee or Leffees of the faid Tolls or Duties, or any Owner of any of the Securities aforefaid, or any Juftice or Juftices of the Peace, or exhibited before them, or any of them, touching, concerning, or in Execution of any Power or Authority hereby vefted in them, or any of them refpectively, fhall be charged or chargeable with any Stamp or Duty whatsoever.

And be it further Enacted, That all Penalties and Forrecovering feitures by this Act impofed, the Manner of levying the Pen and recovering whereof is not hereby otherwife partied by this cularly directed, fhall be levied and recovered by DifAct, where trefs and Sale of the Offender's Goods and Chattels, by Warrant under the Hand and Seal of any one Juftice of pointed out. the Peace for the faid County or City of Oxford, which Warrant fuch Juftice is hereby impowered to grant, upon By 21 Geo. the Confeffion of the Party or Parties, or upon the In1II. p. 105. formation of any one or more credible Witness or Witpenalties, neffes upon Oath, which Oath fuch Juftice is hereby deducting impowered to adminifter, and the Penalties and ForCharges of feitures, when recovered, fhall be paid to the Treasurer, recovering, or fuch other Perfon as the faid Commiffioners at any to Inform- Meeting fhall appoint for that Purpose, and be applied

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towards the Purposes of this Act; and in cafe fufficient Distress fhall not be found, or fuch Penalties and Forfeitures fhall not be paid forthwith, it fhall and may be lawful to and for fuch Juftice, and he is hereby authorized and required, by Warrant under his Hand and Seal, to cause the Offender or Offenders to be cominitted to the common Gaol, or House of Correction,

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there to remain, without Bail or Mainprize, for any Time not exceeding Three Calendar Months, nor lefs than Fourteen Days, unlefs fuch Penalties and Forfeitures, and all reafonable Charges, fhall be fooner fully paid and fatisfied.

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And be it further Enadled, That when any Diftress Diftrefs, fhall be made for any Sum or Sums of Money to be though irre levied by Virtue of this Act, the Diftrefs fhall not be Trefpafs. deemed to be unlawful, nor the Party or Parties making the fame be deemed a Trefpaffer or Trefpaffers, ab initio, on Account of any Defect or Want of Form in the Summons, Conviction, Warrant of Distress, or other Proceedings, relating thereto, nor fhall the Party or Parties diftraining be deemed a Trefpaffer or Trefpaffers, ab initio, on Account of any Irregularity which fhall afterwards be done by the Party or Parties diftraining, but the Perfon or Perfons aggrieved by fuch Irregularity fhall and may recover full Satisfaction, for the Satisfaction fpecial Damage, in an Action upon the Cafe; provided for the fpethat no Plaintiff or Plaintiffs fhall recover in any Action mage. or Actions for fuch Irregularity, unless a Notice in Writing fhall be given Twenty-one Days before fuch Action fhall be commenced, of fuch intended Action, figned by the Attorney for the Plaintiffs, fpecifying the Caufe of fuch Action; nor fhall the Plaintiffs recover in fuch Action, if fufficient Tender of Amends hath been made to him, her, or them, or his, her, or their Attorney, by or on the Behalf of the Defendant or Defendants before fuch Action brought.

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And be it further Enacted, That no Order, Verdict, Proceedings Affeffment, Judgment, or other Proceeding, made, not quafhed touching, or concerning any of the Matters aforefaid, Form only, or touching or concerning the Conviction or Convictions of any Offender or Offenders against this Act, fhall be quafhed or vacated for want of Form only, or be removed or removable by Certiorari, or any other or remova Writ or Process whatsoever, into any of his Majefty's ble by CerCourts of Record at Westminster; any Law or Statute to the contrary thereof in any wife notwithstanding.

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Provided always, and be it further Enacted, That if any Perfons agPerfon grieved may

Quarter Seffions on Notice.

appeal to Perfon fhall think himself or herfelf aggrieved by any Thing done in Purfuance of this Act, for which no particular Method of Relief hath been already mentioned, fuch Perfon may appeal to the Juftices of the Peace, at any General Quarter Seffions of the Peace, to be held for the County or Place wherein the Caufe of Complaint fhall arife, and within Six Calendar Months after the Caufe of fuch Complaint fhall have arifen, fuch Appellant firft giving Eight Days Notice at least, in Writing, of his or her Intention to bring fuch Appeal, and of the Matters thereof, to the Clerk or Treafurer to the faid Commiffioners, and within Four Days after fuch Notice entering into a Recognizance before fome Juftice of the Peace for fuch County or Place, with Two fufficient Sureties conditioned to try fuch Appeal, and abide the Order of, and to pay fuch Cofts as fhall be awarded by, the Juftices at fuch Quarter Seffions; and the faid Juftices at fuch Seffions, upon due Proof of fuch Notice being given, as aforefaid, and the entering into fuch Recognizance, fhall hear and finally determine the Caufes and Matter of fuch Appeal, in a fummary Way, and award fuch Cofts to the Parties appealing or appealed againft, as the faid Juftices fhall think proper; and the Détermination of such Quarter Seffions fhall be final, binding, and conclufive, to all Intents and Purposes.

Limitation

Provided always, and be it further Enacted, That no of Actions. Action or Suit fhall be commenced against any Perfon or Perfons for any Thing done in Pursuance of this Act, by Order of the faid Commiffioners, or Committee, or fuch competent Number of them as is herein required, until Twenty-one Days Notice 'fhall be thereof given to the Clerk or Clerks to the faid Commiffioners, or Committee, or after fufficient Satisfaction or Tender thereof hath been made to the Party or Parties aggrieved, or after Six Calendar Months after the Fact committed; and every fuch Action or Suit fhall be laid or brought in the County or Place where the 'Matter fhall arife, and not elsewhere; and the Defendant and Defendants, in every fuch Action or Suit, fhall or may, at his or their Election, plead fpecially, or plead the general Iffue, and give this Act and the fpecial

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Matter in Evidence at any Trial to be had thereupon, and that the fame was done in Pursuance and by the Authority of this Act; and if the fame fhall appear to be fo done, or if fuch Action or Suit fhall be brought before Twenty-one Days Notice fhall be thereof given, as aforefaid, or after a fufficient Satisfaction made or tendered, as aforefaid, or after the Time limited for bringing the fame, as aforefaid, or fhall be brought in any other County, then the Jury fhall find for the Defendant or Defendants: And upon fuch Verdict, or if the Plaintiff or Plaintiffs fhall be non-fuited, or difcontinue his, her, or their Action or Suit, after the Defendant or Defendants fhall have appeared, or if upon Demurrer Judgment fhall be given against the Plaintiff or Plaintiffs, then the Defendant or Defendants. fhall recover Treble Cofts, and have fuch Remedy for Treble the fame as any Defendant or Defendants hath or have Cofts. in other Cafes of Law.

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Provided alfo, and it is bereby further Enacted, That Saving nothing in this Act fhall extend, or be deemed or con- Claufe, as ftrued to extend, to take away, diminish, or impede the vileges of Exercife of any Privilege or Right whatsoever of the the Univer faid Univerfity, or of any of the Magiftrates, Officers, fity and Minifters, or Servants thereunto belonging, or of any Privilege or Right whatsoever of the faid City, or of any of the Magiftrates, Officers, or Servants thereunto. belonging.

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And be it further Enacted, That this At fhall be Publick deemed, adjudged, and taken to be a Publick Act; Act. and fhall be judicially taken Notice of as fuch by all Judges, Juftices, and other Perfons whatfoever, without being specially pleaded.

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The first SCHEDULE to which this Act refers, containing an Account of the Ways and Streets to be paved, widened, and repaired, exclufive of the Mile-Ways.

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HE Street or Way leading from Magdalen Bridge to East Gate, called Bridge Street.

The Street or Way called the High Street, leading from thence to Carfax.

The Street or Way leading from Carfax to the new Turnpike Road to Witney, called the Butcher Row.

The Street or Way leading from the High Street, near All Souls College, to Broad Street,

The Street or Way called Broad Street, and the Street or Way leading from thence to the North Side or End of Balliol College.

The feveral Streets or Ways leading from the Roads on both Sides of Saint Giles's Church to Folly Bridge, and which are commonly called Saint Giles's, the Corn Market, Fish Street, and Saint Toll's; or by whatfoever other Name or Names the faid Streets or Ways, or any or either of them, is or are called or known.

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