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ACT

For amending certain of the Mile-Ways leading to
OXFORD; for making a commodious Entrance
through the Parish of Saint Clement; for Re-
building or Repairing Magdalen Bridge; for
making commodious Roads from the faid Bridge,
through the University and City, and the Ave-
nues leading thereto; for Cleanfing and Lighting
the Streets, Lanes, and Places within the faid
Univerfity and City, and the Suburbs thereof,
and the faid Parish of Saint Clement; for re-
moving Nuisances and Annoyances therefrom,
and preventing the like for the future; for
empowering Colleges and Corporations to alienate
their Eftates there; for Removing, Holding,
and Regulating Markets within the said City;
and for other Purposes.

WH

THEREAS fuch of the feveral Roads near the Preamble. Univerfity and City of Oxford ufually called the Mile-Ways, as are not Part of any Turnpike Road, are in a very bad State and Condition; and the Annual Payments directed or mentioned to be paid in lieu of every Yard Land within five Miles of the faid University and City of Oxford, or the Franchises of the fame, by an Act made in the Eighteenth Year of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth, intituled, " An Act for the Repairing A&t of the "and Amending of the Bridges and Highways near unto 18th of "the City of Oxford," have been found infufficient to found inkeep the faid Bridges and Roads in Repair, although fufficient.

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confiderable Sums of Money have been raised and added thereto by private Contribution :

And whereas the Bridge called Magdalen Bridge, over the River Cherwell, near Magdalen College in the faid Univerfity, is in a decayed and very ruinous State; by Reason whereof and of its Narrownefs, and the Difficulty of Access thereto through the faid Parish of Saint Clement, it is very incommodious and dangerous to Travellers:

And whereas the Roads from the faid Bridge, through the feveral Streets in the faid Univerfity and City, to the great Roads lying on the North, South, and West Sides of the faid Univerfity and City, are in many Parts fo very narrow and incommodious, and fo greatly obftructed by Nuifances and Annoyances, as well as by various Encroachments and Projections, as to render the faid Roads inconvenient and dangerous to Travellers :

And whereas the faid Univerfity and City, and the Suburbs thereof, and the Parish of Saint Clement, are not properly cleansed or lighted, and are much annoyed by Projections and Encroachments, and fubject to many Nuisances;

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 Confent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons in this prefent Parliament affembled, and by the Authority of the fame; that the following Magiftrates and Officers, for the Time being, of the University of Oxford, and of the Colleges and Halls Commif- therein, (To wit) The Vice-Chancellor, his Affeffor, or Deputy in the University Court, all Heads or Governors of Colleges and Halls, the Canons of the Cathedral Church of Christ, the feveral Royal Profeffors, and all other Univerfity Profeffors and Prælectors, the Proctors of the University, the Publick Orator, the Bodleian and Radclivian Librarians, the Keepers of the University

fioners.

Archives,

Archives, the Mafters of the Streets, the Registrar of the University, and the Vice-Principals of the feveral Halls; and alfo the Mayor, Recorder, Aldermen, Affiftants, Bailiffs, Town-Clerk, and Solicitor of the City of Oxford for the Time being, and fuch other of the Citizens of Oxford as have now, or hereafter shall have ferved the Office of Bailiff of the faid City; together with the Right Honourable Charles Spencer, commonly called Lord Charles Spencer, the Right Honourable Robert Spencer, commonly called Lord Robert Spencer, the Right Honourable the Lord Viscount Wenman in the Kingdom of Ireland, the Right Honourable George Simon Harcourt, commonly called Lord Viscount Nunebam, the Honourable William Harcourt, the Honourable George Lane Parker, the Honourable Robert Lee, the Honourable Peregrine Bertie, the Honourable Richard Wenman, the Honourable Thomas Wenman, the Honourable John Tracey, Sir Roger Newdigate, Sir James Dafbwood, Sir Charles Cotterell Dormer, Sir Banks Jenkinson, Sir William Stonehoufe, Sir John Pefball, Sir Francis Knollys, Sir Gregory Turner, Sir Thomas Stapleton, Baronets; Sir William Henry Afbburst, Sir William Blackstone, Sir George Nares, Sir Thomas Munday, Knights; Francis Page, Efquire, Phanuell Bacon, Henry Barton, Edward Bentham, Thomas Bray, Richard Browne, Benjamin Buckler, Daniel Burton, Ralph Cawley, John Chalmers, Thomas Chapman, John Clark, Richard Cust, William Dennifon, George Dixon, David Durell, Edward Edwards, Thomas Fry, Thomas Fothergill, William Gower, George Huddesford, George Horne, Richard Hutchinfon, Thomas Hunt, Benjamin Hallifax, Jofeph Hoare, John Chefber Heyborne, John Jefferys, Benjamin Kennicott, Theophilus Leigh, John Long, John Moore, Tredway Nash, Thomas Nowell, Henry Parker, Gilbert Parker, Charles Pilkington, Francis Randolph, Thomas Randolph, John Ratcliffe, Chriftopher Robinson, John Sandford, William Sharpe, Thomas Sharpe, John Tottie, Ashton Thorpe, Francis Webber, Thomas Weft, Nathan Wetherell, Thomas Winchefter, George Windham, Benjamin Wheeler,

Foley, Doctors in Divinity; Thomas Bever, Richard Brown, William Seward, Samuel Forster, Jofeph Smith, James Stoneboufe, Doctors of Law; Swithin Adee, Jobn

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