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To pull down fuch part of the houses on the east side of Poor Jury Lane, beginning at, and including, a house on the north fide of The Horfe and Trumpet, and extending fouthwards towards Gould Square, as will be fufficient to range in a line with that end of the lane next to Aldgate; the paffage of which is intended to be made thirty five feet wide, by pulling down, and fetting back, all the houses from the gate to the faid Horse and Trumpet.

In Broad Street ward.

To pull down the houfe at the weft end of the buildings fituate between Cornhill and Threadneedle Street, and oppofite to the South end of Prince's Street, and lay the ground into the freet.

To pull down the houses on the fouth fide of Threadneedle Street, extending from the house before mentioned eaftivard, till it reaches to that part of the street which is oppofite to the bank gates; and to enlarge the paffage there to thirty five feet in width.

In the ward of Coleman Street.

To pull down one houfe on the north east corner of the Old Jury, and another house at the fouth west corner of Coleman Street, both of which are occupied by braziers, and lay the ground thereof into the Street..

In Cordwainer's ward.

To pull down the house at the north east corner of Trinity Lane near the Dog tavern, and lay the ground into the street.

In the ward of Cornhill.

To pull down the house at the west end of the buildings fituate between Cornhill and Lombard Street, and lay the ground into the Street.

In the ward of Cripplegate within.

To pull down the houses which project forwards at the west end of Silver Street, from the end of Monkwell Street, quite through into Alderfgate Street, to make a commodious street forty feet wide. To pull down the house at the corner of Aldermanbury facing Milk Street, which was formerly the Baptift Head tavern, and lay the ground thereof into the street.

In the ward of Farringdon within.

To pull down the tin fhop, and the trunkmaker's houfe, at the fouth weft corner of Cheapfide, leading into Saint Paul's Churchyard, and lay the ground into the fireet.

To pull down fuch part of the houses in Creed Lane as are neceflary to widen the passage to thirty feet.

In the ward of Farringdon without.

To pull down all the houses in the middle row between the paved alley adjoining to Saint Sepulchre's church and Giltfpur Street, from the north end thereof quite through to the fouth end, which faces Hart Street, and lay the ground into the street.

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To pull down all the houfes in the middle row between the Great Old Baily and Little Old Baily, beginning at the north end thereof, which faces Hart Street, and proceeding fouthwards, including the Baptift's Head at the fouth end, facing the Great Old Baily, and lay the ground into the street.

To pull down the shops or sheds under Saint Dunstan's church in Fleet Street, and lay the ground into the street.

In Langbourn ward.

To pull down fuch part of the houses, at the end of Mark Lane, next to Fenchurch Street, as will make the paffage there thirty feet wide.

To pull down fuch part of the houses at the east end of Lombard Street as will make the passage there thirty feet wide.

In the ward of Portfoken.

To pull down the house at the north east corner of Hounsditch, and adjoining to the churchyard, and lay the ground thereof into the street.

In Tower ward.

To pull down fuch part of the houses on Saint Dunstan's Hill, adjoining to the George alehoufe, and oppofite to the chain, and such part of the warehoufes oppofite to the end of Saint Dunstan's church, as will render the passage there thirty feet wide.

To pull down the house on the north west corner of Great Tower Street, now occupied by mafter Crawford, a brushmaker, and also the boufe on the fouth east corner of Little Tower Street, now in the occupation of meffieurs Julon and Lindner, hatters, in order to make that dangerous passage safe and convenient.

To pull down the house in Mark Lane which adjoins to the church of Allhallows Staining, and projects twelve feet before the other houses, in order to make it range in a line with the faid houses, and enlarge the narrow paffage there.

In the ward of Vintry.

To pull down the houses on the north fide of Thames Street which are fituated and reach from Elbow Lane to College Hill, and also thofe houses on the fouth fide of the faid street which reach from Vintners Hall to Bull Wharf Lane, in order to make the said street forty feet wide.

To pull down the house at the corner of Tower Royal, facing College Hill, and lay the ground into the street.

In the ward of Vallbroke.

To pull down the houfe at the north east corner of Bucklersbury, which projects before the other buildings.

In Bishopsgate ward.

To pull down the two houfes between New Broad Street and New Broad Street Buildings, which project so far into the street as to

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make the passage and communication to the said streets very narrow and inconvenient.

CAP. XXXI.

An act for regulating the proceedings in perfonal actions in the respective courts baron of the hundred of High Peak, and manor of Castleton, in the county of Derby.

CAP. XXXII.

An act for draining and preferving certain fen lands and low grounds in the ifle of Ely, and counties of Suffolk and Norfolk, between Mildenhall River fouth, Plant Load and Brandon River north, bounded on the weft by the river Oufe, and on the east by Winter Load, Earfwell Brooke, and the Hard Lands of Mildenhall; and for impowering the governor, bailiffs, and commonalty, of the company of confervators of the great level of the fens, commonly called Bedford Level, to fell certain fen lands lying within the limits aforefaid, commonly called Invested Lands.

CAP. XXXIII.

An act to amend and render more effectual two acts paffed in the eleventh and seventeenth years of the reign of his prefent Majefty, for repairing several roads leading to and from the town of Derby, in the county of Derby.

CAP. XXXIV.

An act for making more effectual, and continuing the term, and enlarging and altering the powers, of an act made in the twentieth year of his prefent Majesty's reign, for repairing and widening the road leading from the city of Gloucester, towards the city of Hereford; and for repairing other roads in the county of Gloucester, in the faid act mentioned.

CA P. XXXV.

An act for erecting piers, and other works, for the fecurity and improvement of the harbour of New Shoreham, in the county of Suffex, and for keeping the fame in repair.

CAP. XXXVI.

An act for repairing feveral roads leading to the town of Oakhampton, in the county of Devon.

CA P. XXXVII.

An act for enlarging the term and powers of two acts made in the fifth year of his late Majefty, and in the ninth year of his prefent Majesty's reign, for repairing the road from Beaconsfield in the county of Bucks, to Stoken Church in the county of Oxon.

CAP. XXXVIII.

An act for enlarging the term and powers granted by an act made in the twenty fifth year of the reign of his prefent Majefty, for repairing and widening the road leading from Market Harborough in the county of Leicester, to the pound in the parish of Brampton in the county of Huntingdon; and by one other act made in the twenty feventh year of thereign of his prefent Majefty, for explaining, amending, and rendering more effectual the faid former act.

CAP. XXXIX.

An act for repairing and widening the road from the turnpike road near the west end of the town of Chesterfield to Matlock Bridge; and alfo the road leading out of the faid road over Darley Bridge to Crofs Green; and alfo the road leading out of the last mentioned road, to the turnpike road near Rowefly Bridge, in the county of Derby.

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CAP. XL.

An act for extending the powers granted by an act paffed in the twenty fifth year of the reign of his prefent Majefty, for repairing the road leading from the Royal Oak on Wrotham Heath, to the town of Wrotham, in the county of Kent, and from thence to the village of FootsCray, in the faid county, to the road leading from the Royal Oak on Wrotham Heath, to the town of Maidstone.

CAP. XLI.

An act for amending, widening, and keeping in repair, the high road from the borough of Tamworth, to Afhby de la Zouch, in the county of Leicester ; and from Sawley Ferry in the faid county, to a turnpike gate, at or near the end of Swarcliff Lane, leading to Afhby de la Zouch aforefaid.

CAP. XLII.

An act for repairing and widening the roads from Haleworthy, in the parish of Davidstow, in the county of Cornwall, to the east end of Wade`bridge in the faid county; and from the weft end of Wadebridge aforefaid, into and through the borough of Mitchell in the faid county.

CAP. XLIII.

An act for enlarging the term and powers granted by several acts of par liament of the eighth year of her late majesty Queen Anne, the ninth year of his late majefty King George the First, and the fifteenth year of his present Majesty's reign, for repairing the highways between the houfe commonly called The Horfe- fhoe Houfe, in the parish of Stoke Goldington in the county of Bucks, and the town of Northampton, and the road from the north bridge of Newport Pagnel in the county of Bucks, to The Horfe-fhoe Houfe.

CAP. XLIV.

An act for enlarging the term and powers contained in two several acts of parliament, made in the twelfth and fixteenth years of the reign of his present Majesty, for repairing the road from the Dun Cow in the town of Dunchurch, to the town of Hillmorton in the county of Warwick; and from thence to Saint James's end, in the parish of Dufton, in the county of Northampton; and for making the fame acts more effectual.

CAP. XLV.

An act for extending and continuing the navigation of the river Wey, otherwise Wye, in the county of Surry, to the town of Godalming, in the faid county.

CAP. XLVI.

An act for repairing and widening the high roads from Hinckley to Woefull Bridge, and alfo from Hoo-afh-Lane, through Old Lane, and from Swannington to Lee Gutter; and from thence to Melbourn Common, and from Ibstock to Meatham, in the counties of Leicester and Derby.

CAP. XLVII.

An act for amending, widening, and keeping in repair, feveral roads. therein mentioned, lying in the counties of Derby, Leicester, and Warwick.

CAP. XLVIII.

An act for diverting, altering, widening, repairing, and amending, the roads from the town of Halifax, and from Sowerby Bridge, in the county of York, by Todmorden, to Burnley and Littleborough, in the county of Lancaster.

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CAP. XLIX.

An act to amend an act paffed in the seventh year of the reign of his late majesty King George the First, for making the river Weaver navigable from Frodsham Bridge to Winsford Bridge, in the county of Chetter; and for the more effectual preserving and improving the navigation of the faid river.

CAP. L.

An act for amending, widening, and keeping in repair, feveral roads leading from the market houfe in the town of Kidderminster, in the county of Worcester.

CAP. LI.

An act for repairing and widening the road, from the bars at Boughton, within the liberties of the city of Chefter, to Whitchurch; and from thence to Newport in the county of Salop, to Ivetfey Bank, in the county of Stafford; and from thence to Caftle Bromwich, and Stone Bridge, in the parish of Hampton on Arden, in the county of Warwick; and from Castle Bromwich to Birmingham in the fame county.

CAP. LII.

An act for rebuilding, widening, and enlarging, the bridge over the ri ver Avon, in the city of Bristol, and erecting a temporary bridge adjoining; and for widening the streets, lanes, ways, and paffages, leading thereto, and for building another bridge, over fome other part of the faid river, within the faid city, if neceffary; and for opening proper ways and paffages thereto.

CAP. LIII.

An act for laying a duty of two pennies Scots, or one fixth part of a penny sterling, upon every Scots pint of ale, porter, or beer, brewed for fale, or vended, within the town and parish of Dalkeith.

CAP. LIV.

An act for raising money for finishing and compleating the repair of Leeds Bridge, in the county of York, and for the purchafing and taking down the houses and buildings, which straiten and obftruct the paffage to and over the faid bridge.

CAP. LV.

An act for amending and widening the road, from Bawtry to Sheffield, and from Sheffield to the fouth fide of Wortley, in the county of York, where it joins the turnpike road, leading from Rotherham to Man

chefter.

CAP. LVI.

An act for repairing and widening the roads from Deanburn Bridge, through Greenlaw, and part of the Jedburgh road, by Lauder, in the fhire of Berwick, to Cornhill in the county of Durham; and for building a bridge over the Tweed, near Coldstream.

CAP. LVII.

An act for the amending, widening, and keeping in repair, the road leading from the thirty nine mile ftone, at the upper end of Stone Street, in the town of Maidstone in the county of Kent, to a certain place called Tubb's Lake, in the parish of Cranbrooke, in the said county.

CAP. LVIII.

An act for repairing the roads from the town of Brecon, to the parish of Brobury, and to Whitney Passage, in the county of Hereford, and for building a bridge over the river Wye, at Bredwardine Paffage, in the fame county.

CAP. LIX.

An act for amending, widening, and keeping in repair, feveral roads, leading to the borough of Launceston, in the county of Cornwall.

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