Bryanston Square, St. Marylebone, Improvement Act 1814

• Jurisdiction: England & Wales
• Citation: 1814 c. v

ANNO QUINQUAGESIMO QUARTO

GEORGII III. REGIS.

Cap.

5.

An Ad for the Improvement o£ Bryanfion Square,

in theParilh oi Saint Mary-Ie-Bone, in the County

of Middkfex. [^th

December.

18-13.]

HEREAS Part of the Ground within

Bryanfion

Square, in

the Parifh of

Saint

Mary-te'Bone,

in the County of Middle/ex,

hath been enelofed with Iron Rails* and laid out as a Garden

or Pleafure Ground, and other Part remains to be enelofed and laid out

in the fame Manner, but no Proviiion has been made for raifing .Money

for enclofing and making the Garden, or for keeping up and embellifliing

the fame: And whereas it would be of great Advantage and Convenience

to the Occupiers and Inhabitants of the feveral Houfes eredtedand to be

erefted within the faid Square, if all the Garden Ground were

to.

be fo

•enelofed ss aforefaid, and kept

up.

as a Garden or Pleafure Ground for

their Ufe, and were otherwife embelliflied, and atfo if the Carriage Way

-within the faid Square were watered, and a fufficient Number of Lamps

affixed to the faid Iron Rails for more. effe&ually lighting the

faid;

Car-

riage Way ; and the faid Occupiers are willing and defirous that a fuffi-

-cient Sum of Money mould be raifed and borrowed to defray the Ex^-

j>ences

thereof,

and a Rate affefled upon themfelves to pay the Intereft of

fuch' Money fo raifed and borrowed, and alfo fufficient for keeping up the

faid Garden or Pleafure Ground in the faid Square, ami otherwife em-

bellifliing the fame, and for watering and lighting the Carriage-way of

the faid Square, but the fame as well as the neceffary Powers for pre-

venting Nuifances and Annoyances in the faid Square cannot be effected

or obtained without the Aid of Parliament: May it therefore pleafe Your

Majefty that it may be enacted; and be it ena&ed, by the King's mod

Excellent Majefty, 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 Edward

Berkeley

Tnifteea'i

Portman

Efquire, and fuch Perfon or Perfons who for the Time being pointed.

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54 S4°GEORGII III. Cap.%.

fbalj or may feifed of or entitled to any Eftate of Freehold or Inheritance

of and in the faid Garden or Fleafure Ground fo enclofed as aforefaid,

together with the (JKJCU piers for the Time being of thefeveral Houfes

alre&dy built, or w&ich, #atl or ma^ be hereafter b&uflt, encompafling or

abusing upon the fajd .Square m the JEaik Weft, and .'North Sides

the^ofrf.

ihall be ft^^y^e hereby appointed Tiofteas for carding this

Afti.inco Execution.

Firft and II. And be it further enafted, That the faid Truftees, or any Three or

other Meet- more 0f tnenij (hall, within Sixty Days after the paffing of this Aft, meet

t«S IU together at

No*

h?j Montagu

Street,

-within the faid Parifh of Saint Mary

le-Bone,

at fuch Time as they ftiall think proper, and proceed in the Exe-

cution of this Aft, and fliall then, and from Time to Time, and at all

Times afterwards, meet at the Place herein-before mentioned, or at any

other Place or Places within the faid Parifh of

Saint

Mary-Ie-Bone,

at

fuch Times and as often (with Power to adjourn fuch Meetings from

Time to Time) as the faid Truftees, or any Three or more of them,

fliarl think proper and neceffary for carrying this Aft into Execution;

and if at any fuch Meeting or Adjourned Meeting there fliall not appear

a fufficient Number of fuch Truftees as are herein enabled to aft at fuch

Meeting, then and in every fuch Cafe the Clerk to the faid Truftees fliall

fummon the faid Truftees to meet at the Place where fuch Meeting was

appointed to hevholden,: within Ten Days next after the Day

OH

which

fuch fleeting was to have'been holden, and io from Time to Time until

a fufficient Number of tfie faid Truftees fliall meet agreeably to the Direc-

tions of this Aft, and the faid Truftees fliall at all their Meetings defray

their own Expences.

Meetings

on

JH. And be it further enafted, That if, after any Meeting to be holden

Emergenciei. as aforefaid, or after any Adjournment of any Meeting as aforefaid, it

fliall at any Time or Times be thought neceffary that a Meeting of the

feid Truftees fhould-be

fcolden

on an earlier Day than that on which fuch

.Meeting was' to hpve

feejai

-holdenj or to which fuch Meeting fliall have

been adjourned, ihtnrmd in every fuch Cafe the Clerk for-the Time

being to the faid Trwftees, (an Qrder in Writing being figned by Three

or more of the faid Truftees, fpecMying therein the Time, Place, and Pur-

pofes of fuch earlier Meeting, knd being given to him, or left at his laft

or 'iifual Place of Abode) fliall forthwith give Notice of the Meeting to

be holden on fudti earlier Day

ini

Manner herein-after direfted, and of the

Time, Place, andPurpofes

thereof,

as fpecified in the faid Order, fuch

Time not being lefs than Two*Daya after fuch Notice; and all the Pro-

ceedings of the faid Truftees at fuch earlier Meeting fliall be as good and

valid as, they would have been in cafe fuch Truftees had met at any re-

gular Meeting, or in purfuance of any Adjournment.

No

Aa

valid

IV. And be it further enafted, That no Aft of the faid Truftees fliall

unlefs at

a

be or be deemed good and valid, unlefs the fame be done at fome Meet-

Meeting, of jng t0 be holden in purfuance of this Aft, of which Notice in Writing,

SobesiS!

or Panted, and figned by the Clerk to the faid Truftees, or with his

' Name printed thereto, fliall be given to or left for the faid Truftees at

their feveral ufual or laft Places of Abode; and that all the Powers and

Authorities by this Aft granted to or veiled in the faid Truftees, fliall

and may from Time to Time be exercifed by the major Part of thera

who fliall attend at any Meeting to be holden as herein direfted, the

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