Acts of 30° & 43° Geo. III. relating to a district in the Parish of Saint Luke, Chelsea, called Hans TownGreat Britain
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Acts of 30° & 43° Geo. III. relating to a district in the Parish of Saint Luke, Chelsea, called Hans Town
Great Britain
Chelsea (London, England) -- History
same, if Provision was made for forming and paving, or otherwise
repairing and keeping in Repair, the same, and also for cleansing,
lighting, watching, and watering the said Streets and other publick
Passages and Places, and keeping the same free from all Nuisances,
Annoyances, and Incroachments; but the several Purposes aforesaid cannot
be effected without the Aid and Authority of Parliament: 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 Consent of the
Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament
assembled, and by the Authority of the same, That every Person who now
is, and from Time to Time hereafter shall become, either in his own Right
or in the Right of his Wife, in the actual Possession and Enjoyment of
Receipt of the Rents and Profits of Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments,
situate within the Limits of this Act, of the clear yearly Value of
Thirty Pounds, and also every Person who now is, and from Time to Time
hereafter shall be, a Lessee of a House, Tenement, or Land within the
Limits aforesaid, rated or liable to be rated, by virtue or for the
Purposes of this Act, at Thirty Pounds _per Annum_ at the least, and also
every Person who now is, and from Time to time hereafter shall be
resident within the Limits of this Act, and Occupier of a House,
Tenement, or Land, rated or liable to be rated as aforesaid, and
possessed of a Personal Estate of the Amount or Value of Two thousand
Pounds, shall be and are hereby appointed Commissioners for putting this
Act in Execution.
Qualification of Commissioners.
II. Provided always, That no Person shall be capable of acting as a
Commissioner in the Execution of this Act, except in administering the
Oath herein-after mentioned (which Oath any One of the said Commissioners
is hereby empowered to administer), unless at the Time of his acting he
shall be qualified in Manner herein-before mentioned, and until such
Person shall have taken and subscribed an Oath to the Effect following;
(that is to say),
The Oath.
‘I _A. B._ do swear, That I truly am in my own Right, or in the Right
of my Wife, in the actual Possession and Enjoyment, or Receipt of the
Rents and Profits, of Lands, Tenements or Hereditaments, of the clear
yearly Value of Thirty Pounds [_or_ that I am Lessee (_or_ Occupier)
of a House, Tenement, or Land, rated or liable to be rated at Thirty
Pounds _per Annum_ at the least, by virtue or for the Purposes and]
within the Limits of an Act of Parliament, made in the Thirtieth Year
of the Reign of King _George_ the Third, intituled, [_Set forth the
Title of the Act_]; and [_in the Case of such Occupier as aforesaid_]
that I am resident within the Limits aforesaid, and am possessed of a
Personal Estate of the Amount or Value of Two thousand Pounds.
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