An Act to Provide for the Paving, Gravelling, Lighting, and Watching Certain Footways and Carriageways in and Near Brompton Square: In the Parish of Saint Mary Abbotts Kensington, in the County of Middlesex and to Provide for the Maintenance of a Garden and Shrubbery in the Said Square. — John Shaqi
An Act to Provide for the Paving, Gravelling, Lighting, and Watching Certain Footways and Carriageways in and Near Brompton Square: In the Parish of Saint Mary Abbotts Kensington, in the County of Middlesex and to Provide for the Maintenance of a Garden and Shrubbery in the Said Square.Anonymous
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An Act to Provide for the Paving, Gravelling, Lighting, and Watching Certain Footways and Carriageways in and Near Brompton Square: In the Parish of Saint Mary Abbotts Kensington, in the County of Middlesex and to Provide for the Maintenance of a Garden and Shrubbery in the Said Square.
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Great Britain. Laws, statutes, etc.; Kensington (London, England)
II. And be it further enacted, That every Person who now is or for the
Time being shall be in his own Right or in the Right of his Wife in the
actual Possession, or in the Receipt of the Rents and Profits of a
Dwelling House or other Tenement within the Limits of this Act, of the
clear yearly Value of Forty Pounds above Reprisals, and also every Person
who now is, or, for the Time being, shall be, actually and _bonâ fide_ an
Occupier of a Dwelling House rated or liable to be rated by virtue or for
the Purposes of this Act, shall be and they respectively are hereby
constituted Trustees for putting this Act into Execution, and the said
Trustees shall be called and known as “The Trustees for regulating and
improving _Brompton Square_, and certain adjacent Places.”
III. Provided always, and be it further enacted, That no Person shall be
capable of acting as a Trustee in the Execution of this Act, except in
administering the Oath herein-after mentioned (which Oath any One of the
said Trustees is hereby authorized to administer at any Meeting which
shall be held pursuant to this Act), until such Person shall have taken
and subscribed an Oath to the Effect following: that is to say,
‘I — — do swear, That I truly and bonâ fide am in my own Right [or in
the Right of my Wife] in the actual Possession [or in the Receipt of
the Rents and Profits] of a Dwelling House or other Tenement of the
clear yearly Value of Forty Pounds above Reprises [or that I am an
Occupier of a Dwelling House rated or liable to be rated by virtue
and for the Purposes and] within the Limits of an Act of the Fifth
Year of the Reign of King _George_ the Fourth, intituled [_set forth
the Title of this Act_.]
‘So help me GOD.’
And if any Person not being qualified as aforesaid, or not having taken
and subscribed the Oath herein-before mentioned, shall presume to act as
a Trustee in the Execution of this Act, every such Person for every such
Offence shall forfeit and pay the Sum of Fifty Pounds to any Person or
Persons who shall sue for the same, to be recovered with full Costs of
Suit in any of His Majesty’s Courts of Record at _Westminster_, by Action
of Debt or on the Case, wherein no Essoign, Protection, or Wager of Law,
and not more than One Imparlance, shall be allowed; and every Person
against whom any such Action shall be brought shall prove that he was at
the Time of acting qualified as aforesaid, or shall pay the said Penalty,
without any other Proof on the Part of the Plaintiff than that such
Person acted as a Trustee in the Execution of this Act: Provided always
nevertheless, that all Acts and Proceedings of any Person acting as a
Trustee in the Execution of this Act, though not qualified as aforesaid,
previous to his being convicted, shall notwithstanding such Conviction be
as good, valid, and effectual as if such Person had been duly qualified.
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