An Act of Parliament - April 26, 1796
This Act of Parliament dated April 26, 1796, has to do with public improvements in the King's Town of Maidstone, in the County of Kent. The item consists of two sheets, each measuring approximately 7 ½ x 12 inches, the first being a “standard” cover sheet identifying the parliamentary session that approved the Act, and the second containing the full text of the Act.
The Act is written in its whole on both sides of the second sheet, designated as pages 899 and 900, and is titled “An Act for enabling the Commissioners for executing an Act, passed in the Thirty-first Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, intitled, An act for widening, improving, regulating, paving, cleaning, and lighting, the Streets, Lanes, and other publick Passages and Places, within the King's Town of Maidstone, in the County of Kent; for removing and preventing Incroachments, Obstructions, Nuisances, and Annoyances therein; for better supplying the said Town with Water; and for repairing the Highways within the Parish of Maidstone; to raise a further Sum of Money for completing the Purposes of the said Act.”. The Act’s text indicates that this is a reauthorization of a previous act that was uncompleted because the £ 7,000 allotted for the work was insufficient. This act authorizes an additional expenditure of £ 2,500.
The document was “Printed by George Eyre and Andrew Straham, Printers to the King's most Excellent Majesty” in 1796 in London. The disbound pages are tanned with chipping along the edges. The text is clear and easily read. The overall condition of the item is fair.
The illustrations accompanying this description show the cover sheet and both pages of the Act.
This Act of Parliament dated April 26, 1796, has to do with public improvements in the King's Town of Maidstone, in the County of Kent. The item consists of two sheets, each measuring approximately 7 ½ x 12 inches, the first being a “standard” cover sheet identifying the parliamentary session that approved the Act, and the second containing the full text of the Act.
The Act is written in its whole on both sides of the second sheet, designated as pages 899 and 900, and is titled “An Act for enabling the Commissioners for executing an Act, passed in the Thirty-first Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, intitled, An act for widening, improving, regulating, paving, cleaning, and lighting, the Streets, Lanes, and other publick Passages and Places, within the King's Town of Maidstone, in the County of Kent; for removing and preventing Incroachments, Obstructions, Nuisances, and Annoyances therein; for better supplying the said Town with Water; and for repairing the Highways within the Parish of Maidstone; to raise a further Sum of Money for completing the Purposes of the said Act.”. The Act’s text indicates that this is a reauthorization of a previous act that was uncompleted because the £ 7,000 allotted for the work was insufficient. This act authorizes an additional expenditure of £ 2,500.
The document was “Printed by George Eyre and Andrew Straham, Printers to the King's most Excellent Majesty” in 1796 in London. The disbound pages are tanned with chipping along the edges. The text is clear and easily read. The overall condition of the item is fair.
The illustrations accompanying this description show the cover sheet and both pages of the Act.
This Act of Parliament dated April 26, 1796, has to do with public improvements in the King's Town of Maidstone, in the County of Kent. The item consists of two sheets, each measuring approximately 7 ½ x 12 inches, the first being a “standard” cover sheet identifying the parliamentary session that approved the Act, and the second containing the full text of the Act.
The Act is written in its whole on both sides of the second sheet, designated as pages 899 and 900, and is titled “An Act for enabling the Commissioners for executing an Act, passed in the Thirty-first Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, intitled, An act for widening, improving, regulating, paving, cleaning, and lighting, the Streets, Lanes, and other publick Passages and Places, within the King's Town of Maidstone, in the County of Kent; for removing and preventing Incroachments, Obstructions, Nuisances, and Annoyances therein; for better supplying the said Town with Water; and for repairing the Highways within the Parish of Maidstone; to raise a further Sum of Money for completing the Purposes of the said Act.”. The Act’s text indicates that this is a reauthorization of a previous act that was uncompleted because the £ 7,000 allotted for the work was insufficient. This act authorizes an additional expenditure of £ 2,500.
The document was “Printed by George Eyre and Andrew Straham, Printers to the King's most Excellent Majesty” in 1796 in London. The disbound pages are tanned with chipping along the edges. The text is clear and easily read. The overall condition of the item is fair.
The illustrations accompanying this description show the cover sheet and both pages of the Act.