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Continue certain Turnpike Acts in Great Britain, and to make further Provisions concerning Turnpike Roads in England.

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HEREAS it is expedient to continue for limited Times Preamble. the Acts herein-after specified, and to make further Provisions concerning Turnpike Roads in England: Be it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the 5 Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, as follows:

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I. Every Act now in force for regulating, making, amending, or All Turnpike repairing any Turnpike Road in Great Britain which will expire on Acts which will expire 10 or before the End of the next Session of Parliament shall be con- on or before tinued until the First Day of October One thousand eight hundred the End of and fifty-four and to the End of the then next Session of Parliament; continued to except an Act of the Third Year of King George the Fourth, Chapter 1st Oct. 1851, Sixty-four, "for amending and maintaining the Road from Whit- &c., with 15 church to Ternhill in the County of Salop," and except as herein-after Exceptions. mentioned.

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12 & 13 Vict. c. 87.

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II. The Acts mentioned in the Schedule to this Act annexed shall continue in force until the First Day of November One thousand eight hundred and fifty-four, and no longer, unless Parliament shall in the meantime continue the same respectively.

III. And whereas by an Act of the Session holden in the Twelfth 5 and Thirteenth Years of Her Majesty, Chapter Eighty-seven, it was enacted, that in every Case in which the Trustees or Commissioners of any Turnpike Road should thereafter borrow, charge, or secure any Money on the Credit of the Tolls arising on such Road, such Trustees or Commissioners should, out of the Tolls of such Road, and in 10 priority to all other Payments except such Interest as therein mentioned, set apart a Sum of Five Pounds per Centum per Annum on the Amount of Money so borrowed, charged, or secured; and when and so often as the Sums so set apart should amount to Two hundred Pounds, the said Trustees or Commissioners should apply such Sum 15 in Payment of a proportionate Part of the Monies borrowed, charged, 13 & 14 Vict. or secured as aforesaid in manner therein mentioned: And whereas by the Act of the Session holden in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Years of Her Majesty, Chapter Seventy-nine, it was enacted, that where the Trustees or Commissioners of any Turnpike Road had, before the 20 passing of the said Act of the Twelfth and Thirteenth Years of Her Majesty, borrowed, charged, or secured any Money on the Credit of the Tolls arising on such Road, and any such Money should remain unpaid and unsatisfied at the Time of the passing of the Act now in recital, such Trustees or Commissioners should, out of the Tolls of 25 such Road, after Payment thereout of the Interest on any Monies owing on the Security of the said Tolls, and such Sums as should be required to be set apart under the said herein-before recited Enactment of the said Act of the Twelfth and Thirteenth Years of Her Majesty, and all such other Liabilities and Expenses as therein mentioned, 30 set apart a Sum of Five Pounds per Centum per Annum on the Amount of Principal Money so borrowed, charged, or secured before the passing of the said Act, and remaining unpaid and unsatisfied as aforesaid, or such lesser Sum as might from Time to Time remain after such Payment as aforesaid; and when and so often as the Sum 35 so set apart should amount to the Sum of Two hundred Pounds, the said Trustees or Commissioners should apply such Sum in or towards Payment of the Monies so borrowed, charged, or secured as aforesaid, and then remaining unpaid, in manner provided by the said Act of the Twelfth and Thirteenth Years of Her Majesty with respect 40 to the Application of Money arising from the Sums set apart as therein mentioned in or towards the Discharge of Monies borrowed, charged, or secured after the passing of such last-mentioned Act:

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It shall be lawful for the Trustees or Commissioners of any Fund may be Turnpike Road, where it appears to them convenient so to do, to applied in apply any Money arising from Sums set apart as required by the said Payment of recited Acts or either of them in or towards the Discharge of Debts it amounts to 5 according to the Directions of such Acts respectively, although such 2004, or, with Monies may not amount to Two hundred Pounds, or, with the Secretary of Consent in Writing of One of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, the Application State under his Hand, to postpone such Application of such Monies may be until the same amount to any greater Sum than Two hundred Pounds, postponed till it amounts 10 which the said Trustees or Commissioners, with such Consent as to a greater aforesaid, may determine. Sum.

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IV. It shall be lawful for the Trustees or Commissioners of any Trustees Turnpike Road, where they have any surplus Monies applicable towards may apply Surplus in the Discharge of Principal Money secured on the Tolls of such Payment of 15 Road beyond such Sums as under the said recited Acts or either of Debts in them, or under any Local Act, they are required to set apart or vided by reapply for that Purpose, to apply, if they think fit, such surplus Monies cited Acts with respect in or towards Payment of the Principal Money secured as aforesaid in to Sinking manner provided by the said first-mentioned Act with respect to the Funds. 20 Application of Monies arising from the Sums set apart as therein mentioned in or towards the Discharge of Monies borrowed, charged, or secured after the passing of that Act.

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V. All Executors, Administrators, Guardians, Trustees, and all Power to Committees of the Estates of Idiots and Lunatics, who as such are for Executors, 25 the Time being entitled to any Money charged or secured on the sent. Tolls or Revenues of any Turnpike Road, may offer to accept and may accept under the said recited Acts or either of them, or this Act, or any local Act, such Composition in respect of such Money or any Part thereof as they in their Discretion may deem expedient, and may 30 in their Discretion accept any reduced or lower Rate of Interest in respect of such Money or any Part thereof, and also consent to or concur in the Extinction in whole or in part of any Arrears of Interest payable in respect of such Money or any Part thereof, as if they respectively were so entitled in their own Right, discharged of all 35 Trusts in respect thereof; and all Executors, Administrators, Guardians, Trustees, and Committees so consenting are hereby severally indemnified for so doing.

VI. And whereas by the Act of the Session holden in the Erroneous Fourteenth and Fifteenth Years of Her Majesty, Chapter Thirty- 14 & 15 Vict. Reference in 40 eight, it was enacted, that the Words "Implements of Husbandry" c. 38. to in Section Thirty-six of Chapter One hundred and twenty-six of Sect. 36. of the Statute of the Third Year of King George the Fourth should c. 126. in

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