WEYMOUTH and WINCHESTER WINDSOR WISBEACH An act for paving, cleansing, lighting, and watching the borough and town of Weymouth and Melcombe Regis in the county of Dorset, and for removing all encroachments, obstructions, and annoyances therein. [16 Geo. 3, c. 57.] An act for more effectually cleansing, lighting, and An act for the better paving, repairing, cleansing, [11 Geo. 3, c. 9.] An act for amending and enlarging the powers of an act of his present Majesty, for paving, cleansing, lighting, and watching the streets and public passages in the city of Winchester, and several parishes in the suburbs thereof, and for removing and preventing nuisances therein. [48 Geo. 3, c. 2.] An act for the better paving, cleansing, lighting, An act for the establishing a cattle market within WISBEACH-contd. WORCESTER serving and improving the port and harbour of An act for better supplying the city of Worcester and the liberties thereof with water; and for more effectually paving, lighting, watching, and otherwise improving the said city. [4 Geo. 4, c. 69.] YARMOUTH (GREAT) An act for better paving, lighting, cleansing, and watching the town of Great Yarmouth in the county of Norfolk, and for removing nuisances and annoyances therein, and for making other improvements in the said town. YORK. [50 Geo. 3, c. 23.] An act for paving, lighting, watching, and improv. An act for improving and enlarging the market 281 MUNICIPAL BOUNDARIES ACT. 6 & 7 WILL. 4, CAP. 103. An Act to make temporary Provision for the Boundaries of certain Boroughs. [20th August, 1836.] c. 76. WHEREAS by the provisions of an act passed in the last session of parliament, intituled An Act to 5 & 6 Will. 4, provide for the Regulation of Municipal Corporations in England and Wales, the boundaries of certain boroughs named in the Schedules (A.) and (B.) to the said act annexed were made to include all the liberties of such boroughs and large tracts of land beyond the limits of the towns, and which ought not to be included therein: Be it therefore 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 so much of the said act (1) for regulating corpora- Part of the tions as provides that the metes and bounds of pealed. every borough and county named in the said act shall include the whole of the liberties of such borough and county, by land and by water, is hereby repealed; and that, notwithstanding anything in New provithe said act contained, no part of any county, or of boundaries of boroughs, &c. the liberties of any borough, town, or city, named in recited act re sion as to c. 64. the first sections of the Schedules (A.) and (B.) annexed to the said act for regulating Corporations, which before the passing of the said act was not part of such borough, town, or city, or within the parliamentary boundary of such borough, town, or city, shall be taken to be within the metes and bounds of any such borough, town, or city, or within the county of such borough, town, or city, or to be within the jurisdiction of the justices of such borough, town, or city, or county of a borough, town, or city; and that no part of any county, or of the liberties of any borough, town, or city, named in the second section of the said Schedules (A.) and (B.), which was not part of such borough, town, or city before the passing of an act passed in the second and third year of his Majesty, intituled An Act to 2 & 3 Will 4, settle and describe the divisions of Counties, and the limits of Cities and Boroughs, in England and Wales, in so far as respects the election of Members to serve in Parliament, shall, for the purposes of the said act, passed in the last session of parliament, be taken to be within the metes and bounds of any such borough, town, or city, or within the county of such borough, town, or city, or to be within the jurisdiction of the justices of such borough, town, or city, or county of borough, town, or city; but every such part, until parliament shall otherwise direct, shall be taken to be within and to be subject to the same jurisdiction as the county, riding, parts or divisions of a county, other than a county of a borough, town, or city, wherein such part is situated, or with which it has Proviso as to the longest common boundary (2): Provided also, the liability of pree-xisting *5 & 6 Will.4, c. 76, s. 8. that all the provisions of the said act* for regulating rate payers to corporations concerning the liability of the rate- debts. payers of any place or precinct, which, under the provisions of this act, shall not be included within any such borough, town, or city, or county of a borough, town, or city, to any debt to which the rate-payers of such borough, town, or city, or county of a borough, town, or city, were liable to contribute before the passing of the said act for regulating corporations, shall be applicable to such place or precinct as if the same had not been included within the metes and bounds of such borough, town, or city, under the provisions of the said act for regulating corporations: Provided also, that no election of any Proviso as to mayor, alderman, councillor, auditor, or assessor of mayor, &c. heretofore made, or any other proceeding whatsoever, in any such borough, town, or city, since the twenty-fifth day of December last, shall be liable to be questioned after the passing of this act, by reason that any such part of any county, or liberties of any borough, town, or city, may or may not have been taken to be part of such borough, town, or city, under the provisions of the said act. (1) "That so much of the said Act," &c.]-By s. 7 of the Municipal Act, the boroughs named in the first sections of the schedules (A.) and (B.) to that Act were to have their parlia›mentary boundaries, i. e. those which were settled by 2 & 3 Will. 4, c. 64; while the boroughs named in the second sections of the same schedules were to retain their then municipal boundaries. But the provision at the end of the same section, as to liberties (now repealed by the above section of this act), had the effect of annexing to certain boroughs, liberties and large the elections |