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Tothill Fields Inclosure Bill

City and Liberty of Westminster and within the said County of Middlesex
hath, hath by the Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury been deemed a proper
and Convenient Spot of Ground whereon or on a part thereof with the addition
of a competent quantity of such of the Lands thereto adjacent as shall be purchased
under the said Act, such Penitentiary House or Penitentiary Houses
may be erected.

And whereas the said waste Spot is situate within the Manor
Franchise or Liberty of Westminster, and the Lordship thereof is in the Dean and
Chapter of the Collegiate Church of Saint Peter of Westminster.

And whereas the Inhabitants of the Parishes of St. Margaret and St.
John aforesaid have immemorially exercised and claim to be intitled to divers
commonable Rights or priviledges in and upon the said Spot of Ground.

And whereas by an Act ot the 25th Year of the Reign of his late
Majesty King George the Second intitled."An Act for the better relief and
"employment of the Poor in the Parishes of St Margaret and St. John the
"Evangelist in the City of Westminster and for cleansing the Streets and repairing
"the Highways within the said Parishes" — the said two Parishes are united
and incorporated as far as related to those purposes and the joint concerns of the
said united Parishes as far as the same concerns relate to the aforesaid purposes are
in pursuance of the Act managed by a joint Vestry composed of the Inhabitants of
the said two Parishes assembled in the Vestry Room of the Parish of St
Margaret aforesaid and in particular the concerns of the Poor of the same Parish are
managed under the controul of the said joint of vestry by 50 Persons intitled Governors
and Directors of the Poor who are nominated as to 30 of them by the Churchwardens
and Vestrymen of St. Margarets aforesaid and as to the other 20 of
them by the Churchwardens and Vestrymen of St. Johns aforesaid.

And whereas the said Waste his partly in the said Parish of Saint Margaret

Identifier: | JB/123/253/002"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 123.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	1-2
Box	123	Main Headings	panopticon
Folio number	253	Info in main headings field	tothill fields inclosure bill
Image	002	Titles	a bill for explaining and amending an act made in the thirty fourth year of his present majesty intituled "an act for erecting a penitentiary house or houses for confining and employing convicts"
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c1 / c2 / c3 / c4
Penner		Watermarks	tw 1794
Marginals		Paper Producer	francis hall
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1794
Notes public	see note 3 to letter 1392, vol. 6	ID Number	41679
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