CHAPTER 95.

An Act to continue certain Turnpike Acts in Great Britain, and to repeal certain other Turnpike Acts; and for other purposes connected therewith.

[7th August 1874.] WHEREAS it is expedient to continue for limited times

some of the Acts herein-after specified, and to repeal others, and to make further provisions concerning turnpike roads:

Be it enacted by the Queen'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, as follows:

1. The Acts specified in the first schedule annexed hereto Schedule 1. shall be repealed on and after the first day of November one thousand eight hundred and seventy-four.

2. The Acts specified in the second schedule annexed hereto Schedule 2. shall be repealed on and after the thirty-first day of December one thousand eight hundred and seventy-four.

3. The Acts specified in the third schedule annexed hereto Schedule 3. shall expire at the times in that behalf mentioned in "The Annual Turnpike Acts Continuance Act, 1873."

4. The Acts specified in the fourth schedule annexed hereto Schedule 4. shall continue in force until the dates specified in each instance, and no longer.

5. The Acts specified in the first and second columns of the Schedule 5. fifth schedule annexed hereto shall, to the extent specified in the third column thereof, as from the dates specified in the fourth column thereof, be subject to the modifications specified in the fifth column thereof, and shall, to the same extent, as so modified, continue in force until the dates specified in the sixth column thereof, and no longer.

Where specified in the seventh column thereof the arrears of interest due on the thirty-first day of December one thousand eight hundred and seventy-three, and remaining unpaid at the time of the passing of this Act, in respect of the roads subject to the trusts comprised in so much of the Acts as is specified in the third column thereof, are hereby extinguished.

6. The Acts specified in the first and second columns of Schedule 6. the sixth schedule annexed hereto shall, to the extent specified in the third column thereof, as from the dates specified in the fourth column thereof, be subject to the modifications specified in the fifth column thereof, and shall, to the same extent, as so modified, continue in force until the dates specified in the sixth column thereof, unless Parliament in the meantime otherwise provides.

Schedule 7.

Schedule 8.

Continuance of

7. The Acts specified in the seventh schedule annexed hereto shall continue in force until the first day of November one thousand eight hundred and seventy-five, and no longer, unless Parliament in the meantime otherwise provides.

8. The Acts relating to turnpike trusts in Scotland, specified in the eighth schedule annexed hereto, shall, unless Parliament in the meantime otherwise provides, continue in force until the first day of November one thousand eight hundred and seventy-five, and to the end of the then next session of Parliament.

9. Such provisions, if any, of the said Acts mentioned in all other Turn- the said schedules as are not affected by the preceding sections, pike Acts. and all other Acts now in force for regulating, making, amending, or repairing any turnpike road in Great Britain which will expire at or before the end of the next session of Parliament, shall continue in force until the first day of November one thousand eight hundred and seventy-five, and to the end of the then next session of Parliament, unless Parliament in the meantime otherwise provides; but this section shall not affect any Act continued to a specified date and no longer.

Repair of

way authorities

in certain cases.

10. Where by any Annual Turnpike Acts Continuance Act roads by high- it is or shall be provided that no money shall be expended in the repair of any turnpike road, such turnpike road shall be deemed to be a highway, and shall be repairable as such; provided that where such highway, or any portion thereof, shall pass through any highway district constituted under the Highway Acts, 1862 and 1864, the cost of maintaining such highway, or any such portion thereof, shall be deemed to be expenses incurred for the common use or benefit of the several parishes within such district, and shall be charged accordingly on the district fund.

Apportionment of bonded debt under 36 & 37

Vict. c. 90. s.15.

Short title.

11. Where the Local Government Board in exercise of the discretionary power conferred upon them by section fifteen of «The Annual Turnpike Acts Continuance Act, 1873," make an order determining the value of the existing debt and liabilities of a turnpike trust, the Board may by the same order declare to whom and in respect of what claim or claims the whole or any part of the value of such debt and liabilities is to be paid.

The term "existing debt and other liabilities" used in the said fifteenth section of "The Annual Turnpike Acts Continuance Act, 1873," means the bonded or mortgage debt of a turnpike trust, and any unpaid interest due thereon.

12. This Act may be cited for all purposes as "The Annual Turnpike Acts Continuance Act, 1874."

FIRST SCHEDULE.

Acts which are to be repealed on and after the 1st of November 1874.

1. An Act for more effectually repairing the road from Bramcote Odd House in the county of Nottingham, to the Cross Post upon Smalley Common in the county of Derby, and from Ilkeston to Heanor, in the said county of Derby, and from Trowell in the said county of Nottingham to the town of Nottingham.

2. An Act for continuing the term and amending and enlarging the powers of three Acts of His Majesty King George the Third, for amending certain mileways leading to Oxford, and making improvements in the university and city of Oxford, the suburbs thereof, and adjoining parish of Saint Clement, and for other purposes in the said Acts mentioned; so far as the same relates to the tolls thereby granted, and to the mileways, bridge, and avenues thereto.

3. An Act to grant a further term in certain roads leading to and from Bodmin, and other roads in the neighbourhood thereof, all in the county of Cornwall, to alter and improve one of those roads, and grant further powers for the management of the trust; to alter the rights of creditors; to repeal the existing Act; and for other purposes.

SECOND SCHEDULE.

Acts which are to be repealed on and after the 31st of December 1874.

4. An Act to renew the term, and continue, amend, and enlarge the powers of an Act passed in the third year of the reign of His Majesty King George the Fourth, intituled An Act for repairing and amending the roads from Donington High Bridge to Hale Drove, and to the eighth milestone in the parish of Wigtoft, and to Langret Ferry in the county of Lincoln.

5. An Act to continue the Hedon and Patrington Turnpike Trust, in the east riding of the county of York; and for other purposes.

THIRD SCHEDULE.

Acts which are to expire at the date (1st November 1874) mentioned in

54 G. 3. c. 1.

55 G. 3. c. xxxv.

6. An Act for making and maintaining a turnpike road from Swindon to or near Knighton Farm in the parish of Ramsbury, and from Liddington to the road leading from Swindon to Marlborough in the county of Wilts.

7. An Act for more effectually repairing the road leading from Royston in the county of Hertford to Wandesford Bridge, and from the town of Huntingdon to Somersham in the county of Huntingdon; so far as respects the middle division and separate district of the said roads.