Act of Parliament, dated April 26, 1796

Description

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 document's
cover sheet
reads
“At the Parliament begun and holden at Westminster, the Twenty-fifth Day of November, Anno Dom. 1790 in the Thirty-first Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Third, by the Grace Of God, of Great Britain, France, and Ireland King, Defender of the Faith, etc. And from thence continued, by several Prorogations to the Twenty-ninth Day of October, 1795. being the Sixth Session of the Seventeeth Parliament of Great Britain”.
The sheet also shows the name of the printer and year of printing. The first picture above shows this cover sheet.
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, intituled, 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 pounds allotted for the work was insufficient. This act authorizes an additional expenditure of 2,500 pounds. The second and third pictures above show the text of the Act.
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 item is a first edition and not a modern reprint or scanned copy of an original.