The Sun.
London, England, 1846-11-14 00:00:00

THE

WEST.MINSTER IMPROVEMENTS (for
the application of certain Rates towards the improve-
ments authorised by the Westminster Improvement Act, 1345,
and to extend the improvements). Notice is hereby given, titst
APPLICATION is intended to be made to Parliament in the
ensuhsg Session for an Act or Acts to alter, amend, and enlarge
the powers and provisions of an Act passed in the 9th year of
her present Majesty, intituled "An Act for Improving parts of the
city of Westminster." And it is proposed in or by the said Act or
Acts to confer further and additional powers on the Commissioners
appointed cr hereafter to be appointed, under the authority of the
said Act, for the purpose of enabling them more effectually to
carry out the improvements thereby authorised, and for extending
the same; and it is further proposed to authorise and empower
the said Commissioners to take down and remove a certain
house and buildings situate in the Broad Sanctuary, between West-
minster Abbey and Flood-street, and at present occupied by Mr
Dean, and also that part of the north side of Tothill-street, from the
east end thereof to, and inclusive of number 58 in that street, with
the gateway adjoining thereon westward, and the lands, stabling, and
tenements, in the rear of Tothill-street aforesaid; and also to take
down, remove, aad temporarily or permanently shut upWood-street,
Great Smith-street, Princes-street,Princes-Place,Dean-street,Orchard
street, St. Ann-street, Old Pye-street, New Bye street, Pear-street,
Cottage-court, Union-court, New square, George-court, and James-
court, and all houses, yards, lands, courts, buildings, and premises
which are bounded on the north by Orchard-street, on the south by
Great Peter-street, ou the east by Great Smith-street, and on the west
by Strutton Ground, all in the several parishes of Saint Margaret and
Saint John the Evangelist, in the City and Liberties of West-
minster, in the county of Middlesex, or one of them; and also to
divert, alter, stop up, or enclose, or widen and improve such parts
of the present streets, courts, alleys, ways, or passages, and
void ground as will form entrances to or will communicate with
the intended new street or streets authorised to be made bs
th Westminster Improvement Act, 1845, or as shall be necessars
toe Ise stopped up and enclosed or widened and improved of
the purposes of the said Act or Acts ; and also to raise or lower
the ground of any streets or ways or subways which shall
communicate with the said intended street or streets, or as shall
be necessary to be raised or lowered for the purposes of the
said Act or Acts, and to make such alterations in the levels,
drains, and sewerage, subways, roads, footways, and pavements
of such streets as may require such alterations ; and also le
enapower the said Commissioners to treat, contract, and agree
with the Dean and Chapter of Westminster, the Governors
of the Grey Coat Hospital, in Tothill-fields, of the royal founds
tion of Queen Anne, the governors or trustees of the hospital
of Saint Margaret's, in the city of Westminster, in the county c f
Middlesex, of the foundation of King Charles, the master and fel-
lows of Corpus Christi or Bennett's College, Cambridge, and the
governors or trustees of Emanuel Hospital, or Lord and Lads
Deere's charity estate,' the governor or trustees of Emery
almshouses, the trustees of Palmer's Charity, the governors or tin:-
tees of the
ch Blue Coat School, or other governors or trustees any
parity estate or other incapacitated persons, whose lands orof pro-
perty may be required for the said intended street or streets
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improvements connected therewith, or contemplated by s
or Acts for the sale to or the settlement upon them of new houses oi
buildinss upon the proposed line of the said streets or either of them,
in lieu of all or any of the lands, houses, or property intended to be
taken from them by the said Commissioners for the purposes of the
said Act or Acts,
And it is further intended by the said Act or Ac's to obtain powers.,
for the purchase of lands and houses, either by compulsion or agr, e-
' went, through or into which the said proposed improvements will
be made or carried. And also such lands and houses within the said
parishes aforesaid, and to such extent as may he necessary for carry-
ing out the before-mentioned improvements and all other improve.
ments contemplated by the said Act or Acts.
And it is also intended to vary or extinguish all existing rights
and privileges in any manner connected with or incident to such
lands and houses which would in any manner impede or interfere
with the objects aforesaid, and to confer other rights and privileges.
And it is further proposed, in or by the said Act or Acts, to take
powers to authorise the levying, collecting, and appropriation or
application of any rates or increased rates, or of any annual or
other sum or sums of ,money out of, or in addition to, the
rates levied and collected, or hereafter to be levied and collected,
under and by virtue of the powers and provisions of an Act made and
passed in the twenty-fifth year of the reign of his late Majesty King
George 11., intituled " An Act for the better Relief and Employment
of the Poor in the parishes of St. Margaret and St. John the Evan-
gelist, in the city of Westminster, and for cleansing the streets and
repairing the highways within the said parishes," or otherwise, and
to apply the same towards the improvements authorised by the sail
Westminster Iniprevement Act, 1845. And also, so far as may be
necessary for the purposes aforesaid, to repeal, alter, amend, or
extend the powers and prouisions of the last recited Act of 25
George IL, and to confer, vary, or extinguish other rights and pri-
vileges.
Dated this tenth day of November, 1848.
BRIDGES, MASON, and BRIDGES, Red Lion-square,
Solicitors for the Bill.. _ _ .

J. PARKES, Parliamentary Agent, 21, Great George-s tree
Westminster.