III. And be it further enacted, That this Act may be altered, amended or repealed by any Act or Acts to be paſſed in this preſent Seſſion of Parliament.
C A P. LIV.
An Act to enable the Commiſſioners of His Majeſty's Woods, Foreſts and Land Revenues to make and maintain a Road from Millbank Row, Weſtminſter, to the Penitentiary. [ 27th June 1817.]
52 G.3. c.41.
‘Whereas in purſuance and under the Authority of an Act of Parliament paſſed in the Fifty ſecond Year of the Reign of His preſent Majeſty, intituled An Act for the Erection of a Penitentiary Houſe for the Confinement of Offenders convicted within the City of London and County of Middleſex; and for making Compenſation to Jeremy Bentham Eſquire for the Non Performance of an Agreement between the ſaid Jeremy Bentham and the Lords Commiſſioners of His Majeſty's Treaſury, reſpecting the Cuſtody and Maintenance of Convicts, a Penitentiary for the Confinement and Employment of Male and Female Convicts has been erected at Millbank, in the County of Middleſex, on Lands now veſted in His Majeſty, His Heirs and Succeſſors, by virtue of the ſaid Act, for the Uſe of the Public and the Purpoſes of the ſaid Act; and the ſame is now completed and fit for the Reception of Part of the Perſons intended to be confined therein; but no Carriage Way has yet been ſet out for paſſing and repaſſing between the ſaid Penitentiary and the City of Weſtminſter: And Whereas it is neceſſary and expedient, for opening a Communication with the ſaid Penitentiary, that a free and public Carriage Way ſhould be made and maintained from the South End of Millbank Row, in the Liberty of Weſtminſter, over a Piece or Parcel of Land belonging to the Earl Groſvenor, and now in the Poſſeſſion of Thomas Sargent as Occupier thereof, and by him uſed as a Wharf, and to be continued along the Bank of the River Thames in the Line of the old Foot Path, to the Lodge or Gate of the ſaid Penitentiary: And Whereas the whole of the Land required for the Purpoſe of making the ſaid intended Road, except the Piece or Parcel of Land which ſo belongs to the Earl Groſvenor as aforeſaid, being the Property of His Majeſty in Right of His Crown, it is expedient that the Commiſſioners for the time being of His Majeſty's Woods, Foreſts and Land Revenues ſhould be authorized and empowered to appropriate ſo much of the Land ſo belonging to His Majeſty in Right of His Crown as aforefaid, as ſhall be requiſite for that Purpoſe, to be uſed for the ſaid intended Road, and to make and maintain ſuch intended Road, and to make Compenſation to the ſaid Earl Groſvenor, and all Perſons lawfully claiming under him, for ſuch Part of the ſaid Parcel of Land belonging to him as ſhall be taken and required by virtue of this Act by and out of the Land Revenue of the Crown:’ May it therefore pleaſe Your Majeſty that it may be enacted; and be it 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 the CommiſſionersComiſſioners. for the time being of His
