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Beer
AN ACT for making a Harbour in the Cove of Beer, in the County of Devon.
Black Letter. Cover leaf + 13pp.
1792.£18.00
Bovey Tracey, Broadwood Kelly, Ipplepen, etc.
AN ACT
to confirm certain Orders of the Local Government Board under the provisions of the Divided Parishes and Poor Law Amendment Act.... 9pp.
1884.£10.00
Broadclist
AN ACT to transfer the Endowments of the Domestic Chapel of Sir Thomas Dyke Acland Baronet at Columb John in the Parish of Broadclist in the County of Devon, which Chapel is proposed to be pulled down, to a Chapel intended to be built in lieu thereof near his Residence at Killerton in the same Parish.
11pp.
1837.£16.00
Dartmouth and Torbay Railway
AN ACT
for making a Railway from the Torquay Branch of the South Devon Railway to or near to Dartmouth, to be called "The Dartmouth and Torbay Railway".... 24pp.
1857.£28.00
Devon Poor
AN ACT
to repeal an Act, passed in the Ninth Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, intituled, An Act for the more effectual Relief of the Poor in the County of Devon.... Black Letter. 5pp.
1773.£14.00
Exeter and Crediton Railway
AN ACT
to enable the Exeter and Crediton Railway company to enlarge their Cowley Bridge Station, and to raise a further amount of capital.... 4pp.
1850.£9.00
Exeter and Exmouth Railway
AN ACT
to extend the Time for the compulsory Purchase of Lands for Parts of the Exeter and Exmouth Railway. 3pp.
1857.£10.00
Exeter Boundaries
AN ACT
for extending the Boundaries of the Municipal Borough and City and County of the City of Exeter so as to include the Parish of Saint Leonard in the County of Devon, and for extending the operation of certain Local Acts..... 18pp.
1877.£13.00
Exeter Cathedral
AN ACT
for removing Doubts as to the Appointment of a Dean of Exeter or of any other Cathedral Church. 2pp.
1839.£8.00
Exeter Crediton Railway
AN ACT
for making a Railway from Exeter to Crediton.... 23pp.
1845.£26.00
¶ Includes a 10pp schedule of the owners/occupiers of the land concerned.
Exeter Debts
AN ACT
for the more easy and speedy Recovery of Small Debts, within the City and County of Exeter. Black Letter. Cover leaf + 21pp.
1773.£15.00
Exeter Gaslight
AN ACT
to repeal and consolidate the Acts relating to the Exeter Gaslight and Coke Company... and to confer further Powers on the Exeter Gaslight and Coke Company..... 22pp.
1865.£9.00
Exeter Roads and Exe Bridge
AN ACT
for more effectually repairing and improving the several Roads leading to and from the City of Exeter; and for keeping in Repair Exe Bridge and Countess Wear Bridge. 43pp.
1803.£12.00
Exeter Shire Hall
AN ACT
for taking down the Shire Hall of the County of Devon, and for building a new Shire Hall in a more commodious Manner. Black Letter. Cover leaf + 12pp.
1773.£17.00
Exeter Tramways
AN ACT
For making tramways in the county of Devon to be called "The Exeter Tramways".... 15pp.
1881.£13.00
Exeter Turnpike Roads
AN ACT
to amend the Provisions of the Acts relating to the Turnpike Roads leading to and from the City of Exeter, and for making a new Branch Road to communicate therewith. 6pp.
1840.£11.00
Exmouth and Budleigh Salterton
AN ACT
for conferring further powers upon the Exmouth and Budleigh Salterton Waterworks Company; for the raising of further capital..... 10pp.
1880.£9.00
Hartland
AN ACT
to enable the Govenors of the Hospital of King James founded in Charterhouse to endow the Perpetual Curacy of Hartland with a fixed provision out of the Tithes of the Rectory of Hartland aforesaid.... and to sell... certain Lands at Hartland.... 8pp.
1842.£14.00
Huntsham Court
AN ACT
for authorizing the Trustees of the Will of the Reverend Edward Berkeley Troyte, Doctor of Laws, deceased, to pull down the existing Family Mansion of Huntsham Court, and to build a new Family Mansion on a fresh Site on Part of the Estates subject to the Limitations of the same Will, situate in the Parish of Huntsham.... 30pp.
1866.£14.00
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Newton Abbot
AN ACT
for the more easy and speedy Recovery of Small Debts within the Township of Newton Abbot, and other Townships, Parishes, and Places.... 27pp.
1840.£10.00
North Devon
AN ACT
to enable Her Majesty's Paymaster General to repay to the North Devon Railway and Dock Company a Sum of Three thousand Pounds. 3pp.
1862.£8.00
Ogwell
AN ACT
to Impower Sir John Molesworth, Baronet, and Joseph Moyle, Esquire.... to raise the several Sums, in the said Indenture mentioned.... and pay the same, as well as the rest of the personal Estate of Hugh Gregor, deceased, to such Person as Jane Gregor, an Infant, shall marry.... 11pp., woodcut headpiece with pelican.
1756.£16.00
Plymouth Roads
AN ACT
to explain and amend Two Acts, made in the Tenth and Twelfth Years of His present Majesty's Reign, for paving, lighting, and watching, the Town of Plymouth, in the County of Devon; and for regulating the Carmen and Porters within the said Town. Cover leaf + 21pp.... together with.... AN ACT to enable certain Persons, during the Minority of Sir John Saint Aubyn, to renew and grant Leases of Lands.... all at Plymouth Dock.... 16pp. Recent paper boards.
1774.£26.00
¶ Includes 7p. Schedule listing property owners with name of Field, House, etc.
Plympton Waterworks
AN ACT
to dissolve and re-incorporate the Plympton and District Waterworks Company (limited).... 19pp.
1884.£10.00
Salcombe
AN ACT
to confirm an Order made by the Board of Trade under the Sea Fisheries Act, relating to Salcombe. 3pp.
1872.£14.00
Sampford Peverell, Burliscombe, and Halberton
AN ACT for Inclosing certain Commons and Waste Lands, in the Parishes of Sampford Peverell, Burliscombe, and Halberton....
19pp.
1809.£16.00
Seaton Railway
AN ACT
for making a Railway from the London and South-western Railway to Seaton.... 22pp.
1863.£24.00
Sidmouth Markets
AN ACT
to alter, amend, and enlarge the Powers and Provisions, of an Act.... intituled An Act for maintaining and regulating the market in the Parish of Sidmouth in the County of Devon. 4pp.
1846.£8.00
Sidmouth Railway
AN ACT
to enable the Sidmouth Railway and Harbour Company to make certain Deviations in their authorized Line.... 8pp.
1867.£12.00
South Devon and Tavistock Railway
AN ACT
to authorize the South Devon and Tavistock Railway Company to lease their Railway, to enable them to raise further Capital for the Completion of their Undertaking.... 7pp.
1858.£16.00
South Devon Railway Company
AN ACT
to confer further Powers on the South Devon Railway Company with reference to their own Undertaking and the Undertaking of the Buckfastleigh, Totnes, and South Devon Railway Company.... 8pp.
1875.£10.00
South Devon Railway Company
AN ACT
to confer further Powers on the South Devon Railway Company for the Acquisition of Land and Construction of Works.... 11pp.
1866.£10.00
South Devon Railway
AN ACT
for facilitating the Conversion by the South Devon Railway Company of Loan into Capital, and for enabling the same Company to effect Arrangements between different Classes of Shareholders for the Creation of New Shares.... 10pp.
1851.£9.00
Stover
AN ACT
to authorize the sale of the Pictures bequeathed by the Will of the late Edward Adolphus twelfth Duke of Somerset deceased as heirlooms and to declare the trusts of the procees of such sale.... 22pp.
1889.£18.00
¶ Includes a 4pp schedule of the paintings.
Sutton Harbour
AN ACT
for authorising the Sutton Harbour Improvement Company to construct tramways and other works, and to raise further Moneys..... 14pp.
1872.£12.00
Sutton Harbour Improvement Company
AN ACT
to authorise the Duke of Cornwall and the Sutton Harbour Improvement Company to enter into and carry into effect agreements.... 3pp.
1876.£8.00
Sutton Harbour Railway
AN ACT
to empower the South Devon Railway Company to extend and improve their Sutton Harbour Branch Railway, to confer upon them further powers in relation to their own undertaking and the undertakings of other companies.... 15pp.
1872£12.00