A Bound Volume Of Acts Of Parliament Relating To Rochester And Chatham..
Bound in contemporary half-calf over marbled boards, skilfully re-backed, red morocco label on the upper board, with the contents lettered in gilt.
£300.00
Publisher
Various publishers...,
Date
1769-1825.
Synopsis
1. an act for....providing an additional workhouse for...chatham...relief, government, and employment of the poor. 1802.
2. an act for paving, cleansing, lighting and watching the streets and lanes of chatham. 1772.
3. an act to expand an act for paving, cleansing, lighting and watching the streets and lanes of chatham, and to extend the provisions....to parts of the high street situated in st. margarets and gillingham 1776.
4. an act for the recovery of small debts within rochester, strood, findsbury, cobham, shorne, higham, cliffe, cooling, high halstow, chalk, hoo, burham, wouldham, halling, cuxstone, chatham and gillingham and the ville of sheerness, 1817.
5. an act for enlarging the powers for the recovery of small debts within rochester, strood, and several other places in kent. 1808.
6. an act for paving, cleansing, lighting and watching the streets and lanes of st. nicholas within the city of rochester and the parish of strood and for making a road through star lane to chatham hill, 1769.
8. an act to incorporate a company for lighting with gas the city of rochester and the town of chatham and strood...1825.
9. an act for....providing a new workhouse for...strood, government, and employment of the poor. 1812.
10. an act for better assessing the poor of st. nicholas in the city of rochester 1809.
Item Description
Folio. Approximately 300 pages, printed and manuscript.
Notes
With an extensive manuscript index bound in at the front with interleaving after each act for manuscript summaries of cases and opinions, some of which amount to several pages, others remaining blank. The text is also littered with manuscript notes in a clear, neat hand.
[Stock No. 16066]
Subjects
Acts • Kent • Medway • North Kent