Leases for Corn Mills Act 1785

The persons herein mentioned, are appointed commissioners, and are empowered to provide proper places for corn markets, all powers by 31 G. 2. c.

19, or other acts amending the same, shall be vested in the aforesaid commissioners, or any seven, for providing such marketplaces, and making passages thereto,

and all clauses in said acts which may be necessary, shall be of full force.

XVI. And whereas it may be necessary for the convenience of the corn trade of the several sea-ports, towns, and cities in this kingdom, being corporate towns or cities, that a proper and sufficient place should be provided for holding the market of corn therein: be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the mayor, recorder, aldermen, sheriffs, and representatives in Parliament, of and for every such sea-port town, or city, and the knights of the shire for the several counties contiguous to such town or city, all for the time being, be and are hereby appointed commissioners for providing a proper and sufficient place, for holding the cornmarket therein; and that all the powers vested by an act made in the thirty first year of the reign of his late Majesty King George the second, entitled, An act for making a wide and convenient way, street, and passage from Effex-bridge, to the castle of Dublin, and for other purposes therein mentioned, or by other act or acts of Parliament, explaining, amending, or enlarging the same, in the commissioners therein named, or their successors, shall be, and are hereby vested in the foregoing commissioners, or any seven or more of them, for the purpose of procuring such market-place, and of making wide and convenient passages thereto; and that all and singular the clauses contained in the said acts, or any of them, which may be necessary for carrying the trust hereby vested in the said commissioners, or any of them, into execution, shall be of as full force and effect, touching the grounds, houses, and tenements which the said commissioners, or any seven or more of them, shall deem necessary to be procured for such market-place, and for making wide and convenient passages thereto, and touching the several owners, proprietors, and persons interested therein, as if the same were severally and specially enacted hereby, in respect of the same.