Acts of 30° & 43° Geo. III. relating to a district in the Parish of Saint Luke, Chelsea, called Hans Town

Transcribed from the 1807 George Eyre and Andrew Stranan edition by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org Many thanks to Kensington and Chelsea local studies for finding this in their archive and allowing it to be transcribed.
RELATING TO A
DISTRICT in the PARISH of SAINT LUKE, CHELSEA,
CALLED
HANS TOWN .
LONDON : Printed by George Eyre and Andrew Stranan, Printers to the King’s most Excellent Majesty.
1807.
CAP. LXXVI.
An Act for forming and keeping in Repair the Streets , and other publick Passages and Places , within a certain District in the Parish of Saint Luke Chelsea, in the County of Middlesex, called Hans Town, and for otherwise improving the same .
Whereas Henry Holland of the Parish of Saint Luke in Chelsea , in the County of Middlesex , Esquire, is intitled to a certain large Piece of Ground in the said Parish, which he holds for a long Term of Years, under the Right Honourable Charles Sloane , Lord Cadogan , the Right Honourable Welbore Ellis , and Christopher D’Oyley Esquire; which said Ground lies on the South Side of the Town or Village of Knightsbridge , and it fronting or pointing towards the North, partly on the High Road leading through Knightsbridge aforesaid, partly on or near to the Yard and Stables belonging to the Swan Inn in Knightsbridge , and Land of William Brown Esquire; and towards the South, on a certain Street called White Lion Street , and Messuages and Lands belonging to James Lawrance , Joseph Newsham , and others; and bounded in Part on the East by a Rivulet or Water Creek, encompassing great Part of the said Ground on the East Side thereof, and in other Part by the Lands belonging to Charles Lowndes Esquire, and others; and towards the West on lands belonging to William Bushnell , and others, and contains by Estimation Eighty-nine Acres, or thereabouts; and the said Henry Holland hath caused a commodious Carnage Way or Street, called Sloane Street , to be made from Knightsbridge aforesaid, over or across the said Ground, and several other Streets, publick Passages, and Places, have been and may hereafter be set out and made upon the said Piece of Ground: And whereas it would contribute to the Benefit and Safety of all Persons who now do or may hereafter inhabit the said several Streets and other publick Passages and Places, and to all Persons having Occasion to pass along the same, if Provision was made for forming and paving, or otherwise repairing and keeping in Repair, the same, and also for cleansing, lighting, watching, and watering the said Streets and other publick Passages and Places, and keeping the same free from all Nuisances, Annoyances, and Incroachments; but the several Purposes aforesaid cannot be effected without the Aid and Authority of Parliament: 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 every Person who now is, and from Time to Time hereafter shall become, either in his own Right or in the Right of his Wife, in the actual Possession and Enjoyment of Receipt of the Rents and Profits of Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments, situate within the Limits of this Act, of the clear yearly Value of Thirty Pounds, and also every Person who now is, and from Time to Time hereafter shall be, a Lessee of a House, Tenement, or Land within the Limits aforesaid, rated or liable to be rated, by virtue or for the Purposes of this Act, at Thirty Pounds per Annum at the least, and also every Person who now is, and from Time to time hereafter shall be resident within the Limits of this Act, and Occupier of a House, Tenement, or Land, rated or liable to be rated as aforesaid, and possessed of a Personal Estate of the Amount or Value of Two thousand Pounds, shall be and are hereby appointed Commissioners for putting this Act in Execution.