Expenses.—To be paid by the ‘Owners and Proprietors and Persons interested of and in the said Lands and Grounds’ in such proportion as the Commissioners decide. If persons refuse to pay, Commissioners can distrain or else enter on allotment and take rents. Allotments may be mortgaged up to 40s. an acre.
Compensation To Occupiers and Others.—Leases at rack-rent ‘shall cease and be totally extinguished’ if Commissioners give notice; the owner giving such compensation to the tenant as the Commissioners direct.
Underwoods, hedges, shrubs, etc., are not to be grubbed up or destroyed before allotment without special permission from the Commissioners, but are to remain for the benefit of the allottee, the allottee paying the former owner such compensation as the Commissioners direct.
Also, If any land with woods, underwoods, hedges, shrubs, etc., is allotted to someone who does not already hold it, then the first owner may enter and fell, grub up and cut down the underwood, hedges, etc., and take them away, unless the same have been allotted by the Commissioners to the new owner.
Power of Appeal.—Only with respect to roads, and then to Quarter Sessions only.
Arrangements between Act and Award.—Not mentioned.
Award.—Date, 1803. Record Office. During the 29 years between the Act and the Award 10 Commissioners were concerned, (A) Ralph Gowland, (B) Thomas Jackman, (C) Henry Brumbridge, (D) George Wheatley, (E) John Baynes Garforth, (F) Sir Philip Jennings Clarke, (G) Richard Penn, (H) Sir William Gibbons (see Stanwell), (I) Thomas Chapman, (J) George Kinderley, as follows:—
C refused to act straight away. A then appointed D. B refused to sit in 1781. A and D appointed E. A died 1787. D and E appointed F. F died 1788. D and E appointed G. D died 1802. E and G were desirous of being discharged from acting further. H was ‘duly appointed.’ E and G refused to act. H appointed I and J. H, I and J gave the award.
Distribution of Land.—918 acres odd, exclusive of roads, were divided out as follows:—
| Acres. | |
|---|---|
| Lord Lowther[496] (including 18½ for his rights of soil), | 626½ |
| Six other owners (in shares varying from 68¼ to John Coggan, Martha his wife, to 16¼ to the Vicar, | 223¼ |
| Twenty-three owners (in shares varying from 7½ acres, Messrs. Blackwell and Elson, to 16 perches John Goodwin, | 51¼ |
| Churchwardens and Overseers for the Poor (see below), | 13 |
| Gravel Pit, | 4 |
| 918 |