Main Features of Amending Act.—(Local and Personal, 54 George III. c. 2.)
New Arrangements Respecting 100-Acre Allotment.—The Commissioners had set out the 100 Acres for the use of certain occupiers, who were to be entitled to turn out on May 12 till February 2 either 1 Horse or 2 Cows or other Neat Cattle, or 7 Sheep; ‘And whereas, partly owing to the great Extent of the said Parish of Cheshunt, and to the Distance at which the greater Part of the Cottages or Houses, mentioned in the Schedule to the said Award, are situated from the said Plot or Allotment of One hundred Acres, and partly to the Inability of most of the Occupiers of such Cottages or Houses to maintain or keep any Horses, Cows, or other Neat Cattle or Sheep, the Persons for whose Benefit and Advantage such Plot or Allotment of Land was intended, derive little if any Advantage therefrom; but the Herbage of such Plot or Allotment of Land is consumed by the Cattle of Persons having no Right to depasture the same’; it is enacted that the Trustees are to have power to let out the 100 Acres to one or more tenants for not more than 21 years, ‘at the best and most improved yearly Rent or Rents that can at the Time be reasonably had and obtained for the same. The proceeds of the rents (when expenses are paid, see below) are to be divided among the occupiers of the houses and cottages mentioned in the Schedule.
Expenses.—The Allotment is to be mortgaged up to £500 for the expenses.
To repay the mortgage £50 is to be set aside from the rents yearly.
Interest at 5% on the sum borrowed is to be paid from the rents.
APPENDIX A (4)
Croydon, Surrey.—Enclosure Act, 1797
Area.—2950 acres.
Nature of Ground.—Open and Common Fields, about 750 acres, Commons, Marshes, Heaths, Wastes and Commonable Woods, Lands, and Grounds about 2200 acres.
Parliamentary Proceedings.—November 7, 1796.—Petition for enclosure from Hon. Richard Walpole, John Cator, Esq., Richard Carew, Esq., John Brickwood, Esq., and others. Leave given; bill presented May 8, 1797; read twice and committed.