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Municipal and Transportation Laws

These Acts of Parliament relate to the infrastructure of British cities and transportation in and around Britain. They include laws relating to sewers, parks, roads, canals, harbours and railways, as well as the systems and vehicles that operate thereon or therein. To ease your search for specific topics, keywords in each act are highlighted in red. By simply scanning through the chronological list, you should easily be able to narrow in on desired items. Through the reign of George II, acts are listed by the year in which the Parliamentary session ends; from George III on they are by date of passage. Local and Personal Acts, and Private Acts are identified by "Cap." numbers in green. Some subjects, though, attracted such extensive legislation that the numerous acts relating to them can be found on seperate pages. Select from the links below for laws concerning: Roads and Bridges Ports and Harbours Railroads and Tramways

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The Interregnum
(Commonwealth and Protectorate)

• [13 Aprilis, p.799-804]. ... For preveting Injuries and Wrongs done to Merchants at Sea, ... And prohibiting Mariners from serving under Forraign Princes and States ... $175

Reign of Anne

• [Anno 2, p.131-44]. ... for the Increase of Seamen, and better Encouragement of Navigation, and Security of the Coal-Trade. $50

• [Anno 2&3, p.3-8]. ... for Raising Recruits for the Land-forces and Marines, and for Dispensing with Part of the Act for the Incouragement and Increase of Shipping and Navigation, during the present War. $50

• [Anno 4&5, p.247-52]. ... for Enlarging the Pier and Harbour of Parton in the County of Cumberland. $30

Reign of George I

• [Anno 13, p.803-23]. ... for improving the Navigation of the River Ouze, in ... York. $25

Reign of George II

• [Anno 2, p.463-70]. ... relating to Watermen, Wherrymen, and Lightmen, rowing on the River Thames ... $18

• [Anno 6, p.119-52]. ... to explain and amend Two Acts .... for making navigable the River Dun ... and for uniting the several Proprietors thereof into one Company. $20

• [Anno 7, p.211-14]. ... to oblige the Possessors of Lands adjacent to common Highways, to cut and keep low such Hedges ... $22
• [Anno 7, p.291-94]. ... settle how far Owners of Ships shall be answerable for the Acts of the Masters or Mariners. $20

• [Anno 9, p.315-16]. ... reviving and continuing ... An Act for making the Laws for repairing the Highways more effectual. relating to appointing Scavengers in Cities and Market Towns ... $15

• [Anno 18, p.547-48]. ... to continue and Act ... for the better Regulation of Lastage and Balastage in the River Thames $15
• [Anno 18, p.703-06]. ... to repeal a Clause in an Act ... relating to Carts used by Persons inhabiting within the Limits of the weekly Bills of Mortality ... $18
• [Anno 18, p.747-58]. ... for rendering more effectual the several acts for the erecting of Hospitals and Workhouses within ... Bristol ... $20

• [Anno 22, p.463-79]. ... making more effectual an Act ... better preserving the Navigation of the Rivers Avon and Froome; and for cleaning, paving and enlightening the Streets of the City of Bristol ...; and for regulating Hackney Coachmen [etc.] ... and Sellers of Hay and Straw ... $18

• [Anno 24, p.687-702]. ... to enable the ... Inhabitants of the Houses in Golden Square, ... Westminster, ... to make and levy a Rate ... sufficient for the better Inclosing, Paving, Enlightening, and Adorning of the said Square ... $20
• [Anno 24, p.1039-44]. ... for the more effectual Preservation of the Turnpike Roads; and for the Disposition of Penalties ... relating to the Highways ...; and for ... preventing of Mischiefs occassioned by the Drivers riding upon Carts, Drays, Carrs, and Waggons, in the city of London ... $18

• [Anno 29, p387-95]. ... for erecting, maintaining, and supporting a Light-house on the Island of Little Cumray, in the County of Bute ...; and for rendering the Navigation in the Frith and River of Clyde more safe and commodious. (Pages numbered in ink.) $18

• [Anno 32, p.311-27]. ... to continue, amend, explain, and render more effectual, an Act ... for the better Regulation of Lastage and Ballastage in the River Thames, and to prevent putting of Rubbish, Ashes, Dirt, or Soil, into said River, and in the Streets, Passages, and Kennells, in London, and in the Suburbs thereof in Middlesex, and in Westminster ...; and for allowing a certain Quantity of Dung, Compost, Earth, or Soil, to be yearly shipped as Ballast from the Laystalls in London on Board any Collier or Coasting Vessel. $25

• [Anno 33, p.427-30]. ... for continuing certain Laws relating to the additional Number of One hundred Hackney Chairs, and to the Powers given for regulating Hackney Coaches and Chairs. $20

Reign of George III

• [Anno 6, Cap.34]. ... for widening several Streets, Lanes, Ways, and Passages, within the City of Bristol, and for opening several new Streets and Passages; and for explaining, amending, and enlarging ... several Acts passed for paving, cleansing, lighting, watching, and regulating the Streets and other Places, within the said City ... (40 p.) $35

• [Anno 9, Cap.13]. ... for the better Paving, Cleansing, Lightning, and Watching, the Liberty of Saint Martin Le Grand, within ... Westminster, in ... Middlesex; and for preventing Obstructions and Annoyances therein. (29 p.) $35
• [Anno 9, Cap.22]. ... to amend, and render more effectual ... An Act for paving the Streets, and other Places, in ... Saint Botolph Aldgate ... Middlesex; and Part of a Street, called East Smithfield, in ... Saint Catherine; and for cleansing, lighting, and watching the same, and preventing Obstructions and Annoyances therein. $25
• [Anno 9, Cap.23]. ... to amend and render more effectual an Act ... for the better enlightening and cleansing the Open Places, Squares, Streets, Lanes, Alleys, Passages, and Courts, within the Parish of Saint Bartholomew the Great, London, and regulating the Nightly Watch and Beadles ..., to pave said Streets ..., and to remove Annoyances and Obstructions. (28 p.) $25

• [Anno 10, Cap.23]. ... for the more effectually paving, repairing, cleansing, and lighting, the Streets, Squares, Lanes, and other Passages, and for regulating Weights and Measures, within the Parish of Saint Mary le Bone ... $20
• [Anno 10, Cap.44]. ... for more effectually preventing Traders in Exciseable Commodities from using false Weights and Scales; and for explaining and amending several Acts of Parliament relating to Hackney Coaches and Chairs. $22
• [Anno 10, Cap.104]. ... to explain and amend an Act ... for improving the Navigation of the River Clyde to the City of Glasgow, and for building a Bridge cross the said River from the said City to the Village of Gorbells (1837 reprint). $12

• [Anno 12, Cap.16]. ... for deepening, cleansing, scouring, preserving, and maintaining, the Harbour of Port Glasgow, for enlarging and improving the Quays and Piers, for errecting new Breasts, Jettees, and Piers, and for regulating Ships, Lighters, and other Vessels ... (25 pp.) $20
• [Anno 12, Cap.22]. ... for deepening, cleaning, scouring, preserving, and maintaining, the Harbour of Ayr; for enlarging and improving the Quays and Piers; for erecting Docks, Breasts, Jettees, and Piers; and for regulating Ships, Lighters, and other Vessels ... $20
• [Anno 12, Cap.69]. ... for paving, lighting, cleansing, watering, and watching the Streets, and other public Places within such Part of ... Saint Pancras ... as lies on the West Side of Tottenham-court Road; and for preventing Nuisances and Obstructions therein; and for obliging the Trustees for the Care of said Road to pave, repair, and cleanse ... (57 pp.) $22
• [Anno 12, Cap.73]. ... for the better Regulation of Buildings and Party Walls within the Cities of London and Westminster ... and other Parishes, Precincts, and Places in the Weekly Bills of Mortality, ... Saint Mary-le-Bon and Paddington, Saint Pancras, and Saint Luke at Chelsea ...; and for the better preventing of Mischiefs by Fire within the said ..., and for the amending and reducing the Laws relating thereto into One Act ... (49 pp.) $25

• [Anno 13, Cap.[86]]. ... for Improving and Completing the Navigation of that Branch of the River Trent which runs by the Town of Newark upon Trent, from a Place called The Upper Wear, in ... Averham, in ... Nottingham, to a Place called The Crankleys, in ... South Muskham ... (40 p.; title page soiled) $20

• [Anno 36, Cap.82]. ... to prevent the Landing of Goods, Wares, and Merchandise, without the Presence of the proper Officer; to authorize ... Customs to convey Wines laying on the Quays to His Majesty's Warehouse ...; and to require Owners of Ships, Vessels, and Boats, licensed by the Admiralty, to give Security to redeliver their Licences, in case any such ... be lost, broken up, or otherwise disposed of. $18

• [Anno 39&40, Cap.47]. ... repealing the Rates and Fares taken by licensed Hackney Coachmen ... and amending several Laws relating to Hackney Coaches and Chairs. $25

• [Anno 39&40, Cap 65]. ... relating to the Admission of certain Articles of Merchandize in Neutral Ships ... $15

• [Anno 41, Cap.20]. ... to revive and continue [acts] ... reducing and better collection the Duties payable on the Importation of Starch; ... to permit Goods to be imported ... in Neutral Ships; ... respecting the Trade to the Cape of Good Hope; and to the preventing Offences in obstructing, destroying, or damaging Ships, and in obstructing Seamen ... $18

• [Anno 55, Cap 11]. ... to continue, until Six Months after the Ratification of a Definitive Treaty of Peace, an Act ... for granting to Foreign Ships put under His Majesty's Protection, the Priveleges of Prize Ships; and for allowing Aliens in Foreign Colonies to exercise the Occupations of Merchants or Factors ... $20

• [Anno 55, Cap.159]. ... to amend several Acts relating to Hackney Carriages; for authorizing the licensing of an additional number of Hackney Chariots; and for licensing Carriages drawn by One Horse. $18
• [Anno 55, Cap 175]. ... allowing the bringing of Coals and Culm, and Cinders, to London and Westminster, by Inland Navigation. $15

• [Anno 56, Cap 9]. ... for charging certain Duties on Foreign Packets or Passage Vessels entering or departing any of the Ports of Great Britain. $15

• [Anno 56, Cap 35]. ... for the more speedy and effectual Collection of the Tonnage Duty upon Ships Inwards; ... to regulate the Hours of Officers Attendance in the Port of London; ... to commence and compleat their loading of Coals before the delivery of the Fitters Certificates. $20

Reign of George IV

• [Anno 1&2, Cap.100*]. ... to alter and amend Three Acts ... for enabling Commissioners to errect and maintain a new Gaol and other Buildings for ... Edinburgh ...; and to enable the Trustees for Turnpike and other High Roads ... of Edinburgh to advance further sums of Money ... $18
  * Local and Personal Act

• [Anno 3, Cap.43]. ... for the Encouragement of Navigation and Commerce, by regulating the Importation of Goods and Merchandize, so far as relates to the Countries or Places from whence, and the Ships in which such Importations shall be made. $18

• [Anno 5, Cap.100]. ... for more effectually paving, lighting, watching, cleansing, and regulating the Regent's Park, together with the New Street from Regent's Park to Pall Mall, and the new Streets and Improvements in the Neighbourhood of Parliament Street and Privy Gardens; and for maintaining a convenient Sewage for the same. (59 p.) $30

• [Anno 6, Cap.35]. ... to render more effectual the several Acts for authorizing Advances for carrying on Public Works, so far as relates to Ireland. $10
• [Anno 6, Cap.117*]. ... for amending Three Acts for enlarging the Harbour of Glasgow, and improving the Navigation of the River Clyde to the said City; and for other Purposes ... (repaired hole on p.1/2; 38 pp.) $20
  * Local and Personal Act

• [Anno 10, Cap.109*]. ... to explain the Acts for making the Ulster Canal in the Counties of Fermanagh and Armagh. $12
  * Local and Personal Act

Reign of William IV

• [Anno 1&2, Cap.6*]. ... to amend an Act for vesting and securing to John Stephen Langton Esquire certain Profits and Emoluments for a limited Time. $12
  * Local and Personal Act

• [Anno 4&5, Cap.67*]. ... to to alter and amend ... An Act for enlarging, improving, and maintaining the Port and Harbour of Perth, for improving the Navigation of the River Tay ... (p.1 worn and dusty; 36 pp.) $20
  * Local and Personal Act

Reign of Victoria

• [Anno 1, Cap.85*]. ... for removing and preventing Encroachments within ... Bristol, and for better regulating the Shipping, Rivers, Wharfs, Backs, and Quays, and the Markets ... (worn; 38 pp.) $10
  * Local and Personal Act

• [Anno 1&2, Cap.65]. ... for relieving Commissioners and other acting in the execution of divers Local Improvement Acts from certain Penalties and Disabilities. $12

• [Anno 1&2, Cap.79]. ... for the better Regulation of Hackney Carriages, and of Metropolitan Stage Carriages, and of Waggons, Carts, and Drays ... and of the Drivers and Attendants thereof. $20

• [Anno 1&2, Cap.88]. ... to authorize a further Issue of Exchequer Bills for Public Works and Fisheries and Employment of the Poor ... $12

• [Anno 3&4, Cap.118*]. ... for farther deepening and improving the River Clyde, and enlarging the Harbour of Glasgow, and for constructing a Wet Dock in connexion with the said River and Harbour. (78 pp.) $25
  * Local and Personal Act

• [Anno 3&4, Cap.87]. ... to enable ... Commissioners of Woods, Forests, Land Revenues, Works, and Buildings to make additional Thoroughfares in the Metropolis. (55 p.) $20

• [Anno 4, Cap.12]. ... to enable ... Commissioners of Woods to make a new Street from Coventry Street, Picadilly, to Long Acre, and for other Improvements in the Metropolis. (50 p.) $20

• [Anno 8&9, Cap.88]. ... for the Encouragement of British Shipping and Navigation. $15
• [Anno 8&9, Cap.89]. ... for the registering of British Vessels. $18
• [Anno 8&9, Cap.104]. ... to empower the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Woods to appropriate to building purposes the Area of Darby Court, in the Parish of Saint James Westminster. $10

• [Anno 9, Cap.2*]. ... for lighting with Gas the Town and Parish of Radcliff and the Township of Pilkington ..., in the County Palatine of Lancaster. $20
  * Local and Personal Act

• [Anno 10, Cap.15]. ... for consolidating in One Act certain Provisions usually contained in Acts authorizing the making of Gasworks for supplying Towns with Gas. $20

• [Anno 10&11, Cap.115]. ... to vary the Priorities and Charges made on "The London Bridge Approaches Fund." $15

• [Anno 11, Cap.13*]. ... for amending "The Bristol and Clifton Gaslight Act, 1847." (Edgeworn) $8
  * Local and Personal Act

• [Anno 13&14, Cap.111*]. ... to enable the Hartlepool West Harbour and Dock Company to alter and improve their Harbour and construct additional Works; and for amending an Act ... called "The Hartlepool West Harbour an Dock Act, 1847." (Dusty) $12
  * Local and Personal Act

• [Anno 14, Cap.1]. ... to amend the Passengers Act, 1849. (With title page.) $18

• [Anno 14&15, Cap.23]. ... to authorize ... the Advance of Money out of the Consolidated Fund ... for carrying on Public Works and Fisheries and Employment of the Poor. $10
• [Anno 14&15, Cap.35]. ... to extend the Benefits of ... the General Merchant Seamen's Act relating to Apprentices bound to the Sea Service to Apprentices bound to the Sea Services by Boards of Guardians of the Poor in Ireland, and to enable such Guardians to place out Boys in the Naval Service. $20

• [Anno 14&15, Cap.42]. ... to make better Provision for the Management of the Woods, Forests, and Land Revenues ..., and for the Direction of Public Works and Buildings. $20
• [Anno 14&15, Cap.46]. ... to amend ... Acts ... enabling the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Woods to purchase Lands for and to form Victoria Park; and to indemnify the Trustees of Copyhold Lands held in trust for Her Majesty. $12
• [Anno 14&15, Cap.61]. ...providing a Metropolitan Market ... in lieu of the Cattle Market at Smithfields. $20

• [Anno 14&15, Cap.75]. ... to amend and continue the Metropolitan Sewers Acts. $12
• [Anno 14&15, Cap.77]. ... to alter and extend ... An Act to ... form a Royal Park in Battersea Fields in the County of Surrey. $10
• [Anno 14&15, Cap.79]. ... to consolidate and amend the Laws relating to the Regulation of Steam Navigation, and to the Boats and Lights to be carried by Sea-going Vessels. $25
• [Anno 14&15, Cap.95]. ... for transferring the Duties of paving, lighting, watering, and cleansing Parts of the Crown Estate in ... Regent's Park and ... Westminster from the Commissioners ... to the Parishes; and ... Jurisdiction of the said Commissioners over certain other Places in Westminster to the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Works and Public Buildings ... $15
• [Anno 14&15, Cap.96]. ... to amend the Mercantile Marine Act, 1850. $18

• [Anno 15&16, Cap.44]. ... to amend and consolidate the Laws relating to the Carriage of Passengers by Sea. (46 p.) $35
• [Anno 15&16, Cap.64]. ... to continue and amend the Metropolitan Sewers Act. $10
• [Anno 15&16, Cap.71]. ... to amend an Act ... for the Embankment of a Portion of the River Thames. $10
• [Anno 15&16, Cap.152*]. ... to appoint Commissioners for the Execution of certain Improvements in the Navigation of the River Slaney, .... $10
  * Local and Personal Act

• [Anno 17, Cap.5]. ... to admit Foreign Ships to the Coasting Trade. $10

• [Anno 17, Cap.15]. ... to empower the Commissioners of the Admiralty to construct a Tunnel between ... [the] Dockyard at Devonport and ... [the] Steam Factory Yard at Keyham, and to acquire certain Property ... $22

• [Anno 17, Cap.22]. ... to enable thte Collector General of Dublin to levy Money to repay a certain Outlay ... for preserving and improving the Port of Dublin in and about repairing the Quay Wall of the River Liffey ..., and for repairing and rebuilding Bridges over said River. $15

• [Anno 17&18, Cap.31]. ... for the better Regulation of the Traffic on Railways and Canals. (Pencilled underlining.) $10
• [Anno 17&18, Cap.33]. ... to place Public Statues within the Metropolitan Police District under the Control of the Commissioners of ... Works and Public Buildings. $12

• [Anno 17&18, Cap.45]. ... to amend the Dublin Carriage Act, 1853. $15
• [Anno 17&18, Cap.192*]. ... for authorizing Arrangements with respect to the South Reserve at Birkenhead, ..., and of which the Short Title is "The Birkenhead Dock Trustees Act, 1854." $12
  * Local and Personal Act

• [Anno 17&18, Cap.69]. ... to indemnify Local Boards of Health as regards rating for the Repair of Highways, under the Public Health Act, 1848. $10
• [Anno 17&18, Cap.71]. ... to amend the Laws concerning the making of Borough Rates in Boroughs not within the Municipal Corporation Acts. $8

• [Anno 17&18, Cap.87]. ... to make further Provision for the Burial of the Dead ... beyond the Limits of the Metropolis. $20
• [Anno 17&18, Cap.91]. ... for the Valuation of Lands and Heritages in Scotland. (22 p.) $20
• [Anno 17&18, Cap.103]. ... to make better Provision for the paving, lighting, draining, cleansing, suppling with Water, and Regulation of Towns in Ireland. (52 p.) $40
• [Anno 17&18, Cap.104]. ... to amend and consolidate the Acts relating to Merchant Shipping. (223 p. plus 20 page "Arrangement of Clauses" abstract.) $65

• [Anno 17&18, Cap.111]. ... to continue and amend the Metropolitan Sewers Act. $20
• [Anno 17&18, Cap.120]. ... to repeal certain Acts and Parts of Acts relating to Merchant Shipping, and to continue certain Provisions ... $15

• [Anno 18, Cap.45*]. ... to extend the Limits of the Borough of Kingston-upon-Thames, and to provide for the better paving, lighting, draining, and otherwise improving the said Borough ... $18
  * Local and Personal Act

• [Anno 18&19, Cap.144*]. ... to enable the Halifax Gaslight and Coke Company to transfer their undertaking and Powers to the Halifax Local Board of Health; and for other Puposes. $15
  * Local and Personal Act

• [Anno 18&19, Cap.65]. ... to amend the Dublin Carriage Acts. $8

• [Anno 18&19, Cap.192*]. ... for extending the Times granted to the Westminster Improvement Commissioners ... for the compulsory Purchase of Lands and the Completion of Works; and for altering the Corporate Name of "The Westminster Association for improving the Dwellings of the Working Classes" to "The London and Westminster Association for ..." $20
  * Local and Personal Act

• [Anno 20&21, Cap.97*]. ... to repeal "The River Slaney Improvement Act, 1852," and to make better Provision for the Execution of the Objects of that Act ... $15
  * Local and Personal Act

• [Anno 24&25, Cap.188*]. ... to enable the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board to purchase from ... Liverpool the Reversion Fee of certain Leasehold Lands ... at Birkenhead; to extend the Period for the Completion of certain Works...; and to enable the Board to improve the working of the Docks and the loading and unloading of Vessels. $18
  * Local and Personal Act

• [Anno 27&28, Cap.104]. ... to extend the Powers of the Public Works (Manufacturing Districts Act, 1863). $15

• [Anno 34&35, Cap.132*]. ... to amend ..."An Act for erecting, maintaining, and supporting a lighthouse on the island of Little Cumray, in ... Bute, at the mouth of the River Clyde ...; and for rendering the navigation in the frith and river of Clyde more safe and commodious." $18
  * Local and Personal Act

• [Anno 35&36, Cap.131*]. ... to enable the Tyne Improvement Commissioners to construct a Dock at or near the Coble Dene, with River Walls, Railways, and Other Works; to consolidate, alter, and define the application of ... Funds ... $15
  * Local and Personal Act

• [Anno 40&41, Cap.127*]. ... to confirm a Provisional Order under The Local Government Act, 1858, and The Sewage Utilization Act, 1865, relating to Dungannon. $8
  * Local and Personal Act

• [Anno 41&42, Cap.208*]. ... for empowering the Great Western Railway Company to make new Railways, Roads, and other Works; ... to abandon the construction of certain authorized Railways; for vesting in the ... [GWR] and the Severn Navigation Commissioners the undertakings of the Gloucester and Worcester Horse Towing-path Company and the River Severn Horse Towing-path Extension Company; ... in the ...[GWR] and the Stratford-upon Avon Railway Company the undertaking of the Alcester Railway Company; ... for empowering the ... [GWR] to subscribe towards the capitol and debenture of the Worcester, Bromyard, and Leominster, the Mitcheldean Road and Forest of Dean Junction, the Malmesbury, and the Llynvi and Ogmore Railway Companies ... $25
  * Local and Personal Act

• [Anno 44&45, Cap.74*]. ... for extending the time for the cumpulsory purchase of lands and for the construction of the works authorized by the Cheltenham Corporation Water Act 1878 ... (Edgewear and tears.) $5
  * Local and Personal Act

• [Anno 44&45, Cap.186*]. ... for incorporating a Company and authorising them to make and maintain a Dock Railway and other works at Annan ... $18
  * Local and Personal Act

• [Anno 46&47, Cap.60*]. ... to extend the municipal boundary ... of Aberdeen; to authorize the Town Council to make new streets, execute certain street improvements, and construct a connecting railway to the Glassworks ... $15
  * Local and Personal Act

• [Anno 47&48, Cap.151*]. ... for reincorporating and conferring powers on the Llanfairfechan Waterworks Company Limited. $12
  * Local and Personal Act

• [Anno 47&48, Cap.203*]. ... to amend the Stockton and Middlesborough Corporations Waterworks Act 1876 and to confer further powers upon ... the Boroughs of Stockton-on-Tees and Middlesborough and the ... Water Board for the supply of water to the said Boroughs ... $12
  * Local and Personal Act

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