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ACTS OF PARLIAMENT

Part 2 : 1800 - 1849

Brent Bridge and Plymouth Road Act 1800 (39 & 40 Geo. 3 Ch. vi)

Female Orphan Asylum Act 1800 (39 & 40 Geo. 3 Ch. lx)

[Lairy Embankment (Plymouth)] Act 1802 (42 Geo. 3 Ch. 32)
An Act to enable his Majesty to grant certain Parcels of Land, situate between Great Prince Rock and the Village of Crab Tree, called Tothill Bay, and Lipson Bay, near to the Borough of Plymouth in the County of Devon, to certain Persons therein named for the Purpose of embanking and preserving the same from the Sea.  Royal Assent: 24th March 1802.  [AC].

Saltash Roads Act 1802 (42 Geo. 3 Ch. xvii)

Devon Roads 1802 (42 Geo. 3 Ch. lxxv)

Efford Quay and Plymouth Road Act 1803 (43 Geo. 3 Ch. xv)

Roads from Modbury through Plymouth Act 1803 (43 Geo. 3 Ch. xxvii)

Dart Teign and Plym Fisheries Act 1803 (43 Geo. 3 Ch. lxi)

Roads to and from Exeter Act 1803 (43 Geo. 3 Ch. cxxii)

Tavistock Canal Act 1803 (43 Geo. 3 Ch. cxxx)

Roads from Tavistock to Plymouth and from Manadon Gate Act 1804 (44 Geo. 3 Ch. xvi)
An Act for the better amending and repairing of the Roads leading from the Lower Market House in Tavistock, to Old Town Gate, in the Borough of Plymouth, and from Manadon Gate to the Old Pound near Plymouth Dock, in the County of Devon.  Royal Assent 3rd May 1804.  [PC]

Tavistock and New Bridge Roads Act 1804 (44 Geo. 3 Ch. lxxvi)

Plymouth and Stonehouse Bridge Roads Act 1805 (45 Geo. 3 Ch. xxxiv)

An Act for enabling His Majesty to grant a certain Creek, called Chelson Bay, otherwise Shilston Bay, in or near the Parish of Plympton Saint Mary, in the County of Devon; and for vesting the same, for a valuable Consideration in the Right Honourable John Lord Boringdon, and His Heirs 1805 (Public Act 45 Geo. 3 Ch. 116).  Royal Assent 10th July 1805.  [AC]

Roads from Callington Act 1806 (46 Geo. 3 Ch. xv)

Devon County Gaol Act 1810 (50 Geo. 3 Ch. lxxxv)

Town of Plymouth Improvement Act 1811 (51 Geo. 3 Ch. cii)

Sutton Pool Harbour (Plymouth) Act 1811 (51 Geo. 3 Ch. cxcvi)
(This Act authorised the formation of the Sutton Pool Company, which for £6,000 acquired a 99-year lease on Sutton Pool.)  Royal Assent 26 June 1811.

Roborough Down and Dartmoor Road Act 1812 (52 Geo. 3 Ch. iv)

Cattewater Harbour Act 1812 (52 Geo. 3 Ch. l)
An Act for the improvement of certain parts of the harbour of Catwater within the Manor of Plympton in the County of Devon; and for more effectually providing for the security of the communication from Pomphlet Point across the contiguous water of Lary within the said Manor.

Roads from Tavistock to Plymouth and from Manadon Gate Act 1813 (53 Geo. 3 Ch. xxvi) [possibly called the Plymouth Roads Act 1813]

Plymouth Workhouse Act 1813 (53 Geo. 3 Ch. lxxiii)

West of England Fire and Life Insurance Company Act 1813 (54 Geo. 3 Ch. x)

Roads from Brent Bridge to Plymouth Act 1813 (54 Geo. 3 Ch. lii)

Plymouth  and Stoke Damarel Poor Relief and Improvement Act 1814 (54 Geo. 3 Ch. clxxii)
An Act to Repeal an Act, passed in the Twenty-first year of His present Majesty for better maintaining and regulating the Poor within the Town of Plymouth-Dock and Parish of Stoke-Damarel in the County of Devon, and for other purposes; and granting further Powers in lieu thereof; for Lighting, Watching, and otherwise improving the said Town and Parish, and regulating Porters and Watermen therein.  Royal Assent 20th June 1814.

Roads to and from Exeter Act 1815 (Ch. xii)

Plymouth and Dartmoor Railway Act 1819 (59 Geo. 3 Ch. cxv)
An Act for making and maintaining a Railway or Tramroad from Crabtree in the Parish of Egg Buckland in the county of Devon to communicate with the Prison of War on the Forest of Dartmoor in the Parish of Lydford in the said county.  Royal Assent 2nd July 1819.

Plymouth and Exeter Road Act 1820 (1 Geo. 4 Ch. xxi)
An Act to improve certain parts of the line of the road between the Borough of Plymouth and the City of Exeter, through Ashburton and Chudleigh, in the County of Devon.

Plymouth and Dartmoor Railway (Crabtree and Sutton Pool Branch) Act 1820 (1 Geo. 4 Ch. liv)
An Act for making a Branch Railway or Tramroad from a place called Crabtree, in the Parish of Egg Buckland, to certain Lime Works at a place called Catdown, and from thence to Sutton Pool, in the Parish of Charles, all in the County of Devon, to communicate with the Plymouth and Dartmoor Railway at Crabtree aforesaid.  Royal Assent 8th July 1820.

Plymouth and Dartmoor Railway Act 1821 (1 & 2 Geo. 4 Ch. cxxv)
An Act to authorise the Plymouth and Dartmoor Railway Company to vary the line of a certain part of the said Railway; and to amend the Acts passed for making the said Railway.  Royal Assent 2nd July 1821. [PC]

Plymouth and Stonehouse Bridge Roads Act 1821 (1 & 2Geo. 4 Ch. li)

Plymouth, Stonehouse Bridge and Plymouth Dock Roads Act 1822 (Ch. li)

Plymouth Gas Act 1823 (4 Geo. 4 Ch. v)
An Act for lighting with gas the town and borough of Plymouth and places adjacent, in the county of Devon.  Royal Assent 24th March 1823.

Saltash Roads Act 1823 (4 Geo. 4 Ch. vi)

Lary [or Lairy] Bridge, Devon Act 1823 (4 Geo. 4 Ch. x)

Roads from Modbury through Plymouth Act 1823 (4 Geo. 4 Ch. cix)
An Act for more effectually making and maintaining the road from Modbury, through ... Plympton, to the north end of Lincotts Lane, and from Modbury to within four hundred yards of the bridge over the Lary and also a road from Addistone Hill, in the parish of Holbeton, to the Totnes Road at Lady Down, in the parish of Ugborough.

Victualling Establishment, Plymouth, Act 1824 (5 Geo. 4 Ch. 49)
An Act for enabling the Commissioners for Victualling His Majesty's Navy to purchase certain Premises, for completing a Victualling Establishment at Cremill Point near Plymouth in the County of Devon, and for supplying the said Establishment with Water.   Royal Assent 3rd June 1824.  [AC]

Asylum for Female Orphans Act 1824 (Ch. v)

Plymouth Improvement Act 1824 (5 Geo. 4 Ch. xxii)

Lairy [or Lary] Embankment Act 1824 ( 5 Geo. 4 Ch. xxvi)

Lary Bridge Act 1824 (5 Geo. 4 Ch. cxiii)
An Act for altering and amending an Act of the last session of Parliament for erecting a bridge over the water of Lary in the County of Devon.

Devon Roads Act 1826 (Ch. xcii)

Callington Roads Act 1827 (Ch. ci)

Stonehouse Mill Pool Bridge Act 1830 (11 Geo. 4 & 1 Will. 4 Ch. lxviii)

Saltash Floating Bridge Act 1832 (2 & 3 Will. 4 Ch. vii)

Sutton Pool Harbour Act 1832 (2 & 3 Will. 4 Ch. ix)
An Act to continue the Term and to alter and amend the Powers of an Act passed in the Fifty-first Year of the Reign of His Majesty King George the Third, for the Improvement of the Harbour of Sutton Pool in the Port of Plymouth in the County of Devon.   Royal Assent 24th March 1832. [AC]

Saltash Roads Act 1833 (3 & 4 Will. 4 Ch. v)

West of England Fire and Life Assurance Company Act 1834 (4 & 5 Will. 4 Ch. xxxvii)

Devonport Market Act 1835 (5 & 6 Will. 4 Ch. xv)
An Act to enlarge & regulate the Market now held in the Town of Devonport in the County of Devon, and to establish a Market within the said Town for Corn, Grain and other Articles, and to regulate the Amount of Tolls to be paid within the said Markets.  Royal Assent 12th June 1835.

Ugborough and Modbury Road Act 1836 (Ch. xlviii)

Plymouth and Devonport Court of Requests Act 1837 (7 Will. 4 & 1 Vict. Ch lxii)

Mill Bay Pier Act 1840 (3 & 4 Vict. Ch cxi)
An Act for erecting and maintaining a pier and other works, in Mill Bay in the Port of Plymouth in the County of Devon.

Plymouth and Exeter Road Act 1841 (4 & 5 Vict. Ch. xxxi)

Brent Bridge and Plymouth (Gasking Street) Road Act 1841 (4 & 5 Vict. Ch. xxxii)

Plymouth and Stonehouse [Bridge] Roads and Transport Act 1843 (6 & 7 Vict. Ch. lxi)
An Act for regulating Hackney Coaches and other Carriages, Boats, and Wherries within the several Parishes of Saint Andrew and Charles in the Borough of Plymouth, the Parish of East Stonehouse and the Parish of Stoke Damerel in the Borough of Devonport, and for amending Two several Acts for repairing certain Roads leading from the Borough of Plymouth aforesaid to Stonehouse Bridge and Plymouth Dock, all in the County of Devon.  Royal Assent 27th June 1843.  [AC]

South Devon Railway Act 1844 (7 & 8 Vict. Ch. lxviii)
An Act for making a Railway from Exeter to Plymouth, to be called “The South Devon Railway”.  Royal Assent 4th July 1844.

Devonport Gas and Coke Company Act 1845 (8 & 9 Vict. Ch. lxiv)

Plymouth and Stonehouse Gas Act 1845 (8 & 9 Vict. Ch. lxv)
An Act for better supplying with Gas the Town and Neighbourhood of Plymouth.   Royal Assent 30th June 1845.  [AC]

Plymouth, Devonport and Stonehouse Cemetery Company Act 1846 (9 & 10 Vict. Ch. xxvii)

Cornwall Railway Act 1846 (9 & 10 Vict. Ch. cccxxxv)

Plymouth Great Western Dock Act 1846 (9 & 10 Vict. Ch. ccclxxxiii)
Royal Assent 18th August 1846.

South Devon Railway (Amendment and Branches) Act 1846 (9 & 10 Vict. Ch. ccccii)

Plymouth and Tavistock Turnpike [Roads] Act 1847 (10 & 11 Vict. Ch. xlvii)

Cornwall Railway Amendment and Deviation Act 1847 (10 & 11 Vict. Ch. lxxii)

South Devon Railway (Extensions and Amendment) Act 1847 (10 & 11 Vict. Ch. ccxlii)
An Act to enable the South Devon Railway Company to extend the Line of the South Devon Railway to Torquay and to Brixham....

Sutton Harbour [Plymouth Port] Act 1847
(10 & 11 Vict. Ch. ccxcvii)
An Act for improving and regulating the harbour of Sutton Pool within the Port of Plymouth in the County of Devon.  (This Act set up the Sutton Harbour Improvement Company).

Plymouth Great Western Dock (Amendment) Act 1848 (11 & 12 Vict. Ch. xcv)

London & South Western Railway (Extension of Powers) Act 1849 (Ch. xxxiii)


Principal Sources:

Chronological Table of Local Acts, Office of Public Sector Information (formerly Her Majesty's Stationery Office) - see www.opsi.gov.uk.

Chronological Table of Private and Personal Acts, Office of Public Sector Information (formerly Her Majesty's Stationery Office) - see www.opsi.gov.uk.

The Prelims and date of Royal Assent are reproduced from the actual Acts of Parliament, where the author has access to them.

 

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