[posted] Posted(#58113, Anonymous)

[David Price]

Brompton Square Act, 1825, by Anonymous                                  58113
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For those wishing to know: back in 1825 if you wanted to have civil 
improvements in England you had to spend a lot of money on lawyers etc. to 
get an Act of Parliament drawn up to allow you to proceed.  Getting the 
Act through Parliament cost an awful lot more.  This is such an act, for a 
square in Brompton, near Kensington, London, in 1825.  It seems people got 
paid by the word so it's also an exercise in spinning it out!  And what
the wanted to do (the full title but not used, including in Kensington 
Local Studies who let me use their copy) is:

AN
ACT
TO PROVIDE FOR THE
PAVING, GRAVELLING, LIGHTING,
AND WATCHING
Certain Footways and Carriageways
IN AND NEAR
BROMPTON SQUARE
IN THE PARISH OF
SAINT MARY ABBOTTS KENSINGTON,
IN THE COUNTY OF MIDDLESEX
AND TO PROVIDE FOR THE
Maintenance of a Garden and Shrubbery
IN THE SAID SQUARE.

Interestingly, since Parliament would pass it, it provides for prison 
sentences!

All the best,
David,
England, damp