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Commissioners of Woods, &c. empowered to purchase the Grapes Tavern at Kensington, for the Purpose of Improvements.
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XI. ‘And whereas an Act was passed in the Fifth Year of the Reign of Her present Majesty, intituled An Act to authorize Her Majesty’s Commissioners of Woods to grant Building Leases of the Royal Kitchen Garden at Kensington, and to form and improve other Royal Gardens; and to enable the said Commissioners to purchase Lands of Copyhold or Customary Tenure: And whereas another Act was passed in the Fifth Year of the Reign of Her present Majesty (Session 2), intituled An Act to empower the Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Woods to form a new Opening from the Knightsbridge Road into Hyde Park, and a new Opening from High Street, Kensington, into an intended new Road across the Palace Green, and for annexing a Piece of extra-parochial Ground in the Royal Garden to the respective Parishes of Saint Mary Abbots Kensington and Saint Mary Paddington in several Portions: And whereas the Opening from High Street, Kensington, into the new Road across the Palace Green, contemplated by the last-mentioned Act, has been made, but the same being narrow and confined it is desirable and expedient that such Opening should be widened and enlarged;’ be it enacted, That it shall be lawful for the Commissioners for the Time being of Her Majesty’s Woods, Forests, Land Revenues, Works, and Buildings, for and on behalf of Her Majesty, and they are hereby empowered, with the Consent and Approbation of the Lord High Treasurer, or the Commissioners for executing the Office of Lord High Treasurer of the United Kingdom, or any Three or more of them, to purchase a certain Piece or Parcel of Ground, Messuage or Tenement, and Buildings, with the Appurtenances, situate on the North Side of High Street, Kensington, in the County of Middlesex, known as the Grapes Tavern, and all subsisting Terms, Estates, Charges, and Interests therein, and to pull down such Buildings when so purchased, and to appropriate the Site thereof, or any Part thereof, towards widening the said Entrance or Approach from High Street, Kensington, aforesaid, into the new Road across the Palace Green aforesaid.
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