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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 86. 



THE GENERAL LAND DRAINAGE AND 

 niPROVEMENT COMPANY. 



Incorporated by Act of Parliament, 12 and 13 Vict. c.91. 



DIRECTORS. 



Henry Ker Seymeh, Esq., M.P., Hanford, Dorset, Chairman. 



John V1U.1ERS Shelley, Esq., Maresfield Park, Sussex, Deputy-Chair- 

 man. 



John Chevallier Cobbold, Esq., M.P.. Ipswich. 



William Cubitt, Esq . Great Geortrc Street, Westminster. 



Henry Currie, Esq.. M.P., West Ilorslcv, Surrey. 



Thomas Edward Dicey, Esq., Claybrook Hall, Lutterworth. 



\\ illiam Fisher Hobbs, Esq., Boxted I.odse, Colchester. 



Edward .lohn Ilutchins. Esq., M.P., Euton Square, London. 



Samuel Morton Peto, Esq., M.P., Great George Street. 



Coluiiel Oeorge Alexander Reid, M.P.. Bulstrode Park, Bucks. 



Wi ham Tite, Esq., F.R.S., Lowndes S.iuare, London. 



Wdham Wdshere, Esq., The Frythe, Welwyn, Herts. 

 This Company is empowered to execute — 



1. All works of Drainage (including Outfalls through adjoining 

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2. To erect Farm Homesteads, and other Buildings necessary for the 

 cultivation of Land. 



3. To execute Improvements, under Contract, with Commissioners of 

 hewers. Local Boards of Health, Corporations, Trustees, and other 

 Fubuc Bodies. 



4. To purchase Lands capable of Improvement, and fettered by Re- 

 strictions of Entail ; and having executed the necessary Works, to resell 

 them with a Title communicated by the Company's Act. 



Owners of Entailed Estates, Trustees, Mortgagees, Corporations, In- 

 cumbents, Life Tenants, and other Persons having onlv limited Inte- 

 rests, may obtain the useof theCompanv's Powers to carry out every kind 

 of permanent Improvement, eitlier by the Application of tlieir own or 

 the Lompany s Funds, secured by a yearly Charge on the Property im- 

 proved. 



Proposals for the Execution of Works to be addressed to 



Offices, .«. Parliament Street, 

 Westminster. 



William Clifford, Secretary. 



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