COUNTY OF SOUTHAMPTON.
EPIPHANY QUARTER SESSIONS, 1863.
WHEREAS five of Her Majesty’s Justices of the Peace, acting in and for the said County of Southampton, did, by writing under their hands, dated the 16th day of December, 1862, require the Clerk of the Peace of the said County to add to and send with the Notice required by Law to be given of the holding of the Court of the then next Epiphany Quarter Sessions, a NOTICE, according to the Form marked A in the Schedule to the Act of the 25th and 26th Vict., cap. 61, entitled ‟An Act for the better Management of Highways in England;” that, at such Court of Quarter Sessions, a PROPOSAL would be made to the JUSTICES then and there assembled, TO DIVIDE THE SAID COUNTY OF SOUTHAMPTON INTO HIGHWAY DISTRICTS.
AND WHEREAS at the present General Quarter Sessions of the Peace, in and for the said County, holden at the CASTLE OF WINCHESTER, in the said County, this 5th day of January, 1863, a PROPOSAL HAS BEEN SUBMITTED TO THE COURT by the said JUSTICES TO DIVIDE THE SAID COUNTY OF SOUTHAMPTON INTO HIGHWAY DISTRICTS.
AND WHEREAS the said Court has entertained the said proposal:—
NOW, THEREFORE, the said Court, in pursuance of the powers vested in it by the said Act, DOTH provisionally Order that the said County of Southampton, so far as it is affected by the said recited Act, be DIVIDED INTO HIGHWAY DISTRICTS, for the more convenient management of the Highways in each of the said Districts, and that the following Parishes and Places viz.:—
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| Bramshott | Hawkley |
| Buriton | Liss |
| Colemore | Prior’s Dean |
| Eastmeon | Privett |
| Empshott | Petersfield |
| Froxfield | Steep |
| Greatham | Sheet |
be united, and do constitute a District, to be called ‟The Petersfield District;” and that two Waywardness be elected for the Parish of Eastmeon, and one Waywarden for each of the remaining Parishes or Places within the said District.
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NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN,—That the Confirmation of the said Provisional Order will be taken into consideration by the Justices at the Court of General Sessions, to be held at the Grand Jury Chamber, in Winchester, on Saturday, the 14th day of March, 1863, at One o’clock.
By the Court, T. B. WOODHAM,
Deputy Clerk of the Peace.