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Goodchild of Wokingham, or in case of his death, inability, refusal, or default, James
Weeks of Wokingham shall perform the duties of the Mayor and the Assessors for
revising the Burgess List, and the separate list of persons qualified to be Councillors;
and William Goodchild of Wokingham, or in case of his death, inability, refusal, or
default, James Weeks of Wokingham shall perform the duties of the Mayor and
Aldermen respectively as Returning Officer, and of the Mayor as Summoner of the
first meeting of the Council, and of the Mayor or Chairman of the Meeting for the
election of the Mayor, Aldermen, Town Clerk, and Treasurer: And the said persons
shall be substituted in the Municipal Corporations Act, l882, for the said Town Clerk,
Mayor, Assessors, Aldermen, and Chairman respectively, so far as relates to the
matters aforesaid; and
(C) The first election of Councillors shall take place on the second day of November
one thousand eight hundred and eighty five and the first meeting of the Council of
the Borough shall be held on the ninth day of November One thousand eight hundred
and eighty five:

(6) The years and days specified in the Second Schedule to these Presents shall be the
years and days for the retirement of the first Alderman and Councillors who shall retire in
the manner and at the times therein designated.

( 7 ) Subject to these Presents and the schedules thereto and the provisions and directions in
the second Schedule thereto the Provisions of the Municipal Corporations Act, 1882 shall
apply to the determination of the qualifications of the first Burgesses the making out, signing
delivering inspection completion publication commencement and continuance of the first
Burgess Lists and Burgess Rolls, the claims objections and determinations with regard to the
first Burgess Lists or Rolls, the holding adjournments and decisions of the first Revision
Courts, the nominations elections and continuance in office of the first Mayor Alderman
Councillors Auditors and Assessors, the appointment and continuance in office of the first
Town Clerk and Treasurer, the first meeting and quarterly meeting of the Town Council, and
all matters and things touching and concerning the above and the dates and times in the said
Act mentioned shall be the dates and times on at during within or for which the matters
aforesaid and the various acts in relation thereto shall take place be done be estimated or be
calculated.
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FIRST SCHEDULE.
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METES [Boundaries specified by distance and direction] AND BOUNDS OF BOROUGH.

All those parts of the Parish of Wokingham in the County of Berks comprised within a line
commencing at the centre of the bridge over the Emms Brook, on the road from Wokingham to
Finchampstead; thence in a North-Westerly direction along the left Bank of the said Brook to a point
opposite the North-Western corner of field numbered 465 on the Tithe Map of the said Parish; thence
along the North side of fields numbered 465, 460, and 461, to the North-Eastern corner of the last-
mentioned field ; thence in a Northerly direction along the Eastern side of field numbered 459 to its
North-Eastern corner, and thence in a North-Easterly direction across the road along the Northern side
of fields Nos. 479 and 482 to the North-Eastern corner of the last mentioned field; thence across the
road from Wokingham to Reading by the Southern corner of fields Nos. 220 and 229 across the South
Eastern Railway ; along the South side of fields Nos. 207, 208 and 210, thence across the road from
Wokingham to Twyford and along the South side of fields Nos 189, 1601, 1598, to the North- Eastern
corner of the fields last mentioned; thence along the Eastern side of field No. 1598 aforesaid, across
the road and along the Northern and Eastern sides of fields Nos. 1569 and 1570; thence along the
Eastern side of field No. 1572, the Northern and Eastern sides of field No. 1576, and the Eastern side
of field No. 1575 to the South Eastern corner of the last mentioned field ; thence in an Easterly

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