[6] The number of enclosure bills passed between 1800 and 1814 was 1,448; in the next year they fell off remarkably; and between 1814 and 1830, only 557 passed the legislature. The enclosure bills passed for Worcestershire in the present century are Astley, Bayton, Ombersley, Hartlebury, Alton (Rock), Feckenham, Minith Wood, Coston Hackett, Burlish Common, Stock and Bradley, Hagley, Harberrow and Blakedown, Fladbury, Yardley. And since the passing of the General Enclosure Act, powers have been obtained to enclose part of Welland Common, Areley Common, Longdon, Newbold-on-Stour, and Hatfield (Kempsey).[65] The ports were opened, at 1s. a quarter duty, from the end of February, 1818, when some superior white wheat was fetching 102s. a quarter, to the end of March, 1819.[90] On the Sunday during or immediately following the Assizes, which used to be known as Assize Sunday, and kept as a great fair, the keepers at the county gaol were accustomed to show the prisoners through the bars to the curious crowd, and collect sixpences in a boot for pointing out those who were sentenced to be hanged, &c.[156] The titles of the projects were—Worcester and South Wales Junction; East and West Junction; Birmingham, Wolverhampton, and Stour Valley, Midland and Eastern Counties Railway; London, Warwick, Leamington, and Kidderminster; Direct Birmingham and Leicester Railway; Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Branches; Worcester, Hereford, Ross, and Gloucester; Warwickshire and London; Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction; Worcester, Tenbury, and Ludlow; Trent Valley, Midlands, and Grand Junction; Worcester and Leominster; Worcester and Portdynllaen; Birmingham and Oxford Junction; Birmingham, Wolverhampton, and Dudley; South Staffordshire Junction; Gloucester and Hereford Canal and Worcester; Welsh Midland: Welsh Midland Extension; Midland and Eastern Counties; Oxford and Worcester Extension and Chester Junction; Birmingham and Bristol; Birmingham, Wolverhampton, and Stour Valley (No. 2); Warwickshire and London (Worcester to Weedon); Birmingham and Gloucester (branches); Northampton, Banbury, and Cheltenham; Leamington, Warwick, and Cheltenham; Worcester, Warwick, and Rugby; Shropshire Union; Dudley, Madeley, Broseley, and Ironbridge; Cambrian and Grand Junction; Warwick and Worcester; Warwick and Birmingham; Rugby, Warwick, and Worcester.[165] Some facts, with regard to currents and the course of running water, established during the course of the recent alterations in the Severn, were totally opposed to all the theories previously held by hydraulic engineers; and when first brought under their notice were scarcely credited, though backed by the best of testimony.[171] The present commissioners are Lord Hatherton, The Right Hon. Sir John Pakington, Bart., M.P., T. C. Hornyold, Esq., John Benbow, Esq., M.P., H. E. Strickland, Esq., Thomas Fulljames, Esq., W. H. Hyett, Esq., J. W. Lea, Esq., E. Evans, Esq., J. M. Gutch, Esq., E. Webb, Esq., D. M. Walker, Esq., T. Sturge, Esq., N. P. Price, Esq., M.P., W. H. Barrow, Esq., M.P., Richard P. King, Esq., S. Tombs, jun., Esq., William Dowdeswell, Esq., W. R. Anstice, Esq., Richard Blakemore, Esq., J. M. G. Cheek, Esq., J. Rogers, Esq., J. S. Rutter, Esq., William Mabson, Esq., P. Baldwin, Esq., A. H. Jenkins, Esq., John Home, Esq., E. L. Kendall, Esq., W. Wills, Esq., John W. Hughes, Esq.