'to be payable to the Person liable to any such Instalment by 'Persons being both the Owners and Occupiers at the same Time of the Lands charged with such Compositions, such Instalment, or so much thereof as should be equivalent to the said Sums 'payable by such Persons, should not be remitted; and the said Act provided, that from and against such Persons, being such 'Owners and Occupiers as aforesaid, the Person liable to any such Instalment might sue for and recover the Sums so added to the 'said Compositions, and remaining due and in arrear from them, by all the Ways and Means by which Compositions for Tithes might have been recovered if the said Act of the last Session of ⚫ Parliament had not been passed: And whereas it is expedient to 'make further Provision for the Relief of the Persons liable to the ⚫ said Instalments;' be it therefore enacted, That, any thing in the said Act of the last Session of Parliament to the contrary notwithstanding, it shall be lawful for the said Lord Lieutenant in Council to remit the Whole or any Part of any such Instalment as aforesaid, although the Whole or any Part of the said Sums so added to the said Compositions shall be found to be payable to the Person liable to such Instalment by Persons being both the Owners and Occupiers at the same Time of the Lands charged with such Compositions; provided, however, that so soon as the Whole or any Part of such Instalment shall be remitted by the said Lord Lieutenant in Council (whereof the Certificate of the Clerk of the Council shall be sufficient Evidence), the Right to all Sums so added to the said Compositions, and remaining due and payable to the Person so relieved from such Instalment or Part thereof, by Persons being both the Owners and Occupiers at the same Time of the Lands charged with such Compositions, shall vest in Her Majesty; and that the like Proceedings shall be had for enforcing Payment thereof as are in and by the said Act directed to be taken touching all Compositions for Tithe the Right to which is vested in Her Majesty under or by virtue of the Provisions thereof; and that all Monies so recovered shall be paid into the Bank of Ireland to the Credit of the herein-before mentioned "Tithe Arrear Account." V. And be it enacted, That the Provision made by the said Act Interpretation of the last Session of Parliament for the Interpretation of certain of certain Words Words and Expressions therein shall apply and extend to the like in this Act. Words and Expressions in this Act; and that by the Expression "Owners and Occupiers at the same Time of the Lands charged with Compositions" (wherever such Expression may occur in the said Act or in this Act) shall be understood Persons occupying the Lands charged with such Compositions, and having in the said Lands such like Estates or Interests as would under the Provisions of the said Act have made the Owners thereof liable to the Payment of the Rent-charges mentioned therein if such Act had been in force, and such Rent-charges payable at the Time when such Composition accrued due. VI. And be it enacted, That this Act may be amended or repealed by any Act to be passed in this present Session of Parliament. Act may be amended, &c. this Session. CAP. 53 G. 3. c. 4. CA P. IV. An Act to alter the Powers of jointuring contained in several Acts for purchasing and providing a Residence and Estates for the Duke of Wellington, and to settle certain Articles to go as Heirlooms with the said Estates. [27th March 1839.] W THEREAS by an Act passed in the Fifty-third Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Third, intituled An Act for granting a Sum of Money for purchasing an "Estate for the Marquis of Wellington and his Heirs, in con'sideration of the eminent and signal Services performed by the said Marquis of Wellington to His Majesty and the Public, it was amongst other things enacted, that a Sum not exceeding 'One hundred thousand Pounds of lawful Money of Great Britain should be paid out of the Consolidated Fund of Great Britain, 'free and clear of all Taxes and Deductions whatsoever, to the Speaker of the House of Commons, the Lord High Treasurer of Great Britain or First Lord Commissioner of the Treasury, the 'Chancellor of the Exchequer for the Time being respectively, the Right Honourable William Wellesley Pole, and the Honourable and Reverend Gerald Valerian Wellesley, Doctor in Divinity, in Trust to and for the Use of the said Marquis of Wellington and such other Persons on whom the Title of Marquis of Wellington 'should descend, and in failure of Issue Male of the said Marquis of Wellington, in Trust to and for the Use of the Heirs of the Body of the said Marquis of Wellington, and to apply the same in the Manner therein-after directed; and it was by the nowreciting Act further enacted, that it should be lawful for the said Trustees to whom the said Sum of One hundred thousand Pounds was thereby granted as aforesaid, and they were thereby required, to lay out and invest the said Sum of One hundred thousand Pounds, or any Part thereof, in the Purchase of any Freehold Manors, Lands, Tenements, and Hereditaments of a good Estate of Inheritance in Fee Simple in Possession, to be free from Incumbrances (except Fee Farm and Quit Rents and other Rents and Services), and to be situate in any Part of Great Britain; and the said Freehold Manors, Lands, Tenements, and Hereditaments should, when so purchased, be forthwith settled, conveyed, and assured to the Use of the said Marquis of Wellington, and to the Heirs Male of the Body of the said Marquis of Wellington, and to such other Person to whom the said Title, Honour, and Dignity of Marquis of Wellington should descend, pursuant to the Limitations of the Patent whereby the said Dignity was granted, and in default and in failure of Heirs Male of the Body of the said Marquis, then to the Use of the Heirs of the Body of the said Marquis of Wellington; and it was by the nowreciting Act further enacted, that it should be lawful for the said Marquis of Wellington, or for the Person upon whom the said Title of Marquis of Wellington should descend, either before or after his Marriage with any Woman or Women, by any Deed or Deeds, or Writing or Writings, with or without Power of Revocation, to be by him sealed and delivered in the Presence ' of 6 ' of Two or more credible Witnesses, (but subject and without Prejudice to the Annuity or Annuities, yearly Sum or Sums, if any, which should be then subsisting and payable by way of Jointure or Jointures out of the said Manors, Lands, Tenements, ⚫ and Hereditaments, by virtue of any Grant, Limitation, or Ap'pointment to be made in pursuance of the Honour therein contained,) to grant, limit, and appoint unto such Woman or Women ⚫ whom he should so marry, for her or their Life or Lives, and for her or their Jointure or Jointures in bar of Dower, as therein' after was expressed, any Annuity or yearly Sum not exceeding the Sum of One thousand five hundred Pounds of like lawful Money, clear of all Taxes, Charges, and Deductions whatsoever, by Act of Parliament or otherwise howsoever, to commence and 'take effect immediately after the Decease of the Person granting, limiting, or appointing the same, and to be issuing and payable out of the said Rents and Profits of the said Manors, Lands, Tenements, and Hereditaments, and to be paid and payable by ' equal quarterly Payments, the first of the said quarterly Pay'ments to be made on the Quarter Day which should first happen ' after the Decease of the Person who should have appointed the Annuity or yearly Sum last therein-before authorized; and it was by the now-reciting Act further enacted, that the said Manors, Lands, Tenements, and Hereditaments should not at one and the same Time be subject to the Payment of more than 'the yearly Sum of Three thousand Pounds for or in respect of any Jointure or Jointures which should be made in pursuance of 'the Powers therein-before contained; and in the now-reciting 'Act are contained divers other Powers, Provisions, and Declara'tions respecting the said Premises: And whereas by an Act also passed in the Fifty-third Year of the Reign of His said late 6 6 Majesty King George the Third, intituled An Act to amend an 53 G. 3. c. 133. Act of the present Session of Parliament for granting a Sum of Money for purchasing an Estate for the Marquis of Wellington ' and his Heirs, in consideration of the eminent and signal Services 'performed by the said Marquis of Wellington to His Majesty and 'the Public, it was amongst other things enacted, that so long as 'the said Title, Honour, and Dignity of Marquis of Wellington 'should endure, and until there should be a Failure of Issue of the Body of the said Marquis of Wellington, neither the said Marquis of Wellington, nor any other Person to whom the 'Manors, Lands, Tenements, and Hereditaments so to be pur'chased should or might descend or stand limited by virtue of the 'Limitations directed by the herein-before mentioned Act, should have any Power, by Fine or Recovery, or by the Exercise of any Power, or by any other Act, Assurance, or Conveyance in the 'Law, to hinder, bar, or disinherit any the Person or Persons to ' or upon whom the said Manors, Lands, Tenements, and Here'ditaments were by the said recited Act to be vested or limited 'from holding or enjoying the same according to the said Limi'tations, other than and except such Leases and Jointures, and 'Power of felling and selling Timber, and disposing of the Monies 'thence arising, as might be made or exercised under the Pro'visions of the said recited Act, and Grants of Lands or Tenements, held by Copy of Court Roll according to the Customs of 'the 6 the respective Manors to be purchased whereof the same might be held, but all such Fines, Recoveries, Acts, Assurances, and 'Conveyances, other than such Leases and Jointures, and Powers, and Grants by Copy as aforesaid, should be and were thereby declared and enacted to be void; and it was by the nowreciting Act further enacted, that on Failure of the Heirs of the Body of the said Marquis of Wellington the Manors, Lands, Tenements, and Hereditaments so to be purchased as aforesaid 'should go and remain to the Use of the said Marquis, his Heirs and Assigns; which ultimate Remainder or Reversion in Fee Sim'ple it should be lawful for the said Marquis of Wellington, and his 'Heirs and Assigns, at any Time or Times during the Continuance of the said Honour, Title, and Dignity of Marquis of Wellington, ' and until there should be a Failure of Issue of his Body notwithstanding any thing therein-before contained, to grant, convey, devise, or dispose of, by Deed or Will, or other Assurance or Assurances by which Freehold Estates in Remainder or Reversion were capable by Law of being conveyed or disposed of: And whereas by an Act passed in the Fifty-fourth Year of the Reign 54 G. 3. c. 161. of His said late Majesty King George the Third, intituled An Act for settling and securing an Annuity on Arthur Duke of Wellington and his Heirs; and for empowering the Lord High Treasurer or 'Lords Commissioners of the Treasury to advance out of the Con'solidated Fund of Great Britain a Sum of Money in lieu of such Annuity, to purchase an Estate, in order to accompany the said Title, in consideration of the eminent and signal Services performed by the said Duke of Wellington to His Majesty and to the Public; and for making further Provision for the Disposal of a Sum of Money granted by an Act of the last Session of Parliament 'for purchasing an Estate for the said Duke then Marquis of Wellington, it was amongst other things enacted, that One Annuity or yearly Sum of Thirteen thousand Pounds should be issued and issuing and paid and payable out of and charged ' and chargeable upon the Consolidated Fund of Great Britain, and the same should from Time to Time be paid quarterly, free and clear of all Taxes and Deductions whatsoever, in Manner and Form following; (that is to say,) to Arthur Duke of Wellington, and to the Heirs Male of the Body of the said Duke to whom the said Title, Honour, and Dignity of Duke of Welling'ton should descend pursuant to the Limitation of the Patent whereby the said Dignity was granted, and in default of such Heirs Male then to and for the Benefit of such Person or Persons and to such Uses as were therein-after mentioned, limited, and directed, expressed, and declared; and it was by the now' reciting Act further enacted, that it should be lawful for the Lord High Treasurer or the Commissioners of the Treasury in Great 'Britain for the Time being, upon Application of the said Duke, or of the Heirs Male of the Body of the said Duke who might succeed to the Title of the Duke of Wellington, to advance, at One Time or from Time to Time, to the Trustees for the Time being for the Purposes of an Act passed in the last Session of ‹ Parliament (being the firstly herein-before recited Act of Parliament), as amended by another Act passed in the same Session of Parliament (being the secondly herein-before recited Act), out ' of 6 ' of the Consolidated Fund of Great Britain, in lieu of the said Annuity of Thirteen thousand Pounds, or any Part thereof, any Sum or Sums not exceeding in the whole the Sum of Four hundred thousand Pounds, for the Purpose of enabling the said • Trustees, with the Approbation of the said Lord High Treasurer or Lords Commissioners, to purchase Manors, Lands, Tenements, ' and Hereditaments to be settled to the Use of the said Duke, and 'the Heirs Male of his Body to whom the Title of Duke of Wellington should descend, and to support the Dignity and the ‹ Dukedom, and in default of such Heirs Male then to and for the Benefit of such Person or Persons and to such Uses as were 'therein-after mentioned, limited, and directed, expressed, and declared; and from the Time when such Sum of Four hundred 'thousand Pounds or any Portion thereof might be so advanced, the whole of the said Annuity, or a Part thereof proportionate to the Principal Sum so advanced, should cease and determine; and it was by the now-reciting Act further enacted, that the Trus'tees for the Time being for the Purposes of the said recited Acts of the then last Session of Parliament should be Trustees for the Purposes of the now-reciting Act, and should have all such Powers and Authorities, and be entitled to all such Rights, 'Privileges, and Exemptions, and should be subject to all the same 'Provisions and Regulations, in the Execution of the Trust re'posed in them by the now-reciting Act, as they had and were 'entitled to in relation to the Trusts of the said recited Acts; and that the Sum of One hundred thousand Pounds granted by 'the said first-recited Act of the then last Session of Parliament, or so much thereof as should not have been laid out in the Purchase of Manors, Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments, and also any Manors, Lands, Tenements, and Hereditaments which might have been or might be purchased by or with the Money 'granted under the same Act or any Part thereof, should be liable and subject to all the Rules, Regulations, and Restrictions in the 'now-reciting Act mentioned and contained with respect to the 'Money to be advanced under the now-reciting Act, and with respect to any Manors, Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments to be purchased under the now-reciting Act, and as if the said 'Sum of One hundred thousand Pounds had been granted by 'the now-reciting Act, and as if the said Estates had been pur'chased under the Provisions of the now-reciting Act; and it is 'by the now-reciting Act further enacted, that it should be lawful ' for the said Trustees to whom the said Sum of Four hundred ' thousand Pounds, or any Part thereof, might be advanced as 'aforesaid, and they were thereby required, to lay out and invest the said Sum of Four hundred thousand Pounds, or any Part thereof, in the Purchase of Freehold or Copyhold or Customary 'Manors, Lands, Tenements, and Hereditaments, of a good Estate ' of Inheritance in Fee Simple in Possession, to be free from In'cumbrances (except Fee Farm and Quit Rents and other Rents ' and Services), to be situate in any Part of Great Britain; and the said Freehold Manors, Lands, Tenements, and Heredita'ments should, when so purchased, be forthwith settled, conveyed, ' and assured to the said Trustees, their Heirs and Assigns, to the • Use of the said Duke of Wellington and the Heirs Male of the Body |