Grounds or Hereditaments which may be conveniently used or taken for the Purposes of this Act, to contract for, sell, and convey, or, if Copyhold, to enfranchise the same and every Part thereof, unto such Archbishop or Bishop as aforesaid and his Successors; and all such Contracts, Agreements, Sales, Conveyances, and Assurances shall be valid and effectual in the Law to all Intents and Purposes whatsoever, any Law, Statute, Usage, or Custom to the contrary in anywise notwithstanding; and all Bodies, Politic, Corporate, or Collegiate, and all Persons whomsoever, so conveying as aforesaid, are hereby indemnified for or in respect of any such Sale which he, she, or they, or any of them, shall respectively make by virtue or in pursuance of this Act. Application of XVIII. And be it further enacted, That if any Money shall be Purchase agreed to be paid for any Messuages or Buildings, Grounds, Lands, or Hereditaments, purchased by virtue of the Powers of this Act it exceeds 2007. Money when for the Purposes thereof, which shall belong to any Corporation, Trustee, Feme Covert, Infant, Lunatic, Person or Persons under any Disability or Incapacity as herein-before is mentioned, such Money shall, in case the same shall amount to or exceed the Sum of Two hundred Pounds, with all convenient Speed be paid into the Bank of England in the Name and with the Privity of the Accountant General of the Court of Exchequer, to be placed to his Account ex parte the Archbishop or Bishop of the Diocese for whose Residence any such Messuages, Buildings, Grounds, Lands, and Hereditaments shall have been purchased, pursuant to the Method prescribed by an Act passed in the First Year of the Reign of His Majesty King George the Fourth, intituled An Act for the 1 G. 4. c. 35. better securing Monies and Effects paid into the Court of Exchequer at Westminster on account of the Suitors of the said Court, and for the Appointment of an Accountant General and Two Masters of the said Court, and for other Purposes, and the General Orders of the said Court, and without Fee or Reward; to the Intent that such Money shall be applied, under the Direction and with the Approbation of the said Court, to be signified by an Order made upon a Petition to be preferred in a summary Way by the Person or Persons who would have been entitled to the Rents and Profits of the said Messuages and Buildings, Grounds, Lands, and Hereditaments. in the Purchase of the Land Tax, or towards the Discharge of any Debt or Debts, or such other Incumbrance, or Part thereof, as the said Court shall authorize to be paid, affecting the same Messuages or Buildings, Grounds, Lands, or Hereditaments, or affecting other Lands and Hereditaments standing settled therewith to the same or the like Uses, Intents, and Purposes; or where such Money shall not be so applied, then the same shall be laid out and invested, under the like Direction or Approbation of the said Court, in the Purchase of other Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments, which shall be conveyed to, for, or upon such and the like Uses, Intents, and Purposes, and in the same Manner, as the Messuages or Buildings, Grounds, Lands, and Hereditaments, which shall be so purchased, stood settled or limited, or such of them as at the Time of making such Conveyance and Settlement shall be existing undetermined and capable of taking effect; and in the meantime and until such Purchase shall be made the same Money shall, by Order of the said Court upon Application thereto, be invested by the said Accountant When less than 2001. but exceeding 201. When not exceeding 201. Certificate of Guardians, &c. to be good Discharges. Accountant General in his Name in the Purchase of Three per Cent. Consolidated or Reduced Bank Annuities; and in the meantime, and until the said Bank Annuities shall be ordered by the said Court to be sold for the Purpose aforesaid, the Dividends and annual Produce thereof shall from Time to Time be paid, by the Order of the said Court, to the Person or Persons who would for the Time being have been entitled to the Rents and Profits of the said Lands and Hereditaments so hereby directed to be purchased in case such Purchase or Settlement were made. XIX. And be it further enacted, That if any Money so agreed to be paid for any Messuages or Buildings, Grounds, Lands, or Hereditaments purchased for the Purposes aforesaid, and belonging to any Corporation, or to any Person or Persons under Disability or Incapacity as aforesaid, shall be less than the Sum of Two hundred Pounds, and shall exceed the Sum of Twenty Pounds, the same shall be paid to Three Trustees to be nominated by the Person or Persons for the Time being entitled to the Rents and Profits of the Messuages, Buildings, Grounds, Lands, and Heredi taments so purchased, and approved of by the Archbishop or Bishop for whose Residence such Messuages, Buildings, Grounds, Lands, and Hereditaments shall have been purchased, such Nomination to be signified by some Writing under the Hands of the nominating and approving Parties, in order that such Principal Money, and the Dividends arising thereon, may be applied in manner hereinbefore directed, so far as the Case may be applicable, without obtaining or being required to obtain the Direction or Approbation of the said Court of Exchequer. XX. Provided always, and be it further enacted, That where such Money so agreed to be paid for any such Purchase as aforesaid shall not exceed the Sum of Twenty Pounds, then and in all such Cases the same shall be paid to the Person or Persons who would for the Time being have been entitled to the Rents and Profits of the Messuages and Buildings, Grounds, Lands, or Hereditaments so purchased, or in case of Infancy, Coverture, Idiotcy, Lunacy, or other Incapacity, then to his, her, or their respective Guardian or Guardians, Husband or Husbands, Committee or Committees, Trustee or Trustees. XXI. Provided always, and be it further enacted, That the Certificate of the Cashier of the Bank of England who shall receive any such Purchase Money as is herein-before directed to be paid into the Court of Exchequer shall be a sufficient Discharge for the Purchase Money therein certified to be received; and that the Receipt in Writing of such respective Guardian or Guardians, Husbands or Husband, Committees or Committee, Trustees or Trustee, for any such Purchase Money as is herein-before directed or authorized to be paid to them or him respectively, shall be a sufficient Discharge for the Purchase Money therein acknowledged to be received. САР. 6 CA P. XIX. An Act to amend an Act of the Sixth and Seventh Years of His late Majesty King William the Fourth, for consolidating the Laws relating to the Presentment of Public Money by Grand Juries in Ireland, so as to enable the Grand Jury of the County of Waterford to make Presentments on account of the Fever Hospital of the said County, although situate in the County of the City of Waterford. [1st July 1839.] WHEREAS an Act was passed in the Session of Parliament holden in the Sixth and Seventh Years of the Reign of 'His late Majesty King William the Fourth, intituled An Act to 6&7W.4.c.116. 'consolidate and amend the Laws relating to the Presentment of 'Public Money by Grand Juries in Ireland, whereby it was among ' other things enacted, that "where any Fever Hospital has been ' or shall be established in and for any County it shall and may be lawful for the Grand Jury of such County to present such Sum or Sums of Money, not exceeding the Sum of Two hundred and fifty Pounds, at each Assizes, as shall appear to be necessary for 'the Support of any such County Fever Hospital, and that such 'Sum shall be raised off the County at large, and levied and applied ' accordingly," subject nevertheless to certain Restrictions and Re'gulations in the said Act contained: And whereas there is not any Fever Hospital established in and for the County of Water'ford, but there is a Fever Hospital established in the City of Waterford, which is used for the Purposes of the said County of Waterford as well as for the Purposes of the County of the said City of Waterford: And whereas it is expedient to authorize the 'Grand Jury of the said County of Waterford to make such Pre'sentments for the Support of the said Hospital, although the same 'be not situate in the said County;' be it therefore enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, That it shall and may be lawful for the Grand Jury of the said County of Waterford to present such Sum or Sums of Money, not exceeding the Sum of One hundred and fifty Pounds, at any Assizes, as (regard being had to the Relief afforded by the said Hospital to Persons in or from the County of Waterford) it shall appear just and necessary to contribute towards the Support of the said Hospital in respect of such Relief, and that such Sum shall be raised off the said County of Wa erford at large, and levied and applied accordingly, as if such Hospital were established in the said County of Waterford, but subject always to the like Restrictions and Regulations as are by the said Act provided in respect of Presentments for the Support of the Fever Hospital established in and for any County: Provided always, that before any such Presentment shall be made the Grand Juries of the County of Waterford and of the County of the City of Waterford shall meet at or before the Assizes at which such Presentment shall be made, and shall deliberate and agree upon the Proportions in which they shall respectively contribute towards the Support of the said Hospital; and that the Books of the said Hospital, and an Account of the Receipts Grand Jury of Waterford may port of the Fever Hospital established in the County of the City of Waterfor the County of Waterford, although not situate in the latter County. ford and used and Grand Jury at the next Assizes may present, &c. Grand Jury of present such of Persons in or from the County. and Expenditure thereof, from the Time of its Establishment to the Time of the first of such Presentments to be made after the passing of this Act, and afterwards from the Time of each Presentment till the Time when any further Presentment is required, shall, together with an Application for the Sum proposed to be presented by the Grand Jury of the said County of Waterford, be laid before the Presentment Sessions to be holden under the said Act for the County of Waterford at large, and also before the said Grand Jury of the said County by which such Presentment shall be made, and shall be approved at such Sessions and by such Grand Jury respectively; and the Chairman of the said Presentment Sessions and Grand Juries and each and such Grand Jury respectively may call before such Sessions and Grand Juries or Grand Jury respectively, and examine on Oath, every Officer of the said Hospital: Provided also, that the Presentments to be so made by the Grand Jury of the County of the City of Waterford and the Grand Jury of the County of Waterford, at any Assizes at which the Grand Jury of the County of Waterford shall so present any Sum or Sums of Money, shall be passed and fiated before one and the same Judge or before both the Judges of Assize who shall act under the Commission for the said County and County of the City of Waterford at such Assizes. II. Provided also, and be it enacted, That it shall be lawful for the Grand Jury of the County of Waterford so to present at the Assizes for the said County which shall be holden next after the passing of this Act, although no such Application shall have been made and approved of at any Presentment Sessions, if a Majority of the Justices of the Peace for the said County and of the Cesspayers appointed according to the said recited Act to attend the Presentment Sessions for the County of Waterford at large which shall have been holden next before such Assizes shall not memorialize the Grand Jury of the said County at such next Assizes against such Presentment. III. And be it enacted, That it shall be lawful for the Treasurer of the Grand Jury of the County of the City of Waterford, if they shall so direct, to make Application at the Presentment Sessions for the County of Waterford at large which shall be holden next after the Assizes which shall be holden next after the passing of this Act for Payment of such Sum or Sums, not exceeding in the whole the Sum of Three hundred Pounds, which shall appear to have been, prior to the said next Assizes, paid or expended out of the Grand Jury Cess or Public Monies of the County of the City of Waterford towards the Support of the said Hospital in respect of Relief afforded to Persons in or from the said County of Waterford, or which it shall appear just that the said County of Waterford should contribute in respect of such Relief, and thereupon it shall be lawful for the said Presentment Sessions to allow or approve of such Application as to the Whole or any Part of the Sum which shall be so applied for; and it shall be lawful for the Grand Jury of the County of Waterford, at the then next ensuing Assizes, to allow or approve and present the Whole or any Part of the Sum which shall be so allowed or approved by such Presentment Sessions; and the Sum so presented shall be raised off the County of Waterford at large in like Manner as the Amount of any other Presentment, Presentment, and shall be paid over to the Treasurer of the Grand Jury of the County of the City of Waterford, and form Part of the Public Money of the said County of the City of Waterford, and be applied to such public Purposes in aid of the Grand Jury Cess of the said County of the City of Waterford as such Grand Jury Cess shall be applicable to, and as the Grand Jury of the County of the City of Waterford shall direct, and shall be brought into the Accounts of the said Treasurer accordingly: Provided always, that the Books of the said Hospital, and an Account of the Receipt and Expenditure thereof, and also of the Treasurer of the said County of the City of Waterford, for such Time as the Chairman of the said Presentment Sessions or the said Grand Jury of the said County of Waterford shall desire, shall be laid before the said Presentment Sessions and the said Grand Jury of the County of Waterford respectively; and the Chairman of the said Sessions may and the said last-mentioned Grand Jury shall call before them and examine on Oath all the Officers of the said Hospital, and also the Treasurer and Secretary of the Grand Jury of the County of the City of Waterford. Books and Accounts of the be required by Hospital may the Grand Jury, &c. IV. And be it enacted, That this Act may be amended or Act may be repealed by any Act to be passed in this present Session of amended, &c. Parliament. CA P. XX. An Act to authorize the Application of Part of the Land WHE [1st July 1839. HEREAS for the more convenient Occupation by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, and Her Royal Establishment, of the Palace of Windsor Castle in the County of Berks, it is necessary that Stables and Stable Offices should be erected and built contiguous to the said Palace: And whereas it is expedient that the Hereditary Revenues belonging to Her Majesty in right of Her Crown should be made applicable, by and with the Consent and Approbation of the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, to the Purpose of defraying the Costs, Charges, and Expences of erecting, building, and completing such Stables and Stable Offices aforesaid: Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, That it shall and may be lawful to and for the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Woods, Forests, Land Revenues, Works, and Buildings, (by and with the Consent and Approbation of the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury for the Time being, or any Three of them,) to pay, apply, and appropriate any Sum or Sums of Money (not exceeding in the whole the Sum of Seventy thousand Pounds), already arisen or which shall or may hereafter arise from Sales of Portions of the Land Revenues of the Crown under their Care and Management, in and towards the Payment and Discharge of the Costs, Charges, and Expences of erecting, building, and completing Stables Part of the Land Revenues may be appropriated for the Purpose of building Stables, &c. at Windsor. |