city, then such Money shall be paid, for their Use, to their respective Husbands, Guardians, Committees, or Trustees.

Purchase

of not making

XX. And be it further enacted, That in case any Party to Application of whom any Money shall be agreed or awarded to be paid for the Purchase of any Messuages or other Hereditaments hereby autho- Money in case rized to be purchased as aforesaid, or for any Interest therein, or out Titles, &c. for the Release of any such Hereditaments from any Rent or other Incumbrance charged thereon, or for any other Right or Interest to, in, or affecting any such Hereditaments, shall refuse to accept the same, or cannot conveniently be found, or shall be absent from England, or shall refuse, neglect, or be unable to make a Title to the Satisfaction of the Trustees of the British Museum, for the Purposes of this Act, to the Hereditaments, Right, or Interest for or in respect whereof such Money shall be agreed or awarded to be paid, or if any Party entitled unto or capacitated to convey such Hereditaments, Right, or Interest shall not be known, or cannot conveniently be found, or shall be absent from England, or shall refuse or neglect to convey the same, or shall not be shown to the Satisfaction of the Trustees of the British Museum to be such Party, then and in every such Case it shall be lawful for the said Trustees to order the Money so agreed or awarded as aforesaid to be paid into the Bank of England in the Name and with the Privity of the Accountant General of the said Court of Exchequer, to be placed to his Account to the Credit of the Parties interested in the said Hereditaments, describing them, so far as the Trustees of the British Museum can do so, subject to the Control and Disposition of the said Court; which said Court, on the Application of any Party making claim to such Money, or to any Part thereof, by Petition, is hereby empowered, in a summary Way of proceeding or otherwise, as to such Court shall seem meet, to order the same to be laid out and invested in the Public Funds, and to order Distribution thereof, or Payment of the Dividends thereof, according to the Estate, Title, or Interest of the Parties making elaim thereunto, and to make such other Order in the Premises as to the said Court shall seem proper; and the Cashier of the Bank of England who shall receive such Money is hereby required to give to the Trustees of the British Museum, or to any Party paying any Money into the Bank of England under or pursuant to this Act, a Receipt for such Money, mentioning and specifying therein for what and for whose Use, described as aforesaid, the same is received.

In case of disputed Title, Persons in possession presumptively en

XXI. Provided always, and be it further enacted, That where any Question shall arise in reference to the Provisions aforesaid, or otherwise upon this Act, touching the Title of any Party to any Hereditaments, or to any Interest in any Hereditaments, or to any Money to be paid into the Bank of England in the titled. Name and with the Privity of the Accountant General of the said Court of Exchequer, in pursuance of this Act, for the Purchase of any Hereditaments, or of any Estate, Right, Title, or Interest in any Hereditaments hereby authorized to be purchased as aforesaid, or to any Annuities or Securities to be purchased with any such Money, as herein mentioned, or the Dividends or Interest of any such Annuities or Securities, the Parties respectively who shall have been in possession or receipt of the Rents or Profits of such

Lands,

Court of Exchequer may

order reasonable
Expences of
Purchases and
Costs of inca-

pacitated Per-
sons to be paid
by the Trustees

o, the British Museum.

Power to enter

Lands on Payment or Tender

of Purchase Money.

Lands at the Time of purchasing the same, and all Corporations and Persons claiming under such Parties, or under or consistently with the Possession of such Parties, shall be deemed to have been lawfully entitled to such Hereditaments, or such Interest therein, or to such Money as aforesaid, according to such Possession, until the contrary shall be shown to the Satisfaction of the said Court; and the Dividends or Interest of the Annuities or Securities to be purchased with such Money, and also the Capital of such Annuities or Securities, shall be paid, applied, and disposed of accordingly, unless it shall be made to appear to the said Court that such Possession was a wrongful Possession, and that some other Party was lawfully entitled to some Part of such Hereditaments, or to some Estate or Interest therein.

XXII. And be it enacted, That where by reason of any Disability or Incapacity of any Person or Corporation entitled to any Hereditaments to be purchased under the Authority of this Act, or from any other Cause, the Purchase Money for any Hereditaments shall be required to be paid into the Bank of England, and be subject to the Orders and Directions of the Court of Exchequer under the Provisions contained in this Act, it shall be lawful for the Court of Exchequer to order the reasonable Costs, Charges, and Expences attending any such Purchase, or which may be incurred in consideration thereof, and all the Costs, Charges, and Expences of the Investment of such Purchase Money in Government or Real Securities, and of the Reinvestment of the same, or the Government or Real Securities purchased therewith, in the Purchase of other Lands and Hereditaments, together with the necessary Costs, Charges, and Expences of obtaining the proper Orders, and of all other Proceedings for such Purposes, and of the Payment of the Dividends and Interest of the Government or Real Securities upon which such Purchase or Compensation Money may be invested, and of the Payment out of Court of the Principal of such Purchase Money, or of the Government or Real Securities aforesaid, to be paid by the Trustees of the British Museum, who shall from Time to Time pay such Sums of Money for the Costs, Charges, and Expences herein-before mentioned as the said Court shall direct.

XXIII. And be it further enacted, That upon Payment or legal Tender of such Sums of Money as shall have been agreed upon between the Parties or awarded by a Jury in manner aforesaid, for the Purchase of any of the said Messuages and other Hereditaments hereby authorized to be purchased as aforesaid, to the respective Proprietors of such Hereditaments or other Persons respectively interested therein, and entitled, according to the Provisions of this Act, to receive such Money or Satisfaction or Compensation respectively, within Three Calendar Months next after the same shall have been so agreed upon or awarded, or whenever any of the respective Cases shall happen wherein such Purchase Money is herein-before authorized or directed to be paid into the Bank of England, then upon Payment of the same into the Bank of England in manner in such Case herein-before authorized or directed, it shall be lawful for the Trustees of the British Museum immediately to enter upon such Hereditaments, and thereupon such Hereditaments, and the Fee Simple and Inherit

ance thereof, together with the yearly Profits thereof, and all the Estate, Use, Trust, and Interest of all Parties therein whose Estates, Rights, and Interests shall have been purchased or compensated for by such Payment, shall thenceforth be vested in and become the sole Property of the Trustees of the British Museum, to and for the Purposes of this Act, and the Trustees of the British Museum shall not be bound to see to the Application of any such Purchase Money; and such Payment or Tender and such Conveyance as herein-before mentioned, or such Deposit in the Bank of England as aforesaid, shall operate to merge all outstanding or other Terms of Years, and to bar and destroy all Dower, and all Estates Tail and other Estates in Reversion and Remainder, and all Rights, Titles, Limitations, and Trusts whatsoever, of and in the said Hereditaments, but although Terms shall be merged they shall in Equity afford the same or the like Protection and Priority as if they were assigned as herein-before mentioned: Provided nevertheless, that before such Payment, Tender, or Deposit in the Bank of England as aforesaid it shall not be lawful for the Trustees of the British Museum, or for any Person acting under their Authority, to enter upon such Hereditaments without the previous Consent of the Owners and Occupiers thereof respectively.

XXIV. And be it further enacted, That all Persons in possession of any of the Messuages or other Hereditaments hereby authorized to be purchased, and who shall have no greater Interest in such Hereditaments than as Tenants at Will or Lessees for a Year, or as Tenants from Year to Year, shall respectively deliver the Possession of such Premises to the Trustees of the British Museum, or to such Person as they shall appoint to take possession of the same, at the Expiration of Six Calendar Months next after Notice to that Effect shall have been given by the Trustees of the British Museum to or left at the usual or last known Place of Abode of such respective Tenants or Lessees or Persons in possession, or left upon the said Hereditaments, or at such other Time after the Expiration of Six Calendar Months as in such Notice they shall be respectively required, whether such Notice shall be given with reference to the Time of the Commencement of such Tenants holding or not, and whether such Notice be given before or after the said Hereditaments shall be purchased by the Trustees of the British Museum; and in case any such Tenant or Lessee or Person so in possession as aforesaid shall refuse to deliver such Possession as aforesaid, it shall be lawful for the Trustees of the British Museum to issue their Precept under their Common Seal to the Sheriff of the said County of Middlesex to deliver Possession of the said Hereditaments to such Person as shall in such Precept be nominated to receive the same, and the said Sheriff is hereby required to deliver Possession of the said Hereditaments accordingly, and to levy and satisfy such Costs as shall accrue from the issuing and Execution of such Precept on the Person so refusing to deliver Possession, by Distress and Sale of his Goods and Chattels.

XXV. Provided always, and be it further enacted, That where any such Tenant, Lessee, or other Person shall be required to deliver the Possession of any of the Hereditaments so occupied by

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Jury, in case of him before the Expiration of his Term or Interest therein, the Dispute. Trustees of the British Museum shall and they are hereby required to make or tender to such Tenant, Lessee, or other Person, before they shall issue their Precept to the Sheriff to give Possession of the Hereditaments in the Occupation of such Tenant, Lessee, or Person, Satisfaction or Compensation for the Value of his unexpired Term or Interest in the said Hereditaments and Fixtures, and the Loss which will be caused to him by the Removal of his Furniture and Effects, which Satisfaction or Compensation and Loss, in case of Difference, shall be ascertained and determined in the same Manner as any other Satisfaction or Compensation for any Hereditaments purchased by the Trustees of the British Museum is by this Act directed to be ascertained and determined: Provided always, that when Christopher Haedy, the Occupier of the House No. 80, Great Russell Street, shall be required to deliver up Possession thereof, he shall be paid by the said Trustees for. his Fixtures and the Loss which will be caused to him by the Removal of his Furniture and Effects, the Amount of such Payment to be ascertained and determined in manner aforesaid.

Persons holding
under Leases
to produce the

same.

Parties to deli

ver a Statement of their Estates

and Claims within One

after Notice.

XXVI. Provided always, and be it further enacted, That in all Cases in which any Party shall claim any Satisfaction, Recom> pence, or Compensation for or in respect of any unexpired Term or Interest which he shall claim to be possessed of or entitled unto in any Hereditaments intended to be taken or used under the Authority of this Act, under or by virtue of any Demise, Lease or Agreement for Lease, or Grant thereof, the Trustees of the British Museum are hereby authorized to require such Party to produce or show the Lease or Agreement for Lease, Demise, or Grant in respect of which such Claim to Satisfaction, Recompence, or Compensation shall be made, or the best Evidence thereof in his Power, and if such Lease or Agreement for Lease, Demise, or Grant, or such best Evidence thereof as aforesaid, shall not be produced or shown within a reasonable Time after Demand made by the Trustees of the British Museum, or any Person by them authorized, the Party claiming such Satisfaction, Recompence, or Compensation shall be considered and treated as a Tenant holding only from Year to Year.

XXVII. And be it further enacted, That on or before the Expiration of One Calendar Month next after Notice in Writing from the Trustees of the British Museum, or their Agent duly authorized, of their Intention to purchase any of the said MesCalendar Month Suages or other Hereditaments hereby authorized to be purchased, shall have been given to any Person or Corporation seised or possessed of or entitled to, or authorized by this Act to accept and receive Satisfaction and Compensation for the Value of the same Hereditaments, or any Estate, Share, or Interest therein, or Charge or Incumbrance thereon, such Person or Corporation shall deliver or cause to be delivered at the said British Museum a Statement in Writing of the Particulars of the Estate, Share, Interest, Charge, or Incumbrance which he or they claim to be entitled to or be authorized to receive Satisfaction and Compensation for, and of the Amount of the Sum of Money which he or they may expect and be willing to receive in satisfaction and compensation for the Value of such Estate, Share, Interest, Charge, or Incumbrance.

XXVIII, And

XXVIII. And be it further enacted, That the several Houses mentioned or referred to in the Schedule to this Act, in case the same shall be purchased by virtue of this Act, shall, after the Purchase thereof, and until they shall be taken down, be used or occupied only as Residences for Persons holding Situations in the British Museum, and the Sites of them, and all the Ground which shall be purchased by virtue of this Act, shall be laid to and be made to form Part of the Site and Ground of the British Museum; and no Houses, Shops, or Buildings whatever shall at any Time be erected or be suffered to remain or be on or over the Sites of the said Houses, or on or over any Ground which shall be purchased by virtue of this Act, except Buildings to be Part or for the Use of the British Museum, or Residences for Persons holding Situations therein; and no Trade or Business of any Kind shall at any Time be carried on in, on, or over any Part of the Premises which shall be purchased by virtue of this Act, or in, on, or over any Building which shall be erected thereon, except Trades or Businesses solely for the Purposes of the British Museum; and no Act, Matter, or Thing shall at any Time be done in or upon any Part of the Premises which shall be purchased by virtue of this Act which shall or may be or grow to the Annoyance, Nuisance, Grievance, Damage, or Disturbance of the Duke of Bedford, his Heirs or Assigns, (such Assigns being Owners of Ground or Building in Great Russell Street or Montague Street in the Parish of Saint George Bloomsbury in the County of Middlesex,) or any of his or their Tenants, or whereby any Window Light or Drain belonging to any Building belonging or which shall belong to the said Duke, his Heirs or Assigns, (such Assigns being Owners of Ground or Building in Great Russell Street or Montague Street aforesaid,) shall or may be stopped or obstructed; and that the said Duke, his Heirs and Assigns, shall be at liberty to retain Possession (without paying or being liable to pay any Rent or Compensation for the same) of the Bedford Office, and its Garden, Lodge, and Appurtenances, (being Part of the Premises mentioned or referred to in the said Schedule,) till the Expiration of Three Years after Notice to quit the same shall be given to him (such Notice not to be given till after the Purchase Money for the same has been paid to the said Duke, his Heirs or Assigns); and that the East Flank Wall of the House numbered Eighty-eight, in Great Russell Street, which will be laid bare by taking down the adjoining House, (being one of the Houses mentioned or referred to in the said Schedule,) shall, within One Month after the taking down of such adjoining House, be made good as an external Wall, and be cemented, by and at the Costs of the Trustees of the British Museum, to the Satisfaction of the Surveyor for the Time being of the said Duke, his Heirs or Assigns, and in such Manner as the said Surveyor shall approve of; and that the said Flank Walls, and the Walls next the Bedford Office Garden of the Savings Bank in Montague Street, shall, from and after the Purchase by the Trustees of the British Museum of the Premises adjoining the same, be considered to be external Walls, and that no Part thereof, or of the Flue of the Lodge at the North-east Corner of the Bedford Office Garden which runs up in one of the Walls of the said Savings Bank, shall be bought by the Trustees of the British

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Museum,

Ground pur

chased to be laid out for the

British Mu

seum.

To prevent
Annoyances to
Bedford, &c.

the Duke of

Respecting the

Bedford Office,

&c.