the Police Rate, and that all the Provisions by the said Act called "The Act to provide for the Collection of Rates in the City of Dublin," provided for the applotting, assessing, raising, levying, lodging, accounting for, auditing, and paying over the Sums in the 5 said Acts in that Behalf mentioned shall extend and be applicable to the said Quay Wall Tax, as fully as if the same had been specifically mentioned in the said Act, and been declared to be One of the Rates leviable thereunder: Provided, however, that the said Quay Wall Tax shall be raised and levied on and out of all Houses and other Buildings 10 erected within the said District of Dublin Metropolis as aforesaid.

Parts of

VII. So much of the said Act called "An Act to make further Repealing "Provisions and to amend the Acts relating to the Harbour of Kings- Acts incon"town and the Port and Harbour of Dublin," or of every other Act sistent with respecting the Quay Walls, as is contradictory to or inconsistent with this Act. 15 the Provisions of this Act, shall be and is hereby repealed.

VIII. So much of the several Acts as are herein-before recited, and Acts hereinas shall or may be found necessary for the Purposes of this Act, shall be considered, deemed, and taken to be incorporated herein.

IX. This Act shall commence and take effect from the Day of

before recited to be deemed Part of the Act.

Commence

One thousand eight hundred and fifty-four. ment of Act.

A

BILL

FOR

The Exchange of the Office in Somerset House of the Duchy of Cornwall for an Office to be erected in Pimlico on the Hereditary Possessions of the Crown.

[Note.-The Words printed in Italics are proposed to be inserted
in Committee.]

W

HEREAS under and by virtue of an Act passed in the Preamble. Fifteenth Year of King George the Third, intituled "An 15 G. 3. c. 33. "Act for settling Buckingham House, with the Appurten

ances, upon the Queen, in case She shall survive His Majesty, in lieu of His Majesty's Palace of Somerset House; for enabling the "Lords Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury to sell and dispose "of Ely House, in Holborn; and for applying the Money to arise by "Sale thereof, together with other Monies, in erecting and establishing "Public Offices in Somerset House; and for embanking certain Parts 10" of the River Thames lying within the Bounds of the Manor of "the Savoy; and for other Purposes therein mentioned;" the Palace called by the Name of Somerset House and other Hereditaments therein referred to were vested in His said Majesty, His Heirs and Successors, for the Use, Intent, and Purpose of erecting and establishing 15 within the same or upon the Site thereof several Public Offices therein mentioned, and among others the Office of the Duchy of Cornwall: And whereas the Office in Somerset House now used and known as the

Office of the Duchy of Cornwall was built and established under the Provisions of the said Act: And whereas the Hereditaments, situate in Pimlico in the City of Westminster and County of Middlesex, specified in the Schedule written under the Articles of Agreement herein-after recited, and delineated in the Plan in the Margin of such 5 Schedule, and therein coloured Blue, are vested in Her Majesty in Fee Simple, as Part of the Hereditary Possessions and Land Revenues of the Crown, subject to the Provisions of an Act of Parliament passed in the Sixteenth Year of the Reign of Her Majesty, intituled "An "Act to enable the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Works and 10 "Public Buildings to complete Improvements in Pimlico and in the Neighbourhood of Buckingham Palace," and of the "Pimlico Improvement Act, 1853:" And whereas the said Office of the Duchy of Cornwall is necessary for the Public Service; namely, for the Use of the Commissioners of Inland Revenue, whose present Office is 15 insufficient for the Business thereof, and adjoins the said Office of the Duchy of Cornwall: And whereas by Articles of Agreement, made and entered into the Day of July

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One thousand eight hundred and fifty-four, between His Royal Highness Prince Albert of Saxe Coburg and Gotha, Warden of 20 the Stannaries in Cornwall and Devon, the Honourable Alfred Hervey, commonly called Lord Alfred Hervey, Keeper of the Privy Seal of His Royal Highness Albert Edward, Prince of Wales and Duke of Cornwall, William John Alexander, Esquire, One of Her Majesty's Counsel learned in the Law, the Attorney General of His Royal 25 Highness Albert Edward, Prince of Wales and Duke of Cornwall, and the Honourable Charles Beaumont Phipps, Companion of the Bath, a Colonel in Her Majesty's Army, the Treasurer and Cofferer of the Household of His Royal Highness Albert Edward, Prince of Wales and Duke of Cornwall (Four of the Members of the Council 30 of His Royal Highness Albert Edward, Prince of Wales and Duke of Cornwall), of the First Part; the Right Honourable Sir William Molesworth, Baronet, the First Commissioner of Her Majesty's Works and Public Buildings (for and on behalf of the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Works and Public Buildings), of the Second Part; and the 35 Honourable Francis Wemyss Charteris, commonly called Lord Elcho and Chichester, Samuel Fortesque, Esquire (Two of the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury), of the Third Part; it has been agreed as follows: Within Two Years from the Date of the said Articles of Agreement the Commissioners of Her Majesty's 40 Works and Public Buildings (therein-after and herein-after styled the Commissioners of Works) shall, out of such Monies as have been or shall be appropriated by Parliament for that Purpose, purchase from the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Woods, Forests, and Land Revenues the Land, Messuages, and Appurtenances specified in the 45

said

said Schedule thereunder written and delineated in the said Plan drawn in the Margin of such Schedule, and therein coloured Blue, and erect on such Land and the Site of such Messuages and Appurtenances a Building according to the Plans and Specifications which have been 5 prepared for the Erection thereof by the Architect of the said Commissioners of Works, and have been signed in Duplicate by the Parties to the said Articles of Agreement, for the Purpose of identifying the same as the Plans and Specifications therein referred to, and have been deposited with the Keeper of the Records of the said Duchy and 10 with the Commissioners of Works respectively, and complete such Building with the Appurtenances according to such Plans and Specifications, and with Landlord's and Tenant's Fittings and Fixtures thereto in all respects equally good at least with the Fittings and Fixtures in the present Duchy Office, fit for Use as and for the Office 15 of the said Duchy, to the Satisfaction in all respects of the said Council or of their Architect for the Time being, with the Exception of such Fittings and Fixtures as are now in the said present Office of the said Duchy, and as the said Council may think fit to remove and set up in such intended Office; the said present Office in Somerset House 20 of the Duchy of Cornwall and the said intended Office in Pimlico (to be erected and completed according to the aforesaid Plans and Specifications for the Erection thereof), including the Sites and Fittings and Fixtures of the said Office and intended Office respectively. shall be valued, according to their marketable Values, by James Pennethorne, 25 or some other Person to be named by the Commissioners of Works, and Henry Arthur Hunt, or some other Person to be named by the said Council, and, if they disagree, by an Umpire to be named by themselves, and the Values determined by such Valuers, if they agree, and by their Umpire, if they disagree, shall be deemed for the Pur30 poses of the said Articles of Agreement the Market Values of the said Premises respectively; provided always, that in valuing the Site of the said intended Office in Pimlico the Value of the Land only, and not of Houses and Buildings now and heretofore standing thereon, shall be taken into consideration; within the said Period of Two 35 Years from the Date of the said Articles, and so soon as the said intended Building in Pimlico shall be completed as aforesaid fit for Use as the Office of the Duchy of Cornwall to the Satisfaction in all respects of the said Council or of their Architect for the Time being, the said intended Building, with its Appurtenances, shall be delivered 40 up into the Possession of the said Council as the Office of the Duchy of Cornwall, and shall be vested in Her Majesty, Her Heirs and Successors, upon the same Trust for allowing such Building, with its Appurtenances, to be used for the Office of the said Duchy as the said Office and Premises in Somerset House are now subject to; and 45 the said Office and Premises in Somerset House of the said Duchy