The recited Agreement confirmed.

Price of the

shall remain vested in Her Majesty, Her Heirs and Successors, freed
and discharged from the said Trust, for allowing the same to be used
for the Office of the said Duchy, but upon the same or the like Trusts
as the said Premises in Somerset House would have been subject to
in case the Office of the Duchy of Cornwall had not been one of the 5
Public Offices named in or established under the said Act of King
George the Third; if the aforesaid Market Value of the said Office
and Premises of the said Duchy in Somerset House shall be less than
the aforesaid Market Value of the said intended Building and Premises
in Pimlico the said Council shall, immediately after the said intended 10
Building and Premises in Pimlico shall be completed and delivered up
to the said Council as aforesaid, pay to the Consolidated Fund of the
United Kingdom One Half Part of the Excess in Market Value of
the said intended Building and Premises in Pimlico over the said
Office and Premises in Somerset House: And in the said Articles of 15
Agreement are contained Agreements for making the said Articles
voidable in certain Events therein specified, and for the Payment
of Expenses, and otherwise relating to the Premises: And whereas
for effectuating the herein-before recited Articles of Agreement
the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Woods, Forests, and Land 20
Revenues have agreed to sell, and the Commissioners of Works
have agreed to purchase the said Land and Messuages and Appur-
tenances specified in the said Schedule to the said Articles of Agree-
ment for the Sum of Four thousand three hundred Pounds, being
the Sum at which the same have been valued by the Surveyors of 25
the same several Commissioners respectively: And whereas it is
expedient that the herein-before recited Articles of Agreement be
carried into effect: Be it enacted therefore 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 Par- 30
liament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, as follows:

I. The herein-before recited Articles of Agreement, and all Agreements and Stipulations therein contained, are confirmed, and shall be carried into effect, and the Council of His Royal Highness Albert Edward, Prince of Wales and Duke of Cornwall, the Commissioners 35 of Her Majesty's Treasury, the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Works and Public Buildings, and the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Woods, Forests, and Land Revenues, are empowered and directed to do all such Things as by the said Articles of Agreement are agreed, or as may be necessary or expedient to be done for carry- 40 ing the same into full Effect.

II. The said Sum of Four thousand three hundred Pounds, the Land speci- Purchase Money of the said Land and Messuages and Appurtenances

fied in the

specified

ment to be

ers of Woods,

Land thereupon to vest

of Works.

specified in the said Schedule to the said Articles of Agreement shall, Schedule to as soon as conveniently may be after the passing of this Act, be paid the Agreeby the Commissioners of Works out of such Monies as have been or paid to the shall be appropriated by Parliament for that Purpose to the Commis- Commission5 sioners of Her Majesty's Woods, Forests, and Land Revenues, and and such shall be held and applied by such last-mentioned Commissioners as Monies arising from the Sale of Land, Part of the Hereditary Posses- in the Comsions and Land Revenues of the Crown, and upon such Payment missioners being made the Site of the said intended Building and all Erections 10 thereon, with all Offices, Areas, Yards, Walls, Fences, Drains, Sewers, Rights, Easements, and Appurtenances appertaining thereto, and the Inheritance thereof in Fee Simple, shall vest in the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Works and Public Buildings, and their Successors, as incorporated by the Act of Fifteenth Victoria, Chapter Twenty-eight, 15 freed and discharged from all other Estates, Claims, and Incumbrances (if any).

Upon the Comple

of the Duchy, and

them of such a

III. Immediately after the said intended Building in Pimlico with tion of the Buildthe Appurtenances thereto shall have been completed fit for Use as ing and the Dethe Office of the Duchy of Cornwall, as by the said Articles of livery of Posses20 Agreement provided, and shall have been delivered up into sion to the Council the Possession of the Council of the said Duchy, and such Sum of upon Payment by Money (if any) as shall, in pursuance of the said Articles of AgreeSum (if any) as ment, become payable by the said Council to the Account of Her shall become payMajesty's Exchequer shall have been paid, the said intended Building able under the Agreement, the 25 in Pimlico and the Site thereof, with all Offices, Areas, Yards, Walls, intended Building Fences, Drains, Sewers, Rights, Easements, and Appurtenances to vest in Her Majesty, upon appertaining thereto, and the Inheritance thereof in Fee Simple, shall trust to allow the vest in Her Majesty, Her Heirs and Successors, freed and discharged same to be used as from all other Estates, Claims, and Incumbrances (if any), upon the Duchy, and the 30 same Trust for allowing such Building and Premises, with the Appur- present Office of the Duchy to be tenances, to be used as the Office of the Duchy of Cornwall, as the thereupon held as Office and Premises of the said Duchy in Somerset House are now the other Portions subject to, and the said Office and Premises of the said Duchy in House. Somerset House, with their Rights, Easements, and Appurtenances,

35 shall remain vested in Her Majesty, Her Heirs and Successors, freed and discharged from the said Trust, for allowing the same to be used for the Office of the said Duchy, but upon the same or the like Trusts as the said Premises in Somerset House would have been subject to in case the Office of the Duchy of Cornwall had not been one of 40 the Public Offices named in or established under the said Act of King George the Third.

IV. Such Sum of Money (if any) as shall in pursuance of the said Articles of Agreement become payable by the Council of the said

the Office of the

of Somerset

Such Money as may become payable by the Duchy

to be paid to the
Account of the
Consolidated
Fund.

Duchy to the Account of Her Majesty's Exchequer of the United
Kingdom, shall be paid by the said Council into the Bank of England
to the Account of Her Majesty's Exchequer, to be carried to the
Consolidated Fund, and may be so paid by the said Council out of
any Monies for the Time being applicable to any of the Purposes of 5
an Act passed in the Eighth Year of the Reign of Her present Ma-
jesty, intituled "An Act to enable the Council of His Royal High-
ness Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, to sell and exchange Lands
" and enfranchise Copyholds, Parcel of the Possessions of the Duchy
"of Cornwall, to purchase other Lands, and for other Purposes."

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BILL

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Alter and improve the Mode of taking Evidence in the Ecclesiastical Courts of England and Ireland.

BE

may sum

E it 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 in any Suit Ecclesias5 depending in any Ecclesiastical Court in England or Ireland the Court tical Courts (if it shall think fit) may summon before it and examine or cause to be mon and examined Witnesses by Word of Mouth, and either before or after examine Examination by Deposition or Affidavit; and Notes of such Evidence vivâ voce. shall be taken down in Writing by the Judge or Registrar, or by such 10 other Person or Persons, and in such Manner, as the Judge of the Court shall direct.

Witnesses