heretofore made by Kilmainham Chelsea Hos pital to make Kilmainham examine claims CA P. LVII. An Act for transferring such of the Duties of the Commissioners WHEREAS an Act passed in the Forty seventh Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Third, intituled An Act for empowering the Commissioners of Kilmainham Hospital to make Rules and Regulations for the Payment of Pensions to Soldiers on the Establishment of that Hospital: And Whereas it ' is expedient that in future the Out Pensioners of Kilmainham Hos'pital should be placed under the Control and paid under the Direc'tions of the Commissioners of Chelsea Hospital:' Be it therefore enacted by the King'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 so much of the said hereinbefore recited Act as relates to the Out Pensioners of Kilmainham Hospital shall be and the same is hereby repealed. II. And be it further enacted, That from and after the Twenty fourth Day of December One thousand eight hundred and twenty two, all Out Pensions granted or to be granted to disabled, invalid or discharged Soldiers or other Persons, which have heretofore been made by the Commissioners or Governors of Kilmainham Hospital, and which have been under the Power, Management, Control or Direction of the said Commissioners, shall be made by and shall be under the Power, Management, Control and Direction of the Commissioners of Chelsea Hospital. III. And be it further enacted, That it shall and may be lawful for the said Commissioners of Chelsea Hospital, or any Three or more of them for the time being, to make Orders, Rules and Regulations, and from time to time to alter the same, in relation to the Payment of any Out Pensions which were heretofore received from Kilmainham Hospital or under the Management of the Commissioners of Kilmainham Hospital, and also to require such Certificates, Proofs, Affidavits, Vouchers or Receipts for the better regulating, managing and making such Payments, as to the said Commissioners shall seem expedient. IV. And Whereas it is expedient that Facility should be given to Soldiers discharged in Ireland, and entitled to Pensions for their Services in His Majesty's Army, to enable them to establish their Claim for such Pensions;' Be it enacted, That the Commissioners or Governors of Kilmainham Hospital, or any Three or more of them, shall once at the least in every Month, upon some Day to be publicly notified, meet at the said Hospital, for the Purpose of examining the Claims of Persons who may suppose themselves entitled to Out Pensions on account of Service in any Branch of His Majesty's Army, or on account of any Disability acquired in such Service, and shall take down the Name and Description, Place of Abode, Length and Particulars of Service, and Cause of Discharge, and Nature of Hurt and Disability, if any, of every Person so applying; and shall, as soon as possible after such Ex amination, proper Certificate to pital. amination, transmit a Certificate of the Particulars so taken, and of and transmit the Rate of Pension which the said Governors think it may to recommend for each Pensioner, to the Commissioners of Chelsea Hospital, which said Certificate shall be in such Form as the Commissioners for Chelsea Hospital shall from time to time direct; and the Commissioners of Chelsea Hospital shall, upon the Receipt of Chelsea Hossuch Certificate, or as soon after as conveniently may be, deter- pital thereupon mine what Amount of Pension each Person named therein is entitled to by virtue of his Services in any Branch of His Majesty's Pensions. Army, or in respect of any Disability, and in conformity with any existing Order in Council, or Rules and Regulations made by His Majesty for fixing the pensions and Allowances to which Non Commissioned Officers and Soldiers are to become entitled on their Discharge, by reason of the Expiration of certain Periods of Service, to determine Amount of Out Pensions. or as invalid, disabled or wounded; and the said Commissioners of Such Pensions Chelsea Hospital shall direct the Agent for the Out Pensioners of paid as Chelsea the said Royal Hospital to pay the said Pensions accordingly; which said Pensions are to be paid and remitted to the Persons entitled thereto, in like manner as the Chelsea Hospital Out Pensioners are now paid. Chelsea Hospital. V. And be it further enacted, That every Pensioner resident in Pensioners Great Britain, who shall be entitled to receive Payment of his changing Abode Pension by Remittance or Order, shall, as often as he shall change to notify to his Place of Abode, give Notice thereof to the said Commissioners of the said Royal Hospital at Chelsea ; and every Pensioner resident in Ireland, who shall be so entitled, shall, as often as he shall change his Place of Abode, give Notice thereof either to the Agent of the Royal Hospital at Chelsea resident in Dublin, or to the Commissioners of the said Royal Hospital at Chelsea; and Comptroller of Chelsea Hospital and Chief and First and in case, for Want of any such Notice, any loss shall happen by Otherwise Loss reason of any Remittance or Order being sent for any Pension to sustained by the Place from which such Pensioner shall have removed without Pensioner. giving such Notice, such Loss shall fall upon and be borne and sustained by such Pensioner so making Default in this Behalf. VI. And be it further enacted, That from and after the passing of this Act, it shall and may be lawful to and for the Comptroller of the Royal Hospital at Chelsea, and the Chief and First and Second Clerk respectively in the Office of the Secretary of the said Second Clerk Royal Hospital for the time being, and they are hereby authorized in Secretary's and required, as often as Occasion shall be, to administer to all Office emand every Person titled or claiming to be entitled to any Out Pen- powered to adsion or Allowance of Money either from Chelsea or Kilmainham Hospital, or to any Allowance on account of Service in His Majesty's Army, all and every Oath and Oaths required or directed to be taken by any Law or Laws which now is or are or shall be in force at the Time such Oath is required or directed as aforesaid; and also to administer any other Oath or Oaths to any such Person or Persons as aforesaid, as shall be deemed necessary for the Purpose of proving the Identity of such Person or Persons, or for the Purpose of ascertaining or proving his or their Service, or Particulars of Service, in His Majesty's Army, or of any other Service for which any Out Pension or Allowance shall be claimed or granted. minister Oaths. Perjury. Out Pensioners subject to Laws relating to Assignments to Overseers of the Poor. 59 G.3. c.12. Kilmainham VII. And be it further enacted, That any Person or Persons who shall take any false Oath as to the Particulars aforesaid, or any of them, before the said Comptroller of Chelsea Hospital, or before the First or Second Clerk of the Secretary of the said Royal Hospital, shall be deemed guilty of wilful and corrupt Perjury; and shall suffer such Punishment as by Law may be adjudged to Persons guilty of Perjury. VIII. And be it further enacted, That all and every the Out Pensioners heretofore belonging to Kilmainham Hospital, shall be subject to the same Laws and Regulations with respect to Assignments of their Pensions, or the Orders of Justices for the Payment of the same, to the Overseers of the Poor of any Parish, by whom Relief may be legally granted to indigent Persons entitled to such Pensions or their Families, as the Out Pensioners of Chelsea Hospital are now subject to by virtue of an Act passed in the Fifty ninth Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Third, intituled An Act to amend the Laws for the Relief of the Poor. IX. And be it further enacted, That from and after the passing may receive In of this Act, the Governors of Kilmainham Hospital shall have the Power to receive as In Pensioners any of the Out Pensioners residing in Ireland. Pensioners. Out Pensioners admitted In Pensioners, Notice to Chel sea Hospital. Kilmainham Hospital to transmit to Chelsea Hos-, pital all Books and Writings herein mentioned. X. And be it further enacted, That when and as often as any Out Pensioner shall be admitted as an In Pensioner of the said Hospital at Kilmainham, immediate Notice thereof, with all the Particulars relating to the same, shall within Fourteen Days of such Admission be transmitted by the said Commissioners of Kilmainham Hospital to the said Commissioners of Chelsea Hospital, in order that the Pensioner or Pensioners so admitted may be struck off the Out Pension List of the said Royal Hospital. XI. And be it further enacted, That immediately after the passing of this Act, it shall and may be lawful for the said Commissioners of the Royal Hospital for Soldiers at Chelsea, by Writing under the Hand of any Three or more of them, to call for, and the Commissioners or Governors of Kilmainham Hospital are hereby directed, within Ten Days after Notice to that Effect shall be to them given, to furnish and transmit or deliver to the said Commissioners of Chelsea Hospital, or to such Person or Persons as they shall authorize to receive the same, all such Books, Papers, Lists, Documents or other Writings in the Possession or under the Control of the said Commissioners of Kilmainham Hospital, as shall relate to the Persons at any Time heretofore admitted or appointed Out Pensioners of the said Hospital at Kilmainham; together with the Registry of Service of the said Pensioners, and the Discharges of all such Soldiers as have been admitted Pensioners of the said Hospital at Kilmainham; and all Papers whatsoever relating to Persons who shall have been registered, with a View to Pensions being granted to them prospectively; and all such other Papers relating to Out Pensions in the Custody of the said Commissioners of Kilmainham Hospital, as to the Commissioners of Chelsea Hospital shall seem necessary. CAP. :W CAP. LVIII. An Act for enabling the Commissioners of His Majesty's Woods, Forests and Land Revenues to effect Improvements in the Neighbourhood of Parliament Street and Privy Garden, within the Liberty of Westminster. [5th July 1822.] WHEREAS certain Alterations and Improvements are in contemplation, and are now carrying on on certain Lands and Grounds, Part of the Land Revenues of the Crown, in the Neighbourhood of Parliament Street and Privy Garden, in the City of Westminster and County of Middlesex, under the Super⚫intendence of the Commissioners of His Majesty's Woods, Forests and Land Revenues, by which, when completed, the Estate and Property of His Majesty in and about Privy Garden, under the Management and Superintendence of the said Commissioners, will be considerably augmented and benefited: And Whereas, for the Purpose of carrying into effect, and completing the said Alterations and Improvements, it is necessary that the said Com'missioners should have Possession of a certain Freehold Mes'suage or Dwelling House, with the Appurtenances situate in Parliament Street, in the City of Westminster, now in the Occupation of Robert Hart, Pastry Cook, and it is expedient that Power and Authority should be given to the said Commissioners to purchase for and on Behalf of His Majesty, and to all Persons interested therein to sell and dispose of the said Messuage, Hereditaments ' and Premises, with the Appurtenances; but the Aid and Autho'rity of Parliament is necessary for those Purposes:' May it therefore please Your Majesty that it may be enacted; And be it enacted by the King'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 said Commissioners of His Majesty's Woods, Forests and Land Re- Commissioners venues, for and on Behalf of His Majesty, to treat, contract and empowered to agree with the Owners of and Persons interested in the said Mes- contract for the suage, Hereditaments and Premises, with the Appurtenances hereinbefore mentioned, for the Purchase thereof, or for the Loss or mentioned. Damage such Owners and Persons interested therein shall or may any ways sustain by the carrying and completing the Improvements aforesaid; and it shall be lawful for all Bodies Politic, Corporate or Bodies Politic, Collegiate, Corporations Aggregate or Sole, and all Feoffees in &c. empowered Trust, Executors, Administrators, Guardians or other Trustees to sell. whatsoever, not only for and on Behalf of themselves, their Heirs and Successors, but also for and on Behalf of any Infant, Feme Covert, Cestuique Trust, Tenants for Life or in Tail, and for all and every Person and Persons whomsoever who are or shall be seised or possessed of or interested in the said Messuage, Hereditaments and Premises, with the Appurtenances, or in any Part thereof, to contract and agree with the said Commissioners of His Majesty's Woods, Forests and Land Revenues for the Satisfaction to be made for such Damages as aforesaid, or to sell and convey to them the said Messuage, Hereditaments and Premises, with the appurtenances, as the said Commissioners shall require; and all Ꮓ Ꮞ Contracts Purchase of Purchase Money raised under 57 G.3. c.97. paid into the Bank, or to Par ties interested. On such Payment Commis sioners may take Possession of Premises, which shall vest in His Majesty, and become part of the Land Revenues. Application of Money belong the same shall amount to or exceed 2001. Contracts and Sales so made shall, without any Fine or Fines, Common Recovery or Common Recoveries, or any other Conveyance or Assurance, be valid and effectual in the Law to all Intents and Purposes whatsoever; any Law, Statute or Usage, or any other Matter or Thing whatsoever, to the contrary notwithstanding; and all such Bodies Politic, Corporate or Collegiate, Corporations Aggregate or Sole, Tenants for Life or in Tail, Feoffees in Trust, Executors, Administrators, Guardians and Trustees, and all other Persons, shall be and are hereby indemnified for what they shall do by virtue of or in pursuance of this Act. II. And be it further enacted, That every Sum of Money or Recompence to be agreed for as aforesaid, shall be paid by the said Commissioners of His Majesty's Woods, Forests and Land Revenues, out of the Money raised or to be raised for the Payment of the Purchase Monies of Estates to be purchased on Behalf of His Majesty, under the Authority of an Act made and passed in the Fifty seventh Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Third, intituled An Act for ratifying Articles of Agreement entered into by the Right Honourable Henry Hall Viscount Gage, and the Commissioners of His Majesty's Woods, Forests and Land Revenues; and for the better Management and Improvement of the Land Revenues of the Crown, either into the Bank of England or to the Parties or their Agents, as the case may require, as hereinafter is mentioned; and upon Payment or Tender thereof to the Party or Parties entitled to receive the same, or their Agent, or on depositing the same in the Bank of England in manner by this Act directed, and after Ten Days' Notice thereof given to such Parties or Persons, or their Agents, it shall and may be lawful for the said Commissioners of His Majesty's Woods, Forests and Land Revenues to take Possession of the said Messuage, Hereditaments and Premises, and to make use of the same in such manner as they shall think fit in carrying on and completing the said intended Improvements; and from thenceforth the Inheritance in Fee Simple, free from Incumbrances of and in the said Messuage, Hereditaments and Premises, with the Appurtenances, or of and in so much or such Parts thereof as the said Commissioners shall contract and agree to purchase, shall be and become, and the same is and are hereby absolutely vested in the King's Majesty, His Heirs and Successors, for ever, freed and discharged, and absolutely acquitted and exonerated of and from all Trusts, Powers and Incumbrances whatsoever, and shall become Part of the Land Revenues of the Crown within the Ordering and Survey of the Exchequer in England, and shall be settled and administered to the same Uses and in the same Manner as such Land Revenues now are or hereafter may be settled or administered. III. And be it further enacted, That if any Money shall be agreed to be paid for the said Messuage, Hereditaments and Premises, with the Appurtenances or any Part thereof, purchased, taken or used by virtue of the Powers of this Act for the Purposes thereof, which shall belong to any Corporation, Feme Covert, Lunatic, Tenants for Life or in Tail, or Person or Persons under any Disability or Incapacity, 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 |