Name and with the Privity of the Accountant General of the High Court of Chancery, to be placed to his Account ex parte the Commissioners of His Majesty's Woods, Forests and Land Revenues, 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 Messuage, Hereditaments and Premises, with the Appurtenances, in the Purchase or Redemption of the Land Tax, or towards the Discharge of any Debt or Debts or other Incumbrances, or Part thereof, as the said Court shall authorize to be paid, affecting the said Messuage, Hereditaments, and Premises, or affecting other Lands, Tenements or 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 and Approbation of the said Court, in the Purchase of other Lands, Tenements or Hereditaments, which shall be conveyed and settled to, for and upon such and the like Uses, Trusts, Intents and Purposes, and in the same manner as the Messuage, Hereditaments and Premises, with the Appurtenances, which shall be so purchased, taken or used as aforesaid, 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 said Money shall, by Order of the said Court of Chancery, upon Application thereto, be invested by the said Accountant General in his Name in the Purchase of Three Pounds per Centum Consolidated or Three Pounds per Centum 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 Purposes aforesaid, the Dividends and annual Produce of the said Consolidated or Reduced Bank Annuities shall from time to time be paid, by 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 Messuage, Hereditaments and Premises, with the Appurtenances, so hereby directed to be purchased, in case such Purchase or Settlement had been made. IV. Provided always and be it further enacted, That if the Money so agreed to be paid for the said Messuage, Hereditaments and Premises, with the Appurtenances or any Part thereof, purchased, taken or used for the Purposes aforesaid, and belonging to any Corporation, or any Person or Persons under Disability or Incapacity as aforesaid, shall be less than the Sum of Two hundred Pounds, or shall amount to or exceed the Sum of Twenty Pounds, then and in all such cases the same shall, at the Option of the Person or Persons for the time being entitled to the Rents and Profits of the Messuage, Hereditaments and Premises, with the Appurtenances, or of any Part thereof, so purchased, taken or used, or of his, her or their Guardian or Guardians, Committee or Committees, in case of Infancy or Lunacy, to be signified in Writing under their respective Hands, be paid into the Bank, in the Name and with the Privity of the said Accountant General of the High Court of Chancery, and be placed to his Account as afore How to be applied where less than 2001. or amount to 201. Application where the Purchase Money shall be less than 201. In default of Title, or refus ing to execute Conveyance of the Premises, how Money to be invested. Motion or Petition in Chan said, in order to be applied in manner hereinbefore directed, or otherwise the same shall be paid at the like Option to Two Trustees to be nominated by the Person or Persons making such Option, and approved by the said Commissioners of His Majesty's Woods, Forests and Land Revenues, (such Nomination and Approbation to be signified in 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 shall be applicable, without obtaining or being required to obtain the Direction or Approbation of the said Court of Chancery. V. Provided always and be it further enacted, That where such Money so agreed to be paid as next before mentioned shall be less than Twenty Pounds, then and in all such cases the same shall be applied to the Use of the Person or Persons who would for the time being have been entitled to the Rents and Profits of the Messuage, Hereditaments and Premises, with the Appurtenances or the Part thereof so purchased, taken or used as aforesaid, in such manner as the said Commissioners of His Majesty's Woods, Forests and Land Revenues shall think fit; or in case of Infancy or Lunacy, then to his, her or their Guardian or Guardians, Committee or Committees, to and for the Use and Benefit of such Person or Persons so entitled respectively. VI. And be it further enacted, That in case the Persons to whom any Sum or Sums of Money shall be so ordered to be paid as aforesaid, shall not be able to make a good Title to the Premises to the Satisfaction of the said Commissioners of His Majesty's Woods, Forests and Land Revenues, or shall refuse to execute such Conveyance or Conveyances, then and in every such case it shall be lawful for the said Commissioners of His Majesty's Woods, Forests and Land Revenues to order the said Sum or Sums of Money so agreed for to be paid into the Bank of England, in the Name and with the Privity of the Accountant General of the said Court of Chancery, to be placed to his Account to the Credit of the said Parties interested in the said Messuage, Hereditaments and Premises, with the Appurtenances (describing them), subject to the Order, Control and Disposition of the said Court of Chancery; which said Court, on the Application of any Person or Persons making Claim to such Sum or Sums of Money or any Part thereof, by Motion or Petition, shall be and is hereby empowered, in a summary Way of Proceeding or otherwise, as to the said Court shall seem meet, to order the same to be laid out and invested in the Public Funds, or to order the Distribution thereof according to the respective Estate or Estates, Title or Interests of the Person or Persons making Claim thereunto, and to make such other Order in the Premises as to the said Court shall seem just and reasonable; and the Cashier or Cashiers of the Bank of England, who shall receive such Sum or Sums of Money, is and are hereby required to give a Receipt or Receipts for such Sum or Sums of Money, mentioning and specifying for what and for whose. Use the same is or are received, to such Person or Persons as shall pay any such Sum or Sums of Money into the Bank as aforesaid. Persons in Pos- VII. Provided always and be it further enacted, That where any session deemed Question shall arise touching the Title of any Person to any Money cery. to to be paid into the Bank of England, in the Name and with the Privity of the Accountant General of the Court of Chancery, in pursuance of this Act for the Purchase of the said Messuage, Hereditaments and Premises, with the Appurtenances or any Part thereof, or of any Estate, Right or Interest in the same, or in any Part thereof to be purchased in pursuance thereof, or to any Bank Annuities to be purchased with any such Money, or to the Dividends or Interest of any such Bank Annuities, the Person or Persons who shall have been in Possession of such Messuage, Hereditaments and Premises, with the Appurtenances at the Time of such Purchase, and all Persons claiming under the Possession of such Person or Persons, shall be deemed and taken to have been lawfully entitled to such Messuage, Hereditaments and Premises according to such Possession, until the contrary shall be shewn to the Satisfaction of the said Court of Chancery, and the Dividends or Interest of the Bank Annuities shall be paid, applied and disposed of accordingly, unless it shall be made appear to the said Court that such Possession was a wrongful Possession, and that some other Person or Persons was or were lawfully entitled to such Messuage, Hereditaments and Premises, with the Appurtenances or some Estate or Interest therein. lawfully entitled to Premises till contrary shewn to satisCourt of Chan faction of cery. ration or inca VIII. Provided also and be it further enacted, That where by Purchase reason of any Disability or Incapacity of the Person or Persons or Money belongCorporation entitled to the said Messuage, Hereditaments and ing to CorpoPremises, or any Part thereof, to be purchased under the Authority pacitated Perof this Act, the Purchase Money for the same shall be required to sons applied in be paid into the said Court, and be applied in the Purchase of Purchase of other Lands, Tenements or Hereditaments to be settled to the like other Premises. Uses in pursuance of this Act, it shall be lawful for the said Court to order the Expences of all Purchases from time to time to be made in pursuance of this Act, or so much of such Expences as the said Court shall deem reasonable, together with the necessary Costs and Charges of obtaining such Order, to be paid by the said Commissioners of His Majesty's Woods, Forests and Land Revenues, who shall from time to time pay such Sums of Money for such Purposes as the said Court shall direct. Commissioners may empower Builders to make Gateways Gardens. IX. And Whereas, in order to carry on and complete the said 'Improvements before mentioned, it is intended to erect several commodious Houses and Buildings on the Site of the said Messuage, Hereditaments and Premises hereby authorized to be and open Pas' purchased and adjoining thereto, and it will be a Convenience to sages into Parthe Persons occupying such intended new Houses and Buildings, liament Street and an Advantage to that Part of the Estate of the Crown, if and Privy Gateways were made from the said intended Houses and Build'ings into Parliament Street or Privy Gardens, so as to afford 'Access from the said Street or Gardens to the said intended 'Houses and Buildings, or to the Stables, Outhouses or Offices * attached thereto;' Be it therefore enacted, That it shall and may be lawful for the Commissioners of His Majesty's Woods, Forests and Land Revenues, on His Majesty's Behalf, to license and empower either the Builders employed or contracted with by them the said Commissioners, for erecting such intended new Houses and Buildings, or any Person to whom the said Commissioners shall let any Part of the Site of the said Messuage, Heredita ments Proviso for mittee of Pavements. ments and Premises hereby authorized to be purchased, or any Land adjoining thereto, for the Purpose of building, or to open or make such Gateway or Gateways, or Passage or Passages, as to the said Commissioners of His Majesty's Woods, Forests and Land Revenues shall seem necessary and proper, from the said intended Houses and Buildings or any of them, into Parliament Street or Privy Gardens, so as to afford Access for Horses and Carriages to the said intended Houses and Buildings or any of them, or to the Stables, Outhouses or Offices thereto belonging, so as the said Commissioners or the Person or Persons to whom such Licences shall be granted, shall bear the first Expence of paving the Entrance into such Gateways or Passages in a proper manner, and such Licences shall be and are hereby declared to be good and sufficient Authority for the making such Gateways or Passages, taking up, removing and altering the Pavement in Front thereof in Parliament Street and Privy Gardens, and doing all Things requisite thereto, and for the said Commissioners of His Majesty's Woods, Forests and Land Revenues, or the Owners or Occupiers of the said intended Houses and Buildings, to keep and use such Gateways or Passages at all Times thereafter, without any other Licence or Authority whatever; any thing in any existing Act or Acts of Parliament, or any Law or Usage to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding. X. Saving always to the Committee or other Persons who for the Rights of Com- time being shall have the Control of the Pavements of Parliament Street and Privy Gardens, all such Powers and Authorities relative to the paving and repairing the said Gateways and Passages, and preventing Nuisances and Obstructions therein, as they might. have had in case this Act had not been passed. 59 G.3. c.52. § 13. Tab. (D.) continued by 1.G4. c.67. Duties on Coals, &c. continued. CA P. LIX. An Act to continue, until the Fifth Day of July One thou- which were directed by the said Act to be payable by the said recited Act, shall continue to be paid and payable until the Fifth Day of July One thousand eight hundred and twenty four. CA P. LX. An Act to amend the Laws relating to the Importation of Corn. W [15th July 1822.] HEREAS an Act was passed in the Fifty fifth Year of 55 G.3. c.26. the Reign of his late Majesty King George the Third, 'intituled An Act to amend the Laws now in force for regulating 'the Importation of Corn: And Whereas it is expedient to alter in recited Act to cease. + Sic. In what case Foreign Corn, &c. may be im ' and amend the said Act;' Be it therefore enacted by the King's In what case most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of Scale of Prices the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, That as soon as Foreign Wheat shall have been admitted for Home Consumption under the Provisions of the said Act, the Scale of Prices at which the Home Consumption of Foreign Corn, Meal or Flour is permitted by the said Act, shall cease and determine. II. And be it further enacted, That +thereafter Foreign Corn, Meal or Flour shall and may be permitted to be imported into the United Kingdom, and into the Isle of Man, for Home Consumption, under and subject to the Provisions and Regulations now in force, whenever the Average Prices of the several Sorts of British Corn, made up and published in the manner now by Law required for regulating the Importation of Foreign Corn, Meal or Flour for Home Consumption, shall respectively be at or above the Prices hereinafter mentioned; that is to say, whenever Wheat shall be at or above the Price of Seventy Shillings per Quarter; whenever Rye, Pease or Beans shall be at or above the Price of Forty six Shillings per Quarter; whenever Barley, Bear or Bigg shall be at or above the Price of Thirty five Shillings per Quarter; whenever Oats shall be at or above the Price of Twenty five Shillings per Quarter. III. And be it further enacted, That whenever Foreign Corn, Meal or Flour shall be admissible under the Provisions of the above recited Act or of this Act, there shall be levied and paid, upon all such Foreign Corn, Meal or Flour, when admitted for Home Consumption, whether such Corn, Meal or Flour shall have been imported and warehoused previous to its becoming so admissible for Home Consumption or otherwise, the several Duties specified and set forth in the Schedule marked (A.) annexed to this Act. IV. And be it further enacted, That as soon as the Scale of Prices at which the Home Consumption of Foreign Corn, Meal or Flour is permitted by the above recited Act, shall cease and determine according to the Provisions of this Act, then the Scale of Prices at which Corn, Meal or Flour, being the Growth, Produce or Manufacture of any British Colony or Plantation in North America, is now by Law admissible for Home Consumption, under the Provisions of the said Act, shall also cease and determine. ported. In what case Duties in Schedule (A.) paid. In what case Scale of Prices of British North American Corn, &c. to cease. |