Crown Rents which may be due or owing from any such Person or Persons to His Majesty, His Heirs or Successors; and from and after the Payment of any Sum or Sums of Money so agreed upon, His Majesty, His Heirs and Successors, shall be barred The King from suing for or in any manner recovering any such Arrears of barred. Rent so compounded for as aforesaid; any thing in any Act or Acts in force in Ireland to the contrary notwithstanding. IX. Provided always, and be it further enacted, That no Sale Arrears of shall be made of any such Rent for the Purpose of extinguishing Rents to be the same, unless all arrears thereof, up to the Time of Payment extinguished paid up. of the First Deposit of the Purchase Money, or the Sums for which the same shall be compounded under the Provisions of this Act, shall have been fully paid and satisfied to His Majesty, His Heirs or Successors. 6 X. And Whereas Persons may be desirous of purchasing such Rents, in order that the same may cease or be extinguished, who may not be seised in Fee Simple of the Honors, Manors, Towns, Lands, Rectories, Tithes, Fairs, Markets, Ferries, Tenements and • Hereditaments out of which the Rent or Rents which they may 'be desirous of purchasing are payable;' Be it therefore enacted, Persons not That in such Case it shall and may be lawful for every such Per- seised in Fee son, by any Deed or Deeds in Writing, to raise any Sum or Sums Simple may raise Money by of Money not exceeding the Amount of the Purchase Money paid Mortgage for for such Rent or Rents, and the said Fees thereon, and the Ex- purchasing and pence of such Purchase, by Mortgage of the Towns, Lands, extinguishing Rectories, Tithes, Fairs, Markets, Ferries, Tenements and Here- Quit Rents. ditaments, or by Sale of a sufficient Part thereof, or otherwise to charge and incumber the same with such Sum or Sums and the Interest thereof, and to dispose of the same in such manner as he or they shall think proper; and every such Sale or Mortgage, Charge and Incumbrance, shall be good and valid in the Law against every Person in Remainder or Reversion in or to the Premises so sold, mortgaged, charged or incumbered, and all other Persons entitled to or claiming any Debt, Charge and Incumbrance affecting the Premises so sold, mortgaged, charged or incumbered, and shall have Priority thereto. XI. And be it further enacted, That where any Person shall be Certificate to desirous that any Rent so to be purchased shall subsist for the Use be given where of the Purchaser, and the Heirs and Assigns of such Purchaser, is to subsist for Rent purchased then and in such case, upon Payment into the Receipt of His Ma- the Use of the jesty's Exchequer in Ireland, according to the Course of the said Purchaser. Exchequer, of such Sums as shall be approved of by the Lord High Treasurer, or Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury, for the Purchase of any such Rent or Rents and the Fees thereon, a Certificate shall be given by the proper Officer of the said Ex chequer in manner hereinbefore mentioned; save that such Certi- What to state. ficate shall declare that the Rent or Rents so purchased, is or are so purchased, to the Use of the Purchaser and the Heirs and Assigns of such Purchaser; and such Certificate shall be enrolled To be enrolled. in manner hereby required with respect to any other Certificate; and from the time of such Enrolment, the Rent or Rents so purchased, shall be vested in the Purchaser or Purchasers, and the Heirs and Assigns of such Purchaser or Purchasers. XII. And Rents to vest. How such Rents shall be paid to and recoverable by Purchaser. Distress. Certificate of Payment Evidence of Title. Proprietors of Parcels of several Lands comprized in XII. And be it further enacted, That all such Rents as shall be so purchased for the Use of the Purchaser, shall be paid and payable to such Purchaser, and the Heirs and Assigns of such Purchaser, by Two even Half yearly Payments, on every Twenty fifth Day of March and Twenty ninth Day of September in every Year, together with the Fees payable on the same; and such Purchaser, and the Heirs and Assigns of such Purchaser, shall have the like Remedy for recovering such Rents by Distress or Re-entry, or by Action of Debt or in Covenant, as any Person may have on any Lease, demising Lands and reserving Rent, in which is contained any Clause of Distress or Re-entry, or any Covenant on the Part of the Lessee, his Heirs, Executors, Administrators and Assigns, to pay Rent, and shall have the like Privileges and Advantages in taking a Distress for such Rent, and in proceeding for the Recovery of such Rent, as His Majesty, His Heirs or Successors, may by Law have. XIII. And be it further enacted, That the Certificate of the Payment of the Purchase Money for any such Rent so enrolled as aforesaid in the Office of the Auditor of the said Exchequer of Ireland, or an attested Copy thereof, shall be admitted in all Courts of Law and Equity as Evidence of the Title of the Purchaser of such Rent, and all Persons deriving under any such Purchaser. • XIV. And Whereas in many Grants of Lands by Letters Pa'tent from the Ancestors or Predecessors of His Majesty, reserving Quit Rents, several Denominations or Parcels of Land are 'granted by the same Grant, and the several Proportions of Rent the same Grant at several Quit for each Parcel of Land, according to the Number of Acres Rents, liable 'therein, and which compose the gross Rent reserved on such only to their re-Grant, are set forth in such Grant;' Be it enacted, That whenspective Rents. ever the Rent for any such Parcel of Land shall be purchased under this Act by the Proprietor of such Parcel of Land, then and in such case the Purchaser of such Rent, and also the Parcel of Land for which such Rent shall be reserved, shall be, and every such Purchaser, and every such Parcel of Land is hereby exonerated and discharged of and from all Rents charged on the other Denominations or Parcels of Land comprized in the same Grant and reserved thereby; any Law, Custom or Usage to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding. How Crown XV. And be it further enacted, That every Person, Trustee, Guardian and Committee, and Body Politic, Corporate or Collegiate, who shall be desirous and shall offer to purchase under this Act any Lands, Tithes, Tenements or Hereditaments in Ireland, being the Property of His Majesty, His Heirs or Successors, in Right of the Crown, shall deliver or cause to be delivered, to the Lord High Treasurer or the Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland for the time being, an Account of the Lands, Tithes, Tenements or Hereditaments, which such Person or Corporation shall be desirous of purchasing, and the Price which every such Person or Corporation shall offer and be willing to give for the Purchase of the same; Certificate from and upon Payment into the Receipt of the Exchequer in Ireland, the Exchequer. in manner hereinbefore directed, of such Sum or Sums of Money as shall be approved of by the said Lord High Treasurer or Com. missioners of the Treasury, for the Purchase of such Lands, Tithes, Tenements Tenements or Hereditaments, a Certificate shall be given by the proper Officer of the Receipt of His Majesty's Exchequer in Ireland, setting forth the Name or Names of the Lands, Tithes, Tenements or Hereditaments so purchased, with such Description thereof, corresponding with any Record thereof in His Majesty's Exchequer in Ireland, as will be sufficient to ascertain the same, which Certificate shall be enrolled in the Office of the Auditor of the Exchequer in Ireland; and from and after Payment of the whole of the Purchase Money for such Lands, Tithes, Tenements or Hereditaments, by the Purchaser or Purchasers thereof, it shall and may be lawful for the Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury, or any Three or more of them, to convey such Lands, Tithes, Conveyance by Tenements or Hereditaments, to such Purchaser or Purchasers, by Bargain and Deed of Bargain and Sale, signed and sealed by the said Lord High Treasurer, or the Commissioners of the Treasury, or any Three Sale.. Rents. of them, and the said Deed of Bargain and Sale shall be enrolled Enrolled. in the Office of the Auditor of the said Exchequer; and from the Time of the Enrolment of such Deed of Bargain and Sale, the Lands, Tithes, Tenements or Hereditaments so purchased, shall be divested out of the Crown, and shall be vested in the Purchaser or Lands to vest. Purchasers, and his or their Heirs and Assigns or Successors respectively; and such Deed of Bargain and Sale so enrolled, shall be admitted in all Courts of Law and Equity as Evidence of the Title of the Purchaser of such Lands, Tithes, Tenements or Hereditaments, and of all Persons deriving under such Purchaser. XVI. Provided always, and be it enacted, That all such Persons Persons, &c. and their Trustees, Guardians and Committees, and all such Bodies in actual PosCorporate or Collegiate, who shall be in the actual Possession of, tled to Rents of session, or entior immediately entitled to the Rents and Profits of any Manors, Premises (ExMessuages, Lands, Tenements or Hereditaments, whereon any ception) presuch Quit Rents, Crown Rents or Composition Rents shall be ferred in Purcharged, or out of which they shall be issuable (other than and chase of Quit except Tenants for Years absolute, or Tenants for Lives, or for Years determinable upon Lives, on any Demise whereon any Rent was or shall be reserved, or a Fine or Premium was or shall be paid), shall be preferred in the Purchase of such Quit Rents, Crown Rents or Composition Rents, or any Part thereof, to any Person or Corporation having any Estate or Interest in Remainder, Reversion or Expectancy, in such Manors, Messuages, Lands, Tenements or Hereditaments, and to any Person or Corporation not having any Interest therein: Provided such Persons or Corporations so to be preferred shall contract for the Purchase of such Rents before the Twenty fifth Day of December One thousand eight hundred and twenty three; and in case no Contract shall be Proviso where entered into by such Persons or Corporations before the said Twenty no Contract before 25th Dec. fifth Day of December One thousand eight hundred and twenty three, then the Persons or Corporations having such Estates or Interests in Reversion, Remainder or Expectancy, or the Trustees, Guardians or Committees of any such Persons, shall be entitled to purchase such Rents, or any Part thereof, in preference to any other Person or Corporation not having any Estate or Interest therein, until the Twenty fifth Day of December One thousand eight hundred and twenty four, according to the Priority of such res pective Estates or Interests, such Priority to be settled by the Commissioners 1823. Treasury may demise Crown Rent or on Fine. missioners of His Majesty's Treasury, in case the Parties shall differ about the same. XVII. And be it further enacted, That it shall and may be lawful to and for the Lord High Treasurer, or the Commissioners of His Lands at Rack Majesty's Treasury of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, or any Three of them, from time to time, by Deed under their Hands and Seals, or the Hands and Seals of any Three or more of them, to demise and lease any Lands, Tithes, Tenements or Hereditaments belonging to His Majesty, His Heirs or Successors, in Right of the Crown as aforesaid, for any Term not exceeding Twenty one Years, at the best improved yearly Rent that can be reasonably had for the same, or upon Payment of any Sum or Sums of Money by way of Fine in Reduction of such Rent; and all and every Sum and Sums so received by way of Fine on any such Demise, shall be paid into the Receipt of His Majesty's Treasury in Ireland, according to the course of the said Exchequer, and shall be applied in manner directed by this Act. Fines on De mise, how applied. Leases enrolled and Rents paid to Collector of Excise. Money paid this Act laid out in Stock at Bank of Ire of the Trea sury, not transferrable but by Authority of Parliament; and the Interest applicable as Land Revenue. XVIII. And be it further enacted, That all Demises and Leases so made, shall be enrolled in the Office of the Auditor General of the Exchequer in Ireland, and the Rents thereof put in charge in the Excise Districts in which such Lands are situate; and the Rents thereof shall be paid to the Collector of Excise of such District, and shall be accounted for in like manner as other Monies received by such Collector. XIX. And be it further enacted, That all and every Sum and into Exchequer Sums of Money which shall be paid into the Receipt of His Maof Ireland under jesty's Exchequer in Ireland, according to the Course of the said Exchequer, under and by virtue of this Act, on account of the Sale of any Quit Rent, Crown Rent or other Rent, or of any Lands, land in Name Tithes, Tenements or Hereditaments, shall from time to time be laid out by the Vice-Treasurer of Ireland for the time being, in the Purchase of Stocks, Funds or Annuities transferrable at the Bank of Ireland, in the Name of the Lord High Treasurer, or the Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland for the time being; and the Governor and Company of the Bank of Ireland are hereby authorized and required to permit Transfers to be made into the Name of the Lord High Treasurer or Commissioners of the Treasury, of the Stock, Funds or Annuities to be purchased accordingly, and such Transfer to be accepted by the said Vice Treasurer of Ireland for and in the Name of the said Lord High Treasurer or Commissioners of the Treasury; and the said Vice Treasurer is hereby authorized and required to accept the same accordingly; and all and singular the Stock, Funds and Annuities so to be purchased shall remain invested in the Names of the Lord High Treasurer, or the Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury for the time being; and no Part of such Stock, Funds or Annuities shall be transferred or transferrable at any time without the Authority of Parliament; but all the Interest or Dividends on such Stock, Funds or Annuities, shall be from time to time paid by the Governor and Company of the Bank of Ireland, into the Hands of such Person or Persons as shall be appointed to receive such Interest or Dividends, by Warrant under the Hand and Seal of the Lord High Treasurer, or of the Commissioners of his Majesty's Treasury or any Three of them, them, for the time being, and shall by force and virtue of this Act be deemed and taken in Law to be Part of the said Land Revenue of the Crown in Ireland, and shall be from time to time answered, accounted for and appropriated to such and the same Uses and Purposes as the Land Revenue of the Crown in Ireland now is or would hereafter be liable to be applied and appropriated to in case this Act had not been made. Proviso for monage. XX. Provided always, and be it enacted, That this Act or any thing herein contained, or any Conveyance made under this Act, Claims of Comof any Lands the Property of His Majesty, His Heirs or Successors, in Right of the Crown, shall not extend or be construed to extend in any way to affect any Claim of Commonage, or any other Claim of any Person or Persons, other than His Majesty, His Heirs or Successors, over or upon any such Lands; but any such Claim of Commonage or other Claim, shall be and continue in all Respects as if this Act had not been made. &c. this Session. XXI. And be it further enacted, That this Act may be amended, Act amended, altered or repealed by any Act or Acts to be made in this present Session of Parliament. XXII. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall commence Commenceand take effect from and after the Expiration of Ten Days next ment of Act, after the passing thereof. CAP. LXIV. An Act to amend the Laws relating to Prisons in Ireland. [22d July 1822.] HEREAS the Provisions contained in an Act made in the 1&2G.4...57. "Act, made in the Fiftieth Year of the Reign of His late Majesty II. And Whereas by an Act made in the Fiftieth Year of the 50 G.3. c.103. Reign of His late Majesty King George the Third, intituled An § 15-19. 59. • Act for repealing the several Laws relating to Prisons in Ireland, and for re-enacting such of the Provisions thereof as have been 'found useful, with Amendments; the several Grand Juries throughout Ireland have certain Powers vested in them, and are required 'to perform certain Duties with regard to the Regulation of the 'several Prisons within their respective Counties, Counties of Cities B b 3 GEO. IV. < and |