intended School. chancellor and council of Her Majesty's duchy of Lancaster for the time being, by any deed or writing under the hand and seal of the chancellor of the said duchy for the time being, attested by the clerk of the council of the said duchy for the time being, for and in the name of Her Majesty, Her heirs and successors, to grant, convey, or enfranchise, to or in favour of such trustee or trustees, any lands and hereditaments to be used by them for the purposes of this Act, upon such terms and conditions as to the said chancellor and council shall seem meet; and where any sum or sums of money shall be paid as or for the purchase or consideration for such lands or hereditaments so to be granted, conveyed, or enfranchised as aforesaid, the same shall be paid by such trustee or trustees into the hands of the receiver general for the time being of the said duchy, or his deputy, and shall be by him paid, applied, and disposed of according to the provisions and regulations contained in an Act passed in the forty-eighth year of 48 G. 3, c. 73. the reign of His late Majesty King George the Third, intituled An Act to improve the Land Revenue of the Crown in England, and also of His Majesty's Duchy of Lancaster, or any other Act or Acts now in force for that purpose: Provided always, that upon the said land so granted as aforesaid, or any part thereof, ceasing to be used for the purposes in this Act mentioned, the same shall thereupon immediately revert to and become again a portion of the possessions of the said duchy, as fully to all intents and purposes as if this Act or any such grant as aforesaid had not been passed or made; any thing herein contained to the contrary notwithstanding. If lands cease to be used for the Purposes of the Act they shall revert. sufficient Au Officers of the 4. And be it enacted, That for the purposes of this Act only, Duchy of and for such time only as the same shall be used for the purposes Cornwall em- of this Act, it shall be lawful for any two of the principal officers powered, upon of the duchy of Cornwall, under the authority of a warrant issued thority, to for that purpose under the hands of any three or more of the grant Lands to special commissioners for the time being for managing the affairs the Trustees of of the duchy of Cornwall, or under the hands of any three or more any existing or of the persons who may hereafter for the time being have the intended School. If Lands cease to be used for the Purposes immediate management of the said duchy, if the said duchy shall be then vested in the crown, or if the said duchy shall then be vested in a duke of Cornwall, then under the hand of the chancellor for the time being of the said duchy, or under the hands of any three or more of the persons for the time being having the immediate management of the said duchy, by deed under their hands, to grant and convey to the trustees or trustee for the time being of any existing school, or of any school intended to be established by virtue of this Act, any lands, tenements, or hereditaments forming part of the possessions of the said duchy of Cornwall, not exceeding in the whole one acre in any one parish, upon such terms and conditions as to the said special commissioners or chancellor, or such other persons as aforesaid shall seem meet: Provided always, that upon the said land so granted as aforesaid, or any part thereof, ceasing to be used for the purposes in this Act mentioned, the same shall thereupon immediately revert to and become again of the Act they a portion of the possessions of the said duchy, as fully to all intents shall revert. and purposes as if this Act or any such grant as aforesaid hath not been passed or made; any thing herein contained to the contrary notwithstanding. 5. And be it enacted, That where any person shall be equitably Persons under entitled to any manor or land, but the legal estate therein shall be Disability emin some trustee or trustees, it shall be sufficient for such person to powered to convey the same for the purposes of this Act without the trustee convey Lands for the puror trustees being party to the conveyance thereof; and where any poses of this married woman shall be seised or possessed of or entitled to any Act. estate or interest, manorial or otherwise, in land proposed to be conveyed for the purposes of this Act, she and her husband may convey the same for such purposes by deed, without any acknowledgment thereof; and where it is deemed expedient to purchase any land for the purposes aforesaid belonging to or vested in any infant or lunatic, such land may be conveyed by the guardian or committee of such infant, or the committee of such lunatic respectively, who may receive the purchase money for the same, and give valid and sufficient discharges to the party paying such purchase money, who shall not be required to see to the application thereof. convey lands 6. And be it enacted, That it shall be lawful for any corpora- Corporations, tion, ecclesiastical or lay, whether sole or aggregate, and for any Justices, Trusofficers, Justices of the Peace, trustees, or commissioners, holding tees, &c. empowered to land for public, ecclesiastical, parochial, charitable, or other purposes or objects, subject to the provisions next herein-after for the Purmentioned, to grant, convey, or enfranchise, for the purposes of poses of this this Act, such quantity of land as aforesaid in any manner vested Act. in such corporation, officers, Justices, trustees, or commissioners : Provided always, that no ecclesiastical corporation sole, being below the dignity of a bishop, shall be authorized to make such grant without the consent in writing of the bishop of the diocese to whose jurisdiction the said ecclesiastical corporation is subject: Provided also, that no parochial property shall be granted for such purposes without the consent of a majority of the ratee-payers and owners of property in the parish to which the same belongs, assembled at a meeting to be convened according to the mode pointed out in the Act passed in the sixth year of the reign of His late Majesty, intituled An Act to facilitate the Conveyance of Work- 5 & 6 W. 4, houses and other Property of Parishes and of Incorporations or c. 69. Unions of Parishes in England and Wales, and without the consent of the poor law commissioners, to be testified by their seal being affixed to the deed of conveyance, and of the guardians of the poor of the union within which the said parish may be comprised, or of the guardians of the poor of the said parish where the administration of the relief of the poor therein shall be subject to a board of guardians, testified by such guardians being the parties to convey the same; provided also, that where any officers, trustees, or commissioners, other than parochial trustees, shall make any such grant, it shall be sufficient if a majority or quorum authorized to act of such officers, trustees, or commissioners, assembled at a meeting duly convened, shall assent to such grant, and shall execute the deed of conveyance, although they shall not constitute a majority of the actual body of such officers, trustees, or commissioners: Provided also, that the Justices of the Peace may give their consent to the making any grant of land or premises belonging to any county, riding, or division by vote at their general quarter sessions, and may direct the same to be made in the manner directed to be pursued on the sale of the sites of gaols by an Act passed in the seventh year of the reign of His late 7 G. 4, c. 18. Majesty George the Fourth, intituled An Act to authorize the Disposal of unnecessary Prisons in England. Grants of Land may be made to Corporations or Trustees, to be held by them for School Purposes. Estates now tees for the Purposes of 7. And be it enacted, That all grants of land or buildings, or any interest therein, for the purposes of the education of poor persons, whether taking effect under the authority of this Act or any other authority of law, may be made to any corporation sole or aggregate, or to several corporations sole, or to any trustees whatsoever, to be held by such corporation or corporations or trustees for the purposes aforesaid: Provided nevertheless, that any such grant may be made to the minister of any parish being a corporation, and the churchwardens or chapelwardens and overseers of the poor, or to the minister and kirk session of the said parish, and their successors: and in such case the land or buildings so granted shall be vested for ever thereafter in the minister, churchwardens, or chapelwardens, and overseers of the poor for the time being, or the minister and kirk session of such parish, but the management, direction, and inspection of the school shall be and remain according to the provisions contained in the deed of conveyance thereof: Provided also, that where any ecclesiastical corporation sole, below the dignity of a bishop, shall grant any land to trustees, other than the minister, churchwardens or chapelwardens, and overseers, for the purposes aforesaid, such trustees shall be nominated in writing by the bishop of the diocese to whose jurisdiction such corporation shall be subject; provided that where any school shall be intended for any ecclesiastical district, not being a parish as herein-after defined, it shall be sufficient if the grant be made to the minister and church or chapel warden or wardens of the church or chapel of such district, to hold to them and their successors in office; and such grant shall enure to vest the land, subject to the conditions contained in the deed of conveyance, in such minister and the church or chapel warden or wardens for the time being. 8. And whereas schools for the education of the poor in the vested in Trus- principles of the established church, or in religious and useful knowledge, and residences for the masters or mistresses of such schools, have been heretofore erected, and are vested in trustees be conveyed not having a corporate character; be it therefore enacted, That it to the Minister shall be lawful for the trustees for the time being of such lastmentioned schools and residences, not being subject to the pro and Church wardens. visions of the Act passed in the last session of parliament, intituled An Act for improving the Conditions and extending the Benefits of Grammar Schools, to convey or assign the same, and all their estate and interest therein, to such ministers and churchwardens and overseers of the poor of the parish within which the same are respectively situate, and their successors as aforesaid, or, being situate within an ecclesiastical district not being a parish as herein. after defined, then to the minister and church or chapel wardens of the church or chapel of such district, and their successors, in whom the same shall thereafter remain vested accordingly, but subject to and under the existing trusts and provisions respectively affecting the same. of Sites may 9. And be it enacted, That any person or persons or corpora- Any Number tion may grant any number of sites for distinct and separate be granted for schools, and residences for the master or mistress thereof, although separate the aggregate quantity of land thereby granted by such person or Schools. persons or corporation shall exceed the extent of one acre; provided that the site of each school and residence do not exceed that extent: Provided also, that not more than one such site shall be in the same parish. 10. And be it enacted, That all grants, conveyances, and as- Form of surances of any site for a school, or the residence of a schoolmaster Grants, &c. or schoolmistress, under the provisions of this Act, in respect of any land, messuages, or buildings, may be made according to the form following, or as near thereto as the circumstances of the case will admit, (that is to say,) 'I [or We, or the Corporate Title of a Corporation], under the convey to paid,] grant, [alienate,] and all [description of the premises], and all [my or our or the right, title, and interest of the ] to and in 'the same and every part thereof, to hold unto and to the use of 'the said and his or their [heirs, or executors, or admin'istrators, or successors,] for the purposes of the said Act, and to 'be applied as a site for a school for poor persons of and in the 'parish of and for the residence of the schoolmaster [or 'schoolmistress] of the said school [or for other purposes of the 'said school, and for no other purpose whatever; such school to 'be under the management and control of [set forth the mode in 'which and the persons by whom the school is to be managed, directed,. and inspected.] [In case the school be conveyed to trustees, a clause 'providing for the renewal of the trustees, and in cases where the land is purchased, exchanged, or demised, usual covenants or obliga'tions for title, may be added,] In witness whereof the conveying Application of Purchase Money for Land sold by any Ecclesiastical Corpora tion Sole. Application of Lands sold in Scotland. 1 & 2 W. 4, c. 43. Ecclesiastical to procure a Certificate as to the Extent of the land conveyed. and other parties have hereunto set their hands and seals, this day of Signed, sealed, and delivered by the said in the And no bargain and sale or livery of seisin shall be requisite in any conveyance intended to take effect under the provisions of this Act, nor more than one witness to the execution by each party; and instead of such attestation such conveyance of any lands or heritages in Scotland shall be executed with a testing clause, according to the law and practice of Scotland; and, being recorded within sixty days of the date thereof in the general register of seisins or particular register for the county or stewartry in which the lands or heritages lie, shall without actual seisin, be valid and effectual in law to all intents and purposes, and shall be a complete bar to all other rights, titles, trusts, interests, and incumbrances to, in, or upon the lands or heritages so conveyed. 11. And be it enacted, That where any land shall be sold by any ecclesiastical corporation sole for the purposes of this Act, and the purchase money to be paid shall not exceed the sum of twenty pounds, the same may be retained by the party conveying, for his own benefit; but when it shall exceed the sum of twenty pounds, it shall be applied for the benefit of the said corporation, in such manner as the bishop in whose diocese such land shall be situated shall, by writing under his hand, to be registered in the registry of his diocese, direct and appoint; but no person purchasing such land for the purpose aforesaid shall be required to see to the due application of any such purchase money. 12. And be it enacted, That the price of any lands or heritages to be sold for the purposes of this Act, by any heir of entail or other incapacitated person or persons in Scotland, shall be applied and invested in such and the like manner as is directed in relation to any monies awarded to be paid for lands or heritages belonging to heirs of entail or incapacitated persons under an Act passed in the first and second years of the reign of His late Majesty King William the Fourth, intituled An Act for amending and making more effectual the Laws concerning Turnpike Roads in Scotland. 13. And be it enacted, That when any ecclesiastical corporaCorporations tion sole below the dignity of a bishop shall grant any land belonging to him in right of his corporation for the purposes of this Act, he shall procure a certificate, under the hands of three beneficed clergymen of the diocese within which the land to be conveyed shall be situate, as to the extent of the land so conveyed, to be endorsed on the said deed; which certificate shall be in the form following; (that is to say,) Form of WE, A. B. clerk, rector of the parish of C.D. Clerk, and E.F. clerk, vicar of the being three beneficed clergymen of the diocese do hereby certify, That clerk, rector of the |