No. 39. Surveys, Returns, Reports, Estimates and Accounts, or other Matters and Things touching and concerning the said Department of His Ma- 52 G. III. c. 161. jesty's Land Revenue, in like manner as they are by the said above mentioned Act empowered to do in all Matters and Things relating to the Department of His Majesty's Woods, Forests, Parks and Chases; and if any Officer or other Person shall in any such Verification or Examination upon Oath as aforesaid, knowingly and wilfully forswear himself, herself or themselves, such Officer or other Person so offending shall be liable to be punished in such manner as is provided by the different Laws and Statutes now in force for the Punishment of wilful Perjury. and corrupt Perjury. Two Commis XXIV. And be it further enacted, That where any thing is directed, required or permitted to be done under this Act, by the sioners of Woods, Commissioners of His Majesty's Woods, Forests and Land Revenues, the same may be done by any Two of such Commissioners. XXV. [Certain Purchase Monies, arising from Sale of Crown Lands, to be laid out in Purchase of Lands fit for Growth of Timber.] XXVI. [Certain Crown Lands sold to the Marquis of Exeter to become Part of Manor of King's Cliffe.] XXVII. And whereas in and by an Act passed in the Fifty-first &c. may act. Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, intituled An Act for 51 G.3, c. 115, amending the Act Forty-third GEORGE the Third, to promote the § 1. • building, repairing or otherwise providing the Churches and Chapels, and of Houses for the Residence of Ministers, and for providing of • Church Yards and Glebes, it was, among other things, enacted, That the King's Most Excellent Majesty, His Heirs and Successors, should have full Power, Licence and Authority, by Deed or Writing, under the Great Seal, to give and grant, and vest in any Person or Persons, Bodies Politic and Corporate, and their Heirs and Successors respec⚫tively, all such, his, her or their Estate, Interest or Property, in any • Lands or Tenements, within the Survey of the Court of Exchequer, for or towards the erecting, rebuilding, repairing, purchasing or pro'viding any Church or Chapel where the Liturgy and Rites of the United Church of England and Ireland are or shall be used or ⚫ observed, or any Mansion House, for the Residence of any Minister of the said United Church officiating or to officiate in any such • Church or Chapel, or any Outbuildings, Offices, Church Yards or Glebe, for the same respectively, and to be for those Purposes applied in and by such Deed as aforesaid expressed, provided that nothing in this Act now in recital contained should extend or be construed to ⚫ extend to enable His Majesty, his Heirs or Successors, to grant more than Five Acres in any One Grant for any of the Purposes aforesaid: And whereas it is found expedient that the Powers of the same Act ⚫ should be extended to Ground for Curtilages, Accesses or any other ⚫ Conveniences or Accommodations of or to any of such Churches or Chapels as aforesaid: And whereas the passing of Deeds or Writings under the Great Seal for the Purposes aforesaid, by reason of the great Expence attending the same, may in some cases produce Inconvenience and frustrate the Intention of the said Act;' Be it therefore enacted, That His said Majesty, his Heirs and Successors, His Majesty may shall have full Power, Licence and Authority to give and grant, and grant Land for vest in any Person or Persons, Body or Bodies Politic or Corporate, Curtillages & Ac and their Heirs and Successors respectively, in manner hereinafter or Chapels. mentioned, all such his, her or their Estate, Interest or Property in any Lands or Tenements within the Survey of the Court of Exchequer, or of the Duchy of Lancaster, for Curtilages, or for Accesses, or for any other Conveniences or Accommodations of any such Churches or Chapels as aforesaid; and such Person or Persons, Body or Bodies Politic or Corporate, and their Heirs and Successors respectively, shall cesses to Churches No. 95. have full Capacity and Ability to receive, take, hold and enjoy the 52 G III. c. 161. same according to the Intent and Meaning of the said Act, and whenever it shall be the Pleasure of His Majesty, his Heirs or Successors to make a Grant for any of the Purposes aforesaid, it shall and may be lawful for the Lord High Treasurer, or the Commissioners of the Treasury, or any Three of them, to grant a Warrant under his or their Hand or Hands to any such P'erson or Persons, or Body or Bodies Politic Corporate, specifying the Premises so to be vested in such Person or Persons, Body or Bodies Politic or Corporate, as aforesaid, which Warrant shall be inrolled in the Office of the Auditor of the Land Revenue for the Division or County within which the Premises shall be situate, and also in the Office of the Commissioners of His Majesty's Woods, Forests and Land Revenues, or in the Office of the Surveyor General His Majesty's Land Revenue for the time being; and such Auditor, and such Commissioners, or Surveyor General having enrolled the said Warrant, shall certify such Inrolment at the Foot or on the Back thereof under their Hands, and return the said Warrant to the Grantee or Grantees of the Premises therein named, and from and immediately after such Inrolment and thenceforth for ever the respective Grantees named in such Warrants, and their Heirs and Successors, shall by force of this Act be adjudged, deemed and taken to be in the actual Seisin and Possession of the Premises in the said Warrants specified, and shall hold and enjoy the same peaceably and quietly, freed and discharged of and from all Claims and Demands which can or may be made by his Majesty, his Heirs or Successors, or by any Person or Persons lawfully claiming by, from or under him or them, and of and from all manner of Incumbrances whatsoever as fully and amply to all Intents and Purposes as His Majesty, his Heirs or Successors, might or could have held or enjoyed the same: Provided always, that nothing in this Act contained shall extend, or be construed to extend to enable His Majesty, his Heirs and Successors, to grant more than Five Acres in any One Grant for any of the Purposes aforesaid. Proviso. SCHEDULES to which this Act refers, (A) FOR AN EXCHANGE OF FREEHOLD LANDS. BE it known, That the Right Honourable 4. B. and C. Commissioners of His Majesty's Woods, Forests and Land Revenues, in the Map or Plan annexed to these Presents, containing No. 39. or the said X. Y. his Heirs or Assigns, shall at any time without their respective wilful Default, be evicted of the same Piece or Parcel of 52 G. III. c. 161. Land hereby respectively given, granted and conveyed to him or them respectively as aforesaid, it shall be lawful for the Party or Parties so evicted to enter into the Piece or Parcel of Land contracted by him to be given in Exchange as aforesaid, and to hold and enjoy the same in his or their former Estate, in the same manner as if the Exchange hereby made had not been made. In Witness, &c. (B.) FORM OF DEED FOR AN EXCHANGE OF LEASEHOLD BE it known, That the Right Honourable 4. B. and C. Commissioners of His Majesty's Woods, Forests and Land Revenues, Acres, Roods and Acres, Plan, and which is now vested in him the said X. Y. under a Lease Witness, &c. (C.) THESE FORM OF CONVEYANCE. HESE are to witness, That in Consideration of the Sum of paid by A. B. to the Commissioners of Woods, Forests and Land Revenues, [or, to the Surveyor General of His Majesty's Woods, Forests, &c. as the case may be] for and on account of His said Majesty, C. D. and E. F., Two of the Commissioners of His Majesty's Woods, Forests and Land Revenues, being duly authorized by the Lords Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury, do, for and on the Behalf of His said Majesty, by these Presents grant, bargain and sell unto the said A. B. his Heirs and Assigns, describe the Parcels of Land, &c. sold] To have and to hold, the said Parcels, &c.] hereby bargained and sold, and all Benefit and Advantage thereto belonging, unto and to the Use of the said A. B. his Heirs and Assigns for ever. In Witness whereof, the said C. D. E. F. and G. H, have hereunto set their Hands and Seals, this Day of in the Year of our Lord, No. 39. 52 G. III. c. 161. THESE (D.) FORM OF LEASE. HESE are to witness, That in Consideration of the Annual Rent or Sum of hereinafter reserved to be paid by X. Y. of, &c. the Commissioners of His Majesty's Woods, Forests and Land Revenues, [or, the Surveyor General of His Majesty's Woods and Forests, as the case may be] by the Authority of the Lords Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury, for and on Behalf of His Majesty, doth, [or, do] by these Presents, grant, demise, lease and to farm let unto the said X. Y. his Executors, Administrators and Assigns, All [describe the Parcels of Land, &c.] To have and to hold the said Parcels, &c. hereby demised, and all Benefit and Advantage thereto belonging, unto him the said X. Y. his Executors, Adminis trators and Assigns, for and during the Term of Years, yielding and paying by Half yearly Payments to the said Surveyor General, or to the said Commissioners (as the case may to be] for the time being, the Annual Rent or Sum of whereof the said set their Hands and Seals, this In Witness and the said X. Y. have hereunto p. 54 George III. c. 70.-An Act for the further Improve- I. [All Balances of Rent of Crown Lands to be paid to Com 54 Geo. III. c. 70. missioners under 53 G. 3, c. 121.] (2) Leases, Sale of Commissioners un II. [Receivers to have the same Allowances on Payinent to Commissioners as if paid into the Consolidated Fund.] III. And be it further enacted, That from and after the passing of this Act all and every Sum and Sums of Money which shall or Monies arising may arise, for or in respect of any Fine or Fines for the Renewal or from Fines of Grant of any Lease or Leases of any Manors, Messuages, Lands, Rents and Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments, of or belonging to his Majesty, his Enfranchisement, Heirs or Successors, and also all and every Sum and Sums of Money &c to by paid to which shall or may arise or be produced from the Sale of any Fee-farm der 53 G. 3, c. 121. Rents, or from the Sale, Enfranchisement, or Equality of Exchange of any Manors, Messuages, Lands, Tenements, Rights, or Hereditaments, of or belonging to his Majesty, his Heirs or Successors, under or by virtue of the Provisions of the said recited Act of the Thirtyfourth Year of the Reign of his present Majesty, intituled An Act for the better Management of the Land Revenue of the Crown, and for the Sale of Fee-farm and other unimprovable Rents, and of the said recited Act of the Forty-eighth Year of his present Majesty, intituled An Act to improve the Land Revenue of the Crown in England, and also of his Majesty's Dutchy of Lancaster, shall from Time to Time be paid and made over by the several Lessees and other Person or (1) The Contents of the greater Part of this Act are not referable to the Purposes of the present Collection, and such Parts therefore are only inserted as are immediately connected with some of the preceding Numbers. (2) For making a Communication from Mary-le-Bone Park to Charing Cross. No 40. Persons liable to pay or authorized to receive the same, unto the said Commissioners for executing the said recited Act of the Fifty-third 54 Geo III. c. 70. Year of the Reign of his present Majesty, to be applied by them for and towards the carrying the several Purposes thereof into Execution, until the said Sums thereby authorized to be raised shall have been raised and thereafter fully paid and satisfied; any Thing in any Act or Acts of Parliament to the contrary notwithstanding. IV. [Receipts of Commissioners to discharge Receivers, Lessees, Purchasers, &c] V. [Act of any Two Commissioners to be valid ] VI. [Commissioners of the Treasury empowered to transfer certain Sums to the Commissioners under 53 G. 3, c. 121.] VII. [Monies to arise from the Sale of Estates to the Duke of York, and the Dividends of Annuities arising from Monies under the Land Tax Acts, to be paid to the Commissioners, except Sums required by the Treasury.] VIII. And be it further enacted, That from and after the passing Sale of Lands in of this Act it shall and may be lawful for the Commissioners of his Wales. Majesty's Woods, Forests, and Land Revenues, or the Surveyor General of his Majesty's Woods, Forests, Parks, and Chaces for the Time being, with the Approbation of the said Lord High Treasurer, or Commissioners of his Majesty's Treasury for the Time being, or any Three of them, to contract and agree for the Sale of, and absolutely to make sale and dispose, from Time to Time, of any Plot or Plots, Parcel or Parcels of Waste Lands, situate, lying and being in any Place or Places within the Principality of Wales, and which shall have been allotted, or may hereafter be allotted to his Majesty, his Heirs or Successors, under or by virtue of any Act or Acts of Parliament for inclosing Lands passed subsequently to the passing of the said recited Act of the Thirty-fourth Year of the Reign of his present Majesty, intituled An Act for the better Management of the Land Revenue of the Crown, and for the Sale of Fee-farm and other unimproveable Rents; and which Act or Acts of Inclosure does or do not contain any special Authority or Provision for the Sale of such Plot or Plots, Parcel or Parcels of Waste Lands, for the best Prices or Considerations in Money which the said Commissioner of his Majesty's Woods, Forests, and Land Revenues, or the said Surveyor General, shall be able to procure for the same. IX. [Application of Monies arising from Sale of Lands in Wales.] X. [Certain Parcels of Waste Land, Part of the Forest of Dean, may be sold.] mine what ale G. 3, c. 73. XI. And whereas under the Provisions of the said recited Act of Treasury einthe Forty-eighth Year of the Reign of his present Majesty, intituled powered to deter An Act to improve the Land Revenue of the Crown in England, and small Quantities of also of his Majesty's Dutchy of Lancaster, the Surveyor General of Land under 48 the Land Revenues of the Crown for the Time being, was empowered to sell Lands belonging to the Crown dispersed in small Quantities, and intermixed with the Property of Individuals, and lying remote from other Property belonging to the Crown: And whereas Doubts have arisen, what are to be considered small Quantities of Land within the Scope and Meaning of the said Act; be it therefore enacted, That it shall and may be lawful to and for the said Lord High Treasury, or the said Commissioners of his Majesty's Treasury for the Time being, or any Three of them, and he or they is and are hereby fully autho rized and empowered, by any Warrant or Writing under their Hands, to ascertain, determine, and declare, what Lands are comprized within the said recited Act, and are thereby made saleable under the Denomination of Lands dispersed in small Quantities, and intermixed with |