c. 69. or extract of such duplicate, attested by the officer for the time being in No. VIII. whose custody the same shall remain, (and which copies the said officer 3 & 4 W. 4, is hereby authorized and required to grant to any person applying for the same, on payment of a fee of one shilling for every such copy, and if the same shall consist of more than seventy-two words, then of a fur- or extract of ther fee of one shilling for every seventy-two words over the first same duly atseventy-two words,) shall be admitted in all courts as evidence of the tested, to be in right and title of the purchasers, grantees, lessees, and all persons all courts eviclaiming under them, to the subjects to which such conveyances, deeds, dence of right or other documents shall relate. and title. IX. That every conveyance, deed, or other document whereby any Every deed inlands or other heritable property or subjects to which this act relates, rolled in chanor any term of years or interest therein, shall be conveyed or leased to cery in Scothis Majesty, his heirs or successors, or to a trustee or trustees for his land to be of Majesty, his heir or successors, under the authority of this act, shall, like force as if without any other inrolment or registration thereof than in the office of registered in chancery in Scotland as aforesaid, be of the like force in favour of his books of counMajesty, his heirs and successors, as if the same had been or was in- or register of rolled or registered in the books of council and session, or in the gene- sasines. ral or special register of sasines in the county, shire, or stewartry within which the lands or other heritable property or subjects shall be situate. cil and session X. Provided always, That a note or memorandum of every such con- A memoranveyance, deed, or other document, setting forth the date thereof, the dum of every names of the disponer or granter and disponee or grantee, and the lead- conveyance, ing names of the lands or heritages, and of the county or counties setting forth the wherein the same are situated, shall, within fourteen days after the exe.. several particution thereof, or as soon thereafter as possible, be entered by the culars, to be grantee in the minute book of the register of sasines at Edinburgh, of entered in the the date on which such note or memorandum is presented, and also minute book of the register, of upon the margin of the entry in the register of sasines, general or par- sasines within ticular, of the last instrument of sasine in the property of the lands or 14 days after heritages alienated, recorded in such register; and such entries shall be execution so made without fee or reward payable therefor. thereof. XI. That all sums to be received under the authority of this act, for Application of or in respect of any sales, or for equality of exchange on any exchange purchase of any of the said lands or other property or subjects to which this act monies. relates, shall be applied in the payment of the purchase monies on the purchase of any lands or other property or subjects under the authority of this act, or in the purchase of any lease of any part of the lands and other property or subjects of the crown which may be bought in under the authority of this act, and in payment of the monies to be paid for equality of exchange on any exchange to be made under the authority of this act, and of the expences of the said commissioners of his Majesty's woods, forests, land revenues, works and buildings in or relating to such purchases and exchanges, and in the payment of the monies to be paid for the redemption or purchase of any land tax which may be redeemed or purchased by the said commissioners, and of the expences. of the said commissioners in or relating to such purchase or redemption, and in the discharge of any incumbrances or burthens which now or hereafter are or may be charged upon or affect any of the said lands or other property and subjects of the crown to which this act relates. XII. That it shall be lawful for the said commissioners for the time Sums not imbeing of his Majesty's woods, forests, land revenues, works and build- mediately ings to cause any sums which shall be received for or in respect of any wanted, to be sales or exchanges of any of the lands or other property or subjects of invested in the the crown to which this act relates, and which may not be immediately public funds. wanted for the purposes to which the same are hereby made applicable, to be laid out in the meantime in the purchase of three pounds per centum consolidated bank annuities, or three pounds per centum reduced bank annuities, in the name of the lord high treasurer, or the com No. VIII. 3 & 4 W. 4, c. 69. missioners of his Majesty's treasury, in which name the governor and company of the bank of England are hereby authorized and required to permit transfers to be made of the annuities to be so purchased, and such transfers shall be accepted by the said commissioners of his Majesty's woods, forests, land revenues, works and buildings in the name and on behalf of the said lord high treasurer, or the said commissioners of his Majesty's treasury. Dividends of XIII. That the amount of the dividends of the stocks and annuities stocks and an- to be purchased as last aforesaid shall from time to time, as the said nuities to be by dividends shall become due, be placed by the governor and company of bank of Eng- the bank of England to the credit of the said commissioners of his Maland placed to jesty's woods, forests, land revenues, works and buildings in their credit of the account with the bank; and so much of the dividends as shall have commissioners. become due in respect of stocks purchased with monies which shall Commissioners of treasury authorized to sell out all or any such stocks or annuities, when expedient. Transfer of stock. Application of have arisen from the sale or exchange of any of the lands or other property and subjects of the crown to which this act relates shall be applied and disposed of by the said commissioners in the same manner and for the same purposes as and considered in all respects as part of the annual income of the lands and other property and subjects of the crown in Scotland. XIV. That when and so often as it shall be necessary or expedient to raise by sale of any of the stocks or annuities so to be purchased as aforesaid any sum of money for the purposes to which monies to be received under the authority of this act from sales or exchanges of any of the lands and other property and subjects of the crown are hereby respectively made applicable, it shall be lawful for the lord high treasurer, or the commissioners of his Majesty's treasury for the time being, to sell out all or any part of the said stocks or annuities; and the sums raised by the sale of the said stocks and annuities shall be paid into the bank of England, and be placed to the credit of the said commissioners of his Majesty's woods, forests, land revenues, works and buildings, to be applied and disposed of by the said commissioners in the same manner and for the same purposes as and considered in all respects as part of the sums to be received under the authority of this act for or in respect of any sales or exchanges of any of the lands and other property and subjects of the crown in Scotland. XV. That all sums of stock which shall be sold by the said lord high treasurer or the commissioners of his Majesty's treasury, under the provisions herein-before contained, may be transferred by any person to be appointed by him or them for that purpose by any letter of attorney under the hand and seal of the said lord high treasurer, or under the hands and seals of any three of the said commissioners, for the time being, and attested by two or more credible witnesses; and the said governor and company of the bank of England shall and they are hereby authorized and required to permit all such transfers to be so made. XVI. That the annual income of all the said lands and other property the annual in- and subjects of the crown to which this act relates, and all sums recome to which ceived in respect of feus, leases, or otherwise, for or in respect of the this act relates. said lands and other property and subjects (except from sales or exchanges), shall be applied in manner following; (that is to say,) in the first place, in payment of the costs, charges, and expences attending the management of the said lands and other property and subjects of the crown; in the next place, in payment and discharge of any annual sum or sums of money or any pensions already lawfully charged or to be charged thereon respectively, and in the payment of any other principal sum and the interest of any principal sum or sums of money already or which may be hereafter lawfully charged upon the said lands and other property and subjects; and, subject to the applications aforesaid, the said annual income shall, during the life of his present Majesty, be and made part carried to and made part of the consolidated fund of the united kingof consolidated dom of Great Britain and Ireland, and from and after the demise of his fund. Annual in come, subject as aforesaid, to be carried to present Majesty (whom God long preserve) shall be payable and paid to the king's Majesty, his heirs and successors. No. VIII. 3 & 4 W. 4, c. 69. XVII. That the said commissioners for the time being of his Majesty's woods, forests, land revenues, works, and buildings may, so long as they shall find it necessary so to do, keep an account with any Commissioners of the chartered banks in Scotland; and the said commissioners, may keep acobserving the rules and regulations hereby or by the said act passed in counts with any the tenth year of his late Majesty king George the fourth prescribed, of the chartershall not be answerable, either collectively or individually, for any ed banks of money which they the said commissioners shall have paid into the said Scotland. banks, or any of them, or any branch thereof. Irresponsibility of commissioners. XVIII. That the passing of this act shall not vacate the appointment Not to vacate of any chamberlain or collector of the revenues and profits of any of his the appointMajesty's lands or other property or subjects to which this act relates, ment of any or to vacate, render void or voidable any security given by or for such chamberlain or chamberlain or collector, but every such chamberlain or collector who collector of the shall be in office at the time of the passing of this act shall continue in revenues to office until his death or resignation, or until he shall be removed by the which this act commissioners for the time being of his Majesty's woods, forests, land relates, or to render void any revenues, works, and buildings, or until his appointment shall cease security given under the provisions herein contained or referred to; and any security by or for him. given for the good conduct of such chamberlain or collector shall stand and remain as a security for the due discharge and performance by him of the duties hereby imposed upon him. cially ap XIX. And whereas certain retour duties, casualties, and other duties Retour duties, and rents pertaining to the land revenues of the crown and prince and &c. no longer steward of Scotland, have hitherto been received by the officers of the to be received courts of justice, or by the sheriffs of the counties, shires, or stewartries by officers of of Scotland respectively; and it will be most convenient that the same courts of jusshould be collected and received by the agents or collectors thereof tice, or by sheriffs, but by colappointed or to be appointed under the provisions of this act; be it lectors espetherefore further enacted, That when and so soon as such agents or collectors shall be appointed, such retour duties, casualties, and other pointed. duties and rents, pertaining to the land revenues of the crown and prince and steward of Scotland, shall no longer be collected by the officers of the courts of justice, or by the sheriffs or other officers who have heretofore collected and received them, but shall be collected and received by the collectors to be for that purpose appointed; and such Fees as heretocollectors shall be entitled to demand and receive the same fees which fore. the said officers of the courts of justice, sheriff's, or other officers have heretofore been entitled to demand and receive upon the payment of any of the said retour duties, casualties, or other duties or rents respectively. This act to ex XX. That all the powers and provisions in this act contained shall tend to the extend, and be held and construed to extend, to the lands, revenues, lands, &c. of and other property and subjects of the prince and steward of Scotland; the prince and the annual income thereof, or the monies to arise by the sale or other steward of disposition thereof, to be applied and appropriated by the said commis- Scotland; sioners of his Majesty's woods, forests, land revenues, works, and Income to be buildings to and for such purposes and in such manner as the same are applied as at now by law applicable. present. XXI. Provided always, That nothing herein contained shall extend or Saving of be construed to extend to abridge or interfere with any rights of his rights. Majesty, his heirs or successors, or of the lord high treasurer or the commissioners of his Majesty's treasury, or the chancellor of the exchequer, for the time being, or any grantee of the crown, in respect of any appointment lawfully made by his Majesty or the said lord high taeasurer or commissioners, or the chancellor of the exchequer, or such grantee, previously to the passing of this act. XXII. That it shall and may be lawful for the said commissioners of Commissioners his Majesty's woods, forests, land revenues, works, and buildings to may sue and be No. VIII. 3 & 4 W. 4, c. 69. sue and be sued in any court of law in Scotland in the name of his Majesty's lord advocate of Scotland for the time being; and it is hereby declared, that service of any legal proceedings upon the said lord advocate, and an intimation of such service to the said commissioners by letter addressed to the first commissioner of woods, forests, land revenues, works, and buildings, London, and put into the General lord advocate. Post Office, shall be deemed and held to be sufficient service on the said Service of pro- commissioners, any law or practice to the contrary notwithstanding. sued in the name of the cess. SCHEDULE to which this Act refers. Form of Conveyance on Sales by the Commissioners'of his Majesty's Woods, To all and sundry to whose knowledge these presents shall come : Know ye, That we whose names are inserted in the testing clause of these presents, two of the commissioners of his Majesty's woods, forests, land revenues, works, and buildings, on behalf of his Majesty, and under the authority of an act passed [here insert the title of this act], in consideration of the sum of paid by E. F. [here describe mode of payment], have sold, alienated, and in feu farm disponed, as we by these presents, on behalf of his Majesty, sell, alienate, and in feu farm dispone, from his Majesty, his heirs and successors, to and in favour of the said E. F., his heirs and assignees whomsoever, heritably and irredeemably, all and whole the lands of [here describe the lands or other subjects sold], [if teinds are sold without lands, here omit description of lands, and insert] all and whole the teinds, parsonage, and vicarage of the lands of to pertaining [here insert name of owner], lying in the and sheriffdom of parish of and two day I. K. Witness. G. H. Witness. eighteen hundred A. B. C. D. Form of Receipt and Declaration. Received by us, two of the commissioners of his Majesty's woods, forests, land revenues, works, and buildings, on behalf of his Majesty, from E. F. the sum of being the consideration money paid by him for the feu duty [or any other duty specified] payable to his Majesty for and furth of the lands of pertaining to the said c. 69. E. F.; of which feu duty [or other duty] the said E. F., his heirs and No. VIII. assigns, are hereby for ever discharged: Hereby declaring, that in any 3 & 4 W. 4, renewal of the investiture of the said lands on behalf of his Majesty, this shall be a sufficient warrant to the barons of the court of exchequer in Scotland, and all others, to grant such renewed investiture in the form of a blench holding. Witness our hands this I. K. Witness. G. H. Witness. day of A. B. C. D. [No. IX.] 3 and 4 W. IV. c. 81.-An Act to authorize the WHEREAS by an act passed in the tenth year of the reign of his late Majesty king George the fourth, intituled An Act to consolidate and 10 G. 4, c. 50. amend the Laws relating to the Management and Improvement of His Majesty's Woods, Forests, Parks, and Chases; of the Land Revenue of the Crown within the Survey of the Exchequer in England; and of the Land Revenue of the Crown in Ireland; and for extending certain Provisions relating to the same to the Isles of Man and Alderney, it was enacted that all the land revenues whatsoever (advowsons of churches and vicarages only excepted) which belonged to his Majesty within the ordering or survey of the court of exchequer in England or Wales, in Ireland, in the Isle of Man and its dependencies, and the Isle of Alderney, should be under the management of the commissioners of his Majesty's woods, forest, and land revenues, and of their successors; and it was thereby further enacted, that the annual income of all the said possessions and land revenues of the crown to which that act related, including fines on leases, and all other sums received in respect of such leases, or otherwise for or in respect of the said possessions and land revenues (except from sales or exchanges), should be applied in manner following; that is to say, in the first place, in payment of the costs, charges and expences attending the management of the said possessions and land revenues; in the next place, in the payment and discharge of any annual sum or sums of money, or any pensions, then already charged or to be charged thereon respectively, and in the payment of any other principal sum, and the interest of any principal sum or sums of money which was then already or might be thereafter charged upon the said possessions and land revenues; in the next place, so much of the monies to arise from the said annual income as the lord high treasurer or the commissioners of his Majesty's treasury for the time being should from time to time think proper should be applied towards the payment and discharge of the costs, charges, and expences of the repairs, alterations, and improvements of Buckingham-house, and the buildings, offices, and grounds appertaining and belonging thereto, provided that the sum to be so applied under the now reciting act to such repairs, alterations, and improvements should not exceed the sum of one hundred and fifty thousand pounds, over and above the sum of three hundred and forty-six thousand pounds which had been then already applied thereto previous to the passing of the now reciting act; and, subject to the applications aforesaid, the said annual income should during the life of his then present Majesty be carried to and made part of the consolidated fund of the united kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and from and after the demise of his then present Majesty should be payable and paid to the king's Majesty, his heirs and successors: And whereas by an act passed in the first year of the reign of his present Majesty, intituled An Act for the Support of His Majesty's 1 W. 4, c. 25. |