Recital of in the First Chelsea Hos specified in the Second Schedule belonging to Chelsea Waterworks Company. the said Exchequer Bills have been issued, for any Sum or Sums of Money not exceeding in the whole a Sum sufficient to discharge and pay off the Principal Sum or Sums of Money contained in such Exchequer Bills then outstanding, and which may have been made out and issued by virtue of this Act, together with all such Interest as may be due thereupon. 6 6 CAP. XVIII. An Act to effect an Exchange between the Commis- HEREAS by an Agreement in Writing, made and entered into the Twenty-fourth Day of September in the Year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fiftyseven, between the Lords and other Commissioners for the • Government of the Royal Hospital at Chelsea and the Out• Pensioners thereunto belonging, in the County of Middlesex, therein-after called the Commissioners of Chelsea Hospital, of the one Part, and the Governor and Company of Chelsea pital, for Lands Waterworks of the other Part, after reciting that the said • Commissioners of Chelsea Hospital were seised for an Estate in Fee Simple in possession of the Piece or Parcel of Ground specified in the First Schedule to this Act, subject nevertheless to certain Annuities and Fee-farm Rents charged thereon by the Will of the Right Honourable Richard late Earl Grosvenor, and otherwise, but which Annuities and Rents were also charged on other large Estates of great Value, and on the Purchase of which said Land and Hereditaments specified in the said First Schedule to this Act, together with other Hereditaments by the said Commissioners of Chelsea Hospital, from the Grand Junction Waterworks Company, the said Grand Junction Waterworks Company 6 gave to the said Commissioners of Chelsea Hospital their Bond under their Common Seal, dated the eighth Day of November One thousand eight hundred and forty-three, in the Sum of Twelve thousand Pounds, for indemnifying the said Commissioners of Chelsea Hospital, their Heirs and Assigns, and the said Hereditaments so purchased by them, from the said Annuities and Fee-farm Rents, and all Costs occasioned thereby; and reciting that the said Governor and Company of Chelsea Waterworks were seised for an Estate in Fee Simple in possession of the Piece or Parcel of Ground specified in the Second Schedule to this Act; and reciting that the said Two Parcels of Ground were of the same Value, and that it would be greatly for the Advantage of both the Parties • thereto 6 thereto to exchange the same; it was by the said Agreement now in recital mutually agreed between the Parties thereto ' in manner following; that is to say, that they the said Commissioners of Chelsea Hospital should and would, at their own Costs and Charges, use their best Endeavours to obtain an Act of Parliament to effect an Exchange of the said Parcels of Land, so that the said Land and Hereditaments specified in the said First Schedule to this Act, with their Rights, Members, and Appurtenances, might become and be vested in the said Governor and Company of Chelsea Waterworks, 'their Successors and Assigns, freed and discharged from all Uses, Estates, Charges, Trusts, Conditions, Rights, and Powers then affecting the same, and to be by them held to the same Uses, for the same Estates, upon the same Trusts, and with, under, and subject to the same Charges, Rights, Powers, and Provisions, as the Land and Hereditaments specified in the said Second Schedule to this Act were then held upon or subject to; and so that the said Land and Hereditaments specified in the said Second Schedule to this Act, with their Rights, Members, and Appurtenances, might become and be vested in the said Commissioners of Chelsea Hospital, their Successors and Assigns, freed and discharged from all Uses, Estates, Charges, Trusts, Conditions, Rights, and Powers then affecting the same, and to be by them held to the same Uses, for the same Estates, upon the same Trusts, and with, under, and subject to the same Charges, Rights, Powers, and Provisions, as the Land and Hereditaments specified in the said First Schedule to this Act were then held upon or subject to; and to the Intent that the Benefit of the said Bond of the said Grand Junction Waterworks Company, and of all other Bonds or Covenants for the Indemnity of the said Commissioners of Chelsea Hospital, and the said Land and Hereditaments specified in the said First Schedule to this Act, from the said Annuities and Fee-farm Rents, might enure or continue for the Benefit of the same Commissioners, their Successors and Assigns, and of the said Land and Hereditaments specified in the said Second Schedule to this Act; and that they the said Governor and Company of Chelsea Waterworks should and would, at their own Costs and Charges, give such Consents as should be necessary on their Part for obtaining an Act of Parliament to effect such Exchange as was therein-before mentioned: And whereas it is expedient that the Exchange mentioned in the said Agreement should be carried into effect, but the same cannot be accomplished without the Authority of Parliament:' May it therefore please Your Majesty that it may be enacted; and be it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, as follows: Land specified in First Sche dule to vest in the Governor of Chelsea Waterworks, and Land specified in Second Sche dule to vest in the Commissioners of Chelsea Hospital. I. The said Land and Hereditaments specified in the said First Schedule to this Act shall forthwith absolutely vest in the said Governor and Company of Chelsea Waterworks, their and Company Successors and Assigns, to the Intent and in the Manner in the said Agreement expressed; and the said Land and Hereditaments specified in the said Second Schedule to this Act shall forthwith absolutely vest in the said Lords and other Commissioners for the Government of the Royal Hospital at Chelsea and the Out-Pensioners thereunto belonging, their Successors and Assigns, to the Intent and in the Manner in the said Agreement expressed; and the Benefit of the said Bond of the Grand Junction Waterworks Company, and of all other Bonds or Covenants for the Indemnity of the said Commissioners of Chelsea Hospital, and of the said Land and Hereditaments comprised in the said First Schedule hereto, from the said Annuities and Fee-farm Rents, shall henceforth enure or continue for the Benefit and Indemnity of the same Commissioners, their Successors and Assigns, and of the said Land and Hereditaments specified in the said Second Schedule to this Act, in the same Manner in all respects as if the said Land and Hereditaments specified in the said Second Schedule to the said Act had been mentioned or referred to in the said Bonds and Covenants, in lieu of the said Land and Hereditaments comprised in the said First Schedule to this Act. SCHEDULES to which the foregoing Act refers. The FIRST SCHEDULE referred to by this Act. All that Piece or Parcel of Ground in the Parish of Saint George Hanover Square in the County of Middlesex, containing One Rood Nine Poles and Twenty-four Yards, or thereabouts, bounded on the North-west by the Centre of the Ranelagh or Common Sewer, on the North-east by Lands now belonging to the said Governor and Company of Chelsea Waterworks, on the South-east by the Commercial Road, and on the Southwest by the Line of a proposed new Street intended to lead from Lower Sloane Street to the new Chelsea Bridge, and which Piece of Land is also delineated in a Plan drawn in the Margin of the said Agreement, and is therein coloured Pink. The SECOND SCHEDULE referred to by this Act. All that Piece or Parcel of Ground in the Parishes of Saint Margaret Westminster and Saint George Hanover Square, or One of them, in the County of Middlesex, heretofore Marsh or Meadow Ground, and being Part of a Meadow heretofore called Hooker's Meadow, containing One Rood and Thirty Poles and Fourteen Yards, or thereabouts, and bounded on the the North-west by the Centre of the said Ranelagh Sewer, on the South-east by the said Commercial Road, on the South-west by Land belonging to the Commissioners of Chelsea Hospital, and on the North-east by Land belonging to the said Commissioners, and which Piece of Land is also delineated in the said Plan drawn in the Margin of the said Agreement, and is therein coloured Yellow. CAP. XIX. An Act to continue an Act of the Third and Fourth • One hundred and ten, "to amend the Laws relating to 3 & 4 Vict. "Loan Societies," which Act was limited to continue until c. 110. 6 'the Thirty-first Day of August One thousand eight hundred and forty-one, but has been continued by several Acts, and lastly by an Act of the last Session of Parliament, Chapter Forty-one, until the First Day of August One thousand eight 20 & 21 Vict. hundred and fifty-eight: And whereas in the said Act of c. 41. the last Session of Parliament are contained Enactments which are to take effect after the Termination of the Period thereby limited for the Continuance of the said Act of the Third and Fourth Years of Her Majesty: And whereas it is expedient that the said Act of the Third and Fourth Years of Her Majesty should be further continued:' Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, as follows: I. The said Act of the Third and Fourth Years of Her 3 & 4 Vict. Majesty shall continue in force until the First Day of August c. 110. further One thousand eight hundred and sixty-three; and the Pro- continued. visions of the said Act of the last Session of Parliament, which were to take effect after the Termination of the Period thereby limited for the Continuance of the first-mentioned Act, shall take effect whensoever the said first-mentioned Act may expire, and not otherwise. CAP. XX. An Act for granting a Stamp Duty on certain Drafts or Orders for the Payment of Money. [21st May 1858.] Most Gracious Sovereign, granted After 24th tain Drafts to be chargeable with a Stamp Duty of 1d. 21 VICT. granted to Your Majesty, have freely and voluntarily resolved to give and grant unto Your Majesty the Stamp Duty herein mentioned; and do therefore most humbly beseech Your Majesty that it may be enacted; and be it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, as follows: I. From and after the Twenty-fourth Day of May One May 1858 cer- thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight, all Drafts or Orders for the Payment of any Sum of Money to the Bearer on Demand, which being drawn upon any Banker, or any Person or Persons acting as a Banker, and residing or transacting the Business of a Banker, within Fifteen Miles of the Place where such Drafts or Orders are issued, are now exempt from Stamp Duty, shall be chargeable with the Stamp Duty of One Penny for every such Draft or Order. The Duty to be under the Care of the Commissioners of In. land Revenue. II. The Duty by this Act granted shall be under the Care and Management of the Commissioners of Inland Revenue for the Time being; and all the Powers, Provisions, and Regulations, Pains and Penalties, contained in or imposed by any Act or Acts relating to any Duties of the same Kind or Description payable in Great Britain and Ireland respectively, former Acts to and in force at the Time of the passing of this Act, shall Powers and Provisions of apply to this Act. Agreement between Commissioners of Public Works and Chelsea Hospital, dated Feb. 23, 1858. respectively be in full Force and Effect with respect to the Duty by this Act granted, and to the Paper and Instruments chargeable therewith, so far as the same are or shall be applicable, and shall be observed, applied, enforced, and put in execution for and in the collecting and securing of the said Duty hereby granted, and otherwise in relation thereto, so far as the same shall be consistent with the express Provisions of this Act, as fully and effectually to all Intents and Purposes as if the same had been herein repeated and specially enacted with reference to the said Duty by this Act granted. CAP. XXI. An Act to confirm a Contract for the Sale by the [14th June 1858.] HEREAS by an Agreement made and entered into the Twenty-third Day of February One thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight, between the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Works and Public Buildings incorporated for the Purposes of the Acts of Parliament therein-after mentioned of the one Part, and the Right Honourable Robert Lowe, the Right Honourable Sir Edward Blakeney, a General in Her Majesty's Army, G.C.B., G.C.H., and Sir Alexander Woodford, a General in Her Majesty's Army, G.C.B., G.C., M.G., |