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On Payment of the Pur

chafe Money Premises to

miffioners,

&c.

LXXXVII. And be it further enacted, That upon Payment of any Sum or Sums fo agreed or awarded to the Party or Parties to whom the same shall be fo veft in Com- awarded, or upon the Depofit of the fame in the Bank of England in Manner by this Act directed (as the Cafe may be), the faid Lands, Tenements, and Hereditaments, in refpect whereof the fame fhall have been fo paid or depofited as aforefaid, shall vest in the Commiffioners or Trustees, or other Perfons as aforefaid for the Time being, in Manner and for the Purposes aforefaid, who fhall be deemed in Law to be in the actual Poffeffion thereof to all Intents and Purposes whatsoever, freed and discharged from all former and other Eftates, Rights, Titles, Interefts, Claims, and Demands whatsoever.

Where any Question fhall arise

touching the

Title to

Money to be paid, the Perfon who fhall be in

the Lands,

&c. at the

Time of fuch Purchase, fhall be deemed en

LXXXVIII. Provided always, and be it further enacted, That where any Question fhall arise touching the Title of any Perfon to any Money to be paid into the Bank of England in the Name and with the Privity of the Accountant General of the Court of Chancery, in pursuance of this A&t, for the Purchase of any Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments, or of Poffeffion of any Estate, Right, or Interest in any Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments to be purchased in purfuance of this A&t, or to any Bank Annuities to be purchased with any fuch Money, or the Dividends or Interest of any fuch Bank Annuities, the Perfon or Perfons who fhall have been in Poffeffion of fuch Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments at the Time of fuch Purchase, and all Perfons claiming under fuch Perfon or Perfons, or under the Poffeffion of fuch Perfon or Perfons, fhall be deemed and taken to have been lawfully entitled to fuch Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments, according to such Poffeffion, until the contrary fhall be fhewn to the Satisfaction of the faid Court of Chancery; and the Dividends or Intereft of the Bank Annuities to be purchased with fuch Money, and alfo the Capital of fuch Bank Annuities, fhall be paid, applied, and

titled thereto
according to
fuch Poffef-
fion, unless
&c.

disposed

difpofed of accordingly, unlefs it fhall be made appear to the faid Court that fuch Poffeffion was a wrongful Poffeffion, and that fome other Perfon or Perfons was or were lawfully entitled to fuch Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments, or to some Estate or Interest therein.

reasonable

LXXXIX. Provided alfo, and be it further The Court of enacted, That where by reafon of any Difability Chancery or Incapacity of the Perfon or Perfons or Corpora- may order tion entitled to any Lands, Tenements, or Heredita- Expences of ments to be purchased, or purchased under the Purchases to Authority of this Act, the Purchase Money for the be paid by same shall be required to be paid into the Court of the CommifChancery, and to be applied in the Purchase of other fioners, &c. Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments, to be settled to the like Uses in pursuance of this Act, it shall be lawful for the faid Court of Chancery to order the Expences of all Purchases from Time to Time to be made in pursuance of this Act, or fo much of fuch Expences as the faid Court fhall deem reafonable, to be paid by the faid Cominiffioners or Trustees or other Perfons as aforefaid, who fhall from Time to Time pay fuch Sums of Money for fuch Purposes as the faid Court fhall direct.

deliver Pof

XC. And be it further enacted, That every Tenants at Tenant at Will or Leffee for a Year, or any other Will, &c. to Perfon or Perfons in Poffeffion of any fuch Houses, feffion on Buildings, Lands, Tenements, and Hereditaments, Six Months or any Part thereof, which fhall be purchased by Notice. virtue and for the Purposes of this Act, and who fhall have no greater Interest in the Premises than as Tenant at Will or Leffee for a Year, or from Year to Year, fhall deliver up the Poffeffion of fuch Premises to the faid Commiffioners or Trustees, or other Perfons as aforefaid having the Control of the Pavements in the Streets or public Places in the parochial or other Divifion within the Jurifdiction of this Act, wherein fuch Houses, Buildings, Lands, Tenements, and Hereditaments, or to fuch Perfon or Perfons as the faid Commiffioners or Trustees

or

or other Perfons as aforefaid fhall appoint to take Poffeffion of the fame, upon having Six Calendar Months Notice to quit fuch Poffeffion from the faid Commiffioners or Trustees or other Perfons as aforefaid, or from the Perfon or Perfons fo authorized by them; and fuch Perfon or Perfons in Poffeffion fhall at the End of the said Six Calendar Months, whether fuch Notice be given with reference to the Time or Times of fuch Tenants holding or not, or fo foon as he, fhe, or they fhall be required, peaceably and quietly deliver up the Poffeffion of the faid Premifes to the faid Commiffioners or Truftees, or other Perfons as aforefaid, or the Perfon or Perfons authorized by the said Commiffioners or Trustees or other Persons as aforefaid to take Poffession thereof; and in cafe any fuch Tenant should be compelled to quit before the Expiration of his or her Term in any fuch Premises, then and in fuch Cafe the faid Commiffioners or Trustees, or other Perfons as aforefaid, fhall and they are hereby required to make Satisfaction and Compenfation for the Lofs or Damage which he or she fhall or may sustain thereby; and in cafe any Difference or Difpute shall arife as to the Amount of fuch Satisfaction or Compensation, the fame fhall or may be determined, fettled, and ascertained by a Jury, in fuch and the like Manner as the Sum or Sums of Money to be paid for the Purchase of any Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments, is herein directed to be determined, fettled, and ascertained; and that in cafe any fuch Perfon or Perfons fo in Poffeffion as aforefaid fhall refufe to give fuch Poffeffion as aforefaid, it shall and may be lawful to and for the faid Commiffioners or Trustees, or other Persons as aforefaid, to iffue their Precept or Precepts to the Sheriff or Sheriffs, or Bailiff, or other proper Officer of the City, Borough, or County wherein fuch parochial or other District shall be fituate, to deliver Poffeffion of the faid Premises to fuch Perfon or Perfons as fhall in fuch Precept or Precepts be no

minated

minated to receive the fame; and the faid Sheriff or Sheriffs or Bailiff, and every other proper Officer, is hereby authorized and required to deliver fuch Poffeffion accordingly of the faid Premises, and to levy fuch Cofts as fhall accrue from the issuing and Execution of fuch Precept or Precepts on the Perfon or Perfons fo refufing to give Poffeffion as aforefaid, by Diftrefs and Sale of his, her, or their Goods.

XCI. And be it further enacted, That all and Mortgagees, every Person and Perfons who fhall have any Mort- on Tender gage or Mortgages on fuch Houses, Buildings, and Interest, Lands, Tenements, and Hereditaments, not being to convey. in Poffeffion thereof by virtue of fuch Mortgage or Mortgages, thall, on the Tender of the Principal Money and Intereft due thereon, together with the Amount of Six Calendar Months Intereft on the said Principal, by the faid Commiffioners or Trustees or other Perfons having the Control of the Pavements in the Streets or public Places in fuch parochial or other District within the Jurifdiction of this Act, wherein the faid Houfes, Buildings, Lands, Tenements, and Hereditaments fhall lie or be as aforefaid, or by fuch Perfon or Perfons as they fhall appoint, immediately convey, affign, and transfer fuch Mortgage or Mortgages to the faid Commiffioners or Trustees or other Perfons as aforefaid, or to fuch Person or Perfons as they fhall appoint; or in cafe fuch Mortgagee or Mortgagees shall have Notice in Writing from the faid Commiffioners or Trustees or other Perfons as aforefaid, or from fuch Perfon or Perfons as they fhall appoint, that they will pay off and discharge the Principal Money and Intereft which fhall be due on the faid Mortgage or Mortgages at the End or Expiration of Six Calendar Months, to be computed from the Day of giving fuch Notice, that then at the End of the faid Six Calendar Months, on Payment of the Principal and Interest so due, fuch Mortgagee or Mort gagees fhall convey, affign, and transfer his, her, or

on Refufal,

Intereft to cease.

The Mort

gagees not to be paid more than the real Value of Premifes.

Bargains and

Sales to have

the Force of Fines and Recoveries.

their Interest in the Premises to the faid Commiffioners or Trustees or other Perfons as aforefaid, or to fuch Perfon or Perfons as fhall be appointed in Trust for them; and in cafe the Mortgagee or Mortgagees fhall refufe to convey and affign as aforefaid on fuch Tender or Payment, that then all Interest on every such Mortgage fhall from thenceforth cease and determine.

XCII. Provided always, and be it further enacted, That in cafe the Sum due upon any fuch Mortgage or Mortgages, with all Interest due thereon, fhall amount to more than the real Value of the Premises, to be ascertained as directed by this Act, then the faid Commiffioners or Trustees or other Perfons as aforesaid shall not be liable to pay to the Mortgagee or Mortgagees more than fuch real Value of fuch Premises, fo afcertained as aforefaid.

XCIII. And be it further enacted, That the Conveyance of any fuch Estate or Interest of any Feme Covert to the faid Commiffioners or Truftees or other Perfons as aforefaid for the Time being, or any Five or more of them, or any Perfon or Perfons in Truft for them, by Indenture or Indentures of Bargain and Sale, fealed and delivered by fuch Feme Covert in the Prefence of and attefted by Two credible Witneffes, and duly acknowledged, and to be enrolled in the High Court of Chancery within Six Calendar Months after the making thereof, fhall as effectually and abfolutely convey the Estate and Intereft of fuch Feme Covert in the Premises as any Fine or Fines, Recovery or Recoveries, would or could do, if levied or fuffered thereof in due Form of Law; and further, that all Bargains and Sales whatsoever to be made of any fuch Houses, Buildings, Lands, Tenements, and Hereditaments, as fhall be purchased by the Commiffioners or Trustees or other Persons as aforefaid for the Time being, by virtue and for the Purposes of this Act, and enrolled as aforefaid, shall have the like Force, Effect, and Operation in Law, to all Intents and Purposes, as

any

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