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Premifes held

by Leafe under Magdalen College to be per

manently enjoy. ed by the Prin cipal and other Members of Magdalen Hall.

When repaired, Principal and other Members of Magdalen Hall to remove

to diffolved College of Hertford.

Removal not to
affect Rights,
&c. of Princi-
pal and other

Members of the

Hall, or of the faid Chancellor,

Mafters and
Scholars.

III. And Whereas it is expedient that the Ground and Buildings now forming Part of the faid diffolved College, which are held by Leafe under the Prefident and Scholars of Saint Mary Magdalen College, may hereafter be permanently enjoyed by the Principal and other Members of the faid Hall;' Be it therefore enacted, That it shall and may be lawful to and for the faid Prefident and Scholars, and they are hereby authorized and empow ered, without any Confideration in Money, to grant and convey the Fee Simple and Inheritance of the faid Ground and Buildings comprized in the faid Leafe, with their Appurtenances, unto and to the Ufe of the Chancellor, Mafters and Scholars of the Univerfity of Oxford, and their Succeffors for ever, freed and difcharged from the faid annual Rent of Three Pounds Fifteen Shillings and One Penny, or any other Rent or Charge whatever; upon Truft for the Principal and other Members of the faid Hall for the time being, and to the Intent that the fame may become a competent Part of the said Hall, and be used and enjoyed accordingly.

IV. And be it further enacted, That when and fo foon as the faid Buildings, Chambers and other Parts of the faid diffolved College, fhall have been put into such a State of complete Repair as fhall be approved by the Vice Chancellor and Delegates of Eftates of the faid University for the time being, and the faid Prefident and Scholars of Saint Mary Magdalen College fhall have made such Grant and Conveyance as herein before mentioned, it fhall and may be lawful to and for the then Principal of the faid Hall, and for all and every the Members thereof, and they and each and every of them are hereby required to furrender and give up the Poffeffion of the fame Hall and every Part thereof, and to relinquish all Right and Title to the future Occupation and Enjoyment of the fame, and of every Part thereof, unto the faid Prefident and Scholars of Saint Mary Magdalen College; and the faid Principal and other Members of the faid Hall fhall thenceforth remove to and become established at the faid diffolved College, which fhall from and after the fame shall have been put into fuch Repair as aforefaid, and taken Poffeffion of by the faid Principal and other Members be called Magdalen Hall in the University of Oxford; and the said removed Establishment of the faid Hall, fhall, to all Intents and Purposes whatsoever, continue and be deemed, taken and reputed to be the fame Eftablishment, as if the fame had continued at and had not been removed from the prefent and ancient Site thereof.

V. And be it further enacted, That the faid Removal of the Eftablishment of the faid Hall fhall not in any Respects or Respect whatfoever, prejudice, diminish, vary, alter or affect the Powers, Immunities, Advantages, Rights and Privileges, belonging or appertaining to the faid Hall, or to the prefent or any future Principal, or any other Members or Member thereof, or belonging or appertaining to the Chancellor, Mafters and Scholars of the faid Univerfity, in, over or otherwife touching or relating to the faid Hall, or to the prefent or any future Principal or other Members or Member thereof; but from and after fuch Removal of the Eftablishment of the faid Hall, all and every the Powers, Immunities, Advantages, Rights and Privileges whatfoever, belonging or appertaining to the faid Hall, or to the prefent or any future Member or Members thereof, or belonging or appertaining to the faid Chancellor, Mafters

and

and Scholars, in, over or otherwise touching or relating to the faid Hall, or to the prefent or any future Principal, or other Member or Members thereof, fhall be and continue fuch and the fame in all refpects whatsoever, as if the Removal of the Establishment of the faid Hall had not taken Place.

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VI. And Whereas the faid Chancellor, Masters and Scholars are defirous that the Ground and Buildings forming Part of the faid diffolved College, which are comprized in the hereinbefore • mentioned Indenture of Leafe of the Twenty feventh Day of Fe<bruary One thousand seven hundred and ninety eight may become a component Part of the faid intended Hall, and be permanently enjoyed by the Principal and other Members thereof for the time being, freed and difcharged from the faid annual Rents of Ten Shillings and One Shilling and Eight pence: Be it therefore further enacted, That it fhall and may be lawful for the faid Chan- Chancellor, cellor, Mafters and Scholars and their Succeffors, and they are Matter and hereby authorized and empowered whenever they fhall think proper, verfity empowerby any Deed in Writing under their Common Seal, to releafe and ed to releafe and extinguish the faid feveral annual Rents of Ten Shillings and One extinguish cerShilling and Eight pence, and to declare by the fame or by any other tain annual Deed under their Common Seal, that they the faid Chancellor, Rents. Masters and Scholars and their Succeffors, for ever, fhall ftand seised of the faid Ground and Buildings comprized in the faid Leafe, in Truft for the Principal and other Members of the faid Hall for the time being, freed and discharged from the faid annual Rents.

Scholars of Uni

dalen College to Pay the Rent Charge of l. 13s. 4d. to Exeter College.

VII. Provided always, and be it further enacted, That the Prefi- Prefident and dent and Scholars of Saint Mary Magdalen College, and their Suc- Scholars of Magceffors, fhall yearly and every Year, as and when the faid yearly Rent Charge of One Pound Thirteen Shillings and Four pence to the Rector and Fellows of Exeter College fhall become payable, pay the fame into the proper Hands of the Principal of the faid Hall for the time being, or unto fuch Perfon or Perfons as may be authorized or entitled to receive the fame, to the intent that the said Rent Charge of One Pound Thirteen Shillings and Four pence may be regularly paid to the Rector and Fellows of Exeter College, and that the Principal of the faid Hall may be indemnified in refpec thereof.

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VIII. Provided always, and be it further enacted and declared, Right of Entry, That nothing in this Act contained fhall prejudice the Right, Title, &c. of Exeter Claim or Entry of the Rector and Fellows of Exeter College, in reCollege in fpect of the faid Rent Charge of One Pound Thirteen Shillings and Four pence, fo iffuing and payable out of fome Part or Parts of the faid diffolved College; but on the contrary the faid Rector and Fellows and their Succeffors fhall have, ufe, exercise and enjoy all Powers and Remedies for raifing, recovering and obtaining Payment of the fame, in as full, ample and beneficial a manner as if this A& had not paffed.

Rent Charge of Il 13s. 4d. not to be affected.

IX. Provided always, and be it further enacted, That in cafe the Neglect or Refaid Prefident and Scholars and their Succeffors fhall at any time or fufal to make times neglect or refuse to pay the faid Rent Charge of One Pound before mentionThirteen Shillings and Four pence as and when the fame fhall become ed Payments. due and payable, it shall and may be lawful for the Principal of the faid Hall for the time being, or for the Perfon or Perfons entitled to fuch Payment, to sue for and recover the fame from the faid Prefi- Remedy. dent

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After Removal

of Principal, &c.
of Magdalen

Hall, to diffolved
College, and a

dent and Scholars and their Succeffors, in any of His Majesty's Courts of Record at Westminster, by an Action of Debt for Money paid.

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X. And be it further enacted, That immediately from and after the Removal of the Principal and other Members of the faid Hall to the faid diffolved College, and after a fuitable School fhall have been erected or provided for the faid Chorifters, it shall and may School provided, lawful to and for the Prefident and Scholars of Saint Mary Magdalen College to cause the said Hall and the faid School adjoining thereto, to be taken down, and to use or dispose of the Materials thereof, in fuch manner as they may deem proper; and alfo to erect any Buildings on the Site thereof, or otherwife to inclofe and annex the fame to the faid College, it being intended by this A&t that the Site of the faid Hall and School fhall for ever afterwards be united to and form Part and Parcel of Saint Mary Magdalen College.

the Hall, &c. may be taken down.

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• XI. And Whereas the Site and Buildings of the faid diffolved College may be greatly improved and made more ornamental, and the Occupation of the fame by its intended Poffeffors rendered ⚫ more convenient and defirable, if the Front of the said diffolved College and alfo certain Houses at the North and South Ends thereof, with a House in the Occupation of Richard Paine leading to New College Lane were taken down; and it is therefore expedient that Power fhould be given for that Purpofe;' Be it therefore enacted, That it fhall and may be lawful for the Chancellor, Masters and Scholars of the faid Univerfity, to treat and agree with the Owners and Occupiers of and with all other Perfons interested in the Houses and other Buildings and Ground now in the several Occupations of Ann Bailey, Edward Hutton, Robert Bateman Herbert, Edward Leader, James Stone, and Dorothy Barker, at the North and South Ends of the Front of the faid diffolved College, and in the House, Buildings and Ground, now in the Occupation of the faid Richard Paine, leading to New College Lane, and in the Schedule of this A&t more particularly defcribed, for the Purchase of the fame, and to become feised and poffeffed thereof, without being fubject or liable to any of the Penalties or Forfeitures of the Statutes of Mortmain, and to pay for the fame out of any Money that shall come to their Hands for that Purpose, either by Subfcription, or public or private Donation or Bequeft; and that the Monies to be paid for the Purchase thereof fhall be certified for Payment by the faid Chancellor, Mafters and Scholars, or by the Delegates of Eftates of the faid University, and fhall be by them paid out of the Monies which fhall come to their Hands for that Purpose, to the Perfon or Persons, Body or Bodies Politic, Corporate or Collegiate. entitled thereto; or shall be laid out and difpofed of in the Bank of England, in the manner by this Act directed, as the cafe may be ; and upon Payment of the Money required to be paid for the Purchafe of fuch Houses and other Buildings and Ground, to the Perfon or Perfons entitled thereto, or on depofiting the fame in the Bank of England in manner by this Act directed, as the cafe may require, fuch Premifes fhall thereupon veft abfolutely in the Chancellor, Mafters and Scholars of the faid Univerfity, for the Purposes of this Act.

XII. And be it further enacted, That it fhall and may be lawful to and for all Bodies Politic, Corporate or Collegiate, and for all

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ered to treat with the Chan

cellor, Masters and Scholars, for

Corporations, whether Aggregate or Sole, Spiritual, Eleemofynary ability, empow or Lay, and all Feoffees in Truft, Executors, Adminiftrators, Huf. bands, Guardians, Committees of or for Lunatics, and all other Trustees whomfoever, not only for and on behalf of themselves, but also for and on behalf of their Ceftuique Trufts respectively, whether Sale of Premises, Infants or Iffue unborn, Lunatics, Idiots, Femes Covert, or other Perfon or Perfons under any Difability of acting for himself, herself or themselves; and alfo to and for all Femes Covert who are or fhall be feifed in their own Right, and to and for all Perfons, whether Tenants for Life, in Tail General or Special, or for Years determinable on any Life or Lives, and to and for all and every Perfon and Perfons whomfoever who are or fhall be feifed, poffeffed of or interested in any of the faid Houfes and other Buildings and Ground mentioned and comprised in the faid Schedule hereunto annexed, to treat and agree with the faid Chancellor, Mafters and Scholars, for the abfolute Sale thereof, or of any Part or Parts thereof, and to convey the fame to the faid Chancellor, Mafters and Scholars, and their Succeffors, for the Purposes mentioned in this A&t; and that all Contracts, Agreements, Sales and Conveyances which shall be fo made by virtue and in pursuance of this Act, fhall, without any Fine or Fines, Recovery or Recoveries, be good, valid and effectual to all Intents and Purposes, not only to convey the Eftate and Intereft of the Perfon or Perfons conveying or intending to convey the fame, but also to convey all Right, Title, Eftate and Intereft, Ufe, Property, Claim and Demand whatfoever, of the feveral and refpective Ceftuique Trufts, and all other Perfons claiming or to claim by, from, or under them; any Law, Statute, Ufage or any other matter or thing whatsoever to the contrary thereof notwithstanding; and all Bodies Politic, Corporate or Collegiate, Corporations Aggregate or Sole, Spiritual, Eleemofynary or Lay, and all Feoffees in Truft, Executors, Administrators, Husbands, Guardians, Committees, Trustees and all other Perfons whomfoever, are and shall be hereby indemnified for what they shall do by virtue of or in purfuance of this A&t.

XIII. And be it further enacted, That if any Money shall be agreed Application of to be paid for any Tenements or Hereditaments purchased by virtue Purchase of the Powers of this Act for the Purposes thereof, which shall Monies: belong to any Corporation, Feme Covert, Infant, Lunatic or Perfons under any Difability or Incapacity, fuch Money shall in cafe the fame shall amount to or exceed the Sum of Two hundred Pounds, with all convenient Speed be paid into the Bank of England, in the Name and with the Privity of the Accountant General of the High Court of Chancery, to be placed to his Account ex parte the Chancellor, Masters and Scholars of the University of Oxford, to the Intent that fuch Money fhall be applied under the Direction and with the Approbation of the faid Court, to be fignified by an Order made upon a Petition to be preferred in a fummary Way by the Perfon or Perfons who would have been entitled to the Rents and Profits of the faid Lands, Tenements or Hereditaments, in the Purchase of the Land Tax, or towards the Discharge of any Debt or Debts or fuch other Incumbrances or Parts thereof as the faid Court shall authorize to be paid, affecting the fame Tenements or Hereditaments, or affecting other Tenements or Hereditaments ftanding fettled therewith, to the fame or the like Ufes, Intents or Purposes;

or

Where lefs than 2001. and not under 201.

Where lefs than 201.

or where fuch Money fhall not be fo applied, then the fame fhall be laid out and invested under the like Direction and Approbation of the faid Court in the Purchase of other Lands, Tenements or Hereditaments, which shall be conveyed and settled to, for and upon fuch and the like Ufes, Trufts, Intents and Purposes, and in the fame manner as the Tenements or Hereditaments which fhall be fo purchafed, taken or used as aforefaid, stood fettled or limited, or fuch of them as at the time of making fuch Conveyance and Settlement fhall be exifting undetermined and capable of taking Effect; and in the meantime and until fuch Purchase shall be made, the faid Money fhall, by Order of the faid Court of Chancery, upon Application thereto, be invested by the faid Accountant General in his Name in the Purchase of Three Pounds per Centum Confolidated, or Three Pounds per Centum Reduced Bank Annuities; and in the meantime and until the faid Bank Annuities fhall be ordered by the faid Court to be fold for the Purposes aforefaid, the Dividends and annual Produce of the faid Confolidated or Reduced Bank Annuities, fhall from time to time be paid by Order of the said Court to the Person or Persons who would for the time being have been entitled to the Rents and Profits of the Lands, Tenements or Hereditaments, fo hereby directed to be purchased, in case such Purchase or Settlement were made.

XIV. Provided always, and be it further enacted, That if any Money fo agreed to be paid for any Lands, Tenements or Hereditaments purchased, taken or ufed for the Purposes aforefaid, and belonging to any Corporation, or to any Perfon or Perfons under any Difability or Incapacity as aforefaid, fhall be lefs than the Sum of Two hundred Pounds, and fhall amount to or exceed the Sum of Twenty Pounds, then and in all fuch cafes the fame shall, at the Option of the Perfon or Perfons for the time being entitled to the Rents and Profits of the Tenements or Hereditaments fo purchased, taken or used, or of his, her or their Guardian or Guardians, Committee or Committees, in cafe of Infancy or Lunacy, to be fignified in Writing under their respective Hands, be paid into the Bank in the Name and with the Privity of the faid Accountant General of the High Court of Chancery, and be placed to his Account as aforefaid, in order to be applied in the manner hereinbefore directed; or otherwise the same shall be paid at the like Option of Two Truftees, to be nominated by the Perfon or Persons making fuch Option, and approved by the faid Chancellor, Mafters and Scholars, fuch Nomination and Approbation to be fignified in Writing under the Hands and Seals of the nominating and approving Parties refpectively, in order that fuch Principal Monies, and the Dividends arifing thereon, may be applied in any manner hereinbefore directed, fo far as the cafe be applicable, without obtaining, or being required to obtain, the Direction or Approbation of the faid Court of Chancery.

XV. Provided alfo, and be it further enacted, That when fuch Money fo agreed to be paid as laft before mentioned fhall be lefs than Twenty Pounds, then and in all such cases the fame fhall be applied to the Ufe of the Perfon or Perfons who would for the time being have been entitled to the Rents and Profits of the Tenements or Hereditaments fo, purchased, taken or used for the Purposes of this Act, in fuch manner as the faid Chancellor, Mafters and Scholars shall think fit ; or in case of Infancy or Lunacy, then to his, her of

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