Heads of Houses &c. Heads of Colleges and Halls trustees of several turnpike roads; 12 G. 3, c. 90; 37 G. 3, c. 179; 55 G. 3, c. xlix: also Commissioners under the Improvement Acts; 34 G. 3, c. 104, ss. 3,5: also Commissioners for Navigation of the river Ouse; 35 G. 3. c. 77: also interested in the Borough Fund; 19 & 20 V. c. xvii, s. 62. Heads of Houses, Bursars, and resident Fellows, though in Holy Orders, may be Directors or Managing Partners of the Cambridge Waterworks Company; 16 & 17 V. c. xxiii; also of the Cambridge Gas Company; 30 & 31 V. c. lxxvii, s. 39. Improvement Acts. Colleges empowered (jointly with the University) to borrow money, not exceeding £6000 in the whole, for the purposes of the Improvement Acts; 28 G. 3, c. 64, ss. 111, 112; 34 G. 3, c. 104, ss. I, 2. Commissioners, how to be elected by the several Colleges and Halls; 34 G. 3, C. 104, SS. 3-5. quotas of payments under these Acts, how to be assessed and paid; 28 G. 3, c. 64, ss. 113, 114. lessees of Colleges or Halls deemed landlords and owners for the purposes of these Acts; ib. ss. 26, 34. College Courts &c. exempt from opera- any member of a College or Hall wilfully damaging any lamp in the Town to pay the full amount of damages; if he refuse, his Tutor answerable; 28 G. 3, c. 64, 8.74; 34 G. 3, c. 104, s. 21. Oaths &c. no declaration of religious belief and no oath to be required of Undergraduates obtaining Scholarships or other College emoluments; 19 & 20 V. c. 88, s. 46. Poor Rutes &c. in what parishes respectively College property to be rated; 19 & 20 V. c. xvii, s. 22. in what name to be assessed; ib. 8. 24. Chapels and Libraries exempt; ib. s. 23. See also CAM; CAMBRIDGE; CHRIST'S COLLEGE; COLLEGES, tit. Rooms; EASTERN COUN COLLEGES IN CAMBRIDGE continued: COLLEGES IN OXFORD: were enabled by 11 G. 3, c. 19, ss. 74, 75, to sell tenements or hereditaments in Oxford or its suburbs; p. 78. Gas. premises protected against vicinity of gasometer &c., and against disturbance by the Gas Company; 58 G. 3. c. lxiv, Ss. II, 48. Heads of Houses. Heads of Colleges and Halls trustees of Adderbury turnpike road; 37 G. 3, c. 170: also electors of four Conservators of the Thames; 29 & 30 V. c. 89. Living Funds. Colleges empowered, with consent of Visitor, to apply Living Funds to the augmentation of livings in their patronage, or to the building of residence houses, or to the augmentation or foundation of Scholarships or Exhibitions, or to other purposes for the advancement of religion, learning, and education; but not when the Living Fund belongs to any particular foundation; 20 & 21 V. c. 25, s. 3. Local Board. Heads and Bursars of Colleges and Halls to elect eleven Members of the Local Board; 21 & 22 V. c. 98: such elected persons qualified sufficiently by their degree; 27 & 28 V. c. 68; 28 & 29 V. c. 108, s. 6. who to be rated to rates made by the Local Board on College property; 28 & 29 V. c. 108, s. 20. See OXFORD. Poor Rates. certain Colleges and Halls made liable to Poor Rates: see UNIV. OXFORD. Heads and Bursars of those Colleges and Halls to elect Guardians of the Poor; 17 & 18 V. c. ccxix, ss. 2, 3. See also COLLEGES, tit. Rooms; GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY; MAGDALEN COLLEGE; OATHS; ORIEL COLLEGE; PEMBROKE COLLEGE; QUEEN'S COLLEGE; ST. JOHN'S COLLEGE; WADHAM COLLEGE. COMMON PRAYER: Declaration of conformity to the Liturgy of the Church of England to be subscribed before the Vice-Chancellor of either University by every Head, Fellow, Chaplain, and Tutor of any College or Hall, and by every public Professor and Reader, on pain of forfeiting Headship &c.; 14 C 2, c. 4, s. 6. COMMON PRAYER continued: See also COLLEGES, Sermons. of COPYHOLD COMMISSIONERS, consent of, CORN Rents: see LEASES. CRACHERODE, Rev. C. M., a benefactor DAMASK, to, a verb; p. 85, 1. 28. DECLARATIONS of Assent and of Confor- DEGREES: see OATHS, STAMP DUTY, and DENYER Theological Prizes at Oxford, DISCOMMUNING: see UNIV. CAMBRIDGE. EASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY COMPANY: to refuse, after notice duly given, to con- not to take up or set down passengers at See also 9 & 10 V. c. clxxii. ECCLESIASTICAL COMMISSIONERS em- ELECTIONS to Fellowships &c.: see COL- LEGES. ELECTIONS to Parliament: see COLLEGES, ELY, two Canonries at, annexed to the Regius Professorships of Hebrew and Greek at Cambridge; 3 & 4 V. c. 113, S. 12. EMANUEL COLLEGE, Cambridge, specially interested in Hobson's Conduit; p. 125. ESTATES: houses not to be aliened without equiva lent in lands; 14 El. c. 11, s. 7. power, by means of agreements with lessees &c. or with owners of adjoining lands &c., to get unknown or disputed boundaries of estates ascertained and settled; 2 & 3 W. 4, c. 80. power to sell, enfranchise, and exchange lands in possession or with only 7 years of lease still to run, with consent of Copyhold Commissioners and under certain conditions; 21 & 22 V. c. 44, ss. 1-3. power to accept surrenders from lessees in consideration of annual payments during residue of term in order to sell to such lessees; ib. s. 4. power to purchase the interest of lessees either by a gross sum or for annual payments during residue of term, and to raise money by mortgage in order to such purchases; ib. ss. 6-9. power to sell the liberty or privilege of digging gravel or sand or brick earth; ib. ss. 15, 21. this Act not to restrain powers of sale &c. previously existing; ib. s. 30. in exchanges effected under the Acts for inclosure, exchange, and improvement of lands, money may be received by way of equality of exchange; ib. power to transfer lands vested in individual Members of Universities or Colleges to the University or College interested, but upon the like trusts; 23 & 24 V. c. 59, s. 5. power to raise money upon mortgage, with consent of Copyhold Commissioners, for restoring &c. University or College buildings, for improving farm buildings, for draining or otherwise permanently improving lands; 21 & 22 V. c. 44, ss. 27, 28. valuations under the Universities and College Estates Acts to be stamped; 31 & 32 V. c. 89. See also LEASES. ETON COLLEGE: discharged from first fruits and tenths; 27 H. 8, c. 42; 1 El. c. 4. exempt from Land Tax for its site; 38 G. 3, c. 5. affected by the following Acts; for augmentation of Vicarages &c., 1 & 2 W. 4, c. 45; for ascertaining boundaries &c. ETON COLLEGE continued: of lands, 2 & 3 W. 4, c. 80; granting perpetual copyright, 15 G. 3, c. 53; requiring corn rents, 18 El. c. 6; 39 & 40 G. 3, c. 41, s. 7; for redemption of Land Tax, 42 G. 3, c. 116; Uniformity, 14 C. 2, c. 4; Universities and College Estates, 21 & 22 V. c. 44; 23 & 24 V. c. 59. not affected by the following Acts; against misemployment of charitable gifts, 43 El. c. 4; restraining the gift of land for charitable uses, 9 G. 2, c. 36 (see 24 & 25 V. c. 9); for registering charitable gifts, 52 G. 3, c. 102; for improving Grammar Schools, 3 & 4 V. c. 77. no Deanery tenable with Provostship; 13 & 14 V. c. 98, s. 5. See also BENEFICES, tit. Residence. EWELME in Oxfordshire, Rectory of, annexed to the Regius Professorship of Divinity at Oxford, without presentation, institution, or induction, but not discharged from first fruits, tenths, and other dues, nor from canonical obedience; 10 Anne, c. 45. EXETER College, Oxford: rent charge of 11. 138. 4d. for part of the site of Hertford College (now made over to Magdalen Hall) to be paid by Magdalen College; 56 G. 3, c. 136, 88. 7-9. GARDENS, PHYSIC: see TOBACCO. GLOUCESTER, Prebend at, annexed to the Mastership of Pembroke College, Oxford; 13 Anne, c. 6; 3 & 4 V. c. 113, s. 15. GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY COMPANY: to give to certain Officers of the University of Oxford and to the Heads of Colleges and Halls free access to all stations &c., and to furnish information on demand with reference to passengers supposed to be Members of the University; 6 & 7 V. c. x, s. 304. to refuse, after notice duly given, to convey Members of the University below a certain standing; ib. s. 305. GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY COMPANY con- not to take up or set down Members of HALLS most of the enactments con- HALLS, Private: see UNIV. OXFORD. no Head holding any benefice to hold See also BENEFICES, tit. Residence; CA- HOUSES not to be aliened without equi- INCOME TAX, Commissioners of; p. 144, note m. INCORPOREAL hereditaments: see LEASES. and Cambridge to be appointed and JAMES I annexed a Prebend at Salisbury s. 6. JUSTICES of the Peace: property quali- C. 20. KENNICOTT Scholarships at Oxford, power LANDS intermixed, boundaries of, how to began in the time of the Commonwealth; See COLLEGES, UNIVERSITIES. granted by consent of a majority of a Concurrent Leases. not to be made concurrent with any for- Corn Rents. in leases of lands one third part at least payments to Vicars &c. accustomably power to raise money upon mortgage, no fine to be ever again taken on lands also, in building or repairing leases, to Incorporeal Hereditaments. Informal Leases. power to confirm leases which may be Insurance. power to insure houses and buildings de New Leases. power to release persons from contracts LEASES continued: grant new leases with reasonable allow- Rent. leas s in which no annual rent is reserved power to grant leases for a term of 21 Term. leases made for a longer term than 21 C. IO, S. 2. not to be made for a longer term than is also to grant by lease for a term of 60 also to grant mining leases for a term of ESTATES. LECTURE, King Henry the Eighth's, at not affected by the Act for preventing LEGACIES of books, prints, pictures, sta- |