tical Person without the Consent of the Archbishop of the Province, the Bishop of the Diocese, and of the Patron of such Benefice, and such Consents shall be testified by the Persons whose Consents are. hereby required respectively being Parties to and signing and sealing 5 such Leases, or signing a written Endorsement of such Consent thereon.

Valuation,

such Lease.

VI. Whenever any Lease is intended to be made under the Before Lease Authority of this Act, a Map or Plan under actual Survey of the granted a Surveyor to Lands proposed to be leased shall be made by a competent Land make Maps, 10 Surveyor, to be appointed by the Person desirous of making the Certificate, Lease, showing the local Situation and Quantity of the Lands and Report proposed to be leased, and of the Lands intended to be reserved; respecting and such Surveyor shall also make a Valuation, on actual Survey, of the Lands proposed to be leased, and shall report what is the best 15 yearly Rent which ought to be reserved on a Lease of such Lands, and shall also report upon all such other Matters connected with such intended Lease as he shall be directed to report upon; and the Map or Plan, Certificate, Valuation, and Report, shall be respectively signed by such Surveyor, and verified by his Declaration to be made 20 before any Justice of the Peace: Provided always, that when there Existing shall be any existing Map or Plan, made under actual Survey of the Maps may District, which shall include the Lands intended to be demised, a Copy of or Extract from such Map or Plan may be substituted for the Map or Plan herein-before directed to be made.

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be used,

to be con

VII. Every Lease made under this Act shall contain a Covenant Covenants that the Tenant shall pay the Rent reserved, and all Taxes and Impo- tained in sitions whatsoever which shall be payable in respect of the Lands Leases. thereby demised, and also a Condition and Agreement on the Part of the Lessee to erect in a permanent and substantial Manner on the 30 demised Premises, Buildings of a Value to be specified therein, and to keep such Buildings during the Term in good and substantial Repair, and insured against Damage by Fire in Three Fourths at least of the Value thereof, and also that the Lessee will lay out the Money to be received on any such Insurance, and all such other Sums of Money 35 as shall be necessary, in substantially reinstating such Buildings as shall be destroyed or damaged by Fire, and to give up peaceable Possession of the Lands so demised, with all Buildings, Fixtures, and Improvements therein, on the Determination of such Lease; and also every such Lease shall contain a Power of Re-entry, in case such 40 Buildings shall not have been erected within Five Years from the Commencement of the said Lease: Provided also, that nothing herein contained shall be construed to preclude the Lessor in any such Lease from covenanting that the Lessee may take from off the demised

Execution by Lord Lieutenant,

Premises Brick, Earth, Stone, Lime, or other Materials for the Erection or Repair of the said Buildings, or the Construction or Repair of Drains connected therewith.

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VIII. The Consent of the Lord Lieutenant, Archbishop, Bishop, and Patron, whose Consents are hereby made requisite to any Lease Archbishop, testified in manner herein-before described, shall be conclusive Bishop, and Evidence that such Lease does not comprise any Lands which ought not to be leased under the Provisions of this Act, and that a proper Portion of the Glebe Land remains unleased, and that the Rent proper to be thereby reserved is the best and most improved Rent, and that the 10 Conditions required by this Act have been duly observed.

Patron to be
Evidence

that the

Lands are

leased.

When Patron
is under
Incapacity
or beyond
Seas.

Consent when the

Patronage is
in the Crown.

When in a
Corporate
Body.

Person who

for the Time being would be entitled to present

shall be con

sidered the

Patron.

IX. Whenever the Patron shall happen to be a Minor, Idiot, Lunatic, or Feme Covert, it shall be lawful for the Guardian, Committee of the Estate, or Husband (as the Case may be) of such Patron (but in the Case of a Feme Covert not being a Minor, Idiot, 15 or Lunatic, with her Consent in Writing,) to execute the Instrument by which such Consent is to be testified in Testimony of the Consent of such Patron, and such Execution shall, for the Purposes of this Act, be deemed and taken to be an Execution by the Patron of the Benefice.

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X. Whenever the Patronage shall be in the Crown, the Consent of the Crown shall be testified by the signing of such Consent by the Lord Lieutenant; and whenever the Patronage shall belong to any Dean and Chapter, or Collegiate or other Corporate Body having a Common Seal, the Consent of such Corporate Body shall be testified 25 by the sealing of the Instrument by which such Consent is testified with the Common Seal of such Corporate Body.

XI. The Person or Persons (if not more than Two), or the Majority of the Persons (if more than Two), or the Corporation who or which would for the Time being be entitled to the Turn or Right of Presen- 30 tation to any Benefice if the same were then vacant, shall, for the Purposes of this Act, be considered to be the Patron thereof: Provided nevertheless, that in the Case of the Patronage being exercised alternately by different Patrons, the Person or Persons (if not more than Two), or the Majority of the Persons (if more than Two), 35 or the Corporation, who or which would for the Time being be entitled to the Second Turn or Right of Presentation to any Benefice if the same were then vacant, shall, for the Purposes of this Act, jointly with the Person or Persons or Corporation entitled to the First Turn or Right of Presentation, be considered to be the Patron 40 thereof.

XII. Every

ture.

XII. Every Lease made pursuant to the Provisions of this Act Lease to be shall be by Indenture, and a Counterpart of every such Lease shall by Indenbe executed by the Lessee thereof, and shall be valid and effectual to bind the Lessor and his Successors, provided that the same shall 5 within Six Months from the Execution thereof by the Lessor be enrolled in the Rolls Office of the High Court of Chancery in Ireland, for which no greater Fee than Ten Shillings shall be chargeable.

XIII. This Act shall extend to Ireland only.

Act only

to extend to Ireland.

(Ireland.)

A

BILL

ΤΟ

Amend the Act of the Sixth and Seventh Years of King William the Fourth, Chapter One hundred and sixteen, for consolidating and amending the Laws relating to the Presentment of Public Money by Grand Juries in Ireland.

W

HEREAS by an Act passed in the Sixth and Seventh Preamble Years of the Reign of His Majesty King William the Fourth, Chapter One hundred and sixteen, intituled "An "Act to consolidate and amend the Laws relating to the Present5" ment of Public Money by Grand Juries in Ireland," great Loss and Inconvenience has arisen to the Public from the Want of proper Contractors to tender at adjourned Road Sessions for the Execution of Works previously sanctioned at the First Sessions: And whereas it is expedient in such Cases to make further Provision for the Repair, 10 Maintenance, and Construction of such Public Works: 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:

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I. When any Application for the Repair, Maintenance, or Con- When no struction of any Public Work or Road shall have been approved of at Contract

entered into