48 G. 3. c. 73.

The Commissioners of Woods, &c. empowered to make Exchanges of Freehold Estates for

partial or chat

tel Interests of equal Value in other Estates,

or Amount of such Compensation or Satisfaction shall be settled, ascertained and determined, by such competent and indifferent Person as the said respective Referees shall, before they shall respectively proceed to the Consideration of the Matters so referred to them, by Writing under their Hands, nominate and appoint to act as Umpire concerning the Premises, and the Judgment and Determination of such Referees or Umpire therein shall be final, binding and conclusive, to all Intents and Purposes whatsoever; and such Referees and Umpire are hereby respectively empowered to send for Persons and Papers, and to examine Witnesses upon Oath, if necessary, which Oath any One of the Persons so to be nominated a Referee or Umpire as aforesaid is hereby authorized and empowered to administer; and the Amount of such Compensation or Satisfaction, when so ascertained as aforesaid, may be paid by the said Lord High Treasurer, or the said Lords Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury, out of the Land Revenues of the Crown, or out of any Monies applicable as Land Revenues of the Crown.

• IV. And Whereas by the said recited Act of the Forty eighth Year of the Reign of His late Majesty, Powers were given to the Surveyor General, with the Approbation and Authority of the said Lord High Treasurer, or the Commissioners of the Treasury, to make Exchanges of any Parcel or Parcels of 'Land belonging to the Crown, in the Survey and ordering of the Exchequer, for Lands of equal or nearly equal Value, in the Manner and under the Regulations therein mentioned: And 'Whereas such Powers are now vested in and exercised by the • Commissioners of His Majesty's Woods, Forests and Land Revenues for the Time being, and have been found in many cases to be beneficial; but Doubts have arisen whether any Exchanges can be made, by virtue thereof, of any of the Possessions of the Crown in Perpetuity, for any Messuages, Lands or Here• ditaments held by the Persons making the same, for any partial Estate, or for any Term or Terms of Years or Chattel Interest; and it is expedient that such Doubts should be removed, and that such Powers should be extended to authorize the Acceptance on the Part of the Crown of any Messuages, Lands or • Hereditaments held by the Person or Persons making such Exchanges for any partial Estate, or any Term or Terms of Years, or Chattel Interest, where the Reversion or Remainder of such Messuages, Lands or Hereditaments expectant on the Determination of such Estate or Interest, shall be either immediately or ultimately in the Crown, in Exchange for any Messuages, Lands, or Hereditaments held by the Crown in Perpetuity; Be it therefore further enacted, That the said Commissioners of His Majesty's Woods, Forests and Land Revenues, shall have full Power and Authority, with the Approbation of the said Lord High Treasurer, or the Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury for the Time being, or any Three or more of them, to convey any of the Possessions of the Crown in England or Wales within the Survey and Ordering of the Exchequer, in Perpetuity or otherwise, in Exchange for any Messuages, Lands or Hereditaments in England or Wales, held by the Person or Persons making the same, for any partial Estate or Interest, or for any Term or Terms of Years,

Crown.

Deeds free from
Stamp Duties,

Years, or any Chattel Interest, where the Reversion or Remainder the Reversion of such Messuages, Lands or Hereditaments expectant upon the whereof is or Determination of such partial Estate, Term or Interest, shall be shall be in the either immediately or ultimately in the Crown; all which Exchanges shall be made and carried into Effect in such or the like Manner, and under such or the like Rules and Regulations, as nearly as Circumstances will admit, as the Exchanges authorized by the said Act of the Forty eighth Year aforesaid are now usually made or carried into Execution; and all Sums of Money to be paid or received for Equality of Exchange, shall be paid, received or applied in like manner as any Monies to be paid or received for the like Purpose upon any Exchanges made under the said Act are now payable or applicable; and all Deeds or other Instruments, by which the same Exchanges shall be effected, or which shall relate thereto, shall be exempt from all Stamp Duties; and, in making such Exchanges, the Lands or Possessions of His Majesty so to be given in Exchange shall be vested in the Person or Persons to whom the same shall be conveyed, for such Estate or Estates, Uses, Trusts, Intents or Purposes, as shall be in or by such Deeds or Instruments, or by Reference therein to any other Deeds or Instruments, expressed or declared of and concerning the same; and the Messuages, Lands and Hereditaments to be given or taken in Exchange for the same shall vest in His Majesty, His Heirs or Successors, or in the Person or Persons to whom the same shall be conveyed, in Trust for His Majesty, His Heirs or Successors, in Right of his Crown, for all the Estate, Term, Title or Interest of the Person or Persons making the same Exchange,. or for so much or such Part or Parts thereof as shall be agreed, contracted or intended to be given, conveyed or assigned to or in Trust for His Majesty, in or upon the Treaty for such Exchange; and all such Exchanges, when so made, shall be good, valid and effectual, any Act or Acts of Parliament, Law or Usage to the contrary in anywise notwithstanding.

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and Lands

given in Exchange vested accordingly.

• V. And Whereas Doubts have been entertained, whether any 'Stewards of Courts, Game Keepers, Forestal or other Officers of any of His Majesty's Hundreds, Manors, Lordships, Forests, Chases or Warrens, and other Places, can be legally appointed 'for or within any such Hundreds, Honors, Manors, Lordships, Forests, Chases, Warrens or other Places by the Commissioners 'for the Time being of His Majesty's Woods, Forests and Land Revenues, and it is expedient that such Doubts should be re'moved, and that the Commissioners for the Time being of His 'Majesty's Woods, Forests and Land Revenues, should be au'thorised on Behalf of His Majesty to appoint Stewards, Game Keepers and other Officers for and within such Hundreds, Honors, Manors and Lordships, Forests, Chases, Warrens and other 'Places in certain Cases;' Be it therefore further enacted, That Commissioners it shall and may be lawful to and for the Commissioners for the of His MajesTime being of His Majesty's Woods, Forests and Land Revenues, ty's Woods, &c. on Behalf of His Majesty, His Heirs and Successors, by any In- appoint strument in Writing under their Hands, or the Hands of any Two of them, from time to time to appoint such Person or Persons as they shall think fit, to be the Steward or Stewards of any Hundreds, Honors, Manors, or Lordships belonging to the Crown, 1 & 2 GEO. IV.

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empowered to

Stewards of His Majesty's Hundreds, and Games.

Manors, &c.

:

Keepers and other Officers,

in certain Cases;

and to allow Salaries, &c.

Proviso for Right of Appointment of Master Keepers, &c.

within the Survey of the Exchequer, where such Offices are or
hereafter shall be vacant, and shall not be in the Appointment of
Grantee of the Crown, to hold and execute such Offices until
any
some Person or Persons shall be appointed thereto by His Majesty,
His Heirs or Successors, or by the said First Lord Commissioner
of His Majesty's Treasury, or the Chancellor of the Exchequer
for the Time being, or until such Appointment shall be revoked
by the Commissioners for the Time being of His Majesty's Woods,
Forests and Land Revenues, with full Power and Authority to
hold and keep all and singular Hundred Courts, Courts Leet,
Views of Frankpledge, Courts Baron and Customary and other
Courts within the Limits and Precincts of such Hundreds, Honors,
Manors or Lordships respectively, and to do, perform and ex-
ecute all Things belonging or incident to such Offices; and also
from time to time in like manner to appoint such Person or Per-
sons as the said Commissioners shall think fit, to execute all usual
and customary Forestal Offices, and to preserve the Deer, Beasts
and Birds of Chase or Warren, and other Game, within any such
Hundreds, Manors or Lordships, or any of the Royal Forests,
Chases, or Warrens, or the Limits or Precincts thereof, within the
Ordering or Survey of the Exchequer, where such Offices are or
hereafter shall be vacant, and shall not be in the Appointment of
any Grantee of the Crown, and also to preserve the Fish belonging
to His Majesty, His Heirs and Successors, in any of the Waters
within the Limits or Precincts aforesaid; and on His Majesty's
Behalf to grant Licences to any Person or Persons to hunt, hawk,
fish and fowl within any of such Hundreds, Honors, Manors, Lord-
ships, Forests, Chases, Warrens and Waters respectively, and the
Demesnes thereof and Places thereto adjoining; and to take and
kill any such Deer, Beasts or Birds of Chase or Warren; also to
take, seize and destroy all unlawful Dogs, Nets, Guns and Engines
used for the taking or destroying of Deer, Beasts or Birds of Chase
or Warren or other Game and Fish; and the same Appointments
and Licences respectively or any of them again at Pleasure to re-
voke; and also to allow to any of such Stewards, Game Keepers
or other Officers respectively, such Salaries, Wages or Emoluments,
as the said Commissioners, with the Consent of the Lord High
Treasurer or the Lords Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury
or any Three or more of them, to be signified by any Warrant of
the said Lord High Treasurer or the said Lords Commissioners of
the Treasury or any Three of them, shall deem an adequate Re-
muneration for their Care and Trouble in executing the Duties of
their respective Offices and Employments; and all such Appoint-
ments so to be made as aforesaid shall be good, valid and effectual
to all Intents and Purposes whatsoever, and have such and the like
Force and Effect as if the same had been made by His Majesty,
His Heirs or Successors.

VI. Provided always, and be it enacted, That nothing hereinbefore contained shall extend or be construed to extend, to abridge or interfere with the Right of Appointment of Master Keepers, Under Keepers or other Officers, of or in any Royal Forest, so long as such Right shall be vested in any Warden of any such Forest. VII. And be it further enacted, That no Lease, Contract, Deed under this Act, of Exchange, Appointment, Licence or other Instrument, which

Instruments

shall

shall be made, granted, entered into or executed, by the Com- exempted from
missioners of His Majesty's Woods, Forests and Land Revenues, Stamp Duty.
under any of the Powers or Authorities hereby granted, nor any
Contracts or Agreements, Deeds or other Instruments, which shall
be made, entered into or executed by any other Person or Per-
sons, to or with the said Commissioners, for any of the Purposes
of this Act, shall be subject or liable to any Stamp Duty what-
soever, imposed by any Act or Acts of Parliament now in force,
nor to any Stamp Duty to be imposed by any future Act or Acts
of Parliament, unless such Instrument be specially subjected and
specifically charged in and by such future Act or Acts of Par-
liament.

VIII. And be it further enacted, That every Lease or Deed of
Exchange to be executed pursuant to this Act shall be inrolled in
the Office of the Auditor or Auditors of His Majesty's Land Re-
venues for the Division_or_District within which the Premises to
which such Demise or Exchange shall respectively relate shall be
situate, or if such Premises shall be situate within the Division or
District of more than one such Auditor, then in the Office of every
such Auditor, on Payment of the usual Fees for such Inrolment;
and that every such Lease and Deed of Exchange, when so in-
rolled, shall, without any other Inrolment or Registry thereof, be
as good and available in Law, and of the like Force and Effect in
all Respects, as if the same had been inrolled in any of His Ma-
jesty's Courts of Record at Westminster, or as if a Memorial of
any such Lease or Deed of Exchange had been entered or regis-
tered in the Office or Offices appointed for registering Deeds and
other Conveyances of Lands and Tenements in the County or
Counties in which the same Estates, or any of them, shall be
situate; any Act of Parliament, Law, Practice or Usage to the
contrary in anywise notwithstanding.

• IX. And Whereas the Theatre, situate on the East Side of the Haymarket, in the Parish of Saint Martin in the Fields, West'minster, in the County of Middlesex, is erected and stands on < Land belonging to the Crown in the said Parish, and the Lease under which the same hath been long held hath lately expired, and the said Theatre is now about to be taken down and a new Theatre is erecting in lieu thereof on other Land of the Crown immediately adjoining thereto, and which will front towards the 'said Street in like Manner as the said former Theatre, and it will tend to improve the Access to the said new Theatre, and to promote the Convenience of Persons frequenting the same, if a Colonnade were erected in the Front thereof in lieu of that in Front of the said Theatre so about to be taken down and re‹ moved as aforesaid;' Be it therefore enacted, That it shall and may be lawful to and for the Lessee or intended Lessee of the Crown of the said new Theatre, to erect, set up and make a Portico, Colonnade or covered Way, projecting from the front Line of the said new Theatre and extending over the Foot Pavement or Footway of the said Street along the Front of such new Theatre, provided such Portico, Colonnade or covered Way does not extend further into the said Street than the Western Extremity of the said Foot Pavement, and be at least Nine Feet broad in the Clear between the Columns, Piers or Supports thereof and the

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All Leases and Deeds of Exchange to be this Act, to be inrolled in the Auditor's

executed under

Office.

Lessees of the new Theatre in the Haymarket empowered to

erect a Portico.

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front Line of such new Building, and that the same be formed of Stone, Brick or Metal or of Stone or Brick covered with Stucco or Cement, except the Joists and Bearers which shall form the Covering over the said Footpath or Footway, and which may be of Wood covered with Plaster or Stucco or other uninflammable Composition, and provided that such Portico, Colonnade or covered Way be so erected and set up under the Authority and with the Licence and Consent of the Commissioners of His Majesty's Woods, Forests and Land Revenues, and upon such Plan and of such Dimensions and with such Architectural Decorations as shall be directed, ordered or approved by them; any thing in any existing Act or Acts of Parliament to the contrary thereof in anywise notwithstanding.

X. And Whereas the Commissioners for carrying the said Act of the Fifty third Year of the Reign of His said late Majesty into • Execution have, under the Power thereby vested in them, pur'chased or contracted on His Majesty's Behalf to purchase all or

most of the Buildings which were situate between the East Side ' of Swallow Street and the West Side of King Street, and also 'several Buildings in and adjacent to Vine Street, and have taken down most of the said Buildings and have appropriated Part of 'the Sites whereon the same stood to the Formation of the New • Street now forming under the said Act, and have, on His Majesty's Behalf, let or contracted to let the Remainder of such Sites or Ground to Persons who are now building several large ‹ and commodious Houses thereon; and inasmuch as several of ‹ such Buildings have been erected or are intended to be erected ' with a View to carry on certain Trades or Businesses therein, ❝ with Warehouses, Workshops or Outhouses adapted for such <Trades, it will be a Convenience to the Persons occupying the 'samé and an advantage to that Part of the Estate of the Crown, if Gateways were made from some of the said Premises into King Street aforesaid, and also if a Gateway were made from some of 'the same Premises into Vine Street aforesaid, so as to afford • Access for Carts or other Carriages from or out of the said • Streets to such Warehouses or other Buildings;' Be it therefore Commissioners enacted, That it shall and may be lawful to and for the Commissioners of His Majesty's Woods, Forests and Land Revenues, on His Majesty's Behalf, to licence and empower such of the Builders or Occupiers of the said Houses or Buildings so erected or erecting or to be erected as aforesaid, as shall be desirous so to do, to open or make any Gateway or Passage from their said Houses and Premises into King Street, and also to open a Gateway or Passage at the South East End of Vine Street aforesaid, facing Little Vine Street, so as to afford Access for Horses, Carts or Carriages from such Streets to the Warehouses or other Buildings belonging or to belong to the said Houses, so as the Person or Persons to whom such Licences shall be granted be bound or obliged to bear the first Expence of paving the Entrance into such Gateways in a proper Manner, and such Licences shall be and are hereby declared to be good and sufficient Authority for the making such Gateways, taking up, removing and altering the Pavement in Front thereof in the said Streets, and doing all Things requisite thereto, and for the Person or Persons to whom the same shall be

of His Majesty's Woods, &c. empowered to authorize

Lessees to make
Gateways into
King Street and

Vine Street.

granted,