Actions of Ejectment, &c. may Part thereof, shall be made and executed under the Powers and IX. And be it further enacted, That it shall be lawful for the said principal Officers for the time being, and they are hereby authorised and empowered, to bring, prosecute and maintain any Action or Actions of Ejectment or other Proceedings at Law or in Equity, for recovering Possession of any Manors, Messuages, Lands, Tenements or Hereditaments by this Act vested in them as aforesaid; and to distrain or sue for any Arrears of Rent which shall have become or shall become due for or in respect thereof, under any parol or other Demise from the said principal Officers; and also to bring, prosecute and maintain, or to defend any other Action or Suit in respect of or in relation to the said Manors, Messuages, Lands, Tenements or Hereditaments, or of any Trespass or Encroachment committed thereon, or Damage or Injury How the Plain- done thereto; and that in every such Action or Suit the said principal Officers for the time being shall be called "The principal Officers of His Majesty's Ordnance," without naming them or any of them; and no such Action or Suit shall abate by the Death, Resignation or Removal of such principal Officers or any of them; any thing in any Act or Acts of Parliament, or Law or Laws, to the contrary thereof notwithstanding. tiffs in such Actions to be described. Power given to Bodies Politic and others to treat. X. And be it enacted, That it shall be lawful for all Bodies Politic or Corporate, Ecclesiastical or Civil, and all Feoffees or Trustees for charitable or other public Purposes, and for all Tenants for Life and Tenants in Tail, and for the Husbands, Guardians, Trustees, Committees, Curators or Attornies of such of the Owners or Proprietors of or Persons interested in any Manors, Messuages, Lands, Tenements and Hereditaments which have been or may be hereafter agreed to be purchased or taken for the Use of the said Ordnance Department, as shall be Femes Covert, Infants, Lunatics, Idiots or Persons beyond the Seas, or otherwise incapable of acting for themselves, to contract or agree with the said principal Officers for the time being, either for the absolute absolute Sale or Exchange of any such Freehold or Leasehold Manors, Messuages, Lands, Tenements or Hereditaments, or for the Enfranchisement of any Copyhold Messuages, Lands or Hereditaments, or Sale of any Reversion after any Estate or Estates for Lives or Years, or for the Grant of any Lease either for Life or Lives, or for any Term of Years certain therein, or for such Period as the Exigency of the Public Service shall require, and to convey, surrender, demise or grant the same accordingly; and Contracts valid. all Contracts, Sales, Conveyances, Enfranchisements, Surrenders, Leases and Agreements, which shall be made in pursuance hereof, shall be valid and effectual in Law to all Intents and Purposes whatsoever, and shall be a complete Bar to all Dower and Claims of Dower, Estates Tail, and other Estates, Rights, Titles, Trusts and Interests whatsoever. any Purchase Money where amounting to or excecding 2001. Certificate of XI. And be it further enacted, That in every such case of Investment of Purchase or Exchange of any Lands or Hereditaments, or of any such Reversion as aforesaid, or of the Enfranchisement of Copyhold, or Purchase of any other Interest belonging to any such Body or other Person or Persons under any Disability or Incapacity, or not having the absolute Interest therein, the Purchase Money, if the same shall amount to or exceed the Sum of Two hundred Pounds, shall be paid into the Hands or in to the Name of the Accountant General, or other proper Officer of His Majesty's Court of Exchequer at Westminster or Dublin, or the King's Remembrancer or other proper Officer of the said Court at Edinburgh respectively, for the time being, for the Use and Benefit of the Owners and Proprietors of such Lands and Hereditaments; and such Accountant General, King's Remembrancer, or other proper Officer respectively, is hereby authorized and required to receive or accept, and to give a Discharge for the same, and upon the Acceptation or Receipt thereof, to sign a Certificate to the Barons or Judges of the said Courts of Exchequer, under his Hand, purporting and signifying that such Money or other Consideration was received or accepted by and paid to him in pursuance of this Act, for the Use and Benefit of such Owners or Proprietors as shall be named in such Certificate, and the said Certificate shall be filed or deposited in the said Court of Exchequer at Westminster, Dublin or Edinburgh respectively, and a true Copy thereof, signed by the said Accountant General, King's Remembrancer, or other proper Officer respectively of such Court, shall and may be read and allowed as Evidence for the Purposes hereinafter mentioned; and the said Accountant General, King's Remembrancer or other proper Officer respectively, is hereby required upon Receipt of any such Sum or Sums of Money as aforesaid, to pay the same into the Bank of England, Money to be or Bank of Ireland, or Bank of Scotland, or Royal Bank of paid into the Scotland, as the case may require; and immediately upon the filing or depositing of such Certificate, the said Lands or Hereditaments shall be and become vested in the said principal Officers of the Ordnance for the time being, for the Public Service, in Trust for His Majesty, His Heirs and Successors. Bank. XII. And be it further enacted, That the Barons or Judges of Barons of ExHis Majesty's Court of Exchequer at Westminster, Dublin or chequer to Edinburgh, of the Degree of the Coif for the time being, or any One make Order on Petition sum ----- ; , marily for the Investment of such Purchase Money. Investment of less than 2001. Investment of One or more of them, shall be, and they or he are or is hereby authorized and empowered, in a summary Way, upon Motion or Petition, for and on Behalf of any Person or Persons interested in or entitled to the Benefit of the Money so paid to and received by the said Accountant General, King's Remembrancer or other proper Officer respectively, or the Interest or Produce thereof, and upon reading the Certificate directed to be signed by the said Accountant General, King's Remembrancer or other proper Officer respectively, concerning the same as aforesaid, and receiving such farther Satisfaction as they or he shall thin necessary, to make and pronounce such Orders and Directions for paying the said Money or any Part of the same, or for placing out such Part thereof as shall be Principal, in the Public Funds or upon Government or Real Securities, and for Payment of the Dividends or Interest thereof, or any Part thereof, to the respective Persons entitled to receive the same, or for laying out the Principal or any Part thereof in the Purchase of other Lands or Hereditaments, to be conveyed and settled to, for and upon the same Uses, Trusts, Intents or Purposes, as the said Lands and Hereditaments so purchased or taken stood settled at the Time of the Payment of such Money as aforesaid, or as near thereto as the same can be done, or otherwise concerning the Disposition of the said Money or any Part thereof, and the Interest of the same, or any Part thereof, for the Benefit of the Person and Persons entitled to and interested in the same respectively, or for appointing any Person or Persons to be a Trustee or Trustees for all or any of such Purposes, as the said Court shall think just and reasonable. XIII. Provided always, and be it further enacted, That in case such Purchase Money as is lastly hereinbefore mentioned, shall be less than the Sum of Two hundred Pounds, and shall exceed the Sum of Twenty Pounds, then and in all such cases the same shall, at the Option of the Person or Persons for the Time being entitled to the Rents and Profits of the Lands and Hereditaments so purchased, or of his, her or their Guardian or Guardians, Committee or Committees, in case of Infancy or Lunacy, to be signified in Writing under their respective Hands, be paid into the Hands of the said Accountant General, King's Remembrancer, or other proper Officer respectively of the said Court of Exchequer, in order to be applied in manner hereinbefore directed; or otherwise the same shall be paid, at the like Option, to Three Trustees, to be nominated by the Person or Persons making such Option, and approved of by the said principal Officers, or any Three or more of them, such Nomination or Approbation to be signified in Writing under the Hands of the nominating and approving Parties, in order that such Principal Money may be invested in the Purchase of Stock in the Public Funds; and that such Stock, when purchased, and the Dividends arising therefrom, may be applied in manner hereinbefore directed, so far as the case be applicable, without obtaining or being required to obtain the Order, Direction or Approbation of the said Court of Exchequer. XIV. Provided always, and be it further enacted, That in case such Purchase Money shall be less than Twenty Pounds, then and ! 1 in all such cases the same shall be applied to the Use of the Per- Money less son or Persons who would for the time being be entitled to the than 201. Rents and Profits of the Lands and Hereditaments so purchased, in such manner as the said principal Officers, or any Three or more of them, shall think fit; or in case of Infancy or Lunacy, then to his, her or their Guardian or Guardians, Committee or Committees, for the Use and Benefit of such Person or Persons entitled respectively. XV. And be it further enacted, That upon the Death or Re- Stock and Semoval of any such Accountant General, King's Remembrancer curities vested or other proper Officer respectively, all Stock and Securities in Accountant vested in him by virtue of this Act shall vest in the succeeding in case of Death General, &c. Accountant General, King's Remembrancer or other proper Officer or Removal, to respectively, for the Purpose hereinbefore mentioned, without vest in the Sucany Assignment or Transfer; and all Monies paid into the said cessor. Banks respectively, in pursuance of this Act, or remaining in the Hands of any Accountant General, King's Remembrancer or other proper Officer respectively, at his Death or Removal, and not vested in the Funds or placed out on Securities as aforesaid, shall be paid over to the succeeding Accountant General, King's Remembrancer or other proper Officer respectively for the time being. CA P. LXX. An Act for raising a Loan of Thirteen Millions from the • Most Gracious Sovereign, [2d July 1821.] WHEREAS an Act passed in the Parliament of Great Bri tain, in the Twenty sixth Year of the Reign of His late 26 G.3. c.31. Majesty King George the Third, intituled An Act for vesting 'certain Sums in Commissioners at the End of every Quarter of a Year, to be by them applied to the Reduction of the National • Debt: And Whereas an Act passed in the Parliament of Ire land, in the Thirty seventh Year of the Reign of His said late 37 G.3. (I.) Majesty, intituled An Act for vesting a certain Fund in Commissioners at the End of every Quarter of a Year, to be by them applied to the Reduction of the National Debt; and to direct the Application of additional Funds, in case of future Loans, to the like Purposes: And Whereas an Act passed in the Parliament ' of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, in the Fifty sixth Year of the Reign of His said late Majesty, intituled 56 G.3. c. 98. 'An Act to unite and consolidate into One Fund all the Public < • Revenues of Great Britain and Ireland, and to provide for the R for the Reduc tion of the National Debt to continue to be so issued. tion of the National Debt of Great Britain, shall be and become • Commissioners for the Reduction of the National Debt of the 'United Kingdom, and that the said Commissioners shall have all such Powers and Authorities as are or may be given in and by any Act or Acts in force in Great Britain or Ireland, relative to the Reduction of the National Debt of Great Britain or the National Debt of Ireland; and that the several Sums 'whch, under and by virtue of several Acts in force in Great • Britain and Ireland respectively, are required to be set apart at the Receipt of the Exchequer of Great Britain and the Receipt of the Exchequer of Ireland, respectively, on Account of the • Commissioners for the Reduction of the National Debt of Great Britain, and of the National Debt of Ireland, shall continue to 'be so set apart; and that all such Sums so set apart, or any Part or Parts thereof, shall and may be issued and paid from time to ' time into the Bank of England, or into the Bank of Ireland, as shall be directed and required by the Lord High Treasurer, or the Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury of the United '. Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland for the time being, and 'shall be from time to time applied, under the Direction of the • Commissioners for the Reduction of the National Debt, in the Purchase of such Capital Stock, Funds, Debentures or An'nuities, or towards any Public Loan, either in Great Britain or • Ireland, as shall seem most expedient to the said Commissioners for the Reduction of the National Debt of the United King• dom; and that the Orders of the said Commissioners for the • Reduction of the National Debt of the United Kingdom shall at • all times be sufficient Authority to the Governor and Company of the Bank of England, and of the Bank of Ireland, for the Application of any Part of the Money from time to time remaining in the Bank of England, or Bank of Ireland, on account of the said Commissioners, to the Purchase of any Stock, Funds, • Debentures or Annuities, or towards any Public Loan in Great • Britain or Ireland: And Whereas the Commons of the United "Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, in Parliament assembled, 'towards raising the necessary Supplies, have resolved, that the Sum of Thirteen Millions be raised by Annuities in manner hereinafter mentioned: And Whereas the Commissioners under the said recited Act have agreed to subscribe the said Sum of Thirteen Millions in manner hereinafter mentioned; that is to say, Twelve millions five hundred thousand Pounds in Great • Britain, and Five hundred thousand Pounds British Currency, being Five hundred forty one thousand six hundred and sixty 'six Pounds Thirteen Shillings and Four Pence Irish Currency, in Ireland:' May it therefore please Your Majesty that it may be enacted; and be it enacted by The King'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, That all the Monies which have heretofore been issued, or are required or directed by any Act or Acts of Parliament to be issued to the said Commissioners for the Reduction of the National Debt of the United Kingdom, shall continue to be issued and placed to the Account of the said Commissioners as heretofore. < II. And |