No. IV. records and inrolments, and for office copies furnished by the same office, as the lord high treasurer, or the commissioners for the time 2 W. 4, c. 1. being of his Majesty's treasury, or any three or more of them, shall from time to time appoint, yet so that such fees shall not exceed the commissioners amount of the fees which have been used and accustomed to be taken of the treasury. upon the inrolment of the like deeds or instruments, and upon the like searches, and upon the furnishing of the like office copies; and that the fees on the inrolment of any lease, conveyance, deed, or other instrument by which any part or parts of the possessions and land revenues of the crown shall be demised, granted, sold, or given in exchange, shall be paid by the lessees, purchasers, or grantees, and in other cases by the said commissioners of his Majesty's woods, forests, land revenues, works, and buildings; and a minute or docket of every such lease, grant, deed, or other instrument shall be entered and preserved by the said commissioners of his Majesty's woods, forests, land revenues, works, and buildings, in their office. XXIII. That the said keeper of the records and inrolments shall and Deeds to be inhe is hereby required to inrol or cause to be inrolled every deed and in- rolled in order strument which is hereby directed to be inrolled in the said office of as they are records and inrolments in order of time as the same shall respectively be brought in. brought into his office for that purpose, and certify or cause to be certified, under his hand or the hand of some deputy or assistant for the time being of the said keeper of the records and inrolments, upon the said deeds or instruments respectively, when inrolled, the fact of their having been so inrolled. XXIV. Provided always, That in case of sales where the purchase Sales under a money shall not amount to the sum of one hundred pounds, it shall not certain amount be necessary to inrol under this act the conveyances by which such sales not to be inshall be carried into effect, but the commissioners for the time being of rolled. his Majesty's woods, forests, land revenues, works, and buildings shall once in every year transmit to the said office of records and inrolments a statement of the part or parts of the said possessions and land revenues of the crown which shall have been so sold, including a specification of the district or place in which the same lie, and of the sums for which the same shall have been sold, with the names of the respective purchasers; and such statement shall be inrolled in the books of the office of records and inrolments. courts at Westminster. XXV. That every conveyance, deed, or instrument, whereby any es- All deeds intate, manor, lordship, messuages, lands, tenements, or hereditaments in rolled as hereEngland or Wales, or any term of years or interest therein, shall be con- by directed veyed or assigned to his Majesty, his heirs or successors, or to a trustee shall be as or trustees for his Majesty, his heirs or successors, under the authority valid as if inof the said act of the tenth year of the reign of his late Majesty, or of rolled in his any other act, shall, when so inrolled as herein-before directed, without Majesty's any inrolment or acknowledgment thereof, in any court or courts of law or equity, or any registry thereof, be as good and available, and of the like force and effect in all respects and to all intents and purposes, as if the same had been or was inrolled in any of his Majesty's courts at Westminster, or as if a memorial had been entered or registered in the office 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 are situate; any act, law, practice, or usage to the contrary in anywise notwithstanding. XXVI. That where any deed or certificate, receipt or other instrument, Deeds certified which shall appear to have been made, given, or executed under the by the keeper of authority of this act, or of any act heretofore passed relating to the the records possessions and land revenues of the crown, shall have written thereon shall be rea memorandum of its having been inrolled in the said office of records ceived in eviand inrolments, and such memorandum shall purport to be signed by the keeper of the records and inrolments, or by any person acting as his deputy or assistant, such memorandum shall in the absence of evidence to the contrary, be sufficient proof of the deed, certificate, P dence. No. IV. 2 W. 4, c. 1. Deeds may be inrolled after the proper period, upon good cause being shown. Inrolment of deeds shall receipt, or other instrument having been duly made, granted, given, or executed by the party or parties by whom the same shall purport to have been signed or executed, and of its having been duly inrolled as stated by such memorandum, and of the provisions of the act under which the same shall appear to have been made, granted, given, or executed, having been duly complied with; and such memorandum shall be receivable in evidence without proof of the handwriting of the signature thereto. XXVII. That in all cases where the inrolment of any deed or other instrument, or minute or docket, before the keeper of the records and inrolments, or the entry of any deed or other instrument in the office of the commissioners of his Majesty's woods, forests, land revenues, works, and buildings, shall be omitted or delayed beyond the period provided for the inrolment and entry thereof respectively, it shall be lawful for the commissioners of his Majesty's woods, forests, land revenues, works, and buildings, for any reasonable cause to them shown for the omission or delay, and they are hereby authorized and empowered, to permit the making of any such inrolment or entry nunc pro tunc, and the same respectively when made under such authority shall be as valid and effectual as if made within the period limited for that purpose. XXVIII. That the inrolment of any deed or instrument pursuant to the provisions of this act shall have the like force and effect as the inrolment thereof pursuant to the provisions of the said act of the tenth force as under year of the reign of his late Majesty would have had in case this act had not been passed. have the same former act. Keeper of the records to ren XXIX. That the keeper of the records and inrolments shall from time to time, as often as thereunto required, render and give to the lord der accounts to high treasurer or to the commissioners of his Majesty's treasury for the commissioners time being an account of all monies which shall from time to time be of the treasury. received for fees in the said office of records and inrolments, and of all 10 G. 4, c. 50. disbursements made for payment of the salaries and otherwise, on account of the carrying on the business of the said office; and the monies so received, and which shall not be disbursed as aforesaid, shall from time to time be carried to and become part of the revenues arising from the possessions and land revenues of the crown. [No. V.] 2 W. IV. c. 3.-An Act to authorize the Appli- WHEREAS by an act passed in the tenth year of the reign of his late No. V. rents, and other land revenues, possessions, tenements, and hereditaments were therein-after, for the sake of distinction called "The Pos- 2 W. 4, c. 3. sessions and Land Revenues of the Crown to which this Act relates," should be under the management of the then present commissioners of his Majesty's woods, forests, and land revenues, and of their successors to be from time to time appointed by his Majesty, his heirs and successors, by his or their letters patent, and the said commissioners and their successors should continue to be called "The Commissioners of His Majesty's Woods, Forests, and Land Revenues;" and by the said act certain powers and authorities were given to the said commissioners for the application of all sums to be received by them under the authority of the said act, from any sales, exchanges, or leases to be made by the said commissioners of any part of the royal forests, and from any sales of any other parts of the possessions and land revenues of the crown, or for equality of exchange on any exchange of any of the said possessions and land revenues; and by the said act power and authority is given and granted to the said commissioners to apply so much of the monies to arise from the annual income of all the said possessions and land revenues of the crown to which the said act related, including fines on leases or otherwise for or in respect of the said possessions and land revenues (except from sales or exchanges), as the lord high treasurer or the commissioners of his Majesty's treasury for the time being should from time to time think proper, towards the payment and discharge of the costs, charges, and expences of the repairs, alterations, and improvements of Buckingham-palace, and the buildings, offices, and grounds appertaining and belonging thereto, provided that the sum to be so applied under the said act to such repairs, alterations, and improvements should not exceed the sum of one hundred and fifty thousand pounds, over and above the sum of three hundred and fortysix thousand pounds which had been then already applied thereto previous to the passing of that act; and, subject to the application aforesaid, and certain other applications mentioned in the said act, the said annual income was thereby directed to be carried to and made part of the consolidated fund of the united kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland: And whereas the said sum of one hundred and fifty thousand pounds mentioned in the said recited act hath been applied, under the direction of the commissioners of his Majesty's treasury, towards the payment and discharge of the costs, charges, and expences of the repairs, alterations, and improvements of Buckingham-palace, and the buildings, offices, and grounds appertaining and belonging thereto; but such repairs, alterations, and improvements are not yet completed and finished, and it will be necessary to lay out and expend the further sum of seventy-eight thousand seven hundred and fifty pounds in the completing of such repairs, alterations, and improvements as aforesaid: And whereas it is expedient that the hereditary revenues belonging to his Majesty in right of his crown should be made applicable, by and with the consent and approbation of the commissioners of his Majesty's treasury of the united kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, to the purpose of defraying the costs, charges, and expences of completing and finishing the repairs, alterations, and improvements of Buckinghampalace, and the buildings, offices, and grounds appertaining and belonging thereto: Be it therefore enacted, &c., That it shall be lawful for Commissioners the said commissioners of his Majesty's treasury, or any three of them, of the treasury from time to time to direct and authorize the commissioners of his may authorize Majesty's woods, forests, and land revenues to pay and apply any sum the application or sums of money, part of the land revenues of the crown under their of part of the land revenues care and management, whether arising from sales of portions of the of the crown said land revenues of the crown, or from the rents of the crown lands, towards the reor otherwise, as they shall think necessary and expedient, towards the payment and discharge of the costs, charges, and expences of completing provements of and finishing the repairs, alterations, and improvements of Buckingham- Buckingham palace, and the buildings, offices, and grounds appertaining and palace. pairs and im No. V. belonging thereto, provided that the sum to be so applied under this 2 W. 5, c. 3. act shall not exceed the sum of seventy-five thousand pounds for the completion of such repairs, alterations, and improvements, and the sum of three thousand seven hundred and fifty pounds for the charges of the architect attendant upon such works. Such application to have precedence of all others. The treasury ing all reve II. That the payment of such sum or sums of money herein-before authorized to be made shall be prior to and take precedence of the payment or application of any sum or sums of money arising from the said land revenues for the purposes of the consolidated fund; but the said land revenues shall nevertheless remain subject and liable to the costs and charges attending the management thereof, and the payment or discharge of any sum or sums of money which may be now already charged thereon, or to the payment whereof the same now are or may hereafter become liable under or by virtue of any act or acts relating the said land revenues; any act or acts relating to or concerning the said revenues to the contrary thereof in anywise notwithstanding. [No. VI.] 2 & 3 W. IV. c. 112.-An Act to authorize the Hereditary Land Revenues of the Crown in Scotland being placed under the Management of the Commissioners of the Land Revenues. [15th August 1832.] WHEREAS it may hereafter become expedient that the duties and powers now performed and exercised and exercisable by the barons of his Majesty's court of exchequer in Scotland over the hereditary land revenues of the crown in Scotland should be performed and exercised by and such revenues placed under the management and control of the commissioners having the management and control of the hereditary revenues of the crown in England and Ireland; (1) be it therefore enacted, &c., That it shall and may be lawful to and for 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, or any three or more may issue a warrant direct- of them, and he and they is and are hereby authorized and empowered, by warrant under his or their hand or hands, to order and direct that nues, debts, du- from and after the time to be mentioned in such warrant all and every ties, &c. in the revenues, debts, duties, and profits, of what nature or kind soever, Scotland beanyways appertaining or which hereafter shall appertain to the king's Majesty, his heirs or successors within Scotland, and all honors, castles, manors, lands, tenements, and hereditaments in Scotland, which now do or hereafter shall appertain to the king's Majesty, his heirs or successors, by force or virtue of any attainder, outlawry, seizure for any crime, or cause of forfeiture, debt, or duty, or upon any extent, commission, or otherwise, or by force and virtue of the royal prerogative, or by any other right or title whatsoever, and all and every the rents, issues, and profits thereof or of any of them, and also all and every the goods, chatttels, debts, credits, rights, titles, and personal estates within Scotland anyways accruing or belonging or which hereafter shall belong to the king's Majesty, his heirs and successors, by force or virtue of the royal prerogative, or of any attainder, outlawry, extent, inquisition, debt, duty, or forfeiture, or by any other right, title, ways, or means whatsoever, and all the remedies and means for recovering the same or the possession thereof, and all accounts relating thereto, and also all and every forfeitures and penalties which have been incurred or shall or may incur or become anyways due and payable in Scotland by force or virtue of any penal or other laws or statutes whatsoever, and also all fines, issues, forfeitures, or penalties, of what nature or kind soever, happening, arising, or accruing to the king's Majesty, his heirs or successors, within Scotland, save and except such as are now under the management of the commissioners of his Majesty's customs and excise longing to his Majesty, to be placed under the management of the commissioners of woods, forests, and land revenues. (1) See the 3 & 4 W. 4, c. 69, post. No. VI. 2 & 3 W. 4, c. 112. respectively, shall be under the management, control, and direction of the commissioners for the time being of his Majesty's woods, forests, land revenues, works, and buildings in England and Ireland, and their successors, acting under or by virtue of an act passed in the tenth year of the reign of his late Majesty king George the fourth, intituled An 10 G. 4, c. 50. Act to consolidate and amend the Laws relating to the Management and Improvement of His Majesty's Woods, Forests, Parks, and Chases; of the Land Revenue of the Crown within the Survey of the Exchequer in England; and of the Land Revenue of the Crown in Ireland; and for extending certain Provisions relating to the same to the Isles of Man and Alderney; and of another act passed in the second year of the reign of his present Majesty, intituled An Act for uniting the Office of the Sur- 2 W. 4, c. l. veyor General of His Majesty's Works and Public Buildings with the Office of the Commissioners of His Majesty's Woods, Forests, and Land Revenues, and for other Purposes relating to the Land Revenues; and from and after the time to be mentioned in such warrant as aforesaid the duties heretofore performed, and the powers heretofore exercised or exercisable, by the barons of his Majesty's court of exchequer in Scotland, in and about the management and control of such hereditaments and revenues respectively, shall be performed and exercised by the commissioners of his Majesty's woods, forests, land revenues, works, and buildings, and their successors; and all acts, deeds, bonds, contracts, agreements, and other instruments relating to such hereditaments and revenues respectively, in which the said barons of his Majesty's court of exchequer in Scotland are named or mentioned, shall apply to the commissioners for the time being of his Majesty's woods, forests, land revenues, works, and buildings, as if such commissioners had been originally named in and made parties to such acts, deeds, bonds, contracts, agreements, and other instruments, instead of the barons of the exchequer aforesaid. then trans II. That from and after the time to be mentioned in such warrant as Accounts reaforesaid all the accounts relating to such hereditaments and posses- lating to such sions as aforesaid, heretofore examined, tried, and audited by the said revenues to be barons of the exchequer in Scotland, shall be examined, tried, and audited in like manner as the accounts relating to the land revenue of the crown in England are in and by the said act passed in the second year of the reign of his present Majesty as aforesaid directed to be examined, tried, and audited. ferred to the said commissioners. [No. VII.] 3 & 4 W. IV. c. 38.-An Act to extend to the Twenty-first Day of January One thousand eight hundred and thirty-four, and to the End of the then next Session of Parliament, the Time for carrying into execution an Act of the First and Second Years of his present Majesty, for ascertaining the Boundaries of the Forest of Dean, and for inquiring into the Rights and Privileges claimed by Free Miners of the Hundred of Saint Briavels, and for other Purposes. [14th August 1833.] WHEREAS an act was passed in the first and second years of the 1 & 2 W. 4, reign of his present Majesty, intituled An Act for ascertaining the c. 12. Boundaries of the Forest of Dean, and for inquiring into the Rights and Privileges claimed by Free Miners of the Hundred of Saint Briavels, and for other purposes, And whereas the commission directed by the said recited act to be issued under the great seal of Great Britain, or under the seal of his Majesty's court of exchequer, bears date the twenty-first day of January one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two: And whereas the time within which the commissioners are by the said recited |