No. IX. 3 & 4 W. 4, c. 81. 2 W. 4, c. 1. Household, and of the Honor and Dignity of the Crown of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, it was (amongst other things) enacted, that the produce of the hereditary rates, duties, payments, and revenues in England and Ireland respectively therein mentioned, which at the time of the decease of his late Majesty king George the fourth made part of the consolidated fund of the united kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and also the small branches of the hereditary revenue, and the produce of the hereditary casual revenues, therein mentioned, which had accrued since the decease of his said late Majesty, and which should not have been applied and distributed in the payment of any charge thereupon respectively, or which should accrue during the life of his present Majesty, should be carried to and made part of the consolidated fund of the united kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and after the decease of his present Majesty all the said hereditary revenues, including the duties on beer, ale, and cider, should be payable and paid to his heirs and successors: And whereas by an act passed in the second year of the reign of his present Majesty, intituled An Act for uniting the Office of the Surveyor 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, it was enacted, that it should be lawful for his Majesty, his heirs and successors, by letters patent under the great seal, to appoint, in the place of the commissioners of his Majesty's woods, forests, and land revenues, and of the surveyor general of his Majesty's works and public buildings, any persons, not exceeding three in number, to be commissioners for performing the duties and exercising the powers then performed and exercisable by the commissioners of his Majesty's woods, forests, and land revenues, and the duties and powers then performed and exercisable by the surveyor general of his Majesty's works and public buildings, and that the persons so first appointed and their successors should be called "The Commissioners of his Majesty's Woods, Forests, Land Revenues, Works and Buildings;" and the said commissioners were by the said act empowered to exercise and carry into effect all the powers and provisions contained in the said recited act of the tenth year of the reign of his late Majesty king George the Fourth, either expressly or by reference to any other acts: And whereas the repairs, alterations, and improvements of Buckingham palace, and the buildings, offices, and grounds appertaining thereto, in which the said sum of one hundred and fifty thousand pounds was by the said recited act of the tenth year of the reign of his late Majesty king George the Fourth authorized and directed to be laid out and expended, are nearly completed and finished; and in order to render the said palace a suitable residence for his Majesty it is expedient that a certain portion of the produce arising to his Majesty by the rents of messuages, lands, and other hereditaments in England and Ireland, and by the fines on leases of the same, or any of them now forming part of the hereditary revenues belonging to his Majesty in right of his crown, under the care and management of the commissioners of his Majesty's woods, forests, land revenues, works, and buildings, by virtue of the said recited acts of the tenth year of the reign of his late Majesty and the second year of the reign of his present Majesty, should be made applicable, by and with the consent and approbation of the lord high treasurer or the commissioners of his Majesty's treasury for the time being, to the purpose of defraying the costs, charges, and expences of completing and perfecting the finishings of the said palace, and of providing fixtures, furniture, and decorations A sum not ex- necessary and requisite for the same: Be it therefore enacted, &c. That ceeding it shall be lawful for the said lord high treasurer or the commissioners 55,000l. to be of his Majesty's treasury for the time being, or any three of them, from paid out of the time to time to direct and authorize the commissioners of his Majesty's hereditary land woods, forests, land revenues, works, and buildings to pay and apply, out of the produce of the said hereditary land revenues of the crown revenues of the crown for ex No. IX. now under their care and management as aforesaid, such sum or sums of money as they shall think necessary and expedient, not exceeding in 3 & 4 W. 4, the whole the sum of fifty-five thousand pounds, towards the payment and discharge of the costs, charges, and expences of such finishings, fixtures, furniture, and decorations. c. 81. pences of finishings, fixtures, and furniture of Buckingham palace. II. That the payment of such sum or sums of money herein-before Such payments authorized to be made shall be prior to and take precedence of the pay- to have precement or application of any sum or sums of money arising from the said dence of all land revenues for the purposes of the consolidated fund; but that the others arising said land revenues shall nevertheless remain subject and liable to the from the land costs and charges attending the management thereof, and the payment or discharge of any sum or sums of money, or any pensions, 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 of parliament relating to the said land revenues, any act or acts of parliament relating to or concerning the said revenues to the contrary thereof in anywise notwithstanding. revenues. [No. X.] 4 & 5 W. IV. c. 59.-An Act to extend the Term of 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 Briavel's, to the Twenty-first Day of January One thousand eight hundred and thirty-five, and from thence to the End of the then next Session of Parliament. [13th August 1834.] WHEREAS an act was passed in the first and second years of the reign of his present Majesty, intituled An Act for ascertaining the 1 & 2 W. 4, Boundaries of the Forest of Dean, and for inquiring into the Rights c. 12. and Privileges claimed by Free Miners of the Hundred of Saint Briavel's, and for other Purposes: And whereas the commission directed by the said recited act to be issued under the great 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 were by the said recited act directed to make their reports to the lord high treasurer or lords commissioners of his Majesty's treasury was enlarged by an act passed in the third and fourth years of the reign of his present Majesty, intituled An Act to extend to 3 & 4 W. 4, the twenty-first Day of January one thousand eight hundred and thirty- c. 38. 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 Briavel's, and for other Purposes: And whereas it is expedient that the time for making the said several reports should be further enlarged: Be it therefore enacted, &c., That the time for making Time for makthe several reports directed to be made by the said commissioners under ing reports unthe authority of the said recited act of the first and second years of the der 1 & 2 W. 4, reign of his present Majesty shall be extended until the twenty-first day of January one thousand eight hundred and thirty-five, and from thence one year from to the end of the then next session of parliament. extended for 21st Jan. 1835. II. That all the powers, provisions, authorities, regulations, direc- Powers of 1 & tions, clauses, penalties, forfeitures, matters, and things in the said 2 W. 4, c. 12. recited act of the first and second years of the reign of his present extended to this Majesty contained, shall extend and be construed to extend to this act. present act, and shall operate and be in force during the said additional period, as fully and effectually to all intents and purposes as if the same No. X. 4 & 5 W. 4, c. 59. powers, authorities, provisions, regulations, directions, clauses, penalties, forfeitures, matters, and things were particularly repeated and reenacted in the body of this act, and made expressly applicable thereto, and as if the time for the making of the said several reports by the said commissioners as aforesaid had been therein originally extended to the said additional period. [No. XI.] 5 & 6 W. IV. c. 58.-An act to amend the Acts relating to the Hereditary Land Revenues of the Crown in Scotland. [9th September 1835.] WHEREAS, &c. [Recite the titles of the 6 G. 4, c. 17; 10 G. 4, c. 50; 2 W. 4, c. 1, 2 & 3 W. 4, c 112; 3 & 4 W. 4, c. 69]: And whereas doubts have arisen, in consequence of the said acts, as to the powers and authorities of the commissioners of his Majesty's treasury in relation to the recovery, management, superintendence, and disposition of the interests of his Majesty, his heirs and successors, in right of his crown, as ultimus Hæres, and in cases of bastardy, in Scotland; and it is expedient that such doubts should be removed: Be it therefore declared and enacted, &c., That all powers and authorities for the ascertaining and recovering, and for the management, superintendence, and care of all rights and interests of his Majesty, his heirs and successors, in right of his crown, in Scotland, as ultimus Hæres, or in cases of bastardy, or by reason of any forfeiture whatsoever, shall be of the treasury and are hereby declared to be vested in the lord high treasurer or the commissioners of his Majesty's treasury, or any three or more of them, for the time being, in the same manner and to the same extent as such powers and authorities were vested in the lord high treasurer or the commissioners of the treasury for the time being prior to the passing of any of the said recited acts; any thing in the said acts or either of them to the contrary notwithstanding. Powers to be vested in the lord high trea surer or the commissioners All former acts lid. II. And be it further declared and enacted, That all grants heretofore of commission- made, and all acts, matters, and things, done by the commissioners of ers of the trea- his Majesty's treasury, or any three or more of them, in relation to any sury to be va- such rights and interests in Scotland, since the passing of the said recited acts of the second and third years and of the third and fourth years of the reign of his present Majesty, in exercise of the powers and authorities vested in them by law or usage prior to the passing of any of the said acts, shall be and are hereby declared to be good, valid, and effectual to all intents and purposes, any thing in the said recited acts or either of them, or of any other act or acts of parliament, to the contrary notwithstanding. revenues in Scotland. His Majesty III. And whereas the said last-recited act does not enable his Mamay grant sites jesty to grant any land or building, part of the possessions and land for churches, revenues of the crown in Scotland, for the purposes specified in the &c. out of land said recited act of the tenth year of the reign of his late Majesty king George the fourth with respect to the possessions and land revenues of the crown to which that act relates; and it is desirable that his Majesty, his heirs and successors, should be at liberty to grant any lands or hereditaments, part of the possessions and land revenues of the crown in Scotland, for any of the purposes herein mentioned, whenever he or they shall be graciously pleased so to do: Be it therefore enacted, That the king's Majesty, his heirs and successors, shall at any time hereafter have full power and authority, out of the possessions and land revenues of the crown in Scotland, to give and grant to and vest in any body politic or corporate, or any person or persons whomsoever, and their heirs and successors respectively, for such estate or interest therein as to his Majesty, his heirs and successors, shall seem meet, any building proper to be used as or converted into, or any ground proper for the site of, any church or chapel, with or without a cemetery or burial No. XI. c. 58. ground thereto, or any ground proper for a cemetery, or burial ground to any church or chapel, and any house with its appurtenances, 5 & 6 W. 4, and with or without a garden thereto, proper for the residence of the spiritual person who may serve such church or chapel, or any ground proper for the site or sites of any such residence, or of any parochial or district school, with or without a garden thereto, any thing in the said act of the third and fourth years of the reign of his present Majesty, or any other law or statute, to the contrary in anywise notwithstanding; and such body or bodies politic or corporate, or person or persons, and their heirs, successors, executors, or administrators, shall have full capacity and ability to take, hold, and enjoy the same; and whenever it shall be the pleasure of his Majesty, his heirs or successors, to make a grant for any of the purposes aforesaid, it shall be lawful for the lord high treasurer, or the commissioners of his Majesty's treasury for the time being, or any three or more of them, to issue a warrant under his or their hand or hands to any such body or bodies politic or corporate, or person or persons as aforesaid, which warrant shall be exempt from Limitation of any stamp duty whatsoever: Provided always, That nothing in this act grants. contained shall extend or be construed to extend to enable his Majesty, his heirs or successors, to grant more than five statute acres in any one grant for any of the purposes aforesaid, or to grant any premises in any one instance which shall exceed in value the sum of one thousand pounds; and that all such grants shall be carried into effect by charters and other instruments, according to the law and practice of Scotland, and not otherwise. Minutes to be IV. That a minute or docket of every such grant or warrant shall be preserved. entered and preserved by the commissioners of his Majesty's woods, forests, land revenues, works, and buildings, in their office. Commissioners under this act. V. Provided always, That the commissioners of his Majesty's woods, of woods, in forests, land revenues, works, and buildings for the time being shall, their reports, to in every report which shall be made by them to the king's most excel- certify all lent Majesty and to both houses of parliament touching or concerning grants made the land revenue of the crown, from and after the passing of this act, certify and report every grant which shall have been made under and by virtue of the provisions of this act since the time of the making their last preceding report, and to whom and for what purpose the same shall have been made, and what land or ground shall be comprised therein, and all other particulars relating thereto. 54 G. 3, c. 156. CLASS. I. PATENTS, LITERARY PROPERTY, PROPERTY IN PRINTS, [No. I.] 3 W. IV. c. 15.-An Act to amend the Laws [10th June 1833.] WHEREAS by an act passed in the fifty-fourth year of the reign of his late Majesty king George the third, intituled An Act to amend the several Acts for the Encouragement of Learning, by securing the Copies and Copyright of printed Books to the Authors of such Books, or their Assigns, it was amongst other things provided and enacted, that from and after the passing of the said act the author of any book or books composed, and not printed or published, or which should thereafter be composed and printed and published, and his assignee or assigns, |