Steward of manor to enter certificate on rolls of the

if the case had been expressly provided for in such Acts or any of them: provided also, that if such lord of the manor or other person be dissatisfied with such valuation, and shall within seven days after a tender made to him of the amount thereof, or after notice left at his last known place of residence, or with his known agent, of such amount being ready to be paid to him or invested as aforesaid, send notice by the post to the poor law commissioners of such dissatisfaction, it shall be lawful for the poor law commissioners to direct a further valuation to be made, at or within such period as they may see fit, by two valuers, one to be named by the poor law commissioners, and the other by such lord of the manor or other person, which two persons so named shall previous to their entering on their valuation name a third valuer to be referred to in case they disagree, and the award of such three valuers, or any two of them, shall be binding on all parties; and on payment or investment, under the provisions of the said recited Acts or any of them, or of this Act, of the amount of such last-mentioned valuation, such lands or buildings and other hereditaments shall thenceforth be deemed enfranchised and discharged in manner aforesaid, and be and remain of the tenure of free and common socage; provided always, that it shall be lawful for any overseers, guardians, lord of the manor, or other person to complete any voluntary agreement for the purchase and enfranchisement of any copyhold or customary lands, buildings, or other hereditaments, under the direction and with the approbation of the poor law commissioners, in like manner as if such agreement had been originally made under this act, any thing in the said acts or either of them, or in this act, to the contrary notwithstanding; and in every such case, if any lord of the manor or other person be under legal disability, the power of the said recited Acts, and of any other Act for building, hiring, or purchasing workhouses, or for acquiring lands for workhouse purposes, enabling persons to convey or otherwise dispose of or deal with property, shall apply to such lord of the manor or other person as amply and fully as if the case had been expressly provided for in such Acts or any of them.

III. And be it enacted, that when and so soon as any such enfranchisement as aforesaid shall have been made it shall be lawful for the steward of the manor whereof the same lands or manor, and to buildings were parcel, and he is hereby required, on receipt of a

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certificate of such valuation being made and enfranchisement effected, under the hands and seal of the poor law commissioners, to enter such certificate on the rolls or books of the said manor, and to furnish a copy of such entry, written on parchment, to the poor law commissioners, or to such person or persons as they may direct, and to certify the same to be a true extract under his hand: and such certificate or a copy thereof under the seal of the poor law commissioners shall thenceforth be evidence of such enfranchisement.

IV. And be it enacted, that all conveyances or instruments by Mode of conway of sale or exchange, or assignment or security or transfer, to veyance. be made under the authority of the said recited Acts or either of them, or of this Act, may be made in such form as the poor law commissioners shall by any order or orders signed by them and sealed with their common seal direct or approve of, or as near thereto as the number of parties, the nature of the interests, and the circumstances of each case will admit, and shall be valid and effectual in the law, without livery of seisin being made, or any bargain and sale to vest possession being executed, and without being enrolled.

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No. I.

Form of a Deed of Enfranchisement from the Lord of a
Manor to a Copyholder.

THIS INDENTURE [&c.] Between [lord] of the one part, and [copyholder] of the other part. Whereas the said [lord] is now seised of or well entitled to the manor of in the county of for an estate of inheritance in fee simple in possession free from incumbrances. And Whereas the said [copyholder] is now seised to him and his heirs at the will of the lord, according to the custom of the said manor, of the copyhold and hereditaments hereinafter described and intended to be hereby granted and enfranchised or otherwise assured. And Whereas the said [copyholder] hath contracted with the said [lord] for the enfranchisement of the said copyhold and hereditaments for the sum of

£ Now this Indenture Witnesseth, that in pursuance of the said Agreement, and in consideration of the sum of £- -of lawful money of Great Britain to the said [lord] in hand well and truly paid by the said [copyholder] at or before the sealing and delivery of these presents, the receipt of which said sum of £- -the said [lord] doth hereby acknowledge, and from the same doth release and discharge the said [copyholder], his heirs, executors, administrators, and assigns for ever by these presents; He the said [lord] Hath granted, bargained, sold, enfranchised, released, and quitclaimed, and [&c.] unto the said [copyholder] his heirs and assigns, All [describe parcels], together with all outhouses [&c.], And the reversion [&c.], And all the estate [&c.], To have and to hold the said copyhold hereditaments, and all other the premises intended to be hereby granted and enfranchised or otherwise assured unto the said [copyholder], his heirs and assigns, To the use of the said [copyholder] his heirs and assigns for ever, To the intent that the copyhold tenure of and in the said hereditaments and premises may become and be extinguished, and that the same hereditaments and premises may henceforth and for ever hereafter be freed and absolutely discharged of and

from all and all manner of yearly and other payments, fines, rents, heriots, fealty, suit of court, amercements, forfeitures, and all other usual or customary payments, duties, and services whatsoever, which, by or according to the custom of the manor of aforesaid, the said hereditaments and premises hereinbefore described, or any part thereof, are, or is, or have, or hath been subject or liable to, or charged or chargeable with, or which would otherwise be payable, or to be done and performed, for or in respect of the same hereditaments and premises, or any part thereof, as copyhold holden, or as parcel of the aforesaid manor.

Provided always, and it is hereby agreed between the said parties hereto, that nothing herein contained shall extend to the enfranchisement, acquittance, or discharge of any copyhold hereditaments, held by the said [copyholder] of the said [lord], as lord of the manor of aforesaid, other than and except the said hereditaments and premises hereinbefore described and intended to be hereby granted and enfranchised, or otherwise assured, of and from the copyhold tenure, or from any payments, fines, rents, heriots, customs, duties, suits, or services, incident thereto, or to be rendered or performed in respect thereof. And this Indenture also Witnesseth, that for the consideration hereinbefore mentioned, and in order to preserve to the said [copyholder], his heirs and assigns, all such rights of common in, upon, and over the waste lands of the manor of aforesaid, as the said [copyholder] hath heretofore used and enjoyed as belonging or appurtenant to the said hereditaments and premises herein before described, notwithstanding the enfranchisement of the same hereditaments, He, the said [lord], Hath granted and confirmed, and [&c.] unto the said [copyholder] his heirs and assigns for ever, All such commonage, and right or title to common, of what nature soever, in, upon, and over all or any of the wastes, commons, and commonable lands, of or belonging to the said manor of as he the said [copyholder] held and enjoyed in respect of the said hereditaments and premises hereinbefore described, and intended to be hereby granted and enfranchised, immediately before the execution of these presents, and the freehold and inheritance of all such commonable rights as aforesaid, in as large, ample, and beneficial a manner to all intents and purposes as the said [copyholder] hath heretofore used

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and exercised all or any of such rights, or as he, his heirs or assigns, could or might have used and exercised the same in respect of the said hereditaments and premises, if they had continued parcel of the said manor. [Insert qualified covenants by the lord that he hath power to grant,—for quiet enjoyment,— that the premises are free from incumbrances,—and for further assurance.] IN WITNESS, &c.

No. 2.

Outline of Deed of Disposition under the 77th Section of 3 & 4 W. 4, c. 74, by Husband and Wife, entitled in her Right, she not being Tenant in Tail, and the Objects not being capable of being effected by Surrender. The Deed will usually, though not necessarily, be by Indenture, and must be acknowledged by the Wife as directed by the Act.

THIS INDENTURE, made, &c., Between [husband and wife] of the one part, and [person in whose favour disposition, &c. is made] of the other part. Whereas [recite instrument under which the subject matter to be disposed of, released, surrendered, or extinguished, arises.] And Whereas [recite agreement of husband and wife to dispose of, release, surrender, or extinguish the interest in question, as the case may be.] Now this Indenture Witnesseth, that in pursuance of the said agreement, and in consideration [state the consideration,] They the said [husband and wife], in pursuance of the provisions in this behalf contained in an Act of Parliament made and passed in the third and fourth years of the reign of his late Majesty, King William the Fourth, intituled, "An Act for the Abolition of Fines and Recoveries, and for the Substitution of more simple Modes of Assurance," Do, and each of them Doth, by these presents, [use appropriate operative words, according to the object to be attained], unto the said [grantee, &c.] and his