or shall be under any disability, or shall be a corporation not authorized to make an absolute sale of such Rent-Charge, otherwise than under the provisions of the Act, the consideration money to be paid for the redemption thereof shall be applied in manner thereafter provided; that is to say, shall at the option of the person for the time being, entitled as aforesaid, be paid into the Bank of England, in the name and with the privity of the Accountant-General of the Court of Chancery, to be placed to his account there ex parte the Tithe Commissioners, pursuant to the method prescribed by any Act, for the time being, in force for regulating monies paid into the said Court, and such monies shall remain so deposited until the same be applied to some one or more of the following purposes; that is to say, in the purchase or redemption of the land-tax, or the discharge of any debt or incumbrance affecting the Rent-Charge, in respect of which such money shall have been paid, or the tithes for which the same shall have been substituted, or affecting other hereditaments settled. therewith, to the same or the like uses, trusts, or purposes, or in the purchase of other lands, to be conveyed, limited, and settled upon the like uses, trusts, purposes, and in the same manner, as the RentCharge, for redemption of which such money shall have been paid, stood settled; or in payment to any party becoming absolutely entitled to such money; and such money may be so applied, as aforesaid, upon an order of the Court of Chancery, made on the petition of the party who would have been entitled to the receipt of the Rent-Charge, in respect

of which such money shall have been deposited; and until the money can be so applied it may, upon the like order, be invested by the said Accountant-General in the purchase of three per centum consolidated, or three per centum reduced bank annuities, or in government or real securities, and the dividends thereof paid to the party who would, for the time being, have been entitled to the Rent-Charge, in case the same had not been redeemed, or otherwise such consideration money may be paid, at the like option of the person, for the time being, so entitled to the trustees acting under the will, conveyance, or settlement, under which such person having such limited interest shall be entitled to or interested in such Rent-Charge, or if there are no such trustees, then into the hands of trustees to be nominated under the hands and seal of the said Commissioners; and the money when so paid to such trustees, shall be applied by the said trustees, with the consent of the said Commissioners, in the manner therein before directed, concerning any money to be paid for redemption into the Bank of England, in the name and with the privity of the said Accountant-General; and upon every vacancy in the office of such trustee, some other fit person shall be appointed by the said Commissioners in like manner.- Sec. 9.

518. Provided, that when any consideration money so to be paid, as last thereinbefore mentioned, shall not exceed the sum of twenty pounds for the redemption of all the Rent-Charge, which shall be redeemable under that Act, and shall not be payable to the Governors of Queen's Anne's Bounty, as

aforesaid, the same shall be paid, if the said Commissioners shall so direct, to the person, for the time being, entitled to the Rent-Charge, for his own use. and benefit, or in case of coverture, infancy, idiotcy, lunacy, or other incapacity of the person, for the time being, entitled, then such money shall be paid for the use of the person so entitled, to the husband, guardian, committee, or trustee of such person; and in case. any dispute shall arise as to the proper application, appropriation, or investment, of any money according to the intention of the Act, it shall be lawful for the said Commissioners to decide such question, and their decision shall be final and conclusive thereon.Sec. 10.

519. And every owner of an estate in land less than an immediate estate, in fee simple, or fee tail, or which may be settled upon any uses, or trusts, may, with the consent of the Commissioners, or in such manner as they shall direct, charge so much of the consideration money and other monies payable in respect of the redemption of a Rent-Charge, or any part thereof, with interest, after the yearly rate of four pounds by the hundred upon the lands of such owner, which would have been subject to such Rent-Charge, or to an apportioned part thereof, but so, nevertheless, that the charge upon such land shall be lessened in every year, after the redemption of such Rent-Charge, by one-twentieth part, at least, of the whole original charge thereon.—Sec. 11.

520. And every certificate of the Commissioners of the redemption of a Rent-Charge under the provisions of the Act shall be under the hands and seal

of the Commissioners, and shall show the amount of the consideration money for the redemption thereof, and to whom, or in what manner the same shall have been paid; and copies of every such certificate shall be made and sealed with the seal of the Commissioners, and shall be deposited in the like custody and in like manner as by the said first recited Act is provided, concerning every confirmed instrument of Apportionment; and copies of, and extracts from, any copy of such certificate shall be furnished in like manner as copies of any copy of a confirmed Instrument of Apportionment. And every recital or statement in any such certificate, or in any sealed copy, shall be evidence of the matters therein recited.Sec. 12.

SECTION VI.

Of the Alteration of the Apportionment after Inclosure of Lands.

521. Where lands now charged or hereafter to be charged with Rent-Charges or portions of RentCharges under confirmed Instruments of Apportionment have been, or shall be (after the confirmation of such Apportionment) inclosed or divided, allotted or exchanged, by agreement or award, made under the powers of any general or local Act of Inclosure (or otherwise) in such manner that the Apportionment shall appear to the Commissioners to be inconvenient, with reference to the altered distribution of the land among the several owners thereof, it shall

be lawful for the Commissioners upon the application of the owners of such lands, or the majority in number and value of such owners, or upon the application of the person or persons entitled to such RentCharges or portions of Rent-Charges, or any of them, to make or confirm an altered Instrument of Apportionment adapted to the altered distribution of the lands, in order that the Rent-Charges or portions of Rent-Charges originally charged on the several portions of land which shall have been taken or allotted away from the former owners on such inclosure, division, allotment, or exchange, shall be charged on the lands which shall have been allotted or received in the way of substitution or compensation for the lands so taken or allotted away from the former owners thereof, or as near thereto as circumstances will admit; and every such altered Apportionment, when confirmed under the hands and seal of the Commissioners, shall be valid as to the date of such confirmation, and shall be taken to be an amendment of the original Apportionment.-9 & 10 Vic. c. 73, s. 13.

522. And all the expenses of the altered Apportionment last aforesaid shall be borne by the owners of the lands to which such altered Apportionment shall relate, and shall be recovered in the same manner as expenses chargeable on the same owners in or about the making of an original Apportionment of the sum of the Rent-Charges charged on the same lands respectively would have been recoverable; and all the provisions of the said Acts in relation to such of the expenses of or incident to making