agree for the Purchase of any Lands, Tenements, an dHeredi- Purchase of taments which they may deem necessary for the Purposes of Lands. this Act to be taken and used by them, and of any subsisting Leases, Terms, Shares, Estates, and Interests therein and Charges thereon, or such of them, or such Part or Parts thereof respectively, as the said Commissioners shall think proper, and for that Purpose to enter into any Contract or Contracts which they think fit.

VIII. And be it enacted, That it shall be lawful for all Bodies Politic, Corporate, or Collegiate, Ecclesiastical or Lay, Aggregate or Sole, and for all Trustees and Feoffees in Trust for charitable and other Purposes, and all acting Executors and Administrators, not only for and on behalf of themselves, their Successors, Heirs, Executors, and Administrators respectively, but also for and on behalf of their respective Cestuique Trusts, whether Infants, Femes Coverts, Idiots, Lunatics, or Persons not born or not ascertained, or any other Person or Persons whomsoever, and to and for all Tenants for Life or for Years, absolute or determinable, or any Life or Lives, and all Persons having any other partial or qualified Estate or Interest, not only for and on behalf of themselves, their Heirs, Executors, Administrators, and Issue, but also for and on behalf of the Person or Persons entitled in remainder, reversion, expectancy, or contingency, or for any other future Estate or Interest, where such Person or any of such Persons, whether entitled to the next or any subsequent Estate or Interest, or any Part thereof, shall not be ascertained, or shall be incapable of contracting for, selling, and conveying the same, and for all Guardians on behalf of their respective Wards, Husbands on behalf of their respective Wives, Committees on behalf of the Persons of whose Estates they shall be Committees, and the Heirs, Executors, and Administrators, and Issue, of such Wards, Wives, or Persons respectively, and to and for all Femes Covert entitled in their own Right to any such Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments, or to Dower or other Interest therein, on behalf not only of themselves, but also of their respective Heirs, Executors, Administrators, and Issue, and also where such Wards, Wives, Persons, or Femes Covert respectively shall be Tenants for Life or in Tail or for Years, or have any other partial or qualified Estate or Interest, to and for such Guardians, Husbands, Committees, and Femes Covert, on behalf of the Person or Persons on behalf of whom such Wards, Wives, Persons, or Femes Covert respectively (if of full Age), unmarried and of sound Mind, might have contracted for, sold, and conveyed the same Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments, and to and for all and every other Person or Persons whomsoever who are or shall be seised or possessed of or interested in any Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments which by the said Commissioners shall be thought necessary for any of the Purposes of this Act, to contract for, sell, and convey the same and every or any Part thereof to the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, Her Heirs and Successors, or to such Person or Persons, as a Trustee or

Trustees

Bodies Politic empowered to sell and convey Lands, &c.

and Trustees

Bodies Politic, &c. may accept

and receive Satisfaction for Lands taken.

Parties to deliver Statements of their Claims within One Month

after Notice.

Trustees on behalf of Her Majesty, Her Heirs and Successors, as the said Commissioners, or any Two of them, shall direct; and all Contracts, Agreements, Bargains, Sales, Conveyances, and Assurances, Acts, and Deeds which shall be made by such Bodies Politic, Corporate, or Collegiate, Trustee or Trustees, or other Person or Persons as aforesaid, shall be valid and effectual in Law; and all Bodies Politic, Corporate, or Collegiate, and all Persons whomsoever contracting or conveying as aforesaid, are hereby indemnified for or in respect of any such Sale which they or she or any of them shall respectively make by virtue or in pursuance of this Act.

IX. And be it enacted, That all and every Body and Bodies Politic, Corporate, or Collegiate, Trustee or Trustees, and other Person and Persons herein-before capacitated to contract for, sell, and convey any such Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments as aforesaid, and any other Owner or Owners of any such Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments, or any Share or Shares, Estate or Estates, Interest or Interests therein, or Charge or Charges thereon, may accept and receive such Satisfaction and Recompence for the Value thereof, and such Body or Bodies, Trustee or Trustees, Person or Persons, Owner or Owners, and also any Tenant or Tenants, or other Occupier or Occupiers of any such Premises entitled to Compensation for any Injury or Damage which shall be sustained on account of the Execution of this Act, or in anywise relating thereto, may accept and receive such Sum of Money in respect thereof as shall be agreed upon between them respectively and the said Commissioners; and in case the said Commissioners and the said Parties interested in such Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments, or sustaining any Injury or Damage, cannot or do not agree as to the Amount or Value of such Satisfaction, Recompence, or Compensation, the same respectively shall be ascertained and settled by a Jury in manner herein-after directed.

X. And be it enacted, That on or before the Expiration of One Calendar Month next after Notice in Writing from the said Commissioners, or any Two of them, or their Agent duly authorized, of the Intention to take or use any Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments, or any Part thereof, for the Purposes of this Act, shall have been given, left, or affixed as hereinbefore is mentioned, all and every Body and Bodies Politic, Corporate, and Collegiate, Trustee and Trustees, and other Person and Persons seised, possessed of, or interested in or authorized by this Act to accept and receive Satisfaction or Recompence for the Value of the same, or any Estate, Share, or Interest therein, or Charge thereon, having or claiming to be entitled to any Compensation for any Injury or Damage sustained on account of the Execution of this Act, shall deliver or cause to be delivered to the said last-named Commissioners for the Time being, by leaving the same at their Office, a Statement in Writing of the Particulars of the Estate, Share, Interest, or Charge which he, she, or they claim to be entitled to, or to be authorized to receive Satisfaction or Recompence for,

and

and of the Injury or Damage (if any) sustained by him, her, or them, and of the Amount of the Sum or Sums of Money which he, she, or they may expect and be willing to receive in satisfaction or discharge for the Value of such Estate, Share, Interest, or Charge, and also the Amount of the Sum or Sums of Money which he, she, or they may expect and be willing to receive as Compensation for Injury or Damage respectively.

or shall not

Difference.

XI. And be it enacted, That if any Owners or Proprietors, If Parties Bodies Politic, Corporate, or Collegiate, Ecclesiastical or Civil, refuse to treat Corporations Aggregate or Sole, Trustees, Femes Covert, or agree, a Jury any other Person or Persons seised, possessed of, or interested to be summoned in any Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments, or in any Share to settle the or Shares, Estate or Estates, Interest or Interests therein, or Charge or Charges thereon, which the said Commissioners are hereby empowered to purchase, take, and use for the Purposes aforesaid, shall neglect or refuse to treat, or shall not agree in the Premises, or by reason of Absence or Disability shall be prevented from treating with the said Commissioners, or with the Person or Persons authorized by them, for the Sale and Disposal of their respective Estates and Interests therein, or cannot be found or known, or shall not produce and evince a clear Title to the Premises they may be in possession of, or to the Interest they shall claim therein, to the Satisfaction of the said Commissioners, then and in every or any such Case the Sheriff of the County of Dorset, or his Under-Sheriff, or in case such Sheriff or Under-Sheriff shall be in anywise interested in the Matter in question, then some one of the Coroners of the said County not interested therein, shall, upon the Warrant of the said Commissioners, in manner herein-after mentioned, and he or they is and are hereby required and authorized to cause it to be inquired into and ascertained, upon the Oaths of a Jury of Twelve indifferent Men of the said County (which Oaths the said Sheriff, Under-Sheriff, or Coroner is and are hereby empowered and required to administer), what Recompence and Satisfaction shall be made to such Owners, Occupiers, or other Person or Persons interested for the Value of such Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments, and of the proportionable Value of the respective Estates and Interests of every Person or Persons seised or possessed thereof, or interested therein, or of or in any Part thereof, and assess or award the Sum or Sums of Money to be paid to such Person or Persons, Party or Parties respectively, for the Purchase of such Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments, and of such respective Estates and Interests therein, and also for any Injury or Damage whatsoever that may affect any such Person or Persons, Party or Parties, provided such Compensation shall be estimated by what in the Opinion of such Jury the Premises would have been worth in case the proposed Harbour of Refuge and Breakwater had not been in contemplation; but no Sum of Money shall be awarded for or in respect of any Building or Improvement which in the Opinion of such Jury shall have been constructed or made with a view to obtaining Compensation under this

Act

Act beyond the actual Cost of building and the Materials used; and the said Jury in estimating such Recompence and Satisfaction shall take into their Consideration the Increase in Value, if any, of the Residue of any contiguous Property of which such Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments shall form Part, and in order thereto the said Sheriff or Coroner is and are hereby empowered and required, from Time to Time as Occasion shall require, to summon and call before the said Jury, and examine upon Oath, all and every Person or Persons whomsoever who shall be thought necessary and proper to be examined as a Witness or Witnesses touching or concerning the Premises (which Oath the said Sheriff, Under-Sheriff, or Coroner is and are hereby empowered to administer); and such Sheriff, UnderSheriff, or Coroner respectively shall order and cause the Jury to view the Places in question, if there be Occasion, and use all other lawful Ways and Means, as well for his and their own as for the Jury's better Information in the Premises, as the said Sheriff, Under Sheriff, or Coroner shall think fit; and after the said Jury shall have inquired of and ascertained and settled such Damage, Recompence, and Satisfaction, the said Sheriff, Under-Sheriff, or Coroner shall thereupon order the Sum or Sums of Money so assessed by the said Jury to be paid by the said Commissioners to the said Owners or Occupiers of or other Persons interested therein, according to such Verdict or Inquisition of the said Jury, which said Verdict or Inquisition and Order so had and made shall be final, binding, and conclusive to all Intents and Purposes upon and against all Bodies Politic, Corporate, or Collegiate, Ecclesiastical or Civil, Corporations Aggregate or Sole, as well as all other Parties and Persons whomsoever; and for the summoning and returning of such Jury or Juries the said Commissioners are hereby empowered to issue their Warrant or Warrants to the said Sheriff, Under-Sheriff, or Coroner to summon, impannel, and return at some convenient Place in the said County a Jury of not less than Thirty-six nor more than Forty-eight honest and indifferent Men, qualified according to Law to be returned for Trials of Issues in Her Majesty's Courts of Record at Westminster, to appear before the said Sheriff, Under-Sheriff, or Coroner at such Time and Place as in such Warrant shall be appointed; and Fourteen Days Notice at the least in Writing under the Hands of the said Commissioners, or any Two of them, of the Time and Place at which such Jury are so required to be returned shall be given to such Owners, Proprietors, Occupiers, Corporations, Trustees, or any other Person or Persons interested in the Premises, before the Time of meeting of the said Jury, by leaving such Notice at the Dwelling House of such Person or Persons, or of the Head Officer of such Body or Bodies Politic, Corporate, or Collegiate, or with some Tenant or Occupier of the Premises respectively intended to be valued; and the said Sheriff, Under-Sheriff, or Coroner is and are hereby empowered and required to impannel, summon, and return such Number accordingly, and out of the Persons so impannelled, summoned,

summoned, and returned, or out of such of them as shall appear upon such Summons, the said Sheriff, Under-Sheriff, or Coroner shall swear or cause to be sworn Twelve, who shall be the Jury for the Purposes aforesaid; and in default of a sufficient Number of Jurymen, the said Sheriff, Under-Sheriff, or Coroner shall return other honest and indifferent Men of Standers-by or that can be speedily procured to attend that Service (being qualified as last aforesaid) to the Number of Twelve; and it shall be lawful for all Persons concerned, by themselves, their Counsel, Solicitors, and Agents, to attend and be heard, and to adduce Evidence before the Sheriff, Under-Sheriff, or Coroner respectively, and such Persons shall also have their lawful Challenge against any of the said Jurymen when they come to be sworn, but shall not challenge the Array.

of an Estate is taken the Re

mainder to be valued.

XII. And be it enacted, That if the Owner, Lessee, or Occu- Where Part pier of any Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments authorized to be taken by virtue of this Act shall not be inclined to sell or part with the whole thereof, or his or her Interest in the whole thereof, and it shall not be found necessary to take the whole for the Purposes of this Act, and the said Parties cannot agree as to the Sum of Money to be paid for the Part which the said Commissioners, or any Person or Persons authorized by them, shall think it necessary to purchase, then and in such Case the Jury which shall be summoned to value the said Premises shall assess the Value of the whole Premises according to the Condition in which they are at the Time of taking the View, and also the Value of that Part of the Premises which will remain after the said Commissioners, or the Person or Persons authorized by them, have taken away so much as they shall think necessary for the Purposes of this Act; and in such last Valuation the said Jury shall take into their Consideration the Improvements or Depreciation which the Remainder of the Premises is likely to receive or sustain from the Alteration intended to be made; and the Jury having made these Two Valuations, the Difference between them shall be the Price to be paid by the said Commissioners on behalf of Her Majesty for that Part which they shall have Occasion for, and such Price shall be recorded as the Verdict of the Jury for the Value of the

same.

pensation

XIII. And be it enacted, That no Jury to be summoned by Notice to be virtue of this Act shall be allowed to assess or award any Sum given of Comor Sums of Money to any Body or Bodies Politic, Corporate, or claimed. Collegiate, Person or Persons, by way of Compensation for any Injury or Damage alleged to have been sustained by him or them by reason or means of this Act, or any thing which shall or may be done in the Execution hereof, unless such a Statement as herein-before is mentioned of the Particulars of every such Claim, and how and in what Manner the Amount thereof is made out and computed, shall have been given to the said Commissioners, or left at their Office as aforesaid, by and on behalf of such Person or Persons Ten Days at the least before the Time of the Meeting of such Jury.

XIV. And