the county at large. to widen certain money as may be necessary to repair or widen, to any width not exceeding towing paths, fifteen feet, any towing path and trackway on the bank of any navigable river such sums to be levied off on which boats have been accustomed to be towed by horses, such sums to be levied off all the baronies and half baronies in the county or riding of the county in which such towing path and trackway are situate; and such sums so to be levied may be originally presented for at the presentment sessions held in and for the barony in which such towing path and trackway are locally situate. CHAPTER 36. AN ACT for making provision as to certain portions of Her Majesty's Woods, BE [7th July 1873.] E it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows: President of Board of Trade to be a Commissioner of the Mersey Conservancy. Power to grant mining leases for 63 years. Mersey Conservancy. 3. THE President for the time being of the Board of Trade shall be a conservator or commissioner of the conservancy of the river Mersey, in the place of the Commissioners for the time being of Her Majesty's Woods, Forests, and Land Revenues, or one of them. Mining Leases. 4. THE powers of leasing given by an Act of the session holden in the tenth year of His Majesty King George the Fourth, chapter fifty, shall extend to enable the Commissioners for the time being of Her Majesty's Woods, Forests, and Land Revenues, or either of them, with the consent of the Commissioners for the time being of Her Majesty's Treasury, to grant or enter into any agreement to grant leases of any mines, minerals, or other metallic or nonmetallic substances or substrata obtained by mining, quarrying, or excavating, for any term or terms of years not exceeding sixty-three years from the time of the granting of the lease or from the date of the agreement, as the case may be, or for any term or terms of years which with any term of years in existence at the time of granting the lease or the date of the agreement will together make up a term not exceeding sixty-three years from such time or date. Every such lease or agreement may be made upon such conditions, and may contain such reservations by way of, or wholly or partially in lieu of rent or other consideration, and such covenants and stipulations, as the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Woods, Forests, and Land Revenues, or either of them, with the consent of the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, may approve: Provided always, that nothing in this section contained shall apply to any mine of gold or silver. Registration of Deeds in Scotland. deeds in Court 5. A copy of or an extract from the record of any lease, conveyance, deed, Registration of or document registered for behoof of the Crown in terms of the Act of the of Session. third and fourth years of His Majesty King William the Fourth, chapter sixty-nine, in the office of Chancery of Scotland, shall be equivalent to the principal of such lease, conveyance, deed, or document, if such copy or extract is attested as a true copy or extract by the officer for the time being having the custody of the record of the principal of such lease, conveyance, deed, or document; and the keeper of the register of deeds, probative writs, and protests for Scotland shall record any such attested copy or extract in the books of council and session in the same manner as if the principal lease, conveyance, deed, or document duly authenticated had been presented to him for registration. And when any such copy or extract has been so recorded as aforesaid in the books of council and session, such record shall be deemed to be for all intents and purposes a record of the principal lease, conveyance, deed, or document, cr of so much thereof as shall be so recorded; and the keeper of the said register shall issue a copy or extract of any such record as aforesaid containing, when required, a warrant in the same terms and which shall have the same effect as if the principal lease, conveyance, deed, or document had been recorded in the books of council and session, Evidence of Commissioners of Woods Reports to Parliament. of Commis- Woods reports to be admissible in evioriginals. to Parliament dence in lieu of 6. ANY document purporting to be a print or copy in print of any report Printed copies purporting to be made by the Commissioners or any Survey or General for the time being of Her Majesty's Woods, Forests, and Land Revenues, or either of them, or by any Surveyor General of the Land Revenues of the Crown, or by the late Commissioners of Her Majesty's Woods, Forests, Land Revenues, Works, and Buildings, to Her Majesty or any of her royal predecessors or successors, or the Houses of Parliament, or either of them, shall at all times hereafter be admissible in evidence in any Court of Justice, or before any person for the time being having by law or by consent of parties authority to hear, receive, or examine evidence to the same extent as the original report would have been admissible if produced from the proper custody and duly proved in evidence, provided that such document purports to have been printed by order of either House of Parliament, or have upon it words denoting that the report was ordered by, either House of Parliament to be printed. General Saving. 7. SAVING to all persons, bodies politic or corporate, and their respective heirs, executors, administrators, successors, and assigns (other than in the cases already provided for or intended to be provided for in this Act), all such estates, rights, titles, and interests as they respectively have at the passing of this Act, or might or could have had if this Act had not passed. Saving of rights of private persons, &c. Short Title. 8. THIS Act may be cited as the Crown Lands Act, 1873. Short title to widen certain the county at large. money as may be necessary to repair or widen, to any width not exceeding fifteen feet, any towing path and trackway on the bank of any navigable river on which boats have been accustomed to be towed by horses, such sums to be levied off all the baronies and half baronies in the county or riding of the county in which such towing path and trackway are situate; and such sums so to be levied may be originally presented for at the presentment sessions held in and for the barony in which such towing path and trackway are locally situate. CHAPTER 36. AN ACT for making provision as to certain portions of Her Majesty's Woods, BE [7th July 1873.] E it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows: * President of Board of Trade to be a Commissioner of the Mersey Conservancy. Power to grant mining leases for 63 years. Mersey Conservancy. 3. THE President for the time being of the Board of Trade shall be a conservator or commissioner of the conservancy of the river Mersey, in the place of the Commissioners for the time being of Her Majesty's Woods Forests, and Land Revenues, or one of them. Mining Leases. 4. THE powers of leasing given by an Act of the session holden in the tent year of His Majesty King George the Fourth, chapter fifty, shall extend enable the Commissioners for the time being of Her Majesty's Woods, Fores and Land Revenues, or either of them, with the consent of the Commissione for the time being of Her Majesty's Treasury, to grant or enter into a agreement to grant leases of any mines, minerals, or other metallic or n metallic substances or substrata obtained by mining, quarrying, or excavati for any term or terms of years not exceeding sixty-three years from the ti of the granting of the lease or from the date of the agreement, as the case n be, or for any term or terms of years which with any term of years existence at the time of granting the lease or the date of the agreement together make up a term not exceeding sixty-three years from such tim date. Every such lease or agreement may be made upon such conditions, and contain such reservations by way of, or wholly or partially in lieu of re other consideration, and such covenants and stipulations, as the Commissio of Her Majesty's Woods, Forests, and Land Revenues, or either of them, the consent of the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, may app Provided always, that nothing in this section contained shall apply to mine of gold or silver. CHAPTER 37. Short title. Extent of Act. Definition of terms. Commence ment of Act. Power to days of holding fairs. Order of Secretary of State to certain news papers. AN ACT to amend the Law relating to Fairs in England and Wales. BE [7th July 1873.] E it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows: 1. THIS Act may be cited as the Fairs Act, 1873. 2. THIS Act shall not extend to Scotland or Ireland. ' 3. In this Act the term "owner" means any person or persons, or body of commissioners or body corporate, entitled to hold any fair, whether in respect of the ownership of any lands or tenements, or under any charter, letters patent, or otherwise howsoever. 4. THIS Act shall commence and take effect on the passing thereof. * 6. In case it shall appear to one of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, herein-after referred to as a Secretary of State, upon representation duly made to him by the justices acting in and for the petty sessional division within which any fair is held, or by the owner of any fair in England or Wales, that it would be for the convenience and advantage of the public that any such fair shall be held in each year on some day or days other than that or those on which such fair is used to be held or on the day or days on which such fair is used to be held and any preceding or subsequent day or days, or on or during a less number of days than those on which such fair is used to be held, it shall be lawful for a Secretary of State to order that such fair shall be held on such other day or days, or on the same day or days and any preceding or subsequent day or days, or on or during any less number of days as he shall think fit: Provided always, that notice of such representation and of the time when it shall please a Secretary of State to take the same into consideration shall if such representation shall have been made by justices be given to the owner of such fair, and shall if such representation shall have been made by the owner of such fair be given to the clerk to the justices acting in and for the petty sessional division within which such fair is held, and shall also be published once in the London Gazette, and in three successive weeks in some one and the same newspaper published in the county, city, or borough in which such fair is held, or if there be no newspaper published therein, then in the newspaper of some county adjoining or near thereto, before such representation is so considered. 7. WHEN and so soon as any such order as aforesaid shall have been made be published in by a Secretary of State, notice of the making of the same shall be published in the London Gazette and in some one newspaper of the county, city, or borough in which such fair is usually held, or if there be no newspaper published therein, then in the newspaper of some county adjoining or near thereto, and thereupon such fair shall only be held on the day or days mentioned in such order; and it shall be lawful for the owner of such fair to take all such toll or tolls, and to do all such act or acts, and to enjoy all and the same rights, powers, and privileges in respect thereof, and enforce the same by all and the like remedies, as if the same were held on the day or days upon which it was used to be held previous to the making of such order. All rights, &c. of owner to remain good. |