Statutes as to the Grindal Fellowship and Grindal Scholarships at Pembroke College.

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for or towards his Maintenance, from the Time of his commencing his Residence in the said College and during such Residence until by the Statutes of the University he shall be qualified to apply for the Degree of Bachelor of Arts, and the said Dean and Chapter may frame Statutes, with the Consent of Trinity College and of Christ Church College, Oxford, as to the Studies to be prosecuted in the said School, and the Mode of electing the Head Master and Under Master thereof, and may frame Statutes, with the Consent of Trinity College, as to the Persons by whom and the Mode in which the Election of such Exhibitioners shall be made, and generally as to the Conditions on which such Exhibitions shall be held and enjoyed; and the Commissioners shall have full Power, by Writing under their Common Seal, to approve of such Statutes: Provided always, that no such Exhibition shall be held for more than Three Years and a Quarter, and no such Exhibitioner shall by holding such Exhibition be disqualified from being elected a Scholar of the said College.

XXXVII. And whereas certain Scholarships at Pembroke College, called the Grindal Scholarships, have heretofore been appropriated to Scholars educated at the Free Grammar School ' of Saint Beghes or Saint Bees in the County of Cumberland, and a certain Fellowship at the said College, called the Grindal Fellowship, has heretofore been appropriated to Scholars edu'cated at the said School, and subsequently elected to the said Scholarships, and the Fellow and Scholars holding such Fellowship and Scholarships respectively have been from Time to Time 'maintained by the said College out of the general Revenues thereof, pursuant to a Covenant entered into by the Master, Fellows, and Scholars of the said College with the Keepers or 'Wardens and Governors of the said School, and contained in a ' certain Indenture of Demise, bearing Date the First Day of June in the Fourth Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King James the First, and made between the said Keeper and Governors of the one Part, and the said Master, Fellows, and Scholars of the other Part, by which Indenture, in consideration of the aforesaid 'Covenant on the Part of the said College, certain Lands situate at Croydon in the County of Surrey, called "Palmer's Fields," were demised by the Keepers or Wardens and Governors of the 'said School to the Master, Fellows, and Scholars of the said College, for the Term of One thousand Years from the Date of the said Indenture, at the yearly Rent of a Red Rose:' Be it enacted, That it shall be lawful for the Governing Body of the said College or the major Part thereof, with the Consent of the Governing Body of the said School, to make and lay before the Commissioners Statutes for abolishing the aforesaid Preference of the said School, and for converting the said Grindal Fellowship and Grindal Scholarships partly into open Scholarships and partly into Exhibitions, and for that Purpose to charge the Revenues of the said College with the Payment to the said School of an annual Sum, to be applied in providing such Exhibitions for meritorious Scholars educated at the said School, and proceeding to any College in the University of Cambridge; and it shall be lawful for the

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Governing Body of the said School to convey the Reversion in Fee Simple expectant upon the Determination of the aforesaid Term of One thousand Years in the aforesaid Lands called "Palmer's Fields" to the said College, to be held by the said College as Part of the general Property thereof; and the Commissioners shall have full Power, by Writing under their Common Seal, to approve of such Statutes.

XXXVIII. The College of King Henry the Sixth at Eton shall, for the Purposes of this Act, be subject to the Provisions herein contained with respect to Colleges, and shall have the same or the like Powers as are hereby given to the Colleges of the University, and be subject to the Authorities hereby conferred on the Commissioners for the Alteration and Amendment of Statutes, in like Manner as is hereby provided with respect to the Colleges of the University.

College of King
Henry VI. at
Eton subject to
this Act as to
Colleges.

Council.

XXXIX. All Statutes which, under the Power herein con- Statutes to be tained, shall be made by the Governing Body of any College or the laid before the major Part thereof, and be approved of by the Commissioners, Queen in and all Statutes which shall be framed by the Commissioners, and not objected to in manner aforesaid, and every Statute passed by the University or framed by the Commissioners, under the Powers herein-before contained, for the Regulation of Hostels, or for altering or modifying the Trusts, Statutes, or Directions affecting any Gift or Endowment, or for repealing, altering, or adding to any of the existing Royal Statutes of the University, shall, as to Statutes made by the Commissioners, and liable to be objected to in manner aforesaid, after the Expiration of the Period within which the same may be objected to, and as to all other Statutes without any unnecessary Delay, be laid before Her Majesty in Council, and be forthwith published in the London Gazette; and it shall be lawful for every College, and for the Visitor thereof, and for the Trustees, Governors, and Patron of any University or College Emolument, and for the University, and for any other Person directly affected by such new Statutes, within One Month after the Publication as aforesaid in the London Gazette, to petition Her Majesty in Council praying Her Majesty to withhold Her Approbation of the whole or of any Part thereof; and every such Petition shall be referred by Her Majesty by Order in Council for the Consideration and Advice of Five Members of Her Privy Council, of whom Two, not including the Lord President, shall be Members of the Judicial Committee, who shall be named in such Order, and such Five Members may, if they think fit, admit any Petitioner or Petitioners to be heard by Counsel in support of his or their Petition.

Power to Col-
leges, &c. to
petition Her
Majesty against
Approbation
thereof, &c.

XL. All Statutes which shall be so published in the London Statutes to be
Gazette as aforesaid shall be at the same Time laid before both laid before
Houses of Parliament, if Parliament be sitting, or if not then Parliament.
within Three Weeks after the Commencement of the next ensuing
Session of Parliament; and, unless an Address is within Forty
Days presented by One or other of the said Houses, praying Her
Majesty to withhold Her Consent from such Statutes or any Parts
thereof, or unless the Approbation of Her Majesty shall be with-

held

Statutes made

by Queen Eliza

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held on such Petition as aforesaid, it shall be lawful for Her Majesty, by Order in Council, to declare Her Approbation of such Statutes respectively, or any Parts thereof, to which such Address shall not relate, or of which She shall not withhold Her Approbation on such Petition, and the same shall thereupon become Statutes of the University of Cambridge, or of the College therein to which the same respectively relate; and if any such Statutes, or any Part thereof, shall not be so approved by Her Majesty, it shall be lawful for Her Majesty to signify Her Disapproval of such Statutes or such Part thereof by Order in Council, and then the Commissioners may thereupon proceed to frame other Statutes in that Behalf, subject to the same Conditions and Provisions as to the Approbation of Her Majesty in Council, and all other Conditions and Provisions, as are imposed by this Act in relation to the making of original Statutes by the Commissioners, and so on from Time to Time as often as Occasion shall require.

XLI. After the First Day of January One thousand eight hundred and sixty, the Statutes made by Queen Elizabeth in the Year beth in 1570 for of our Lord One thousand five hundred and seventy for the Regulation of University Government and Regulation of the University, or such and so repealed. much of them or of any of them as shall be then unrepealed by any Statute made under the Authority of this Act, shall be repealed, but not so as to revive any Statute of the University thereby repealed.

Power to the
Chancellor to

settle Doubts as
to Meaning of
University
Statutes.

Statutes to be subject to Repeal, &c.

Future Members not to

possess vested Interests.

XLII. If any Doubt shall arise with respect to the true Intent and Meaning of any of the new Statutes of the University framed and approved as aforesaid, or of any Statute which may hereafter be approved in the Manner herein-after mentioned for amending or altering the same, the Council may apply to the Chancellor of the University for the Time being, and it shall be lawful for him to declare in Writing the Intent and Meaning of the Statute on the Matter submitted to him, and such Declaration shall be registered by the Registrary of the University, and the Intent and Meaning of the Statute as therein declared shall be deemed the true Intent and Meaning thereof.

XLIII. Every Statute made in pursuance of the Provisions of this Act by the University, or by any College, or by the Commissioners, and likewise all Provisions herein-before contained respecting the Election, Constitution, Powers, and Proceedings of the Council of the Senate, or respecting Hostels, shall be subject to Repeal, Amendment, and Alteration from Time to Time by the University or College, as the Case may be, with the Approval of Her Majesty in Council.

XLIV. No Person who after the passing of this Act shall become a Member of any College, or shall be elected or become eligible to any University or College Emolument, shall be deemed or taken to have acquired or to possess an existing Interest within the Meaning of this Act.

Not necessary XLV. From the First Day of Michaelmas Term One thousand to make Decla- eight hundred and fifty-six, no Person shall be required, upon ration or take matriculating, or upon taking, or to enable him to take, any triculating, nor Degree in Arts, Law, Medicine, or Music, in the said University,

an Oath on ma

to

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to take any Oath or to make any Declaration or Subscription on taking a whatever; but such Degree shall not, until the Person obtaining Degree; the same shall, in such Manner as the University may from Time to Time prescribe, have subscribed a Declaration stating that he is bona fide a Member of the Church of England, entitle him to be or to become a Member of the Senate, or constitute a Qualification for the holding of any Office, either in the University or elsewhere, which has been heretofore always held by a Member of the United Church of England and Ireland, and for which such Degree has heretofore constituted One of the Qualifications.

Scholarship,

&c.

XLVI. From and after the First Day of Michaelmas Term One nor on obthousand eight hundred and fifty-six, it shall not be necessary for taining any any Person, on obtaining any Exhibition, Scholarship, or other Exhibition, College Emolument available for the Assistance of an Undergraduate Student in his Academical Education, to make or subscribe any Declaration of his Religious Opinion or Belief, or to take any Oath, any Law or Statute to the contrary notwithstanding.

XLVII. The Stamp Duties now payable on Matriculations and Stamp Duties Degrees shall be abolished so soon as Provision shall have been on Matriculamade by the University, to the Satisfaction of the Commissioners tions, &c. of Her Majesty's Treasury, in lieu of the Monies heretofore voted annually by Parliament.

abolished.

XLVIII. It shall be lawful for any College, with the Consent of Colleges, with the Church Estates Commissioners, to sell any Estate in Lands or Consent of Church Estate Hereditaments vested in such College, or to exchange any Estate Commissioners, in Lands or Hereditaments for any other Lands or Hereditaments, may sell Esor either of them, and upon any such Exchange to receive or pay tates, &c. any Money by way of Equality of Exchange; and all Monies which on any such Sale or Exchange shall be received by or become payable to or for the Benefit of such College shall be paid into the Bank of England, for the Benefit of such College, to such Account as the said Church Estates Commissioners shall appoint in that Behalf; and the Receipt of the said Church Estates Commissioners shall be an effectual Discharge to any Purchaser for any Money therein expressed to be received, and shall be Evidence of their Consent as aforesaid; and all Monies so paid into the Bank of England shall be applied in Payment for Equality of Exchange as aforesaid, or shall be laid out by such College, with such Consent as aforesaid, in the Purchase of the absolute Estate of Freehold in other Lands and Hereditaments, or either of them, to be conveyed to the Use or for the Benefit of such College; and such Lands and Hereditaments, and any Lands and Hereditaments received in Exchange by such College, shall be held by the College upon the like Trusts and for the like Purposes as the Lands and Hereditaments sold or given in Exchange by such College respectively; and the Monies from Time to Time remaining unapplied for the Purposes aforesaid shall be invested, by and in the Names of the said Church Estates Commissioners, in the Purchase of Government Stocks, Funds, or Securities, which the said Church Estates Commissioners shall hold in trust for such College, and the said Church Estates Commissioners may sell and dispose

of

Powers of University to continue in force, except, &c. Interpretation of Terms.

Parts of Lands Clauses Act, 1845, incorporated herewith.

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of the same for the Purpose of effecting any such Purchase of Lands and Hereditaments, or either of them, as aforesaid, or of paying Money for Equality of Exchange as aforesaid, as Occasion may require; and in the meantime the Interest, Dividends, and annual Proceeds of such Monies, Stocks, Funds, and Securities shall be paid to such College, to be applied to the same Purposes as the annual Income was applicable which arose out of those Lands and Hereditaments from the Sale or Exchange of which the Money invested in such Stocks, Funds, and Securities was produced Provided that nothing in this Section contained shall apply to any Estate of the College in reversion in Lands or Hereditaments expectant upon any Lease for Lives, or for a Term of Years determinable upon any Life or Lives, or for a Term of Years whereof more than Seven shall be unexpired, on which a Rent less than Three Fourths of the clear yearly Value of such Lands or Hereditaments shall have been reserved.

XLIX. Except in so far as they are expressly altered or taken away by the Provisions of this Act, the Powers and Privileges of the University and its Officers, and of the Colleges and their Officers, shall continue in full Force.

L. In the Construction of this Act, the Expression "University or College Emolument" shall include all Headships, Downing Professorships, Fellowships, Bye-Fellowships, Scholarships, Exhibitions, Bible Clerkships, Sizarships, Subsizarships, and every other such Place of Emolument payable out of the Revenues of the University or of any College, or to be held and enjoyed by the Members of any College as such within the University; and the Word "Professor" shall be taken to include the Three Royal Professors of Hebrew, Greek, and Divinity, and Public Readers or Lecturers in the University, except the Barnaby Lecturers ; and the Governing Body of any College shall mean the Head and all actual Fellows thereof, Bye-Fellows excepted, being Graduates, and in Downing College shall mean the Head, Professors, and all actual Fellows thereof, Bye-Fellows excepted, being Graduates; and the Word "Statutes" shall be taken to include all Ordinances and Regulations of the University, and all Ordinances and Regulations contained in any Charter, Deed of Composition, or other Instrument of Foundation or Endowment of a College, and all Byelaws, Ordinances, and Regulations; and the Word "Vacation shall be taken to include that Part of Easter Term which falls after the Division of Term.

LI. The Lands Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845, except the Parts and Enactments of that Act with respect to the Purchase and taking of Lands otherwise than by Agreement, and with respect to the Recovery of Forfeitures, Penalties, and Costs, and with respect to Lands required by the Promoters of the Undertaking, but which shall not be wanted for the Purposes thereof, shall be incorporated with and form Part of this Act, so far as relates to Land within the Town of Cambridge required for the Erection of any Buildings for the Extension of the Buildings of the said University, or of any College therein, and as if the Corporate Name of the University or College, as the Case may be,

had