Note.-This Table is calculated on the assumption that a yearly Rent-charge of £.6. 10s. continuing for a term of 22 years (but payable half-yearly) is equivalent to the sum of £.100 in ready money.

(Ireland.)

A

BILL

To provide further Facilities for the Permanent Improvement
of Landed Property in Ireland by the Owners thereof.

[Note.-The Words printed in Italics are proposed to be inserted
in the Committee.]

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1.

Commission-
Works to be

ers of Public

Commissioners for the

this Act.

HEREAS it is expedient that further facilities should be Preamble. given for the permanent improvement of Lands in Ireland; BE it Enacted, by The QUEEN's most Excellent MAJESTY, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commous, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, THAT the Commissioners of Public Works in Ireland for the time being shall be the Commissioners for the execution of this Act, and shall, for the purposes of this Act, be a corporation, with perpetual succession, and a common seal to be by them execution of 10 altered or varied at pleasure; and such Commissioners shall have full power to appoint so many and such Engineers, Surveyors, Agriculturists, Clerks and other Officers as may be necessary for the purpose of carrying this Act into execution, in the same manner and with the same powers, and subject to the same authorities as the said Commissioners of Public Works may now appoint any Officers and Clerks under any Act or Acts now in force in Ireland; and it shall be lawful for the said Commissioners to make such rules and regulations as they shall from time to time think proper with respect to applications under this Act, and to issue such instructions and forms as they may think 20 proper for the guidance of and observance by persons making such applications, or executing works, or rendering accounts of monies advanced under this Act, and with respect to all other matters in and about the execution of this Act not hereby especially referred to the determination of any other person, court or body.

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2.

Who shall be

deemed

Owners.

And be it Enacted, That any person seised of or entitled at law or in equity to land, as tenant in fee-tail, general or special, or as tenant in dower or by courtesy, and also any person who shall be entitled to land under any will or settlement, or any other deed or instrument (except a grant or lease reserving rent), for his own life or 5 the life of any other person, or jointly for his own life and the life of any other person or persons, or for years determinable on such life or lives, and also any person who shall be entitled to land under any lease granted by any collegiate or ecclesiastical body, or other corporation sole or aggregate, or under any lease granted by any person 10 having immediate or derivative title from or under any such collegiate or ecclesiastical body, or other corporation sole or aggregate, which lease shall contain a covenant of perpetual renewal or for renewal toties quoties, and also any person who shall be entitled to land under any grant, lease or any other deed or assurance for an estate in fee, or for an 15 estate or interest, for any life or lives renewable for ever, or for a term of years absolute, whereof Forty Years or more shall be unexpired at the time of application, or for any term of Forty Years or more, renewable on the fall of any life or lives, or for any term or terms of years renewable for ever, whether such last-mentioned person shall be 20 entitled to land for any such estate, term or interest, either absolutely or as tenant in tail, or as quasi tenant in tail, or for his life; and also every archbishop, bishop, parson or other ecclesiastical person, as to lands held by them in their respective corporate capacities; and also every feoffee or trustee of any land, or of any such estate or interest therein 25 as aforesaid for charitable or other purposes; and also every trustee of any such estate or interest as aforesaid who shall be in the actual possession of the land, or in receipt of the rents payable by the tenants of such land, shall be deemed an owner of such land for the purposes of this Act; and in every case in which any person seised, 30 possessed of, or entitled to any such land, for any such estate or interest as aforesaid, shall be an infant, feme covert, idiot or lunatic, the guardian of such infant, the husband of such feme covert, and the committee of the estate of such idiot or lunatic, shall be deemed an owner of such land for the purposes of this Act: Provided always, That no person, except a mortgagee in possession or receipt of rent of the mortgaged lands, or any part thereof, shall be deemed an owner for the purposes of this Act, for or by reason of any estate vested in him, which shall have been created by way of mortgage, or for securing the payment of any sum of 40 money, but that the person who would be deemed an owner for the purposes of this Act, if such estate by way of mortgage or for securing any money had not been created, shall, notwithstanding such mortgage or security, or any other incumbrance, be deemed such owner as aforesaid: Provided also, That a feme covert entitled to rents and profits for her separate use, and whether or not restrained

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