may grant

land for cur

accesses to

aforesaid, by reason of the great expense attending the same, may in some cases produce inconvenience and frustrate the intention of His majesty the said act; be it therefore enacted, that his said majesty, his heirs and successors, shall have full power, licence and authority to give tilages and and grant, and vest in any person or persons, body or bodies politic churches or or corporate, and their heirs and successors respectively, in manner chapels. hereinafter mentioned, all such his, her or their estate, interest or property in any lands or tenements within the survey of the court of exchequer, or of the duchy of Lancaster, for curtilages, or for accesses, or for any other conveniences or accommodations of any such churches or chapels as aforesaid; and such person or persons, body or bodies politic or corporate, and their heirs and successors respectively, shall have full capacity and ability to receive, take, hold and enjoy the same according to the intent and meaning of the said act, and whenever it shall be the pleasure of his majesty, his heirs or successors, to make a grant for any of the purposes aforesaid, it shall and may be lawful for the lord high-treasurer, or the commissioners of the treasury, or any three of them, to grant a warrant under his or their hand or hands to any such person or persons, or body or bodies politic or corporate, specifying the premises so to be vested in such person or persons, body or bodies politic or corporate, as aforesaid, which warrant shall be enrolled in the office of the auditor of the land revenue for the division or county within which the premises shall be situate, and also in the office of the commissioners of his majesty's woods, forests and land revenues, or in the office of the surveyor general of his majesty's land revenue for the time being; and such auditor, and such commissioners, or surveyor general having enrolled the said warrant, shall certify such enrolment at the foot or on the back thereof under their hands, and return the said warrant to the grantee or grantees of the premises therein named, and from and immediately after such enrolment and thenceforth for ever the respective grantees named in such warrants, and their heirs and successors, shall by force of this act be adjudged, deemed and taken to be in the actual seizin and possession of the premises in the said warrants specified, and shall hold and enjoy the same peaceably and quietly, freed and discharged of and from all claims and demands which can or may be made by his majesty, his heirs or successors, or by any person or persons lawfully claiming by, from or under him or them, and of and from all manner of incumbrances whatsoever as fully and amply to all intents and purposes as his majesty, his heirs or successors, might or could have held or enjoyed the same: provided always, that nothing in this act contained shall extend, or be construed to extend to enable his majesty, his heirs and successors, to grant more than five acres in any one grant for any of the purposes aforesaid.

Proviso.

58 GEORGE 3, CAP. 45.-An act for building and promoting the building of additional churches in populous parishes. Whereas the population of Great Britain, and more particularly in the metropolis and its vicinity, and in other cities and great towns, has greatly increased, and the churches and chapels now existing in the metropolis and its vicinity, and in many great and populous parishes and extra-parochial places, are inadequate to the accommodation of the

inhabitants thereof: and whereas it is therefore necessary that such evil should be remedied, and that additional churches and chapels for the celebration of divine service, according to the rites of the united church of England and Ireland, as by law established, should be erected and maintained in such parishes and places, and that a certain number of free seats should be made therein: and whereas his royal highness the prince regent, acting in the name and on the behalf of his majesty, is desirous of aiding his subjects in the establishing additional churches in such parishes and places as may require the same; may it therefore please your majesty that it may be enacted, and be it enacted by the king'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, that it shall be lawful for the king's most excellent majesty, by warrant or warrants under his royal sign maHis majesty nual, to authorize and empower the commissioners of his majesty's treasury of the united kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland now or rize commisfor the time being, or any three or more of them, or the lord high- treasury to treasurer of the united kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland for issue exchequer bills not the time being, to cause or direct any number of exchequer bills to exceeding be made out at his majesty's exchequer at Westminster, not exceeding in the whole the sum of one million, in the same or like manner, form and order, and according to the same or like rules and directions (except where other directions for making out the same are contained and particularly expressed in this act), as in and by an act made in the forty-eighth year of the reign of his present majesty, intituled, an act for regulating the issuing and paying off of 48 G. 3, c. 1. exchequer bills, are enacted and prescribed.

may autho

sioners of

one million.

extended to

II. And be it further enacted, that all and every the clauses, Powers of provisoes, powers, privileges, advantages, penalties, forfeitures and 48 Geo. 3, c.1. disabilities contained in the said recited act of the forty-eighth year exchequer of his present majesty's reign, shall be applied and extended to the bills made exchequer bills to be made out in pursuance of this act, as fully and this act. effectually to all intents and purposes as if the said several clauses or provisoes had been particularly repeated and re-enacted in the body of this act.

out under

two-pence

diem.

III. And be it further enacted, that the said exchequer bills to be Bills to bear made out in pursuance of this act shall and may bear an interest an interest of not exceeding the rate of two-pence per centum per diem upon or in per cent, per respect of the whole of the monies respectively contained therein, and the principal and interest thereof respectively shall be made payable at such periods as shall be fixed by the said commissioners of his majesty's treasury, or any three or more of them, or the said lord high-treasurer for the time being; but nevertheless so as that all such bills as shall be advanced for the carrying the purposes of this act into execution, shall be made payable within three years Times when from the issuing thereof; and the principal sum contained in every such bill, and with such interest as aforesaid, shall be paid off and discharged upon the days and times respectively appointed for the payment thereof.

payable.

IV. Provided always, and be it further enacted, that all and every such bills the exchequer bills to be made forth by virtue of this act, or so not to be

exchanged

collector, &c.

many of them as shall from time to time remain undischarged and for money by uncancelled after the respective days on which they shall become before the due and payable, shall and may after that time pass and be current day appointed for their to all and every the receivers and collectors in Great Britain of the payment, &c. customs, excise or any revenue, supply, aid or tax whatsoever due or payable to his majesty, his heirs or successors, and also at the receipt of exchequer at Westminster from the said receivers or collectors; but no such receiver or collector shall exchange, at any time before the said day of payment thereof, for any money of such revenues, aids, taxes or supplies in his hands, any exchequer bill which shall have been issued as aforesaid by virtue of this act; nor nor action shall any action be maintained against such receiver or collector for for refusing neglecting or refusing to exchange any such exchequer bill for ready money before the said day of payment thereof, any thing in this act to the contrary contained in anywise notwithstanding; and that such of the same bills as shall be received at the said receipt of exchequer shall and may be locked up and secured as cash, according to the course of the said exchequer settled and established by law for locking up and securing monies received in specie there.

to exchange,

Treasury to direct the exchequer to

V. And be it further enacted, that from time to time as the commissioners for the execution of this act, to be appointed as is hereissue bills in inafter provided, shall find it necessary to apply to the purposes agreeably to thereof any amount of such bills to be advanced under the provisions certificates of of this act, the said commissioners shall forthwith represent the sioners. same to the said lord high-treasurer or lords commissioners of the

Great Britain

the commis

treasury of Great Britain and Ireland; and the said lord high-treasurer or lords commissioners, or any three or more of them for the time being, shall thereupon, if satisfied of such necessity, direct that such portion of such exchequer bills shall be issued by the auditor of the receipt of the exchequer at Westminster for the time being to the said commissioners for the execution of this act; and the said auditor shall, immediately on the receipt of such direction, cause and direct to be delivered to the secretary of the said commissioners, exchequer bills, payable at such periods and to such amount as shall in such direction be specified, provided that the total amount to be so issued by virtue of such certificates shall not at any one time exceed the amount of exchequer bills directed to be issued under Date and sig- this act; and every such exchequer bill shall bear date on the day chequer bills. on which the said direction shall be so received by such auditor, or such other day as shall in such direction be specified; and all such exchequer bills shall and may be signed by the auditor of the receipt of his majesty's exchequer, or in his name by any person duly authorized by the said auditor to sign exchequer bills.

Total

amount.

nature of ex

Lists of exchequer bills made out to

to the commissioners.

VI. And be it further enacted, that the officer or officers of the exchequer, by whom such exchequer bills shall be delivered, shall be delivered from time to time, upon requisition of the said commissioners for the execution of this act, deliver or cause to be delivered to them at their office, complete lists of all the exchequer bills so made out and delivered, specifying therein the respective dates and sums expressed therein, and the periods appointed for the payment of the same, and distinguish the persons to whom and the numbers of the certificates by virtue whereof the same respectively were made out and delivered.

vance money

VII. And be it further enacted, that it shall be lawful for the Bank mayadgovernor and company of the bank of England to advance or lend to on credit of his majesty, at the receipt of the exchequer of Great Britain, upon act. the credit of the exchequer bills issued under this act, any sum or sums of money not exceeding in the whole the sum of one million;

any thing in an act made in the fifth and sixth years of the reign of 5&6 W. & M. king William and queen Mary, intituled, an act for granting to their c. 20. majesties several rates and duties upon tonnage of ships and vessels, and upon beer, ale and other liquors; and for securing certain recompenses and advantages in the said act mentioned, to such persons as shall voluntarily advance the sum of one million five hundred thousand pounds towards carrying on the war against France, to the contrary thereof in anywise notwithstanding.

ers for exe

VIII. And be it further enacted, that it shall be lawful for his His majesty empowered majesty, by letters patent under the great seal of the united kingdom, to appoint to nominate, constitute and appoint such persons as his majesty shall commissiondeem fit to be his commissioners for carrying into execution the cuting act. purposes of this act, and to order and direct in such appointment that any five or more of such commissioners may act in the execution of the powers of this act; and such commission shall continue in force for the term of ten years from the date of such letters patent, unless his majesty shall think fit sooner to alter or revoke the same.

sioners to

rishes.

IX. And be it further enacted, that the said commissioners shall Commisexamine into the present state of the parishes and extra-parochial examine the places in the metropolis and its vicinity, and in all other parts of state of paEngland and Wales, so far as conveniently may be, for the purpose of ascertaining the parishes and places in which additional churches or chapels for the performance of divine service, according to the rites of the united church of England and Ireland as by law established, are most required, and the most effectual and proper means of affording such accommodation.

sioners may

clerk, and

&c. and as

X. And be it further enacted, that it shall be lawful for the said Commiscommissioners to appoint a secretary and clerk, and to employ such appoint sesurveyors and other fit persons to make plans and estimates, and (if cretary and the commissioners shall deem the same necessary) surveys and re- make surports for the purpose of affording to the commissioners all such veys, reports, information as they may require for the purpose of ascertaining the sign reasonbest mode of providing fit and proper accommodation for the largest number of persons at the least expense; and may assign and to all such persons reasonable salaries or rewards for their services therein.

pay

able salaries.

issue money

curred in the

which an ac

XI. And be it further enacted, that it shall be lawful for the said Treasury to commissioners of his majesty's treasury, or any three or more of for defraying them, or the lord high-treasurer for the time being and they are charges inhereby respectively authorized, to issue and advance, or cause to be execution of issued and advanced, all such sums of money as shall appear to this act, of them to be necessary, to such person or persons, in such manner count shall and in such proportions as the commissioners for the execution of be laid before this act, or any five or more of them respectively, shall by writing under their hands from time to time desire, and as shall be approved by the said lord high-treasurer or lords commissioners of the

parliament,

Commissioners to draw

up rules for their proceedings, and

for building

treasury, or any three or more of them for the time being; and such sums respectively shall and may be issued out of any part of the public monies remaining in his majesty's exchequer at Westminster; which sums so to be issued and advanced shall be applied to the payment of allowances and rewards as aforesaid, and in defraying all other necessary charges and expenses in or about the execution of this act, without other account than before the said commissioners of his majesty's treasury; and which money so to be issued shall not be subject to any tax, duty, rate or assessment whatsoever, imposed by authority of parliament; but that an account of the said charges and expenses, so long as the said commission shall remain in force, shall be laid before both houses of parliament on or before the twenty-fifth day of March in each year, if parliament shall be then sitting; but if parliament shall not be then sitting, then within fourteen days after the commencement of the then next session of parliament.

XII. And be it further enacted, that the said commissioners shall, as soon after their appointment as the obtaining necessary information will allow, draw up certain rules for their general proceedings, fix the sums and shall fix and specify therein the largest amount of allowances to be allowed to be granted for building any church, and make such other reguchurches, lations as the said commissioners shall deem expedient and necesrules before sary to be fixed and known, for the furtherance of the purposes his majesty the act, and from time to time, as occasion may require, shall have power to alter or vary any such regulations, and to make any such further or additional regulations as they may deem expedient; and all such rules and regulations shall be laid before his majesty in council, who shall have power to approve or disallow the same.

and lay such

in council.

Commission

money for

the building

of churches in parishes of certain population, and in want of accommoda

tion.

of

XIII. And be it further enacted, that it shall be lawful for the ers may grant said commissioners to make, in his majesty's name, out of the sum so appropriated by this act, grants for building, or to cause to be built, churches or chapels in such parishes or extra-parochial places only in which there is a population of not less than four thousand persons, and in which there is not accommodation in the churches or chapels therein for more than one fourth part of such population to attend divine service according to the rites of the united church of England and Ireland, or in which there shall appear to the said commissioners to be one thousand persons resident more than four miles from any such church or chapel, and in which the commissioners shall be satisfied, from the circumstances of such parish or extra-parochial place, of the inability of the parishioners and inhabitants thereof to bear any part of the charge of such building in addition to the charge hereinafter mentioned; and also to make grants or loans to assist in building such churches and chapels in such other parishes or places as may contain a like population, and may equally require further accommodation for divine service, but in which the said commissioners may deem the parishioners and inhabitants thereof capable of bearing a part of the expense of erecting such churches and chapels, or of repaying the same by instalments, if advanced by way of loan.

Commission

XIV. And whereas the sum granted by this act is inadequate to ers may make the affording grants to all the parishes and extra-parochial places in