XLV. Any land to be purchased with any compensation money to be paid or any rentcharge to be granted or awarded as the consideration for any such enfranchisement shall be settled to such uses, upon such trusts, and subject to such powers and provisions as will most nearly correspond with the uses, trusts, powers, and provisions then affecting the manor in which such enfranchisement shall be made, and all such uses, trusts, powers, and provisions, shall be valid, and have full effect, any law to the contrary notwithstanding.

Land to be with

purchased

enfranchisement

money to be same uses as manor may stand

settled to

limited to.

cution of enfranchisement

deed.

XLVI. Upon payment of the compensation money as by this As to exeAct provided, in any case in which such compensation is made by payment of a gross sum of money, or previously to or contemporaneously with the execution of a deed of grant or of an award by the Copyhold Commissioners of a rentcharge, in any case in which the compensation for an enfranchisement shall be made by way of rentcharge, the Commissioners of her Majesty's Woods, Forests, and Land Revenues, or any one of them, may concur with the person for the time being entitled to the rents and profits of the manor in executing a deed of enfranchisement to the copyholder of the land to be enfranchised, which shall state in what manner the enfranchisement money, if any, has been applied; and such deed of enfranchisement shall, when a memorial thereof is enrolled as by this Act provided, be effectual to vest in the copyholder all the estate, right, and interest of the Queen's Majesty, her heirs and successors, in right of her crown, and of all other persons interested therein under the settlement of the manor in the land enfranchised, either absolutely or subject to such reservations as may be agreed upon; but nothing contained in this Act with reference to enfranchisements by awards of the Copyhold Commissioners shall apply to manors in which her Majesty, her heirs or successors, may have any estate or interest in possession, reversion, or remainder.

Record of

enfran

XLVII. The keeper of land revenue records and enrolments shall, for the purpose of preserving a record of such enfranchise- such ments as last aforesaid, from time to time provide a book or books in which shall be entered a memorial of every deed of enfranchisement of land held of any manor, and of every award or grant of any rent charge, and of every deed of conveyance which shall be executed upon the purchase of land with moneys arising from the

chisements to be preoffice of

served in

land reve

nue records

The Commissioners of Woods to indemnify trustee for the crown.

The Trea

sury to

direct what

taken for

enfranchisement of lands within any such manor (such last-men-
tioned memorial being in every case accompanied by a plan of the
land purchased), and every such memorial shall be under the hand
of one of the parties to the deed of enfranchisement, or conveyance,
award, or grant; and no such deed, award, or grant shall have
effect until there be written thereon a certificate signed by the
keeper of land revenue records and enrolments; that a memorial
thereof hath been lodged at the office of land revenue records and
enrolments; and in the absence of evidence to the contrary of the
fact stated therein such certificate shall be admissible in evidence
in any court of justice or before any person now or hereafter having
by law or by consent of parties authority to hear, receive, or examine
evidence, without proof of the signature thereto, or of the fact that
the person signing or purporting to sign the same is the keeper of
land revenue records and enrolments for the time being; and a
copy
of the enrolment of the memorial, certified in the manner pro-
vided by an Act passed in the sixteenth year of the reign of her pre-
sent Majesty, chapter sixty-two, section eight, shall be receivable
as evidence of the deed or facts referred to in such memorial.

XLVIII. Every trustee so nominated by the Commissioners of her Majesty's Woods, Forests, and Land Revenues, or one of them, shall be absolutely indemnified by the said Commissioners, for the time being, out of the rents and profits of the possessions and land revenues of the crown, of and from all such costs, charges, damages, and expenses (if any) as he may in anywise whatsoever incur or be put to in consequence of having been so nominated, and which he may not be able to obtain repayment of out of the trust moneys.

XLIX. The Commissioners of her Majesty's Treasury may direct what reasonable fees shall be from time to time paid in respect of fees shall be the revision and enrolment, as by this Act provided, of any such deed of enfranchisement or conveyance of any land to be so purchased, and such fees shall be deemed to be part of the expenses of the enfranchisement or purchase, as the case may be, and shall be paid or be recoverable accordingly.

enrolment

of memori

als, etc.

Provision as to manors held in joint tenancy with the

crown.

L. Any manor vested in her Majesty in right of her crown in possession, remainder, or reversion, in joint tenancy or coparcenary with any subject, may, so far as regards the rights and interests of such subject and of the tenant of such manor, be dealt

with under the Copyhold Acts, and the provision of this Act in regard to enfranchisements in manors vested in her Majesty in right of her crown in remainder or reversion expectant on an estate of inheritance shall apply to manors so vested in her Majesty in joint tenancy or coparcenary with any subject, so far as respects the share or interest in any such manor to which her Majesty may be so entitled.

LI. In the construction of this Act the words "ecclesiastical corporation" shall not be taken to extend to or include the cathedral or house of Christ Church, Oxford.

LII. This Act shall be taken and construed as part of the Copyhold Acts, and may be cited either generally under the term "the Copyhold Acts" or specifically as 1858."

"the Copyhold Act,