County Hospitals (Amendment) Act 1767
COUNTY HOSPITALS (AMENDMENT) ACT 1767 | ||
CHAP. VIII. | ||
An Act to amend an Act, made the last Session of Parliament for the erecting and establishing Publick Infirmaries or Hospitals in this Kingdom. | ||
dignitary with consent of dean and chapter, and corporate bodies, may lease in perpetuity and in reversion for county-hospital 2 acres or one or more houses contiguous. | ||
WHEREAS by the said act tenants for life are impowered to make see farm grants or leases in perpetuity of any quantity of ground not exceeding two acres for the purpose of erecting a county infirmary or hospital, but no provision is made by the said act to enable archbishops, bishops, governors of charities, or other corporate bodies, to make leases in perpetuity for the same purpose, which has prevented the erecting of infirmaries in several places proper for them: 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 and may be lawful for every archbishop, bishop, dignitary, prebendary, having lands belonging to such archbishop, bishop, dignitary, prebendary, near any town, and convenient for the site of any county infirmary, with the consent of his dean and chapter under the common seal, and for the governors of any charity, being a corporate body, and for all other corporate bodies having lands so situated, to make leases under their corporate seals in perpetuity and in reversion on the expiration of any subsisting lease to the respective governors of any county infirmary or hospital, of any quantity of ground not exceeding two acres, or of one or more houses contiguous with each other, at a reasonable rent; which leases the said governors are hereby impowered to take respectively for the erecting an infirmary or hospital for any county, and for converting such house or houses into an infirmary or hospital for any county. |