Parliament House Act, 1802
PARLIAMENT HOUSE ACT 1802 | ||
C A P. LXXXVII. | ||
An Act to enable the Lord High Treasurer, or Commissioners of his Majesty’s Treasury of Ireland for the Time being, to sell, lease, convey, or dispose of the Parliament House in the City of Dublin, and all the Premises and Appurtenances thereunto belonging, to the Governor and Company of the Bank of Ireland. [22d June 1802.] | ||
Recital of Indenture of Demise to K.Geo. 2. dated April 5, 1729. | ||
Irish Acts, 3 G. 2. c. 8. | ||
7 G. 2. c. 7. [§ 7, &c.] | ||
The Premises described in the recited Indenture and Acts, and also all Buildings, &c. used for the Houses of Parliament of Ireland, &c. or within the Precincts thereor, vested in the Treasury of Ireland. | ||
‘Whereas by Indenture bearing Date the fifth Day of April One thousand seven hundred and twenty-nine, made or mentioned to be made between the Right Honourable Benjamin Parry of the City of Dublin, Esquire, one of his Majesty’s most Honourable Privy Council of the Kingdom of Ireland, of the one Part; and his most Sacred Majesty George the Second, by the Grace of God, of Great Britain, France, and Ireland King, Defender of the Faith, and so forth, of the other Part; the said Benjamin Parry, for the Considerations therein mentioned, did demise, grant, set, and to farm let unto his said Majesty, and his Successors, all that Parcel of Ground in the Suburbs of the City of Dublin whereon the House commonly called Chichesler House stood, and wherein both Houses of Parliament then lately sat, and all Houses, Messuages, Outhouses, Yards, Yards, Backsides, Courts, and Parcels of Ground, in a Survey to the said Lease annexed, particularly laid down and described, together with all and singular the Lights, Ways, Easements, Rights, Members, and Appurtenances to all and singular the said demised Premises belonging, or in anywise appertaining, to have and to hold all and singular the said thereby demised Premises, or meant, mentioned, or intended to be thereby demised, with their and every of their Appurtenances, unto his said Majesty and his Successors, without Impeachment of Waste, for and during, and to the full End, Term, Time, and Space of nine thousand Years, from the thirtieth Day of April last past before the Date thereof, and from thenceforth fully to be compleat and ended; his said Majesty and his Successors, yielding and paying therefore and thereout, yearly and every Year during the said Term, unto the said Benjamin Parry, his Heirs and Assigns, the Rent in and by the said Indenture reserved: And whereas certain other Grounds, Houses, Tenements, and Appurtenances mentioned in an Act, made by the Parliament of Ireland in the third Year of the Reign of his said late Majesty King George the Second, intituled, An Act to enable his Majesty to purchase in the respective Interests of the several Persons entitled to the Houses and Grounds adjoining to the new Parliament House; and in another Act, made by the Parliament of Ireland in the Seventh Year of the Reign of his said late Majesty King George the Second, intituled, An Act for continuing several temporary Statutes; and for other Purposes therein mentioned, did under and by virtue of the said recited Acts, and of certain Proceedings authorized by the same, become vested in his said late Majesty King George the Second, his Heirs and Successors; and all the Premises herein-before mentioned are now vested in his present Majesty, his Heirs and Successors: And whereas under and by virtue of several Acts made in the Parliament of Ireland, divers Sums of Money were from Time to Time granted to the Commissioners appointed for making wide and convenient Passages through the City of Dublin, towards purchasing certain Houses and Grounds for the Purposes of widening the Approaches to the said Parliament House, great Part of which said Houses and Grounds adjoining or lying near to the said Parliament House still remain vested in the said Commissioners, under and by virtue of the said Acts or some of them: And whereas all the said Premises may, with great publick Advantage be converted into Offices, Apartments, and Premises, for transacting the Business of the Governor and Company of the Bank of Ireland; and the said Governor and Company of the said Bank of Ireland, have offered to pay the Sum of forty thousand Pounds Irish Currency, for the Purchase of all the said Premises, subject to all such Rents and Charges as the same are liable to, such Purchase Money to be applied in Manner hereinafter mentioned; and his Majesty hath been graciously pleased to consent that the said Premises shall be so appropriated; and his Majesty is therefore pleased and contented that the same be enacted accordingly;’ be it therefore 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 all and singular the Premises herein-before particularly mentioned and described, and all Edisices, Erections, and Buildings whatsoever, now standing and being thereon, or on any Part thereof, with their and every of their Rights, Members, and Appurteuances, whatsoever, which by the said recited Indenture and Acts of Parliament, or otherwise howsoever, were vested or intended to be vested in his said late Majesty King George the Second, and which are now vested in his present Majesty, his Heirs and Successors, and also all such Grounds, Buildings, Messuages, and Tenements, with their and every of their Rights, Members, and Appurtenances, as were heretofore used or employed as and for both or either Houses of the Parliament of Ireland, and for Offices for the Use of such Houses, or whereof or wherein his Majesty, his Heirs and Successors, or any Person or Persons in Trust for him or them, now have or hath, or can or may have any Estate or Interest, and also all such Lands, Grounds, Buildings, Messuages, and Tenements, situate, standing, lying, or being within the Precincts of the said Parliament House, and which, under and by virtue, or in pursuance of any Act or Acts of the Parliament of Ireland, have become or now are vested in the said Commissioners for making wide and convenient Passages through the City of Dublin, with their and every of their Rights, Members, and Appurtenances, and all and every of the said Premises shall be vested in, and the same are hereby vested in the Lord High Treasurer, or Commissioners of his Majesty’s Treasury for that Part of the United Kingdom called Ireland, now or for the Time being, to the Intent that all and every the said Premises may be bargained and sold, or leased, disposed of, or applied in Manner herein-after mentioned. |