General Post Office Dublin (Amendment) Act 1809
GENERAL POST OFFICE DUBLIN (AMENDMENT) ACT 1809 | ||
CAP. LXX. | ||
An Act to amend an Act passed in the Forty-eighth Year of His present Majesty, to enable His Majesty’s Postmaster General of Ireland to purchase Premises for the Enlargement of the General Post Office in the City of Dublin. [3d June 1809.] | ||
48 G.3.c.48. | ||
Postmaster General of Ireland may contract for the Premises on which the Post Office in Dublin stands, &c. | ||
WHEREAS by an Act passed in the Forty-eighth Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, intituled, An Act to enable His Majesty’s Post Master General of Ireland to purchase Premises for the Enlargement of the General Post Office in the City of Dublin, it was enacted, that it should and might he lawful to and for His Majesty’s Post Master General of Ireland for the Time being, from Time to Time to contract with the Owner or Owners, Proprietor or Proprietors of any House or Houses, Building or Buildings, Parcel or Parcels, Plot or Plots of Ground adjoining or contiguous to the General Post Office in the City of Dublin, and with the Lessee or Lessees of any such Owner or Owners, Proprietor or Proprietors; or in case any such Owner or Owners, Proprietor or Proprietors, Lessee or Lessees, should be an Infant or Infants, with the Guardian or Guardians of any such Infant or Infants; for the Purchase of any such House or Houses, Building or Buildings, Plot or Plots, Parcel or Parcels of Ground, under and subject to the several Clauses, Powers, Provisoes, and Conditions in said recited Act mentioned: And whereas it is now found expedient and necessary, to enable the said Post Master General to purchase the Ground and Premises whereon the said Post Office has been erected and now stands, and also to extend the Clauses, Powers, Provisoes, and Conditions of the said recited Act to the Committees of Idiots and Lunatics, and Assignees of Bankrupts: 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 it shall and may be lawful to and for His Majesty’s Postmaster General of Ireland for the Time being, to contract with the Owner or Owners, Proprietor or Proprietors of the Ground or Premises whereon the Post Office in the City of Dublin, and its Appendances and Appurtenances, and all Buildings belonging thereunto had been erected and now stand, and with the Lessee or Lessees of such Owner or Owners, Proprietor or Proprietors; or in case any such Owner or Owners, Proprietor or Proprietors, Lessee or Lessees, shall be an Infant or Infants, Idiot or Idiots, Lunatic or Lunatics, Bankrupt or Bankrupts, with the Guardian or Guardians, Committee or Committees, Assignee or Assignees of every such Infant or Infants, Idiot or Idiots, Lunatic or Lunatics, Bankrupt or Bankrupts respectively; for the Purchase of said Ground or Premises, and for the respective Interests of such Persons, to and for the Use of His Majesty and His Successors, under and subject, in case of any Disagreement, Doubt, Claim, or Difficulty, to all and singular the Clauses, Powers, Provisoes, Restrictions, Limitations, and Conditions, in said recited Act, as fully and effectually as if such Clauses, Powers, Provisoes, Restrictions, Limitations, and Conditions, were repeated and re-enacted in this Act; and that all Sales, Grants, and Conveyances of said Ground or Premises to the said Postmaster General, shall have the same force and effect, to all Intents and Purposes, as any Sale, Grant, or Conveyance, made or executed under and by virtue of the said recited Act. |