School Sites (Ireland) Act 1810
SCHOOL SITES (IRELAND) ACT 1810 | ||
CAP. XXXIII. | ||
An Act for enabling Tenants in Tail and for Life, and also Ecclesiastical Persons, to grant Land for the Purpose of endowing Schools in Ireland. [24th May 1810.] | ||
Irish Act, 5 G. 2. | ||
Land Owners may grant Land not exceeding Half an Acre within a Corporate Town, or Two Acres elsewhere, for the Endowment of Schools, &c. | ||
WHEREAS by an Act of Parliament passed in Ireland in the Fifth Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Second, intituled, An Act for the further explaining and amending the several Laws for preventing Frauds committed by Tenants, and for the more casy Renewal at Leases, and for the further Amendment of the Law in certain Cases therein mentioned, it is amongst other Thing seised, That it shall and may be lawful for all Persons whatsoever seised in Fee Simple, Fee Tail, or for Life, in Possession in any Lands, with immediate Remainder to his, her, or their own Issue, by his, her, or their Deeds respectively, to grant any Part of such Lands not exceeding One Acre Plantation Measure, of the yearly Value of Thirty Shillings, and being no Part of the Demesne Lands usually occupied with or reputed as Demesne to the Mansion or Chief Dwelling House belonging to such Tenant in Fee Simple, Fee Tail, or for Life, for the Use of Resident Protestant Schoolmaster to teach the English Tongue, and that the Minister and Churchwardens, and their Successors for ever of each respective Parish where such Acre of Land is or shall be so granted or set apart, shall be empowered and made capable of receiving such Grant or Grants of Land, nor exceeding One Acre Plantation Measure, for the Use of such English Resident Protestant Schoolmaster to teach the English Tongue, and to no other Intent or Use whatever: And whereas the Provisions of the said Act in that respect have been found insufficient; 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 from and after the pasting of this Act, it shall and may be lawful to and for all Persons whatsoever seised of any Lands in Fee Simple, Fee Tail, or for Life in Possession, with immediate Remainder to his, her, or their Issue of any Interest in Lands, by his or their Deeds respectively, so grant any Part of such Lands not exceeding Half an Acre Irish Plantation Measure within the Liberties of any City or Corporate Town in Ireland, nor Two Acres Irish Plantation Measure in any other Part of Ireland, of whatever yearly Value the same may be, and being no Part of the Demesne Lands usually occupied with or reputed as Demesne, to the Mansion or Chief Dwelling House belonging to such Tenant in Fee Tail, or for Life, to any Person or persons, Body or Bodies Corporate, whether Aggregate or Sole, who shall be approved of for that Purpose by the Bishop of the Diocese in which such Lands lie, and to his and their Heirs or Successors in Fee Simple, or for any letter Interest, such Approbation to be expressed by such Bishop being a Party to and signing and sealing such Deed, in Trust and for the Use of a Resident Schoolmaster, and subject to such Conditions respecting the Mode of appointing such Schoolmaster and his Successors, and the Plan of Education and Regulation of such School and its Concerns as shall be specified in such Deed, or as shall afterwards be agreed on by and between the Person or Persons so making such Grant of Land, or his or their Heirs, on the One Part, and all and every or any Person or Persons, Body or Bodies Politic or Corporate, their Heirs or Successors, on the other Part, who shall advance or shall have advanced any of his or their Money, or any Part of the Funds entrusted to their Management, to the Amount of not less than One hundred Pounds Sterling, either for the building of a School House on the Lands so granted, or for the Endowment of the Schoolmaster. |