Sites for Schoolrooms Act 1836
SITES FOR SCHOOLROOMS ACT 1836 | ||
CAP. LXX. | ||
An Act to facilitate the Conveyance of Sites for School Rooms. [13th August 1836.] | ||
Lords of Manors may convey any Part of Commons or Wastes as Sites for Poor Schools. | ||
‘WHEREAS it is expedient to promote the Education of poor Children in the Principles of true Religion and useful Knowledge, and to afford additional Facilities for the Erection of School Rooms to be used for that Purpose:’ 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 from and after the passing of this Act it shall be lawful for the Lord or Lady of any Manor, whether seised in Fee Simple, Fee Tail, or for Life, or being a Corporation Aggregate or Sole, or a Feme Covert (with the Consent of her Husband), or a Minor (with the Consent of his or her Guardian or Guardians), or an Idiot or Lunatic (by his or her Committee or Committees), to convey to the Incumbent and Churchwardens of any Parish in which a School for the Education of poor Children is intended to be erected, or to the Trustees of any such School in any Parish or Extra-parochial Place, so much of the Common or Waste Grounds in any such Parish or Extra-parochial Place as may be required for the Site of such School, and of a House or Houses for the Master or Mistress of such School; and the Conveyance of such Part of the Common or Waste Grounds by the Lord or Lady of the Manor wherein the same shall be situate shall be a good and sufficient Conveyance for the Purpose of vesting the Fee Simple and Inheritance thereof in the Parties to whom the same shall be conveyed, for the Purpose herein-before specified as fully and effectually as if every Person having Right of Common upon such Common or Waste Grounds had joined in and executed such Conveyance. |