Crown Lands Act, 1852
CROWN LANDS ACT 1852 | ||
CAP. LXII. | ||
An Act to alter and amend certain Acts relating to the Woods, Forests, and Land Revenues of the Crown. [30th June 1852.] | ||
‘WHEREAS by an Order under the Hands of Two of the Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury, bearing Date on or about the Twenty-ninth Day of January One thousand eight hundred and fifty-two, the said Commissioners, by virtue of the Powers vested in them for that Purpose by the Act passed in the last Session of Parliament, Chapter Forty-two, did assign to the Right Honourable Thomas Francis Kennedy, One of the Commissioners of Woods, Forests, and Land Revenues, the Management and Direction of or in relation to (among other Woods, Forests, and Land Revenues,) Dean Forest and High Meadow Woods, and the Office of Gaveller of Dean Forest, and they did by the said Order assign to the said Thomas Francis Kennedy the whole Duties and Powers whatsoever which but for their said Order might be exercised by the said Commissioners jointly relative to the Premises the Management and Direction whereof was so thereby assigned to the said Thomas Francis Kennedy; and the said Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury did by the said Order assign to the Honourable Charles Alexander Gore, the other of the said Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Woods, Forests, and Land Revenues, the Management and Direction of or in relation to the Woods, Forests, and Land Revenues therein particularly mentioned, and also the Office of Conservator of the River Mersey, and, subject to the specific Assignment of Duties and Powers to the said Thomas Francis Kennedy, they did by the said Order assign to the said Charles Alexander Gore the whole of the Duties and Powers whatsoever which but for that Order might have been exercised by the said Commissioners jointly relative to the Woods, Forests, and Land Revenues, and the Office the Management and Direction whereof were so thereby assigned to the said Charles Alexander Gore: And whereas Doubts have been entertained as to whether such Order of the Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury as aforesaid is effectual for vesting the aforesaid Offices and other Offices and Duties in the said Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Woods, Forests, and Land Revenues respectively for all Purposes, and it is expedient that such Doubts be removed: And whereas it is expedient that the Provisions contained in the Eighth Section of the Act passed in the Session of Parliament held in the Eighth and Ninth Years of Her present Majesty, Chapter Ninety-nine, should be extended, and that such further Provisions relating to the Management of the Woods, Forests, and Land Revenues of the Crown should be made as are herein-after contained:’ Be it therefore declared and enacted by the Queen’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, |