Crown Land Revenues Act 1854

CROWN LAND REVENUES ACT 1854

CAP. LXVIII.

An Act to provide for the Application of certain Stock purchased with Monies which arose from the Sale of Part of the Land Revenues of the Crown in Ireland. [31st July 1854].

WHEREAS there is now standing in the Names of the Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury Forty-one thousand one hundred and seventy-six Pounds and Tenpence Three Pounds Five Shillings per Centum Bank Annuities in the Books of the Governor and Company of the Bank of Ireland, purchased with Monies which arose from the Sales of certain Quitrents and other Hereditaments, Part of the Possessions and Land Revenues of the Crown in Ireland, such Sales having been made under the Authority of an Act passed in the Session of Parliament held in the Third Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Fourth, Chapter Sixty-three, by which Act it was provided that no Part of the Stock, Funds, or Annuities to be purchased with the Monies to arise from any Sale thereby authorized should at any Time be transferred or transferable without the Authority of Parliament: And whereas it is expedient that the said Forty-one thousand one hundred and seventy-six Pounds and Tenpence Three Pounds Five Shillings per Centum Bank Annuities should be applied as herein-after mentioned:’ Be it therefore 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, as follows: