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CROWN LANDS ACT 1873
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CHAPTER 36.
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An Act for making provision as to certain portions of Her Majesty’s Woods, Forests, and Land Revenues, and for other purposes relating thereto. [7th July 1873.]
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BE it 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:
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Newborough and St. Peter’s Aldborough Hatch Parsonages.
Appropriation of house and land as parsonage house and garden for parish of Newborough.
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1. Whereas a piece of land containing about four acres, situate in the parish of Newborough in the county of Northampton, and being part of lands to which Her Majesty is entitled in right of her Crown, has for some time past, with the sanction of the Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Woods, Forests, and Land Revenues, been appropriated as the site of a parsonage house, and as a garden attached thereto, but doubts have been entertained whether such piece of land has been legally appropriated for the purposes aforesaid: And whereas a plan of the said piece of land has been signed by the Honourable Charles Alexander Gore, one of the said Commissioners, and having been marked with the letter A, has been deposited at the office of Land Revenue Records Inrolments, and upon such plan the said piece of land is coloured yellow: Be it enacted, that the said piece of land coloured yellow on the said plan A, with the parsonage house and buildings standing thereon, shall be vested for an estate in fee simple in the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England, for the purposes of the Church Building Acts, as the site of and as a parsonage house and garden for the parish of Newborough in the county of Northampton.
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Appropriation of house and land as vicarage house, garden, and glebe for vicarage of St. Peter, Aldborough Hatch.
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2. Whereas a piece of land containing about five acres, being situate in the parish of Barking in the county of Essex, and being part of lands to which Her Majesty is entitled in right of her Crown, has, with the sanction of the Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Woods, Forests, and Land Revenues, been appropriated as the site of a vicarage house with the garden and appurtenances thereto, and as glebe for the vicarage of Saint Peter, Aldborough Hatch, but doubts have been entertained whether the said piece of land has been legally appropriated for the purposes aforesaid: And whereas a plan of the said piece of land has been signed by the said Honourable Charles Alexander Gore, one of the said Commissioners, and having been marked with the letter B, has been deposited at the office of Land Revenue Records and Inrolments, and upon such plan the said piece of land is coloured red: Be it enacted, that the said piece of land coloured red on the said plan B, with the house and buildings standing thereon, shall be vested for an estate in fee simple in the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England, for the purposes of the Church Building Acts, as the site of and as a vicarage house, with the garden and appurtenances thereto, and as a glebe for the vicarage of Saint Peter, Aldborough Hatch.
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Mersey Conservancy.
The President of the Board of Trade to be a Commissioner of the Mersey Conservancy.
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3. The President for the time being of the Board of Trade shall be a conservator or commissioner of the conservancy of the river Mersey, in the place of the Commissioners for the time being of Her Majesty’s Woods, Forests, and Land Revenues, or one of them.
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Mining Leases.
Power to grant mining leases for 63 years.
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4. The powers of leasing given by an Act of the session holden in the tenth year of His Majesty King George the Fourth, chapter fifty, shall extend to enable the Commissioners for the time being of Her Majesty’s Woods, Forests, and Land Revenues, or either of them, with the consent of the Commissioners for the time being of Her Majesty’s Treasury, to grant or enter into any agreement to grant leases of any mines, minerals, or other metallic or non-metallic substances or substrata obtained by mining, quarrying, or excavating, for any term or terms of years not exceeding sixty-three years from the time of the granting of the lease or from the date of the agreement, as the case may be, or for any term or terms of years which with any term of years in existence at the time of granting the lease or the date of the agreement will together make up a term not exceeding sixty-three years from such time or date.
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Every such lease or agreement may be made upon such conditions, and may contain such reservations by way of, or wholly or partially in lieu of rent or other consideration, and such covenants and stipulations, as the Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Woods, Forests, and Land Revenues, or either of them, with the consent of the Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury, may approve: Provided always, that nothing in this section contained shall apply to any mine of gold or silver.
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Registration of Deeds in Scotland.
Registration of deeds in Court of Session.
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5. A copy of or an extract from the record of any lease, conveyance, deed, or document registered for behoop of the Crown in terms of the Act of the third and fourth years of His Majesty King William the Fourth, chapter sixty-nine, in the office of Chancery of Scotland, shall be equivalent to the principal of such lease, conveyance, deed, or document, if such copy or extract is attested as a true copy or extract by the officer for the time being having the custody of the record of the principal of such lease, conveyance, deed, or document; and the keeper of the register, of deeds, probative writs, and protests for Scotland shall record any such attested copy or extract in the books of council and session in the same manner as if the principal lease, conveyance, deed, or document duly authenticated had been presented to him for registration. And when any such copy or extract has been so recorded as aforesaid in the books of council and session, such record shall be deemed to be for all intents and purposes a record of the principal lease, conveyance, deed, or document, or of so much thereof as shall be so recorded; and the keeper of the said register shall issue a copy or extract of any such record as aforesaid containing, when required, a warrant in the same terms and which shall have the same effect as if the principal lease, conveyance, deed, or document had been recorded in the books of council and session. Registration of deeds in Court of Session.
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Evidence of Commissioners of Woods Reports to Parliament.
Printed copies of Commissioners of Woods reports to Parliament to be admissible in evidence in lieu of originals.
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6. Any document purporting to be a print or copy in print of any report purporting to be made by the Commissioners or any Surveyor General for the time being of Her Majesty’s Woods, Forests, and Land Revenues, or either of them, or by any Surveyor General of the Land Revenues of the Crown, or by the late Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Woods, Forests, Land Revenues, Works, and Buildings, to Her Majesty or any of her royal predecessors or successors, or the Houses of Parliament, or either of them, shall at all times hereafter be admissible in evidence in any Court of Justice, or before any person for the time being having by law or by consent of parties authority to hear, receive, or examine evidence to the same extent as the original report would have been admissible if produced from the proper custody and duly proved in evidence, provided that such document purports to have been printed by order of either House of Parliament, or have upon it words denoting that the report was ordered by either House of Parliament to be printed.
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General Saving.
Saving of rights of private persons, &c.
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7. Saving to all persons, bodies politic or corporate, and their respective heirs, executors, administrators, successors, and assigns (other than in the cases already provided for or intended to be provided for in this Act), all such estates, rights, titles, and interests as they respectively have at the passing of this Act, or might or could have had if this Act had not passed.
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Short Title.
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8. This Act may be cited as “The Crown Lands Act, Short title. 1873.”
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