Dublin Leases Act 1781
DUBLIN LEASES ACT 1781 | ||
CHAP. XII. | ||
An Act to receive and amend an Act passed in the seventeenth and eighteenth Years of his present Majesty’s Reign, intituled, An Act for the further Improvement of the City of Dublin, in the Manner therein mentioned. | ||
Ends of said act truth rated by death of John archbishop of Dublin. | ||
Archbishops of Dublin may grant leases for 40 years, and review of plot herein. | ||
reserved rent to be double the annual rent payable out of said plot to archbishop for 20 years last past. | ||
WHEREAS the ends proposed by the abovementioned act, have been frustrated by the death of his grace John, late archbishop of Dublin, and by the omission of such persons as were by the said act impowered to take leases during the life-time of the said archbishop: and whereas the first or immediate tenant under the see of Dublin, of the plot of ground herein after mentioned, being part of the farm of Saint Sepulchre’s, in the county of Dublin, adjoining said city, hath not renewed with the archbishop of Dublin, as hath been heretofore customary, and has suffered eight years of the lease under said see to expire, although several persons holding under such first tenant, in confidence of a permanent tenure, by virtue of toties quoties covenants in their respective leases, have built houses, and expended very large sums of money on the said plot of ground: and whereas by such omission to renew, there is great danger, that the several houses on the said plot of ground, may, on account of the shortness of the present tenure for which they are held, being but twenty one years, of which thirteen only are unexpired, become ruinous and untenanted, to the detriment of the said see, and annoyance to one of the principal approaches to the city of Dublin; And whereas many persons are deterred from laying out farther sums of money, by the shortness and uncertainty of said tenure, by which the improvement of said see, and of the metropolis is greatly retarded; therefore 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, notwithstanding any lease or leases in being, it shall and may be lawful for his grace the archbishop of Dublin, and his successors respectively, to grant to the tenants of the said plot or any of them having a toties quoties clause under said see, any concurrent or other lease or leases in the manner herein after set forth, of all or any part or parts of said plot of ground, being parcel of said farm, bounded on the south by a part of the circular road, on the north by Cuff-street and a part of Saint Stephen’s-green, on the west by Kevan’s-street leading to Milltown, and on the east by the road from Saint Stephen’s-green to Donnybrook, for any term not exceeding forty years, and that it shall and may be lawful for the said archbishop and his successors respectively, from time to time, to renew the same for a like term of forty years: provided that the rent to be reserved to the said archbishop and his successors, by such lease or leases, and upon each and every renewal and renewals thereof, be so soon as the same shall take effect in possession, not less than a full acreable proportion of double the highest annual rent payable out of the whole of the said farm of saint Sepulchre’s, to the said archbishop and his predecessors for twenty years last past; any law or statute to the contrary notwithstanding. |