Leases for Cotton Manufacture Act 1800
LEASES FOR COTTON MANUFACTURE ACT 1800 | ||
CHAP. XC. | ||
An Act for the further Encouragement of the Cotton Manufacture, by enabling Tenants for Life to make Leases for Suites of Mills. | ||
Friday the First Day of August, One thousand eight hundred, Royal Affront given. | ||
JOHN GAYER, D. CLER. PARL. | ||
Preamble. | ||
Lands may be demised as herein, to parsons who engage to carry on the cotton manufacture; | ||
Conditions on which such land may be demised. | ||
Buildings, &c. to be completed within five years. | ||
Such leases shall be good so long as lessees perform covenants. | ||
WHEREAS the powers given by former acts of parliament to tenants in tail, or for life, to demise certain parts of their settled lands for any term of years, or for lives renewable for ever, for the purpose of making bleach yards or bleach greens, or carrying on some branch of the linen manufacture thereon, and furnishing conveniencies for the persons to be employed therein, have been found to be very beneficial to the said manufacture, and it will tend to the general improvement of the kingdom to enable persons so seized in tail or for life, to grant leases for lives renewable, or for long term of years, of certain parts of their settled lands, for the purpose of making thereon other mills and machinery to be used in other manufactures, 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 and may be lawful to and for every person seized, in possession, in law, or in equity of any estate in see tail, or for life, with immediate remainder over to or in trust for his or her issue, and to and for the guardian or guardians of any minor being so seized, by and with the consent and approbation of the lord chancellor, lord keeper, or commissioners for the custody of the great seal, for the time being, such consent to be obtained by a petition to him or them for that purpose, to demise any land out of such estate whereof he or she shall be so seized, being no part of the demesne usually occupied with his or her mansion house, and not exceeding fifteen acres plantation measure in the whole, for three lives renewable for ever, to any person or persons who shall engage and contract to carry on it and upon such lands to be so demised the cotton manufacture, and furnishing conveniencies for the persons to be employed in such manufacture; provided, that the best an highest rent be reserved for the land so to be demised without fine, and that one half year’s rent of the said demised land be reserved as a renewal fine on the fall of every life, to be paid within six months after the fall of such life, and that the lessee or lessees do covenant by such lease or leases, to expend upon the land so demised, the sum of fifty pound sterling for every acre so to be demised, in erecting mills houses, and other buildings fit and well adapted for carrying on some branch or branches of the cotton manufacture, and furnishing conveniencies for the persons to be employed therein, or any manufacture in which cotton shall be a principal material, and do covenant to preserve and keep the same in proper order and repair, and to carry or cause to be carrier on in and upon such lands to be so demised, some branch of branches of the manufacture of cotton, or other manufacture in which cotton shall be a principal material, during the continuance of every such demise, and in furnishing conveniencies for the persons to be employed therein; and provided that such mills, houses, and buildings, be erected and completed within five years after making of every such demise, and that every lease that shall be so made, agreeably to the conditions and terms aforesaid, and according to the true intent and meaning of this act, shall, so long as such lessee or lessees shall duly perform, such covenant or covenants for building and for carrying on the paid manufacture, or some branch thereof, in and upon the lands so to be demised, shall be good and valid, and effectual, notwithstanding and settlement or devise restraining such tenant fr life or in tail from making such lease or leases, and shall be good, valid, and effectual against any and every person claiming any estate in such land, as issue, in tail, or by virtue of any limitation, remainder, or reversion in any with settlement, or other title under which such tenant in tail or for life, shall be entitled to such land at the time of making every such lease. |