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Commissioners may purchase houses or lands, and exchange school lands, &c. for sites of schools.
Limited owners may grant lands, &c.
Irish Act, 2 Ann. c. 10.
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27. And . . . for the obtaining and providing of school houses in such situations as the commissioners under this Act may deem proper and convenient, it shall and may be lawful to and for the commissioners under this Act for the time being to purchase to them and their successors respectively houses already built, with conveniences thereunto belonging, or lands and tenements fit for such buildings and conveniences for school houses, and for the habitations of schoolmasters and their successors for ever, thenceforth to be part of the demesne and land belonging to any school unalienable, and not to be let or disposed of to any other use whatever; and . it shall and may be lawful for the said commissioners under this Act for the time being by deed or deeds to exchange any part of the demesnes or lands belonging to any school under the jurisdiction of the said commissioners, with any person or persons, or body corporate or politic, for lands of equal value, worth, and purchase, lying more convenient for the scite of any such school than such demesnes or lands of the said schools so to be exchanged; and . it shall and may be lawful to and for all and every persons and person being seized of an estate tail in possession, and for all and every persons and person being seized of an estate for life in possession, by his or their deed or deeds under his or their hand and seal or hands and seals, to grant, sell, and exchange such his or their lands or any part thereof for a demesne for any free school, or for any master of a free school, in such manner and to such effect as persons seized of any estate tail in possession or any estate for life in possession are enabled to grant, sell, or exchange such lands under or by virtue of any Act or Acts in force in Ireland relative to exchange of glebe lands, or for the encouragement of protestant schools there, and under such restrictions and regulations as are contained in an Act made by the Parliament of Ireland in the second year of the reign of her late Majesty Queen Anne for the exchange of glebes belonging to churches in Ireland, or any Act or Acts for amending the same, or for extending the benefits thereof.
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