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Commissioners in ascertaining Amount of annual Rent shall not include any Sum added thereto since 16th August 1832
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CXXIX. Provided always, and be it enacted, That it shall and may be lawful for the said Commissioners, and they are hereby empowered and directed, in each and every Case in which they shall proceed to ascertain the Amount of the annual Rent or Rents reserved and payable out of the Lands and Premises in which the Tenant, Lessee, or Assignee thereof shall be desirous to purchase the Fee Simple and Inheritance as aforesaid, to inquire and ascertain whether any and what Addition has been made to the Rent or Rents reserved and payable to any Archbishop or Bishop or other Ecclesiastical Person out of the said Lands and Premises since the Sixteenth Day of August in the Year One thousand eight hundred and thirty-two; and in case it shall appear that the said yearly Rent or Rents has or have been increased since such Period, and that such Increase has been made in consequence of the Change of the Liability to the Payment of the Composition for Tithes, then and in every such Case the said Commissioners shall separate the Sum or Sums which shall so appear to have been added on the aforesaid Account to the yearly Rent or Rents theretofore usually reserved and payable out of such Lands and Premises, and shall not include such additional Sum or Rent in the Rent to be reserved in any Conveyance of such Lands and Premises to be executed by them or him pursuant to this Act; and the said Commissioners shall ascertain, by reference to the Lease or Contract made next before the Reservation of such additional Sum or Rent, the annual and customary Rent or Rents (penal Rents or Sums in the Nature of penal Rents excepted) reserved and payable out of the said Lands and Premises; and such annual and customary Rent or Rents shall be deemed and taken to be the annual Rent reserved and payable out of such Lands and Premises.
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