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Corporations and incapacitated Persons may contract with Commissioners.
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XIX. And be it enacted, That it shall be lawful for all Bodies Politic or Corporate or Collegiate whatsoever, whether Sole or Aggregate, all Tenants in Tail or for Life, or for any other partial or qualified Estates or Interests, Husbands, Guardians, Trustees, or Feoffees in Trust for charitable or other Purposes, Committees, Executors, and Administrators, and all Trustees and Persons whomsoever, not only for and on behalf of themselves, their Heirs, Successors, Executors, and Administrators, but also for and on behalf of the Person or Persons entitled in Reversion, Remainder, or Expectancy after them, if incapacitated, and for and on behalf of their Cestuique Trusts, whether Infants, Issue unborn, Lunatics, Idiots, Femes Covert, who are or shall be seised, possessed of, or interested in their own Right, or entitled to Dower or other Interest, and for the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty, Her Heirs and Successors, and for all and every other Person or Persons whomsoever who is or shall be seised, possessed of, or interested in any Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments or other Matters or Things, or shall have or enjoy any Powers, Rights, Privileges, or Franchises, which the said Commissioners shall require for the Purposes of this Act, or which shall be injured thereby, to contract for the Sale or Demise of and to sell or demise the same and every or any Part thereof unto the said Commissioners for the Execution of this Act, and to execute a Conveyance or Conveyances thereof if the same shall be required by the said Commissioners, or to agree with the said Commissioners for the Amount of Compensation which should be paid for any Injury thereto, and also to execute any Conveyance and enter into any Contract which the said Commissioners shall deem necessary for the due Execution of this Act; and all Contracts, Agreements, and Conveyances which shall be so made by such Persons as aforesaid shall be good and valid in Law to all Intents and Purposes whatsoever, any Law, Statute, Usage, or Custom to the contrary thereof in anywise notwithstanding; and all Companies, Corporations, and Persons whomsoever, so contracting, selling, demising, or conveying as aforesaid, are hereby indemnified for or in respect of any such Contract, Sale, Demise, or Conveyance which he, she, or any of them shall respectively make by virtue or in pursuance of this Act; and the said Commissioners are hereby authorized and empowered with the Consent and Approbation of the said Commissioners of the Treasury, to contract with the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty, Her Heirs and Successors, and all or any of such Companies, Corporations, or Persons as aforesaid, for the Purchase of the Premises aforesaid, or for the Amount of Compensation which should be paid for any Injury thereto or to any Part thereof, all which Contracts shall be in Writing, and shall, if it seem expedient to the Commissioners so to direct, be duly enrolled in the Rolls Office of Her Majesty’s High Court of Chancery in Ireland.
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