ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN Production Note Project Unica Rare Book & Manuscript Library University of Illinois Library at Urbana-Champaign 2015 ANNO QUINQUAGESIMO TERTIO GEORGII III. REGIS. ***f*#*^************************************w******* CAP. CXXXIV. An A£t to amend an Act of the Forty-fixth Year of His prefent Majeity, for fettling and fecuring a certain Annuity, and for purchafing an Eftate for the Earl Nelfon. [i 2th July 1813.] WHEREAS by an Act palled in the Forty-fixth Year of the Reign of His prefent Majelly, intituled An Aft for fettling 46G.3 and fecuring a certain Annuity on the Earl Nelfon and the Heirs Male of his Body, andftch other Pcrfons to whom the ritle of Earl Nelfon may defeend, and for granting a Sunt of Money to purchafe an EJiate to accompany the faid Title, and alfo for granting a Sum of Money for the Ufe of the Sifters of the late Vice Admiral Vifcount Nelfon, in Confideration of the eminent and fignal Services performed by the faid late Vifcount Nelfon to His Majefy and the Public, a Sum not exceeding Ninety thoufand Pounds was granted out of the Confolidated Fund of Great Britain, to the Speaker of the Houfe of Commons, the Lord High Treasurer of Great Britain, or Firft Lord Commiflioner of the Treafury, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Firft Lord Commiflioner of the Admiralty, and the Treafurer of the Navy for the Time being refpeftively, the Honourable George Walpole, Alexander Davifon Efquire, and William Hafe-wood Efquire, who were thereby required to inveit the lame in the l ur-chafe of a Manfion Houfe, and of any Freehold Manors, Lands, Tenements and Hereditaments of a good Eftate of Inheritance in Fee Simple, in Poffeflion to be free from Incumbrances, except Fee Farm Rents and Quit Rents, and other Rents and Services, and to be fituate in any Part of Great Britain, and the Manfion Houfe to be called Trafalgar Houfe; and it was ena£ted, That the faid Manfion Houle, Freehold Manors, Lands, Tenements and Hereditaments Ihould when lo purchaled be forthwith fettled, conveyed, aud allured to the Ufe of the Reverend Jtilliarn Earl Nelfon and the Heirs Male of the Body of the faid Earl Nelfon, and to fuch other Perlon to whom the T itle:, Honour and Dignity or Earl954 53° GEORGII III. Cap.134. Nelfon fliould defcenel, piiifuiiflt to thè Limitations of the Patent whereby the fail! Dignity W8S granted: And Whereas It was intended that the Manfion Hriiif■, Freehold Manors, Lands, Tenements and Hereditaments i'o to he purchafed (liould always co along and be enjoyed with the faid Title, Hbrtoiir, and Dignity of Earl Nelfon, fo long as the fame thould endure ; but Doubts may arife whether the Manfion Iloufe, Freehold Manors, Lands, Tenements, and Hereditaments, fo to be purchafed as aforefaid, would, during the Continuance of the faid Title, Honour, and Dignity, be unalienable, by reafon that no exprefs Provifion for that Purpofe is contained in thé faid recitéd Act ; be it therefore euafted by the King’s moll Excellent Majelty, by and with the Advice and Confent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this prefent Parliament affem-Premifespur- bled, and by the Authority of the fame, That fo long as the faid Title, chafed under Honour, and Dignity of Earl Nelfon ihall endure, neither the faid Earl ftll'b Aft Nelfon, nor any other Perfon to whom the Manfion Houfe, Freehold Ma-alienaUe!1' nors, Lands, Tenements, and Hereditaments fo to be purchafed, (hall or may defeend, or (land limited by virtue of the I .imitations directed by the faid recited Aft, ihall have any Power by Fine or Recovery, or by the Ex-ercife of any Power, or by any other Aft, Affurance, or Conveyance in the Law, to hinder, bar, or difinherit any the Perfori or Perfons to or upon whom the faid Manfion Hoüfe, Freehold Manors, Lands, Tenements, and Hereditaments, are by the laid recited Aft to be veiled or limited from holding òr éftjòylìig the fame according It) the faid Limitations, Other than and ekeept ludi Leafes ahd Powers of foiling and felling Timber, and dif-pofing of the Monies thereon arifing as may be made or exertifod under the Provifion^ of the faid recited Ahi, and G rants of Lands or Tenements held fey Cdpy of Cdort Roll according to the Cu'ftomsof the refpeftive Manors to be purchafed whereof the fame may be held ; but all foch Fines, Recoveries, Aits, Ailbranceti, and Conveyances, other than fuch Leafes and Powers, and ’Grants by Copy as afoteiaid, Ihall be and are herèby declared andinafted to be void. On Failure of the Title the Premifes ihall become Fee Simple, and may be dif-pofed of by Deed or Will. n. And be it further enaaed, That on Failure of the Heirs Male of the Body of the faid tVilliam Earl Nelfon, and on Failure of the faid Title, Honour, and Dignity of Earl Nelfon, the Manfion Houfe, Freehold Manors, Lands, Tenements, and Hereditaments, fo to be purchafed as atoreiaid, (hall remain to the Ufe of the faid Willkm Earl Nelfon, and his Heirs and Aligns for ever, which ultimate Remainder or Reverfion in Fee Simple, it (ball be lawful for the faid William Earl Nelfon, his Heirs and Aligns, at any Time or Times during the Continuance ot the faid litle, Honour, and Dignity of Earl Nelfon, and notwithllandmg any Thing herem-betore contained, to grant, convey, devife, or dilpofc ot, by Deed or Will, or other Ailurahce or Affurances, whereby Freehold Eltates in Remainder or Reverfion are by Law capable of being conveyed or difpofod of. A Manfion Houfe to be built and Pleafure Grounds provided. HI. Provided always, and be it further enacSled, That it fhal and may je lawful to and for the Perfons by the faid recited Aft authorized to nvelt a Sum not exceeding Ninety thoufand Pounds 111 the Manner atore-aSd, toetift and build, or caufe to beerefted and built, uponlart ot the [,-ind Which Brail be purchafed as aforefaid, a Manfion Houfe, with fuitable Out-offices and Ottt-buildings, wtach m their Ddcrehonand ludgCrtiCnt Ihall be fuitable and fit for the Refidence of the Earl Nefm for the Time being, and to lay out and appropriate, according to Inch Difcrefion and Judgement, any Part or Parts ol fuch Land to be fo P - S3* GEORGII III. Cap.134. 955 chafed, as and for a Garden or Gardens, and as and for a Park or Pleafure Ground or Grounds, and to make, ereil and build, or caufe to be made, erefled, and built thereon, fuch Edifices or Buildings and Walls and Fences as (hall, according to fuch Difcretion and Judgement, be fitting and proper, and to pay and apply a l'ufficient Part of the faid Sum of Ninety thoufand Pounds, but not exceeding the Sum of Ten thoufand Pounds, in fatisfying and difcharging the Coils and Expences of erefting and building fuch Manfion Houfe, Out-offices, and Out-buildings, and of making, eredting, and building fuch other Eredtions, Walls, and Fences, and laying out and appropriating fuch Garden or Gardens, Park, or Pleafure Ground or Grounds as aforefaid, and of making fuch Avenues, Walks and Rides, Borders and Divifions in the fame Garden or Gardens, Park, and Pleafure Ground or Grounds, and of planting and furnilhing the fame refpedtively with fuch Trees, Roots, Shrubs, and Plants, as in fuch Difcretion and Judgement as aforefaid (hall be fit and proper ; and alfo that it (hall and may be lawful to and for the Perfons fo authorized by the faid recited A£t to make fuch Invellments as aforefaid, to pull down or caufe to be pulled down any Eredtions or Buildings that (hall or may be Handing or being upon the Lands which (hall be fo purchafed as aforefaid, and to fell and difpofe of all or any of the old Materials, and to give fufficient Receipts or Difcharges for the Price at which the fame Materials or any Part or Parts thereof (hall be fold, or otherwife to caufe fuch Materials or any Part thereof to be ufed and worked up in making fuch new Eredlions or Buildings, or other Works as aforefaid, or in fuch Repairs or other Works as herein-after mentioned; all which Sum or Sums to be received as the Price of old Materials fold as aforefaid, (hall be poffelfed by the Perfons receiving the fame, upon the like Trulls as are by the faid recited Aft declared of the Money thereby authorized to be paid to Truilees thereby appointed as aforefaid. IV. Provided alfo, and it is hereby enadted, That in cafe the Perfons authorized to make fuch Inveftment as aforefaid fhall think it fitting, it fhall and may be lawful to and for them, and they are hereby authorized to repair and put in complete Repair, and make any Additions to or Alterations in any Meffuage or Manfion Houfe, Out-offices and Outbuildings, that fhall or may be (landing or being upon the Lands which fhall be fo purchafed as aforefaid, and to make any Erections or Buildings, Plantations or other Improvements, or any Alterations in or Additions to or Subilitutions for all or any Part or Parts of the Lands fo to be purchafed, which (hall have been already laid out, or fhall be deemed proper to be laid out as and for a Garden or Gardens, Park, or Pleafure Ground or Grounds, fo as in the Judgement and Difcretion of the fame Perfons to render the Whole fit for fuch Refidence as aforefaid, and to pay and apply fufficient Part of the faid Sum of Ninety thoufand Pounds, but not exceeding the Sum of Ten thoufand Pounds, in fatisfying and difcharging the Coils and Expences of fuch Repairs, Alterations, Additions, Subilitutions, and Improvements laft herein-before mentioned. Buildings already erected may be altered for a Manfion Houfe. LONDON: Printed by Georoe Eyre and Andrew Strahan, Printers to the King’s moil Excellent Majelty. 1813.