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London, England, 1830-04-15 00:00:00

ABSTRACT OF THE ACT.

Whereas great inconveniences have arisen from the incapacity of
ecclesiastical persons, and others having qualified interests in thine
and church lands, to make leases of the same, so as to bind thedr sae.
cessors. And whereas the authorising of such leases, under certain
restrictions, to the owners or occupiers of the lands liable to the
payment of tithes, and such church lands, would be conducive es
well to the interests of the United Church of England and Ireland
as to the improvement of the agriculture of these realms t nay it
therefore please your Majesty that it may be enacted; and be it
enacted by the King's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with she
advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, in deb
present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the
• That from and after the twenty-fifth day of March, one eboasani
eight hundred and eighteen, it shall and may be lawful to and for
all and singular bodies politic, corporate, and collegiate, Arch-
bishops, and Bishops, Deans and Chapters, Precentors, Preben-
daries, Rectors, Vicars, and other persons having spiritual or ec-
clesiastical benefices or preferment, who are seised of or entitled to
any tithes or portions of tithe ' • and also to and for all and singular
persons who shall hereafter become tenants for life, or for years de-
terminable on a life or lives, or tenants in tail, or tenants in fee sub-
ject to be determined by executory devise or shifting use, of any
tithes or portion of tithe, and not having any express power of leas-
ing, for the term of ten years or more, the same tithes annexed to
:inch estates; and also to and for the committees or guardians of
any person or persons so seised or entitled as aforesaid, and being
infants, lunatic., or idiots, to make or grant any lease or leesin3 m
the same tithes or portion of tithe, or any part thereof, by indenture
or indentures, to any such person or persons as hereinafter mention..
ed, fur any term or number of years not exceeding ten years in rag.
land or Wales, or fourteen years in Ireland (subject to such q
fication as is hereinafter mentioned) and to take effect in passed=
and not in reversion, or by way of future interest, reserving on
every such lease or grant the best or most improved yearly rent or
annual sum that can be reasonably had or gotten for the same ; and
that every such lease or grant shall be valid and binding for the
term thereby demised upon the successor or successors of every such
body politic, corporate, and collegiate, archbishop, bishop, rector,
vicar, and other persons having spiritual or ecclesiastical benefice or
preferment, and upon all and singular persons having estates or in-
terests In remainder, reversion, or expectancy, in the same tithes or
portion of tithe, when and as such estates or interests shall from
time to time vest in possession.
" And be it further enacted, that the tithe rent or annual sum
which in and by every such lease or grant as aforesaid shall be re-
served, or made payable, shall be incident to the reversion of the
tithes thereby granted or demised ; and that all and every person or
persons who from time to time during the continuance of the teem
granted by each of such lease respectively, shall become entitled to
the same tithe rent or annual sum as incident to such reversion,
shall and may have and use the same or the like remedies for reco-
vering and enforcing the payment of such tithe rent or annual sum
as the person or persons may or might have and use by whom the
same lease respectively was made and granted.
" Provided always, and belt further enacted, that if° such lease
or grant of any tithes or portions of tithe which shall be made by
any Rector, Vicar, or other person having ecclesiastical or spiritual
preferment or benefice, shall be valid and effectual without the pre-
vious consent in writing if the patron or patrons of such benefice,
or the guardians of any such patron or patrons, being infants, luna-
tics or idiots, and of the Bishop or Ordinary to whom the spiritual
jurisdiction of the same benefice shall of right belong, unless the
same benefice shall be a donative, or otherwise exempt from epis-
copal jurisdiction, and then the consent of the patron or patrons
thereof, together with that of the Bishop of the Diocese within
which the same is locally situate, shall be requisite; and that
women being patrons and under coverture, shall, jointly with their
husbands, be competent to give such consent.
" Provided also, and be it further' enacted, that no Bishop or
Ordinary, to whom application shall be made for consent to any such
lease or grant as aforesaid, shall be entitled to give or signify such
consent until he shall have been furnished with a certificate In
writing to be made by some competent surveyor or surveyors, ap.
pointed by the same Bishop or Ordinary, and to be sworn before a
Justice of the Peace, to the form or effect following :
A. B. of maketh oath and saith, that he did
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faithfully, and to the best of his skill and ability, estimate and com.
putt the value of the tithes in the annexed schedule, as to the seve-
ral tenements thereto mentioned ; and that the annual rent to be re-
served on a lease of each tenement, as the full and just equivalent
for the said tithes, pursuant to an act, is the sum mentioned in the
said schedule against the said tenement, and is a fair and just equi-
valent for the said tithes.
" Provided always, and be it enacted, that no surveyor or sur-
veyors shall be competent to make any such certificate as aforesaid,
if he or they shall be the owner or occupier of any titheable lands or
hereditament, within the parish wherein the tithes of portion of
tithe to be valued or estimated as aforesaid shall arise.
" And be it further enacted, that the costs and charges of every
such valuation shall be borne and paid by the parties respectively
granting and accepting such leases, in equal moieties ; and that
every such certificate shall be filed and preserved by the Registrar
of the Bishop or Ordinary by whom such consent shall be given as
aforesaid, to the end that recourse may be had thereto at all season.
able and convenient times by all persons whom it may concern ; and
that such registrar or his deputy for the time being shall keep and
make a calendar or index of the several certificates which shall be so
filed, for the purpose of more convenient reference thereto; for
every inspection of which said calendar one shilling shall be paid,
and no more ; and a true copy of any such certificate, signed by such
registrar or his deputy for the time beirg, shall be delivered to any
prison or persons demanding the same, when and as often as the
same shall he required, and three shillings, but no more, shall be
paid for every such copy; which copy, duly verified upon oath, shall
at all times hereafter be admitted as good and legal evidence in all
court' whatsoever.
" And be it further enacted, that upon the making and granting
of every such lease as aforesaid, the preference and priority of taking
and holding the same shall belong in the first place to the pans
or persons, body politic, te, or collegiate, who shall be in the,
actual possession of, or eitiltirTedisto the rents and profits of the men.'
swages, lands, tenements, or hereditaments out of which the tithe
or portion of tithe to be thereby granted or demised shall be arising
or accruing (other than and except meant or intermediate landlords,
and other than and except tenants or occupiers at improved or rack
rents); and that in case such body, person or persons as aforesaid,
shall refuse or decline to accept such lease at the rent proposed or
demanded by the owner or owners of any such tithes or portion of
tithe, and there shall be any Mille or intermediatettandlord or land-

lords of the same massages, leads, tenements, or hereditamenta, the
right of taking such lease shall in the next plate belong to the said
mane or Intermediate landlord or landlords, every superior landlord
(if more than one) being preferred to and every priority in the exer-
cise of such right to every inferior landlord or landlords ; and in
case there shall be no such memo or intermediate landlord or land.
lords, or he or they shall refuse or decline to accept the same lease,
it shall be lawful to make and grant the same unto the occupier or
occupiers of the said messuagea, kMa, tenements, and hereditament*,
holding the same upon any lease for years at rack rent: provided
always, that no lease or grant shall be made to any such mesne or
intermediate landlord or landlords, or occupier, or occupiers, at a
lower rent or yearly sum than that at which the same lease shall
have been offered to the persons, body politic or corporate, to such
priority as aforesaid.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
NEWMAKE CrEN MEETING.

?UEIDAY, APRIL 12.
Although the sport was confined to two races the day's business
on the whole was brisk, the Oatlands betting being much heavier
than could have been expected from the comparatively inferior qua-
lity of the field. In the afternoon there was a pretty strong muster
before the coffee-rooms, and some heavy bets were made upon the
events to come off: Cressida was backed for the Derby and St.
Leger to large sums, and was the favourite for both. Mummer was
in better favour, Mouse retrograding; Cressida's advance sent Raby
back a point for the St. Leger, for which Hassan was backed at 20
to 1, to the tune of 6001. or 700 L by a gentleman who has before
taken the odds to a larger amount.
The betting left off thus at the Kingston-house-rooms :—.
DERBY.

9 to 2 apt Mr. Chifney's Priam (Cressida) (taken freely)
10 to 1 Mr. Petre's Brunswicker
10 to 1 Lord Cavendish's Mouse colt
11 to 1 Sir M. Wood's The Mummer (taken)
11 to 1 Sir M. Wood's Cetus
20 to 1 Mr. Ridsdale's Red Rover (taken)
90 to 1 Augustus
50 to 1 Mr. Ramsbottont's Zucharelli
9000 to 25 Finnan (taken)
woo to 40 Lord Sligo's urine (taken)
1000 to 10 - Subaltern (taken)
1000 to 10 Thermometer (taken)
800 to um Lord Exeter's lot (taken)
1,000 to 1,900 on the field against Priam, Mouse, the Mummer,
and Cetus (taken.) ST. LlOll6
9 to 1 apt Prism
19 to 1 Raby (taken)
20 to 1 - Hassan (taken)
25 to 1 Maria.
Priam has two good engagements for the next Meeting, but is
not in the 2,000 guineas Stakes, as stated by mistake.
WZDNEIDAY AFTZILNOON.
The Jockey Club rooms-yard was crowded this morning, and after
the settling for yesterday's races, some heavy engagements were
made on the Column Stakes and Derby. For the former the offers
were 7 to 4on Pilaus (Cressida) agat the field, 2 to 1 being taken
with avidity. The Mummer was backed at 19 to 2to three or four
hundred pounds, his advance being attributed to the running of Mr:
Gully's Red Roves, who ran second to him at Ascot last year;
Priam was at 4 to 1, Mouse and Brunswicker at 10 to 1 each, Cetus
at 11 to 1, Mr. Gully's Red Rover at 17 to 1, Mahmoud and Angus.
tus each at 20 to 1, and Zucharelli at 30 to 1. bOO even was laid
on the field apt Cressida, Mummer, Mouse, Brunswicker, Zu-
choreal, and Grampus, 1,000 to 10 being betted apt the latter in
return. Some surprise has been expressed that Zinganee was not
started for the Oadands, which many think he would have won
easy. To remedy as much as possible a pat evil the Club have'
issued the following notice :
" In order to prevent all doubts whether a start is fair or a false
start, the jockeys are desired to take notice, that if the starter does
not consider it a fair start, he will ring a bell, upon which they are
to return, but not otherwise."

Lord Chesterfield left late on Tuesday night in consequence of an
express from London. His Lordship was expected to return in the
course of yesterday.
The following races (the only important ones) were run when our
account left the heath :
Sweepstakes of 10 sows. each, h. ft. Colts, Bst. 71b. fillies, fist. 41b.
got by untried stallions, and out of untried mares. D.lll. Five
subscribers.
Lord Exeter's Augustus
Lord Cleveland's Ch. c. by Emilius--Sheldrakc. O
Lord Lowther's e. by
3tol on Augustus. A very pretty race throughout; they were
close together about two hundred yards from home, when Augustus
went in front, Ninina being herself beat off about a hundred yards
from the chair. Augustus mended his pace, Chifney at the same
time making his usual rush with Sheldrake. The rest of the ground
was contested with great severity, Augustus winning by a head only
—rode b Arnull, Ninina by Buckle. It was not expected by any
one that hheldrake would have made so good a race.
Sweepstakes of 200 soya. each, h. ft. Colts, fist. 71b.fillies, Bst.
31b. R.M.

Lord Exeter's Red Rover, by Middleton. Augusta's dom 1
Dukeof Gritßon's Rupert, by Emilius— Prudence.. ... • ... 2
Lord Cleveland's Wit Tyler and Raby paid h. ft. 4 and sto
on the winner. Rupert made play at a good pace to the Abingdon
Mile bottom, when Red Rover came out, and after a short struggle
won cleverly by half a length. Rupert rode by J. Day, and Red
Rover by Arnull.
The Column Stakes of 50 sous. each, h. ft. for the produce of mares
covered in 1826. Colts, Bst. 71b. fillies fiat.4lb. D.M. Allow-
ances as for the Riddlesworth.
Mr. Chifney's Priam, Bst.4lb 1
Lord Exeter's Augustus, Bst. 21b......
Duke of Rutland's 1. by Middleton, est
Mr. Stonehewer's The Fairy, 7st. 131 b.. ....
Lord Grosvenor's Thermometer, fist.4lb 0
Lord Verulam's f. by Whalebone, Bst. llb
Duke of Rutland's c. by Tiresiso—Emily, Est. 71b 0
All the above started, but only two placed. Won by a head
We have not time to give the particulars of the race; there is a
race or two yet undecided.