HC Deb 17 July 1861 vol 164 c1046

Order for Committee read.

House in Committee.

(In the Committee)

MR. FREELAND

moved to insert the following clause:— Notwithstanding anything contained in the 11th section of an Act passed in the 14th and 15th years of Her Majesty, chapter 104, any rector, vicar, perpetual curate, or incumbent, shall have such and the same powers of sale, exchange, and enfranchisement as are possessed by any Ecclesiastical Corporation, sole or aggregate, under any Act now in force; and the provisions of an Act passed in the Session held in the 23rd and 24th years of Her Majesty, chapter 124, shall, so far as the same relate to powers for the raising or application of money by trustees, allowances to lessees, arbitration, valuation, rate of interest, apportionment of rent, and substitution of titles on exchange, be applied, mutatis mutandis, to sales, exchanges, or enfranchisements of any manors, lands, tenements, or hereditaments in this Act comprised; but the proceeds of any such sales or enfranchisements, and any monies received by way of equality or exchange, shall be applied according to the provisions in that behalf contained in the said Act passed in the Session held in the 5th and 6th years of Her Majesty, chapter 108, and in the 21st and 22nd years of Her Majesty, chapter 57.

Clause agreed to.

Bill reported, with Amendments; as amended, to be considered To-morrow.

House adjourned at Four o'clock.