Commissioners may purchase Lands. Incapacitated convey Property to the Commissioners. ively, which can be reasonably obtained for the same, without taking any Fine, Premium, or Foregift for the making thereof; and so as in every such Demise and Lease there be contained a Condition of Re-entry for Nonpayment of the Rent and Rents, Duties and Reservations thereby respectively to be reserved; and so as the respective Lessees duly execute Counterparts of their said Demises and Leases respectively, and enter into all usual and proper Covenants; and so that no Clause shall be contained in any of the said Demises, other than in the Demises or Leases of the said Mines or Minerals, whereby to give Power or Authority to any Lessee to commit Waste, or to exempt him, her, or them from Punishment for committing the same. XXV. And be it further enacted, That it shall and may be lawful to and for the said Commissioners of Greenwich Hospital, and their Successors, and they are hereby empowered, for any Purpose relating to the said Hospital which shall be approved by the Lord High Admiral or Commissioners for executing the Office of Lord High Admiral for the Time being, to treat, contract, and agrec for the absolute Purchase of any Messuages, Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments, and the Freehold and Inheritance thereof, or any Estate or Interest therein, with any Body or Bodies Politic, Corporate, or Collegiate, or any Tenant or Tenants for Life, or in Fee Tail General or Special, or for any Term or Terms of Years absolute or determinable on any Life or Lives, or with any Feoffees in Trust, Executors, Administrators, Husbands, Guardians, Committees for Lunatics and Idiots, or other Trustees whomsoever, not only for and on Behalf of themselves, their Heirs and Successors, but also for and on Behalf of their Cestuique Trusts respectively, whether Infants or Issue unborn, Lunatics, Idiots, Femes Covert, or other Person or Persons whomsoever, who. shall be willing to sell the same; and upon Payment of the Purchase Money for the same respectively to the Parties or Persons respectively entitled thereto, or upon Payment thereof into the Bank of England in Manner by this Act directed (as the Case may be), the Messuages, Lands, Tenements, and Hereditaments so to be purchased as aforesaid shall vest absolutely in the said Commissioners of Greenwich Hospital, and their Successors, in Trust, for the Benefit of Greenwich Hospital; and from thenceforth all other Parties and Persons whomsoever shall be divested of all Right and Title, Claim or Reservation whatsoever, to such Messuages, Lands, Tenements, and Hereditaments, and any Term, Right, and Interest therein, so purchased, without incurring or being subject or liable to any of the Penalties or Forfeitures of the Statutes of Mortmain, or any other Law or Statute whatsoever; and in case of a Re-sale of the said Messuages, Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments, or any of them, under the Provision hereinafter for that Purpose contained, to purchase and hold other Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments in like Manner. XXVI. And be it further enacted, That it shall and may be lawful to and for all Bodies Politic, Corporate, or Collegiate, Corporations Aggregate or Sole, and all Tenants for Life, or in Fee Tail General or Special, or for any Term or Terms of Years absolute or determinable on any Life or Lives, and all Feoffees in Trust, Executors, Administrators, Husbands, Guardians, Committees for Lunatics Lunatics and Idiots, and all other Trustees whomsoever, not only for and on Behalf of themselves, their Heirs and Successors, but also for and on Behalf of their Cestuique Trusts respectively, whether Infants or Issue unborn, Lunatics, Idiots, or Femes Covert, or other Person or Persons under any Disability of acting for himself, herself, or themselves, and also to and for all Femes Covert who are or shall be seised, possessed of, or interested in their own Right, and to and for all and every Person and Persons whomsoever who are or shall be seised, possessed of, or interested in any Messuages, Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments, or any Part thereof, which shall be thought fit or expedient to be purchased by the said Commissioners of Greenwich Hospital and their Successors, to treat, contract, and agree (where any Agreement shall be necessary) with the said Commissioners, for the absolute Sale of the same Hereditaments to them, and also to convey, by Indenture of Bargain and Sale, or other effectual Conveyance, the Hereditaments to be so contracted or agreed to be purchased, and the Inheritance thereof in Fee Simple, unto and to the Use of the said Commissioners of Greenwich Hospital and their Successors; and which said Bargain and Sale shall, without any Fine or Fines, Recovery or Recoveries, or other Conveyances or Assurances in the Law whatsoever, and without Inrolment, be good, valid, and effectual to all Intents and Purposes, not only to convey the Estate and Interest of the Person or Persons or Bodies conveying, but also to convey all Right, Estate, Interest, Use, Property, Possibility, Claim, and Demand whatsoever of their said several Cestuique Trusts, and of all Person or Persons whomsoever claiming or to claim by, from, or under him, her, or them, or under any other Persons whomsoever, or claiming or to claim in Remainder or Reversion expectant on any particular Estate, or by way of executory Devise or springing Use, or otherwise howsoever; and the same shall be deemed and considered to bar the Dower and Dowers of any Feme Covert, and all Estates Tail, and other Estates, Possessions, Reversion, Remainder, or Expectancy, and the Issue and Issues of any Person or Persons claiming under them, as effectually as Fines or common Recoveries, or any other Conveyance or Assurance would do, if levied or suffered or executed by the proper Parties in due Form of Law; any Law, Statute, or Usage, or any other Matter or Thing whatsoever, to the contrary thereof in anywise notwithstanding; and all Bodies Corporate or Collegiate, Corporations Aggregate or Sole, and all Tenants for Life, in Fee Tail General or Special, or for any Term or Terms of Years absolute or determinable on any Life or Lives, and all Feoffees in Trust, Executors, Administrators, Husbands, Guardians, Committees, Trustees, and all and every other Person and Persons, is and are and shall be indemnified for what he, she, or they shall do by virtue and in pursuance of this Act. XXVII. And be it further enacted, That in all Cases in which Application of there shall be any Money to be paid for any Messuages, Lands, Purchase MoTenements, or Hereditaments contracted for or purchased, which ney, if exceedshall belong to any Body Corporate, Collegiate, or Ecclesiastical, ing 2007. Tenant for Life or in Tail or for Years, Trustee, Feme Covert, Infant, Lunatic, or Person or Persons under any Disability or Incapacity as aforesaid, such Money shall, in case the same shall amount to or exceed the Sum of Two hundred Pounds, with all convenient K 4 Speed Application, of ney when not Speed be paid into the Bank of England in the Name and with the Privity of the Accountant General of the Court of Exchequer, to be placed to his Account ex parte the Commissioners of Greenwich Hospital; to the Intent that such Money may be applied, under the Direction and with the Approbation of the said Court, to be signified by an Order made upon a Petition to be preferred in a summary Way by the Person or Persons who would have been entitled to the Rents and Profits of the said Lands, Tenements, and Hereditaments, in the Purchase of other Lands, Tenements, and Hereditaments, which shall be conveyed and settled to, for, and upon such and the like Uses, Trusts, Intents, and Purposes, and in the same Manner, as the Messuages, Lands, Tenements, and Hereditaments which have been or shall be purchased for the Purposes aforesaid stood and were settled and limited, or such of them as at the Time of making such Conveyance and Settlement shall be existing undetermined and capable of taking Effect; and in the mean Time, and until such Purchase shall be made, the said Money shall, by Order of the said Court, upon Application made thereto as aforesaid, be invested by the said Accountant General in his Name in the Purchase of Three Pounds per Centum Consolidated or Three Pounds per Centum Reduced Bank Annuities; and in the mean Time, and until the said Bank Annuities shall be ordered by the said Court to be sold for the Purposes aforesaid, the Dividends and annual Produce of the Consolidated or Reduced Bank Annuities shall from Time to Time be paid, by Order of the said Court, to the Person or Persons who would for the Time being have been entitled to the Rents and Profits of the said Lands, Tenements, and Hereditaments so hereby directed to be purchased, in case such Purchase and Settlement thereof were then actually made. XXVIII. Provided always, and be it further enacted, That if any Money so to be paid for any Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments, to be purchased for the Purposes aforesaid, and belonging to any Body Corporate, Collegiate, or Ecclesiastical, Tenant for Life or in Tail or for Years, Trustees, Feme Covert, Infant, Lunatic, or any Person or Persons under Disability or Incapacity as aforesaid, shall be less than the Sum of Two hundred Pounds, and shall exceed the Sum of Twenty Pounds, then and in all such Cases the same shall, at the Option of the Person or Persons for the Time being entitled to the Rents and Profits of the Hereditaments so purchased, taken, or used, or of his, her, or their Guardian or Guar dians, Committee or Committees, in Cases of Infancy, Idiotcy, or Lunacy, to be signified in Writing under their respective Hands, be paid into the Bank in the Name and with the Privity of the said Accountant General of the Court of Exchequer, and be placed to his Account as aforesaid, in order to be applied in Manner hereinbefore directed, or otherwise the same shall be paid, at the like Option, to Two Trustees, to be named by the Person or Persons making such Option, and approved by the said Commissioners of Greenwich Hospital and their Successors; such Nomination and Approbation to be signified by Writing under the Hands of the nominating and approving Parties, in order that such Principal Money, and the Dividends to arise therefrom, or the Interest thereof, may be applied in Manner herein-before directed, so far as the the Case shall be applicable, without obtaining or being required. to obtain the Direction or Approbation of the said Court of Exchequer. XXIX. Provided always, and be it further enacted, That when such Money so contracted and agreed to be paid as last before mentioned shall not exceed the Sum of Twenty Pounds, then and in all such Cases the same shall belong absolutely and be paid to the Person or Persons who would for the Time being have been entitled to the Rents and Profits of the Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments so purchased or agreed for, or hereafter to be purchased for the Purposes aforesaid, or in case of Idiotcy, Infancy, or Lunacy, then to his, her, or their Guardian or Guardians, Committee or Committees, to and for the Use and Benefit of such Person or Persons so entitled respectively. XXX. Provided always, and be it further enacted, That where any Question shall arise touching the Title of any Person to any Money to be paid into the Bank of England in the Name and with the Privity of the said Accountant General of the Court of Exchequer, in pursuance of this Act, for the Purchase of any Messuages, Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments, or of any Estate, Right, or Interest in any Messuages, Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments so purchased or to be purchased as aforesaid, or to any Bank Annuities to be purchased with any such Money, or to the Dividends or Interest of any such Bank Annuities, the Person or Persons who shall have been in Possession of such Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments, at the Time of such Purchase, and all Persons claiming under such Person or Persons, or under the Possession of such Person or Persons, shall be deemed and taken to have been lawfully entitled to such Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments, according to such Possession, until the contrary shall be shewn to the Satisfaction of the said Court; and the Dividends or Interest of the Bank Annuities to be purchased with such Money, and also the Capital of such Bank Annuities, shall be paid, applied, and disposed of accordingly, unless it shall be made appear to the said Court that such Possession was a wrongful Possession, and that some other Person or Persons was or were lawfully entitled to such Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments, or to some Estate or Interest therein. XXXI. Provided also, and be it further enacted, That where by reason of any Disability or Incapacity of the Person or Persons, or Corporation, entitled to any Messuages, Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments purchased or to be purchased under the Authority of this Act, the Purchase Money for the same shall be required to be paid into the said Court of Exchequer, and to be applied in the Purchase of other Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments, to be settled to the like Uses in pursuance of this Act, it shall be lawful for the said Court to order the Expences of all Purchases so agreed for or purchased, or hereafter from Time to Time to be made in pursuance of this Act, or so much of such Expences as the said Court shall deem reasonable, to be paid by the said Commissioners of Greenwich Hospital and their Successors, who shall from Time to Time pay such Sums of Money for such Purposes as the said Court shall direct: Provided always, that no such Order shall be made, if it can be shewn by the said Commissioners of Greenwich Hospital, Upon Payment of the Purchase Money, Lands vested in the Commissioners. This Act to extend to Purchases already contracted for. Commissioners empowered to Lands. Hospital, or it would appear upon the Face of the Agreement for any Purchase aforesaid, that the Consideration Money for the same was intended to cover and include all contingent and other Expences relating to the said Purchase. XXXII. And be it further enacted, That upon the Payment of the Money contracted or to be contracted or agreed to be paid for the Purchase of any Messuages, Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments, or any Estate, Right, or Interest as aforesaid, to the Party or Parties or Person or Persons respectively entitled to receive such Monies, or their Agents, or upon Payment thereof into the Bank of England for the Purpose of being disposed of in Manner hereinbefore directed, as the Case may be, all the Estate, Right, Title, Interest, Use, Trust, Property, Claim, and Demand, in Law or in Equity, of the Party or Parties and Person and Persons respectively to whom or for whose Use or Benefit the same shall be paid into or out of such Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments, shall vest in the said Commissioners of Greenwich Hospital, and their Successors, for ever. XXXIII. And be it further enacted, That the Powers, Provisoes, and Authorities by this Act given with respect to the Purchase of Lands hereafter to be contracted for by the said Commissioners of Greenwich Hospital and their Successors, shall be applicable to all Purchases already agreed to be made by the Commissioners and Governors of the Royal Hospital for Seamen at Greenwich in the County of Kent. XXXIV. And be it further enacted, That it shall and may be lawful for the said Commissioners of Greenwich Hospital and their sell and convey Successors, with the Approval and Consent of the Lord High Admiral or Commissioners for executing the Office of Lord High Admiral for the Time being, to make sale, alien, and dispose of (or to convey in Exchange for or in lieu of other Manors, Messuages, Lands, or Hereditaments to be situate in any Part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain,) all or any of the Manors, Messuages, Lands, or other Hereditaments hereby vested in them, or which shall hereafter belong to or be from Time to Time vested in the said Commissioners, with the Appurtenances, and the Inheritance thereof, in Fee Simple or otherwise, to any Person or Persons whomsoever, or any Body Politic or Corporate, either together or in Parcels, and for such Price or Prices in Money, (or for such Equivalent or Recompence in Manors, Messuages, Lands, or Hereditaments,) as to the said Commissioners of Greenwich Hospital and their Successors shall seem reasonable, and to make and execute all Acts, Deeds, Matters, and Things requisite or necessary for completing any Sale or Exchange to and with any Person or Persons, or Body Politic and Corporate, purchasing or agreeing to purchase any Manors, Messuages, Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments of and from the said Hospital, and the Heirs, Successors, Appointees, or Assigns of such Person or Persons, Body Politic or Corporate; and also, upon any Exchange as aforesaid, to take any Sum or Sums of Money by way of Equality of Exchange, and likewise to give full, complete, and sufficient Receipts, Releases, and Discharges to all Persons so purchasing of and from or exchanging with them. XXXV. ' And Whereas by an Act passed in the Fifty-first Year · of |