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In case of Absence of Guardians, etc. the Court of Chancery may order Conveyance to be made of Premises.
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III. And be it further enacted, That in case it shall at any Time happen that there shall be Two or more Guardians, Trustees, Assignees, or Committees for any Owner or Proprietor, or Lessee, or other Person beneficially interested in any House or Houses, Building or Buildings, Plot or Plots, or Parcel or Parcels of Ground, required to be purchased for the Purpose of the said recited Acts or this Act; and that any one or more of such Guardians, Trustees, Assignees, or Committees shall be absent out of the United Kingdom, in Foreign Parts beyond the Seas, it shall and may be lawful for His Majesty’s Postmaster General of Ireland for the Time being, to prefer a Petition to the Court of Chancery in Ireland, praying that the Guardian or Guardians, Trustee or Trustees, Assignee or Assignees, Committee or Committees, who shall be within the United Kingdom, may be directed to execute a Conveyance or Conveyances, and to deliver the Possession of any such Premises, or to make and execute any Contract, or to do any other Matter or Thing requisire for the Conveyance of such Premises so required to be purchased for the Purposes of the said recited Acts or this Act; and it shall be lawful for the said Court of Chancery, upon the hearing of such Petition, to order and direct any such Conveyance, and to proceed in all Respects in any such Manner to cause such Postmaster General to be put in Possession of such Premises as the said Court is empowered to do under and by virtue of the said recited Act of the Forty-eighth Year of His present Majesty’s Reign, in the Case of any Person or Persons, or Guardian or Guardians or any Infant or Infants, neglecting or refusing to execute any Conveyance under the Provisions of the said recited Act, and to make such other Order in the Premises for the effectuating of such Conveyance, as to the said Court of Chancery shall seem just and reasonable; and all Conveyances of any Premises made and executed under the Order of the said Court of Chancery shall be as good, valid, and effectual, to all Intents and Purposes whatsoever, and shall have the like Force and Effect in Law and Equity as if the Guardian or Guardians, Trustee or Trustees, Assignee or Assignees, or Committee or Committees so being absent out of the said United Kingdom had joined in executing such Conveyance, and as if such Conveyance had been executed by all and every Persons and Person in whom the Title in or to such Premises was legally vested, any Deed, Act, Law, Statute, or other Matter or Thing to the contrary notwithstanding.
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