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Tenants by Curtesy, Trustees, &c. may petition for leave to make permanent Improvements in Lands in their Possession.
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III. And be it enacted, That any Person entitled in possession to any Land as Tenant by the Curtesy, or for his own Life, or any other Life or Lives, or for Years determinable on any Life or Lives, or any Infant entitled as aforesaid by his Guardian or next Friend, or any Idiot or Lunatic entitled as aforesaid by the Committee of his Estate, or any married Woman entitled as aforesaid for her separate Use by her next Friend, or the Husband of any married Woman entitled as aforesaid in her Right, or any Feoffees or Trustees for any charitable (or other) Purposes, or any Ecclesiastical or other Corporation Aggregate or Sole, or any Mortgagee or Incumbrancer in Fee in possession of the Land mortgaged or incumbered, or any Person entitled in Fee to any Equity of Redemption, and in possession of the Land mortgaged, shall be at liberty to apply to the High Court of Chancery, by Petition to the Lord Chancellor or the Muster of the Rolls, for Leave to make any permanent Improvements in the Land to which such Person or Corporation shall be so entitled, or any Part thereof, by draining the same with Tiles, Stones, or other durable Materials, or by warping, Irrigation, or Embankment in a permanent Manner, or by erecting thereon any Buildings of a permanent Kind incidental or consequential to such draining, warping, Irrigation, or embanking, and immediately connected therewith, and shall in such Petition be at liberty to pray that the Expence of making any such permanent Improvement may be made a Charge on the Inheritance of the Land under the Provisions of this Act.
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