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Power for the Commissioners of Woods, &c. to apportion Rents and other Payments.
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III. In all Cases where the Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Woods, Forests, and Land Revenues shall be satisfied that the Owners or Persons reputed to be Owners of any Lands or Hereditaments in England or Wales charged with any Fee Farm or other Rent, or annual, periodical, or other certain Payment to Her Majesty, Her Heirs and Successors, either by express Grant, Prescription, or otherwise, have at any Time heretofore mutually agreed or shall hereafter mutually agree to apportion such Rent or other Payment upon specific Parts of the Lands or Hereditaments charged therewith, it shall be lawful for the said Commissioners, if they shall think fit, by any Writing, to make, confirm, and agree to such Apportionment, and thereupon and thenceforth every apportioned Part of such Rent or Payment shall become and be to all Intents and Purposes a Rent or Payment issuing out of the Lands or Hereditaments on or in respect of which the same is apportioned only, in like Manner in all respects as the entire Rent or Payment was theretofore issuing out of the Entirety of the Lands or Hereditaments charged therewith; and every such apportioned Part shall be in all respects saleable as Fee-farm Rents or annual Payments are now saleable; and any Person entitled in possession to the Rents and Profits of any Lands or Hereditaments charged with any such Rent or Payment, either at, Law or in Equity, either in Fee, or Tail for Life, or for any Interest other than under a Lease at Rackrent, and notwithstanding any Mortgage or Charge on such Hereditaments, shall be taken and reckoned the Owner for the Purpose of joining in agreeing to any such Apportionment of any such Rent or Payment as aforesaid, or in the Confirmation of any Apportionment made or agreed on; and thereupon such Apportionment, when reduced into Writing, to be signed by the Persons agreeing thereunto, and confirmed or agreed to by the said Commissioners as aforesaid, shall, after the Enrolment in the Office of Land Revenue Records and Enrolments of any such Writing as aforesaid, be valid and binding as against Her Majesty, Her Heirs and Successors, and all other Persons, and the said Enrolment shall be conclusive Evidence that the Provisions of this Act have been complied with; and the Powers relating to the Apportionment of such Rents or Payments hereby given to the Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Woods, Forests, and Land Revenues may be exercised by the Commissioners or Commissioner for the Time being having, under the Order of the Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury, the Management of that Part of the Land Revenues of the Crown which may include any Rent or Payment to be so apportioned.
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