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HARCOURT STREET ACT 1777
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CHAP. XLVI.
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An Act for the further Improvement of the City of Dublin in the Manner therein mentioned.
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Revived and amended by 21 & 22 G. 3. c. 12.
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Archbishop of Dublin may make concurrent or other leases not exceeding 40 years of 1 acre and 30 perches part of St. Sepulchres,
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renewable 40 years.
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WHEREAS it will tend to the improvement of the city of Dublin, and to the opening a new and convenient passage from many parts thereof to the circular road, if the archbishop of Dublin be impowered to grant a longer lease of the plot or parcel of ground herein after mentioned, than by law he is at present enabled to do: be it enacted by the King’s most excellent Majesty by and with the advice and consent of the lords spiritual and temporal and commons in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, That from and after the passing of this act it shall and may be lawful for his grace John lord archbishop of Dublin to grant any concurrent or other lease or leases of that plot or parcel of ground, not exceeding one acre and thirty perches, being part of the farm of Saint Sepulchres in the county of Dublin, now in the tenure and occupation of the right honourable John Scott, through which a street, called Harcourt street, is now laid out, and is intended speedily to be opened, for any term not exceeding forty years from the time of making such lease or leases, notwithstanding any lease or leases then in being; and that it shall and may be lawful for the said archbishop and his successors from time to time to renew the same for the like term of forty years.
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Reserving rent not less than rateable proportion out of the whole for 20 years last.
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II. provided, That the rent be reserved to the said archbishop and his successors by such lease or leases, be as soon as the same shall take effect in possession not less than a rateable proportion of the present rent payable out of the whole of the said farm to the said archbishop and his predecessors for twenty years last past, any law or statute to the contrary notwithstanding.
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Tenants successively to have for two months exclusive powers to take concurrent lease.
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III. Provided also, That the immediate tenant or tenants first deriving under the said archbishop shall during the space of two months from the time of passing this act have the sole and exclusive power of taking any lease by virtue of this act, and that from and after the expiration of the said two months, so given to the tenant immediately holding under the said archbishop, the tenant next deriving under such immediate tenant for the space of two months immediately following shall have the like sole and exclusive power of taking such concurrent lease, if the first tenant shall refuse or neglect to take the same within the space of two months so given to him; and if at the end of four months from the passing of this act, neither the said first or second tenant shall have taken such concurrent lease, that then the third, fourth, and every other tenant shall have successively the like sole and exclusive power of taking such concurrent lease for the space of two months next after the expiration of the months, given as aforesaid to the person from whom he immediately derives.
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Subject to like covenant of renewal to derivative tenants as leases now in being.
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IV. Provided also, and be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That every lease to be made in pursuance of this act to the now immediate tenant of the said archbishop, or any person deriving from him, or to any of their executors, administrators, or assigns, shall be subject and liable to the like covenant of renewal to his or their derivative tenants, their executors, administrators, or assigns respectively, as the leases now in being are subject to.
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