Harcourt Street Act 1777
HARCOURT STREET ACT 1777 | ||
CHAP. XLVI. | ||
An Act for the further Improvement of the City of Dublin in the Manner therein mentioned. | ||
Revived and amended by 21 & 22 G. 3. c. 12. | ||
Archbishop of Dublin may make concurrent or other leases not exceeding 40 years of 1 acre and 30 perches part of St. Sepulchres, | ||
renewable 40 years. | ||
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. |