City of Cork Act 1786

Persons to whom such sums shall be awarded, shall execute conveyances.

If the persons to whom such sums was awarded, cannot make out their title to the premisses, &c. such sums shall he lodged in the bank of Ireland.

for the parties entitled thereto, as to the lord chancellor, upon examination, shall seem meet,

the cashier to give accountable receipts for sums received.

V. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That upon payment of such sum or sums of money, so to be awarded or adjudged, the person or persons to whom the same shall be awarded for the purchase of the said ferry or ferries, or for the purchase of any estate, right, title, term, or interest therein, shall make and execute, or procure to be made and executed, good, valid, and legal conveyances, assignments, and assurances in the law, to the said commissioners, or the successors of them, or to any five or more of them, of the said ferry or ferries, or of such estate, right, title, term, or interest, for which such sum or sums of money shall be so awarded, and shall procure all necessary parties to execute such conveyances, assignments, and assurances, and shall do all acts, matters, and things requisite and necessary to make a good, clear, and perfect title to the said commissioners, or the successors of them, or any five or more of them, and such conveyances, assignments, and assurances, shall contain all such reasonable and usual covenants as shall, on the part of the said commissioners, or the successors of them, or any five or more of them, be required; and in case such person or persons to whom such sum or sums shall be awarded as aforesaid, shall not be able to make out their title to the premisses to the said commissioners, and to make, or procure to be made good, valid, and legal conveyances thereof to the said commissioners, or shall refuse so to do, being thereunto required, and such sum or sums so assessed and awarded as aforesaid, being tendered to be paid to him or them, on his, her, or their making such title, and executing or procuring to be executed such conveyances, assignments, and assurances as aforesaid, or in case such person or persons, to whom such sum or sums of money shall be awarded as aforesaid, cannot be found in said city, or suburbs thereof, or in case by reason of disputes, differences, or for defect of evidence, it shall not appear to the commissioners what person or persons is or are entitled to the premisses in question; then and in every such case as aforesaid, it shall and may be lawful to and for the said commissioners, or the successors of them, or any five or more of them, to pay into the bank of Ireland, the said sum or sums so assessed or awarded as aforesaid, as the value of, and purchase money for the said ferry or ferries for the use of the parties interested in the said premisses, to be paid to them, and every of them, according to their respective estates and interests therein, at such time as to the said lord high chancellor of Ireland, or the keeper of the great seal shall seem meet, and who is hereby empowered in a summary way, upon the several petitions of the respective parties, to hear, judge of, and determine, as well by examination of witnesses upon oath, as by all other ways and means which he shall judge proper, the several rights, claims, and demands of all persons interested in the said premisses which shall be so valued, and to ascertain unto such person and persons respectively according to their several intersts, such share and proportion of such purchase money as the said lord high chancellor, or the keeper of the great seal, shall judge sit, which judgment in such case shall be final and conclusive, and the cashier or cashiers of the bank of Ireland, who shall receive such sum and sums of money, so paid into said bank as aforesaid, is, and are hereby required to give an accountable receipt or receipts for such sum and sums, mentioning and specifying for what ferry or ferries and for whose use the same is or are received, to such person or persons as shall pay any such sum or sums into the said bank as aforesaid.