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WHEREAS it is highly expedient, for the Security and convenient Use of the Public Records of Ireland, that additional Repositories should be forthwith provided for them: And whereas the Society of King’s Inns, Dublin, stand seized and possessed to them and their Successors for ever, of certain Grounds in the County of the City of Dublin, styled the Plover Field, and Part of Redmond’s Farm, both lying and situate near Glasmaenoge, in the County of the City of Dublin, and under the Provisions of an Act made in the Parliament of Ireland, in the Thirty-eighth Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, intituled An Act to enable the Dean and Chapter of Christ Church, Dublin, and other Persons therein named, to grant certain Grounds in the City of Dublin to the Society of the King’s Inns, Dublin, the said Grounds are subject to certain Rents in the said Act mentioned: and whereas the said Society of King’s Inns have erected extensive Buildings on the said Grounds, Part of which Buildings to the South of the Dining Hall of the said Society, remain at present in an unfinished State, and it will cost a considerable Sum of Money to complete the said unfinished Buildings, conformably to the Plan upon which the finished Part has been erected, and the so completing it will considerably ornament and improve the Property of the said Society of King’s Inns, and of the several Persons beneficially interested in the said Grounds; in consideration, therefore, that the said unfinished Buildings shall be completed conformably to the said Plan upon which the finished Part is now built, the said Society of King’s Inns, the Dean and Chapter of Christ Church, Dublin, and the Prebendaries and Choral Vicars of the said Church, Richard Wilson of the City of Dublin Esquire, the Right Reverend Robert Lord Bishop of Ossory, Assignee of the Right Honourable the Lord Viscount Mountjoy, John Nash, of the County of Cork Esquire, and Thomas Whelan, of Lissee Street, in the City of Dublin, Esquire, Assignee of William Fletcher of the City of Dublin Esquire, to whom respectively the said Rents are now payable, have agreed and contented that a certain Piece or Plot of the said Ground herein-after particularly described, on Part of which the said unfinished Building now stands, together with the said unfinished Building, and also one other Piece or Parcel of Ground also herein-after particularly described, should be vested in His Majesty, His Heirs and Successors, for ever, for the Purpose herein-after mentioned and fet forth, freed and discharged of and from all Rent whatsoever, and of and from all Right, Title or Interest, of them, or any of them, or any Person deriving by, from, or under them, or any of them, to the assigned Premises, or any Part thereof; and the said Society of King’s Inns, Dean and Chapter, Prebendaries and Choral Vicars, and other Persons aforesaid, have also agreed and consented not to build upon, or permit any Person or Persons deriving by, from, or under them, or any of them, to build upon any of their Ground aforesaid to the South of the said Buildings, and the Ground so agreed to be vested in His Majesty: Be it therefore 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, all that Piece or Plot of Ground now belonging as aforesaid to the said Society of King’s Inns, Dublin, and on Part of which the said unfinished Building now stands, the said Piece or Plot of Ground containing One hundred and eighty-nine Feet in length, from North to South, and ranging in a Line with the West Front of the Dining Hall of the said Society, and containing in Depth from West to East One hundred and eighty-nine Feet, be the same more or less, bounded on the West by King’s Inns Place, on the North by the said Society’s Dining-Hall, on the East by Henrietta Street, and Ground belonging to the Reverend John Robinson, and on the South by other Part of the Ground belonging to the said Society, as yet unbuilt on, together with the unfinished Buildings already mentioned; and also one other Piece or Parcel of Ground, containing in Breadth from North to South Thirty Feet in the clear, and extending in a straight Line from the South End of King’s Inns Place aforesaid, to that Part of Constitution Hill adjoining to Colerain Street, shall be and the said several Pieces or Parcels of Ground and Buildings are hereby vested in His Majesty, His Heirs and Successors, for ever, freed and discharged of and from all Rent and Charges whatsoever, and of and from all Right, Title, and Claim of any Person or Persons to any Estate or Interest whatsoever therein, for the Purpose, as to the said first mentioned Piece or Plot of Ground, of erecting and completing thereon a Repository or Repositories for Public Records, and also such Office or Offices, and such Court or Courts connected therewith, as to His Majesty, His Heirs or Successors may appear expedient, and for the Purpose, as to the said last-mentioned Piece or Parcel of Ground, that the same shall be laid out as a Public Way or Passage for the shorter and more convenient Communication between the Four Courts and the intended Repository or Repositories and Offices aforesaid.
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Rent to continue payable.
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IV. Provided also, and be it enacted, That nothing in this Act contained shall extend or be construed to extend to alter or abridge, or in anywise diminish the Security given to the several Parties mentioned in the said Act of the Thirty-eighth Year of His present Majesty’s Reign, or any Person deriving by, from, or under them or any of them, for the due Payment of the Rent thereby payable to them from the said Society of King’s Inns, Dublin, except so far as relates to the said unfinished Part of the said Buildings and the Grounds hereby vested in His Majesty, His Heirs and Successors as aforesaid; but that the remaining Part of the said Ground and Buildings of and belonging to the said Society of King’s Inns, and such other of their Property as was before liable for the Payment of the Rent of the said Ground shall be and remain still liable to the Payment of said Rent as if this Act had never been made; and that all Ways, Means, and Methods, given by the said Act of the Thirty-eighth Year of His present Majesty’s Reign, or which the Parties interested may have or be entitled to use, for the Recovery of said Rent, or if any Charges at Law or in Equity shall remain and continue to them against the said Society, or any Persons deriving by, from, or under them, for such Part of the Property of the said Society as is not hereby vested in His Majesty, His Heirs or Successors, as fully and effectually as if this Act had never been made.
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General Saving.
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V. Saving always to all Persons, Bodies Politic and Incorporate, other than and except the said Society of King’s Inns, the said Dean and Chapter, the said Prebendaries and Choral Vicars, and also the said Richard Wilson, the said Lord Bishop of Ossory, John Nash, and Thomas Whelan, their Heirs, Successors, Executors, Administrators, and Assigns respectively, all such Right, Title, Interest, Profit, Claim, or Demand, as they or any of them may have or claim in, to, or out of the said Premises so vested in His Majesty, or any Part thereof, to all Intents as if this Aft had never been made.
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