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How Crown Lands shall be sold and conveyed to Purchasers.
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XV. And be it further enacted, That every Person, Trustee, Guardian, and Committee, and Body Politic, Corporate, or Collegiate, who shall be desirous and shall offer to purchase under this Act any Lands, Tithes, Tenements, or Hereditaments in Ireland, being the Property of His Majesty, His Heirs or Successors, in Right of the Crown, shall deliver or cause to be delivered, to the Lord High Treasurer, or the Commissioners of His Majesty’s Treasury of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland for the Time being, an Account of the Lands, Tithes, Tenements or Hereditaments, which such Person or Corporation shall be desirous of purchasing, and the Price which every such Person or Corporation shall offer and be willing to give for the Purchase of the same; and upon Payment into the Receipt of the Exchequer in Ireland, in Manner herein-before directed, of such Sum or Sums of Money as shall be approved of by the said Lord High Treasurer or Commissioners of the Treasury, for the Purchase of such Lands, Tithes, Tenements, or Hereditaments, a Certificate shall be given by the proper Officer of the Receipt of His Majesty’s Exchequer in Ireland, setting forth the Name or Names of the Lands, Tithes, Tenements, or Hereditaments so purchased, with such Description thereof, corresponding with any Record thereof in His Majesty’s Exchequer in Ireland, as will be sufficient to ascertain the same, which Certificate shall be enrolled in the Office of the Auditor of the Exchequer in Ireland; and from and after Payment of the whole of the Purchase Money for such Lands, Tithes, Tenements, or Hereditaments, by the Purchaser or Purchasers thereof, it shall and may be lawful for the Commissioners of His Majesty’s Treasury, or any Three or more of them, to convey such Lands, Tithes, Tenements, or Hereditaments, to such Purchaser or Purchasers, by Deed of Bargain and Sale, signed and scaled by the said Lord High Treasurer, or the Commissioners of the Treasury, or any Three of them, and the said Deed of Bargain and Sale shall be enrolled in the Office of the Auditor of the said Exchequer; and from the Time of the Enrolment of such Deed of Bargain and Sale, the Lands, Tithes, Tenements, or Hereditaments so purchased, shall be divested out of the Crown, and shall be vested in the Purchaser or Purchasers, and his or their Heirs and Assigns or Successors respectively; and such Deed of Bargain and Sale so enrolled, shall be admitted in all Courts of Law and Equity as Evidence of the Title of the Purchaser of such Lands, Tithes, Tenements, or Hereditaments, and of all Persons deriving under such Purchaser.
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