Duchy of Lancaster Act 1817

IVCommissioners empowered to fell Parts of the Crown Lands for the Purpose of providing for the Purchase Monies of Estates to be bought by them on behalf of the Crown.

And for the providing Funds for the Payment of the Purchase Monies of such Estates, Manors, Lordships, Messuages, Lands, Tenements, and Hereditaments so to be Purchased under the Authority of this Act, be it further enacted, That it shall and may be lawful for the Commissioners of His Majesty's Woods, Forests, and Land Revenues for the Time being, and they are hereby authorized and empowered, from Time to Time to contract and agree with any Person or Persons, Body or Bodies Politic or Corporate, for the Sale of, and absolutely to make Sale and dispose of any Part or Parts of the Possessions or Land Revenues of the Crown within the Ordering and Survey of the Exchequer in England, which do or shall consist of any Royalties, Honours, Hundreds, Manors, Lordships, or Franchises, or any Rights, Members, or Appurtenances thereof or thereto belonging or appertaining, or any Fines, Issues, Amerciaments, Profits, Dues, or Monies arising therefrom or incident to or receivable in respect thereof; or any Messuages, Lands, Tithes, Rents, Mines, Minerals, Collieries, Woods, Wood Grounds, Fens, Marshes, Waste Lands, or any other Tenements or Hereditaments whatsoever, or any other Revenues of or belonging to the Crown, within the Ordering and Survey aforesaid, which shall in their Judgment be desirable to be fold, for the best Prices or Considerations in Money which the said Commissioners for the Time being of His Majesty's Woods, Forests, and Land Revenues shall, under the Direction and with the Approbation of the Lord High Treasurer or Commissioners of the Treasury for the Time being, or any Three or more of them, be able to procure for the same; and all and every Sum and Sums of Money arising from such Sales shall from Time to Time be paid into the Bank of England, and placed to the Account intituled " The Account of the Public Monies of the Commissioners of His Majesty's Woods, Forests, and Land. Revenues, being " The Woods and Forest Fund," and the Monies so paid in shall be laid out and applied from Time to Time, by the Order of the said Commissioners of His Majesty's Woods, Forests, and Land Revenues for the Time being (who are hereby authorized to make Drafts on the Bank for that Purpose), in the Payment and Discharge of any Purchase Monies for any Estates, Manors, Lordships, Messuages, Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments so to be Purchased for and on Behalf of His Majesty, His Heirs or Successors, by the said Commissioners under the Authority of this Act, when and as such Purchase Monies shall become due and payable to the Person or Persons entitled thereto, and of all Interest due on such Purchase Monies; and in the Payment and Discharge of all Expences incurred in or about the making and completing any Purchases or Sales under the Authority of this Act, and also in the Payment and Discharge of any Incumbrances or Charges affixing any of the Estates and Possessions of His Majesty within the Ordering and Survey of the Exchequer ; but such Monies shall not be applicable to or applied or disposed of for any other Use or Purpose whatsoever.