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Duchy of Lancaster Act 1808

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XVISurveyor General to grant Certificate to Persons with whom he contracts, upon Production of which at the Bank, and Payment of the Money Bank to give Receipts.

And be it further enacted, That whenever the said Surveyor General shall have contracted with any Person or Persons, Body or Bodies Politick or Corporate, for the Enfranchifement of any such Tenements or other Hereditaments, or Sale of the Manerial Rights therein, the said Surveyor General shall grant to the respective Purchaser or Purchasers a Certificate under his Hand, specifying the Premises so agreed to be enfranchised or fold, and the Amount of the Purchase Money to be paid for the same, and which is hereby required to be paid within Thirty Days from the Date of such Certificate, and the Cashiers of the Bank, or One of them, shall, upon the I reduction of such Certificate, accept and receive the Purchase Monies therein specified, and at the Foot or on the Back of such Certificate acknowledge the Receipt of the same, without Fee or Reward ; which Certificates and Receipts shall be in the Form of Words following, or as near thereto as may be; (that is to say)

Which Certificates and Receipts mall not be charged or chargeable with any other Stamp Duty than such as is by Law required for the Receipts for the respective Sums therein expressed to be paid as the Consideration for such Enfranchisements, or for such Manerial Rights; and such Certificates and Receipts shall be good, sufficient, valid and effectual in the Law for conveying and assuring the several Messuages, Tenements, and Hereditaments therein respectively to be comprized, enfranchised, and discharged, and the said Manerial Rights therein specified, unto and to the life of the several and respective Persons therein to be named, and their Heirs and Assigns for ever.

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