WHEREAS an [34 G. 3. c. 75.] Act was made in the Thirty fourth Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, intituled An Act for the better Management of the Land Revenue of the Crown, and for the Sale of Fee Farm and other unimproveable Rents, reciting and repealing a Proviso contained in an Act, made in the Fifth Year of the Reign of Queen Anne, intituled An Act for the better Support of her Majesty's Household, and the Honour and Dignity of the Crown, so far as the same was contrary to any of the Provisions, of the said Act of the Thirty-fourth Year of His present Majesty's Reign: And whereas by an Act passed in the Forty-eighth Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, intituled An Act to improve the Land Revenue of the Crown of England, and also of His Majesty s Duchy of Lancaster, it was enacted, that where any Land or Ground belonging or thereafter to belong to His Majesty, His Heirs or Successors, within the Ordering and Survey of the Exchequer, or of the Duchy of Lancaster, shall be deemed by the Lord High Treasurer or the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster for the lime being, fit and proper for Gardens, Yards, Curtilages and other Appurtenances to be used and enjoyed with any House or Houses or Buildings erected or to be erected upon Ground belonging either to His Majesty, His Heirs or Successors, or to any other Proprietors, it should be lawful for His Majesty, His Heirs or Successors, to demise or grant such Land or Ground to any Person or Persons, or to any Bodies Politic or Corporate, under the Great Seal of Great Britain, or the Seal of the Exchequer, or the Seal of the Duchy and County Palatine of Lancaster, for any Term or Estate not exceeding Ninety nine Years, to be computed from the Date or making any such Lease or Grant reflectively; or if any such Lease or Grant be made to take Effect in Reversion or Expectancy, that the Term and Estate thereby to be granted, together with the Term or Estate, Terms or Estates in Possession of and in the same Lands and Grounds should not exceed Ninety-nine Years, computed from the Date or making thereof as aforesaid; and it was thereby further enacted, that no Land or Ground for Garden, Yard, Curtilage or other Appurtenances to be used and enjoyed with any Houses or Buildings holden or to be holden, under any Lease from His Majesty, or His Royal Predecessors, should be granted or demised for any Term or Estate exceeding in Duration the Terra or Estate for which the Houses or Buildings to which such Land or Ground should be so attached as Garden, Yard, Curtilage or other Appurtenances should be holden: And whereas it would tend much to the Improvement of the Revenues belonging to His Majesty in Right of His said Duchy of Lancaster, if the Power of granting Leases for the Erection, repairing, or rebuilding of Houses and other Buildings, on Lands within the Survey of the said Duchy, and of Gardens, Curtilages and Appurtenances to be used therewith, were enlarged, arid if the Provisions in the said recited Act of the Thirty-fourth Year of His present Majesty were extended to Leases granted under the Seals of the Duchy and County Palatine of Lancaster;