The Acts specified in the First Schedule to this Act are hereby repealed to the extent mentioned in the third column of that schedule, and so much of any public general Act as is inconsistent with this Act is also hereby repealed.

The repeal of the said Acts shall not annul or in any wise prejudice or affect any purchase, sale, conveyance, grant, lease, bond, security, act, matter, or thing, heretofore made, done, executed, commenced, or instituted, under or by virtue or in pursuance of the said Acts; but all such purchases, sales, conveyances, grants, leases, bonds, securities, acts, matters, and things shall have priority and be as good, valid, and effectual to all intents and purposes as if the said. Acts had not been repealed.