Episcopal and Capitular Estates Act 1859
| Year | 1859 |
(22 & 23 Vict.) C A P. XLVI.
[13th August 1859]
'WHEREAS an Act was passed in the Session holden in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Years of Her Majesty, ChapterOne hundred and four, ‘to facilitate the Management and Improvement of Episcopal and Capitular Estates inEngland ,’ which Act was limited in Duration to Three Years from the End of the then Session of Parliament; and by the Act of the Session holden in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Years of Her Majesty, Chapter One hundred and sixteen, the said Act of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Years of Her Majesty was amended, and, as so amended, has, by the last-mentioned and other Acts, and ultimately by an Act of the Session holden in the Twentieth and Twenty-first Years of Her Majesty, Chapter Seventy-four, been further continued until the First Day ofJanuary One thousand eight hundred and sixty, and until the End of the then next Session of Parliament: And whereas it is expedient that said Act of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Years of Her Majesty, as amended as aforesaid, should be further continued:' Be it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, as follows:
I Two Commissioners may execute Deeds.
I. All such Acts and Deeds as are now by Law required to be done or executed by the Church Estates Commissioners, under the Authority of this Act or the Acts hereby affected, may be done or executed by any Two of such Church Estates Commissioners.
II Evidence of Appointment of Commissioners.
II. The Publication in theLondon Gazette of the Notice of the Appointment of any Church Estates Commissioners shall at all Times and for all Purposes be full and sufficient Evidence of the Fact of such Appointment.
III & 15 Vict. c. 104., as amended, continued until 1st Jan. 1861.
III. The said Act of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Years of Her Majesty, as amended by the said Act of the...
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