King Edward VI Free Grammar School, Birmingham: amending an Act of 1831[c. 17] (enabling erection of buildings and extension of objects, and other provisions) Act 1837
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1837 c. 41 |
ANNO PRIMO
VICTORI
LE
REGIM
E.
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Cap.41.
An
Act to alter and amend an Act passed in the
Second Year of the Reign of His late Majesty
King
William
the Fourth, intituled
An Act to
enable the Governors of the Possessions, Revenues,
and Goods of the Free Grammar School of King
Edward
the Sixth in
Birmingham
in the County of
Warwick
to erect a Schoolhouse, Masters Houses,
and other suitable Accommodations for the said
School, and to extend the Objects of the Charity; and
for
other Purposes.
[15th
July
1837 .]
HEREAS by an Act passed in the Second Year of the
W
Reign of His late Majesty King
William
the Fourth, in-
tituled
An Act to enable the Governors of the Possessions,
Revenues, and Goods of the Free Grammar School of King
Edward
2 W. 4. c. 17.
the Sixth in
Birmingham
in the County of
Warwick
to erect a School-
house, Masters Houses, and other suitable Accommodations for the
said School, and to extend the Objects of the Charity, and for other
Purposes,
after reciting therein Letters Patent of His late Majesty
King
Edward
the Sixth, whereby a Free Grammar School was
founded for the Instruction of Boys and Youths in Grammar, and the
Governors thereof
were
appointed and incorporated by the Name of
" The Governors of the Possessions, Revenues, and Goods of the
Free Grammar School of King
Edwardlhe
Sixth in
Birmingham in
the
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County
902
1° VICTORIX,
Cap.41.
County of
Warwick" (in
the said Letters Patent called
Brymyncham),
and divers Messuages and Lands in the Manor and Parish of
Birming.
ham
were granted to the said Governors for the Support of the said
School, and the said Governors were empowered, with the Advice of
the Bishop of the Diocese for the Time being, to make Regulations
for the Government of the said School ; and after reciting divers
Proceedings in a Suit in the High Court of Chancery in which His
Majesty's Attorney General, at the Relation of the said Governors, was
Informant, and the said Governors were Plaintiffs, and the Honour-
able and Right Reverend Father in God
Henry
late Lord Bishop of
Lichfield
and
Coventry, John Cooke,
and
Rann Kennedy
were Defen-
dants;
• and after divers other Recitals it was by the said Act now in
recital among other
b
Things enacted, that it should be lawful for the
said Governors and their Successors, under the Direction of the said
Court, to purchase the Piece of Land, Dwelling Houses, Buildings,
and Erections adjoining the then present Site in
New Street
in
Birmingham
aforesaid of the said Free Grammar School, and to take
Conveyances of the same, and to hold the same as Part of the Estates
belonging to the said Charity ; and that it should be lawful for the
said Governors and their Successors, under the Direction of the said
Court, to add the Lands to be purchased as last aforesaid, or any Part
thereof; to the said Site of the said Free Grammar School, and in
order thereto to pull down and clear away any Dwelling Houses,
Buildings, and Erections which might be standing on the Lands to
be added to the Site of the said Free Grammar School ; and it was
by the said Act now in recital further enacted, that it should be
lawful for the said Governors and their Successors immediately after
the passing thereof to cause the then present Schoolhouse, Masters
Houses, and other Buildings in
New Street
in
Birmingham
aforesaid,
in which the said Free Grammar School was then carried on, to be
pulled down, and the Materials to be sold and disposed of, and, under
the Direction of the said Court of Chancery, to build and lay out
a Schoolhouse, Masters Houses, and other Buildings and Play
Grounds suitable for the Purposes of the said Free Grammar School
on the said Site in
New Street
aforesaid, or on the said Site, with the
Additions thereto, of the Land therein-before authorized to be pur-
chased, or of any Part thereof; and it was by the said Act further
enacted, that from and immediately after the Twenty-fifth Day of
March
One thousand eight hundred and thirty-three it should be
lawful for the said Governors, and their Successors and they were
thereby required, to treat for, and, under the Direction of the said
Court of Chancery, to purchase a Surrender of the Leasehold or other
outstanding Interest in such Part of a Piece or Parcel of Land, Part
of the said Charity Estates, situated in and fronting to
New Street
and
Peck Lane
in
Birmingham
aforesaid, as the said Court should
determine to be sufficient for the new Schoolhouse and other
Buildings therein-after mentioned ; and after such Purchases should
have been made, and a Surrender of the said Leasehold or other
outstanding Interest should have been obtained, to cause the Mes-
suages and Buildings standing on the said Piece or Parcel of Land
to be pulled down, and the Materials to be sold and disposed of, and
to build and lay out upon the said Piece or Parcel of Land such
Schoolhouse, to be fronting to
New Street
aforesaid, Masters Houses,
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