Market Bosworth School Act 1866
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1866 c. 8 |
| Year | 1866 |
ANNO VICESIMO NONO & TRICESIMO
VICTORLE REGINiE.
Cap.
8.
An Act for the better Regulation of Market
Bosworth School. [6th August 1866.]
HERE AS on the Twenty-ninth Day of November One
thousand eight hundred and sixty-two Her Majesty's
Attorney General filed his Information in the High Court
of Chancery against the Governors of Market Bosworth School and
Sir Alexander Beaumont Churchill Dixie Baronet, who claimed to be
the Heir-at-Law of Sir Wolstan Dixie Knight, deceased, the Founder
of the School; and the Information set forth divers Deeds, and a
Royal Charter of Queen Elizabeth, and Statutes made in pursuance
thereof,
and divers Orders and Decrees of the Court by and under
which the School had been established and regulated, and stated that
the School had for many Years past been in a very inefficient Con-
dition, and had produced Results wholly incommensurate with the
large Income it enjoyed, and that the Charity Commissioners for
England and Wales had certified the Condition of the School to Her
Majesty's Attorney General, in order to the Institution by him of
legal Proceedings with reference thereto, and prayed that a new
Scheme might be settled, by and under the Direction of the Court, for
the Government of the School and the Application of the Income
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30° VICTORIA, Cap.8.
Market Bosworth School Act, 1866.
thereof:
And whereas the Royal Charter of Queen Elizabeth of the
Year One thousand six hundred and one, and the Statutes made in
the Year One thousand six hundred and thirty, under the Authority
of the Charter, were proved in the Cause: And whereas it appeared
by the Charter that the Rector and Three Churchwardens of the
Parish Church of Market Bosworth and their respective Successors,
and Six Inhabitants within the Parish and their respective Successors,
being Inhabitants within the Parish, were to be Governors of the
Charity, and were incorporated with perpetual Succession by the
Name " Governors of the Grammar School of Wolstan Dixie Knight,
Decree,. in Market Bosworth in the County of Leicester :" And whereas by a
MteV?sL ^ecree
°ftne
Court made in the Cause on the Twelfth Day of March
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-four it was ordered that a
Scheme for the future Regulation and Management of the Charity,
and the Property
thereof,
and the Application of the then present and
future Income
thereof,
be settled by the Judge: And whereas a
Scheme (of which a Copy is set forth in the Schedule to this Act
annexed) was accordingly settled and approved and signed by his
Lordship the Master of the Rolls in testimony of his Approval
thereof:
And whereas the Objects of the Scheme cannot be attained
Order of without the Authority of Parliament: And whereas by an Order of
17th Jan ° ^e Court made in the Cause on the Seventeenth Day of January
1866.
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-six it was ordered, that Her
Majesty's Attorney General be at liberty to apply to Parliament for
an Act to carry into effect the Scheme so approved and signed, and
filed in the Report Office of the Court, and that the Draft of the Bill
for the Act be settled by the Judge
:
And whereas by a Certificate
of the Chief Clerk of his Lordship the Master of the Rolls, made in
the Cause on the Fourteenth Day of April One thousand eight
hundred and sixty-six, he certified that the Draft of a Bill for the said
Act had been settled and approved by the Judge, and was identified
by his Signature in the Margin
thereof,
and that the several Instru-
ments, Facts, and Events recited in the Preamble to the Bill before
the Recital of the said Certificate had been proved in the Cause : And
whereas the Certificate became absolute on the Thirtieth Day of
April One thousand eight hundred and sixty-six : And whereas by
reason of the Lapse of Time and the Increase of the Income of the
Charity, and the altered State of Circumstances since the Charity was
founded, and for the better Regulation of the Charity, it is expedient
that the Scheme which modifies some of the Provisions of the Royal
Charter of Queen Elizabeth and of the Statutes be carried into effect:
May it therefore please Your Majesty that it may be enacted; and
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.:.
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