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Tancred's Charities Act 1871

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Tancred's Charities Act, 1871

(34 & 35 Vict.) CHAP. 117.

An Act for confirming a Scheme of the Charity Commissioners for the several Charities founded by the Settlement and Will of Christopher Tancred, of Whixley in the county of York, Esquire, deceased.

[21st August 1871]

W HEREAS the Charity Commissioners for England andWales in their Report to Her Majesty of their proceedings during the year one thousand eight hundred and seventy have reported that they have provisionally approved and certified (among other schemes for the application and management of charities) a scheme for ‘the several charities founded by the settlement and will of Christopher Tancred, of Whixley in the county of York, Esquire, deceased’:

And whereas it is expedient that the scheme as the same is fully set out and defined in the schedule to this Act should be confirmed:

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:

S-1 Scheme confirmed.

1 Scheme confirmed.

1. The said scheme is hereby confirmed; provided always, that nothing, in this Act or in the said scheme shall be held to interfere with the ordinary jurisdiction over endowed charities now exerciseable by the Court of Chancery and the Charity Commissioners.

Note : this act is listed in the Chronological Table of Statutes as theTancred's Charities Act, 1871

S C H E D U L E.

SCHEME

For the application and management of certain Charities founded by the settlement of Christopher Tancred, of Whixley in the county of York, Esquire, deceased.

Notwithstanding the provisions of any Act of Parliament or scheme now in force for the regulation of the charities, it shall be lawful for the Charity Commissioners, upon the application of the Governors, to establish a scheme providing for the following objects; viz.,—

SCH-1.1

1. The discontinuance of the Whixley Manor House as a hospital or place of residence for the pensioners, at such time or times, and in such manner, and subject to such provisions and regulations and the payment of such compensations as may be determined by the scheme, with a due regard to the rights and interests, pecuniary or residentiary, of the existing pensioners and officers of the charity:

SCH-1.2

2. Granting in future, out of that part of the income of the charity which is now appropriated to the pensioners, to twelve pensioners...

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