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 A. D. 1700. Anno unclecimo Sc duodecimo Gulielmi III. C. 2. 35 forfeited, and of all Incumbrances, i^c. Perfons neglecting or refufing to appear before Truftees, may- be committed to the County Gaol. Officers not obeying Truftees Precepts may be fined. Perfons making Difcovery of Debts due to convicted or attainted Perfons, and paying two thirds thereof, fhall be difcharged of the intire IDebt, but neglefting to make fuch Difcovery, fhal! forfeit double. Allowance for Difcovery. Forfeiture on Neglect. Trultees may make Compofitions touch-ing fuch Debts. Per- fons who fhall difcover any real or perfonal Eftate concealed, (hall have 5 s. per Pound out of fuch per-, fonal Eftates, and out of the real Eftates a like Proportion, fcff. Difcoverers Names fhall be certified to the Lords Juftices oi Ireland. Goods, Chattels, &c. fold by his Majefty's Commiirion, fnall be good. Perfons not convicted or attainted before the laft Day of Trinity Term 1701. fhalj not be profecuted for 'Preafon committed during the Rebellion in Ireland. All Perlbns, except the King and thofe claiming under hirn, and except the forfeiting Perfons, yc. having an7 Right, Title, ^c. in any the Lands, Te- nements, fs'f. fo vefted in the Truitees, fiiall by 10 Augujl 1700. enter their Claims thereunto, or <n Default thereof, fuch Right, Title, i£c, dial! be void. Claimants fliall anfwer their Claims upon Oath, and produce Writings and Witnefles. Perfons concerned, refiding in England, Judges there may ad- minilter Oath. If fuch Claim be not allowed by the Truftees, Claimants fhall be for ever barred. Claimants making good their Claims, Truftees to allow thereof. Truftees Ihall be a Court of Record, and their Judgments final. Claims allowed may be certified by the Truftees, and fuch Certificate, i^c. fliall be allowed as Evidence. No Rights, i3c. fo allov/ed, fliall ever after be called in Queftion. All Conveyances of Lands in Ireland, fince 29 May 1686. by Perfons fince convifted, l^c. being private Trufts, except Settlements before Marriage, declared fraudulent : And no Claim to be allowed there- upon. Truftees fliall before 25 ylfij/T/i 1702. fell the Eftates vefted in them, {;)'<■. not claimed, and Eftates ' ' claimed as foon as the Claims fliall be determined, giving 14 Days Notice, ^c. Any Perfons, isc, may purchafe, iJV. XX^. And be it further enacted by the Authority aforefaid. That all and every Perfon and Perfons," Purchafcrs hav- Bodies Politick and Corporate, and their Heirs, Succefibrs, Executors, Adminiftrators and Affigns, ma- "j^g enrolled their king any fuch Purchafe, and having any fuch Conveyance and Afiurance as aforefaid, and caufmg the fame j^'^'Iej^to^t^jc/ to be inrolled as aforefaid, within the Space of fix Months next after the Date thereof, fliul! be, and is tually feifed of hereby adjudged to be, in the actual Seifin and Pofleffion of fuch Parts or Parcels of the Premiffes as fhall the Premiffes, be fo purchafed and conveyed : And the faid Truftees, or any feven or more of them., are hereby autho- rized and impowered (if Need be) to iffue out their Precept or Precepts to the Sheriffs, or other proper Officer or Officers, of and i.n the refpedtive Counties, thereby commanding them to caufe Pofleftion to to be put in be delivered to fuch Purchafer or Purchafers, his, her or their Heirs, Succeflors, Executors, Adminift-ra- ^,'-'''"^'5°" ^"1 tors and Affigns, or to whom they or any of them fliall appoint ; and all and every fuch Purchafer or ■""'"°'> Purchafers, his, her or their Heirs, Succefibrs, Executors, Adminiftrators or Affigns, fhall hold and en- and hold the joy the fame for fuch Eftate and Intereft therein refpeftively, as fhall be conveyed by the faid Truftees, ^me clear of all or any fcven or-more of them, in fuch Indenture of Bargain and Sale, freed and difcharged of and from due"before Date' all Arrears of Quit-Rents, Crown-Rents and Chiefries, at asiy Time accrued or to grow due before the of Conveyances, Date of fuch rUpective Conveyances, and of and from all other Claims and Demands of his A4ajefty, fee. his Ktars and Succefibrs, and of the faid Truftees, their Heirs, Executors, Adminiftrators and Affigns, ' Qa't R^"" " and of all and every other Perfon and Perfons whatfoever (other than and except fuch Claims and De- ^^ apportioned mands which fliall be allowed by the faid Truftees, or any ieven or more of them, on the Determination ^_ ^^^l 1/ of fuch Claims as aforefaid) and alfo freed and difcharged of and. from any Breach of Truft, which can or may be pretended to be committed by the faid Truftees, in not ftriftly purfuing the Powers or Direc- tions given by this Act : Neverthclefs the faid forfeited Eftates fliall after fuch Sale or Sales thereof be held To be held of of the King's Majefty, his Heirs and SuccelFors, as of his Caftle of Dublin, by free and common Socage ^^^ King mSo- Tenure, and fliall be fubjcft from the Time of the Date of fuch refpeiEtive Sale and Conveyance, to fuch caftleof Dub'in Crown-Rents, Quit-Rents, and Chiefries iffuing thereout refpeftively, as the fame were refpeitively &c. liable to and charged with on the faid thirteenth Day of February one thoufand fix hundred eighty-eight ; all which Qiiit-Rents, Crown-Rents and Chiefries, and all other the Ojjit-P.ents, Crown-Rents and Crown-Rents, Chiefries belonging to the faid Crown of Ireland, on the faid thirteenth D^.y of February one thoufand g^^"^' ".''y'"j, ' fix hundred eigluy-eight, fhall for ever hereafter rem.ain and be for the Support and Maintenance of the Governnient of Government of the faid. Kingdom o's Ireland, and fhall. be and are hereby enafted and declared to be un- Ireland, and fhall alienable; and all Grants, Charges and Incumbrances fince the faid thirteenth Day of ivir/^i^rj, made be«nalisnable. or at any Time or Tiines hereafter to be made of the fame, or any Part thereof, or wherev/ith or where- Incumbrances by to aifect, charge or incumber the fame, or any Part thereof^, with any Annuity, Penfion, Rent, i ^peb ' decWed Debt, Sum or Sums of Money, Charge or Incumbrance whatfoever, fhall be and are hereby ena£ted voy. and declared to be null and void to all Intents and Purpoits whatfoever; neverthelefs it is hereby de- Contiaflors not clarcd and enafted. That if any Perfon or Perfons, who fhall have contracted for any fuch Purchafe, paying their Mo- fhall not within the Time appointed pay the Sum of Money contradted for, every fuch Buyer fliall forfeit ney to forfeit a one fifth Part of the Confideration-money contradted for ; and the faid Truftees, or any feven or m.ore of ^^^^ ''""' ttiCm, may and fhall proceed to a new Sale of all and every fuch Lands, Tenements and Hereditaments. _ ,' r r XXVI.' Provided, That nothing in this Aft contained fliall make void any Grant of any Quit-Rents, Grants or Abaie- or other Rents, made in Confideration of any juft Debt or Debts releafed to the Crov/n, to the full ments of Qnit- Value of fuch Grant, or make void any Grant for Redu£tion or Abatement of any Quit-Rent, where Rents (hall be fuch Abatement hath been ii ade in Confideration of the Barrennefs or Coarfenefs of any Lands out of ■^^'''^• which fuch Quit-Rents are iffuing, or for their better Habitation or Improvement. Farther frir.nded ^" jurbyxAr.n ft.l. ■T 2 Forfeited 5 Ar:n. c. 25.