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1873. 2. Whereas a piece of land containing about five acres, being situate in the parish of Barking in the county of Essex, and being part of the lands to which Her Majesty is entitled in right of her Crown, has, with the sanction of the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Woods, Forests, and Land Revenues, been appropriated as the site of a vicarage house with the garden and appurtenances thereto, and as glebe for the vicarage of Saint Peter, Aldborough Hatch, but doubts have been entertained whether the said piece of land has been legally ap propriated for the purposes aforesaid: And whereas a plan of the said piece of land has been signed by the said Honourable Charles Alexander Gore, one of the said Commissioners, and having been marked with the letter B, has been deposited at the office of Land Revenue Records and Inrolments, and upon such plan the said piece of land is coloured red : Be it enacted, that the said piece of land coloured red on the said plan B, with the house and buildings standing thereon, shall be vested for an estate in fee simple in the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England, for the purposes of the Church Building Acts, as the site of and as a vicarage house, with the garden and appurtenances thereto, and as a glebe for the vicarage of Saint Peter, Aldborough Hatch.

3. The President for the time being of the Board of Trade shall be a conservator or commissioner of the conservancy of the river Mersey, in the place of the Commissioners for the time being of Her Majesty's Woods, Forests, and Land Revenues, or one of them.

4. The powers of leasing given by an Act of the session holden in the tenth year of His Majesty King George the Fourth, chapter fifty, shall extend to enable the Commissioners for the time being of Her Majesty's Woods, Forests, and Land Revenues, or either of them, with the consent of the Commissioners for the time being of Her Majesty's Treasury, to grant or enter into any agreement to grant leases of any mines, minerals, or other metallic or non-metallic substances or substrata obtained by mining, quarrying, or excavating, for any term or terms of years not exceeding sixty-three years from the time of the granting of the lease or from the date of the agreement, as the case may be, or for any term or terms of years which with any term of years in existence at the time of granting the lease or the date of the agreement will together make up a term not exceeding sixty-three years from such time or date.

Every such lease or agreement may be made upon such conditions, and may contain such reservations by way of, or