the same shall be payable the several Rent to be reserved as aforesaid,
accruing
due during a Vacancy and the same shall be applied by such Vestry-men
and Church-wardens, for the Time being, or the major Part of them, to the
same Uses and Purposes as the Forty per Poll on the like Occasion,
is by former
Laws applied; and in case any Lease, to be made of any the aforesaid
Premises, shall, during such Vacancy, expire, cease, or determine, that
then,
and in such case, it shall and may be lawful to and for the Vestry-men
and
Church-wardens of the said Parish, for the Time being, to renew or lease
again the same, in the same Manner, and to the same Uses and Purposes,
and
under the like Restrictions as are herein before set forth, concerning
Lease or
Leases to be made, by the Incumbent, Vestry-men and Church-wardens of said
Parish; any law, Statute, Usage or Custom to the contrary notwithstanding.
VIII. Provided
always, That nothing in this Act contained, shall be construed
to make void or invalid any Lease or Leases, or Contracts now subsisting,
or heretofore entered into by the Rector, Vestry-men and Church-wardens
of said Parish, with any Person or Persons; but that the same, if any such,
be, and remain in full Force and Vigour, as if this Act had never been
made.
IX. And be it
further Enacted, by the Authority aforesaid, That all Lease
or Leases to be made by the aforesaid Rector, Vestry-men and Church-wardens,
or the major Part of them, or in case of a Vacancy, by the Vestry-men
and Church-wardens, or the major Part of them, shall, and are hereby directed
to be Registered by the Clerk or Register of the Parish aforesaid, within
the Space of Three Months after the Date of any such Lease or leases, at
the Request of the Lessee or Lessees; and that the same Lease or Leases
be
entered Word for Word in the Register-Book of said Parish, that such Register
receive and take as a Reward for so Registring such Lease or Leases, for
each, a Fee of Five Shillings Current Money of Maryland, and no
more: And
that in case Copy of such Lease or Leases should be required by any Person,
that then the Register, for the Time being, take the like Reward, and
no more. And in case of any Suit touching such Lease or Leases,
then an
attested Copy of such Lease or Leases, attested by such Register or Registers,
shall be as good Evidence on either Side, as if the original Lease or Leases
should be produced; and in cases of these leases, no Acknowledgment shall
be requisite; but Leases made for the Premises aforesaid, or any Part of
them,
shall be as effectual made in pursuance of this Act, as if no other Law
had relation
to them; any Law, Usage or Custom to the contrary notwithstanding.
Examined and Compared with the Original Act, REVERDY GHISELIN,
THOMAS BACON.
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CHAP.
XXIV.
or Leases
granted.
Former
Leases to remain
good.
Such Leases
to be registered
by the Parish
Register.
The Register's
Fee for
registering,
or for a Copy.
An attested
Copy, to be
Evidence.
No Acknowledgment
of
such Leases
requisite. |
