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Where Leases at Rack-rent have been made, after the Establishment of any Composition in pursuance of 4 G. 4, c. 99, the Rents shall be reduced in proportion to the Difference between such Composition and the Rent-charge payable turner this Act.
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XII. ‘And whereas by an Act passed in the Fourth Year of the Reign of His Majesty King George the Fourth, intituled An Act to provide for the Establishment of Compositions for Tithes in Ireland for a limited Time, it was enacted, that whenever under the Provisions of that Act any Composition should be made for Tithes payable in any Parish, every Person who should afterwards set, let or demise any Land lying within such Parish at a Rack-rent should make such Lease or Demise free from the Payment of Tithes during the Continuance of such Composition; and that in such Case it should be lawful for the Lessee or Occupier of such Land, and every such Lessee or Occupier was thereby required to pay the Amount of such Composition to the Person entitled thereto; and that it should be lawful for such Lessee or Occupier of such Land to deduct the Amount of all such Payments from Time to Time out of the Amount of Rent payable by such Lessee or Occupier of such Land to his immediate Landlord; and it was further enacted by the said recited Act, that in Case such Composition should cease and determine at any Time during the Continuance of such Lease, the Rent reserved in such Lease should be reduced in Amount by a Sum equal to the Amount of such Composition: And whereas in such Cases of Land, set, let or demised at a Rack-rent in any Parish at any Time after the Establishment of a Composition for Tithes therein the Amount of such Composition has by reason of the said recited Enactments been added to and made payable together with and as Part of the Rent, and it is just and reasonable that such Rent should be reduced to the Extent of the Reduction made under this Act in converting the said Composition into a Rent-charge;’ be it therefore enacted, That in case of any Lease made at a Rack-rent, at any Time after the Establishment of a Composition for Tithes in any Parish, of Lands subject to the Payment of such Composition, the Rent reserved upon and made payable in and by any such Lease shall be reduced by a Sum equal to the Difference between the Amount of the Composition heretofore payable in respect of such Lands and the Amount of the Rent-charge which will the Party from Time to Time liable to the Payment of such Rent shall be entitled to the deduct the Amount of such Difference accordingly: Provided always, that, subject to such Reduction, such Rent shall remain payable, and the Lessor, his Heirs, Executors, Administrators, and Assigns, shall have the like Remedies for the Recovery thereof as if the said Tithe Compositions were not by this Act determined.
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