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Commissioners may sell lands or hereditaments, and give discharges for the purchase money.
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40. It shall be lawful for the commissioners for the time being, when they shall think fit, to sell any lands, tenements, or hereditaments which may be purchased by or become vested in them by or under the authority of this Act, and to convey the same as the purchasers shall direct; and the receipt of any two of the commissioners, or of any person to whom the purchase money shall be paid by their direction, shall be sufficient discharge for such purchase money; and such purchase money shall be applied by the commissioners in the purchase of other lands, tenements, or hereditaments, to be held upon the like trusts with the hereditaments from the sale of which such money shall have arisen, or in such manner as the commissioners shall think advisable for the benefit of the union or institution for the benefit or purposes of which such hereditaments shall have been holden: Provided always, that it shall not be lawful for the commissioners to sell the workhouse of any union without the consent of the majority of the whole number of the guardians of such union.
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