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Premises to vest in the Commissioners, upon Payment into Bank of the Money agreed upon or assessed, when Conveyances cannot be obtained.
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LXXX. And be it enacted, That if any Corporation or Person seised or possessed of or having any Estate or Interest in any such Land as aforesaid cannot be found, or shall not be known, or shall not prove a good Title to such Land to the Satisfaction of the said Commissioners or any Person authorized by them, or shall refuse to execute a Conveyance thereof, then and in every such Case it shall be lawful for the said Commissioners to pay such Sum of Money as shall have been contracted and agreed or shall have been adjudged in manner aforesaid to be paid for the Purchase or for the Value of such Land, into the Bank of Ireland, in the Name and with the Privity of the Accountant General of the said Court of Chancery or Exchequer, to be placed to his Account to the Credit of the Party interested in the said Land (describing such Land), or if such Party shall not be known, then to the Credit of the then unknown Person interested in the said Land (describing the same), subject to the Order, Control, and Disposition of the said Court, which said Court, on the Application of any Corporation or Person making claim to such Sum of Money, or any Part thereof, by Motion or Petition, shall be and is hereby empowered, in a summary Way of Proceeding, or otherwise, as to the same Court shall seem fit, to order he same to be laid out and invested in the Public Funds, and to order Distribution thereof, or Payment of the Dividends thereof, according to the respective Estate, Title, or Interest of the Corporation or Person making claim thereto, and to make such other Order in the Premises as to the said Court shall seem just and reasonable; and the Cashier of the Bank of Ireland who shall receive such Sum of Money is hereby required to give a Receipt for such Sum of Money, and upon Payment of such Sum of Money into the Bank as lastly herein-before is mentioned, the Land for the Purchase or for the Value of which the same shall have been agreed and awarded to be paid, and the Fee Simple and Inheritance thereof, or other the absolute Interest therein, together with the yearly Profits thereof, and all the Estate, Right, Title, Interest, Use, Trust, Property, Claim, and Demand, in Law and Equity, of the Corporation or Person, or unknown Person, to whose Credit such Money shall be paid, in, to, and out of the Land, shall vest in the said Commissioners, and they shall be deemed in Law to be in the actual Seisin or Possession thereof, to all Intents and Purposes whatsoever, as fully and effectually as if every Corporation or Person having any Estate in such Land had actually conveyed the same; and such Payments shall not only bar all Right, Title, Interest Claim, and Demand of the Corporation or Person, or unknown Person, of, in, or to the same Land, to whose Credit such Payment shall have been made, but also shall extend to and be deemed and construed to bar the Dower of the Wife of such Person, and all Estates Tail and other Estates in Possession, Reversion, Remainder, Expectancy, or Contingency, and the Issue of such Person, and every other Person whomsoever.
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