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Tenant not having a fully renewed Lease may tender to Archbishop, Bishop, &c. the Amount of the Customary Fines, and if declined, Commissioners may ascertain the Amount of Fine which ought to be paid, and upon Payment thereof, Tenant entitled to have a Conveyance.
No Tenant to be entitled to Perpetuity, unless he pays up his Proportion of Fine for the Period of the Year elapsed from the previous Renewal.
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XXI. And be it further enacted, That in case any Tenant or Lessee, who under the Provisions of the said recited Act is or shall be entitled to apply and agree for, and who shall have applied and agreed for, the Purchase of a perpetual Estate or Interest in any Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments, shall hold such Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments by Lease for the Term of Twenty-one Years, whereof less than Twenty Years shall be to come and unexpired, or for the Term of Forty Years, whereof less than Thirty-nine Years shall be to come and unexpired, or for Three Lives, and all the Lives named in such Lease shall not be in being, then and in every such Case it shall and may be lawful for every such Tenant or Lessee to tender to the Archbishop, Bishop, or other Sole Ecclesiastical Corporation, under whom he shall hold such Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments, or to his or their known Agent or Agents, such Sum or Sums as he shall consider to be the true and just Amount of the Renewal Fine or Fines, and Fees customarily paid or payable for or upon the Renewal of such Lease for such Term or Interest as in and by the said recited Act is required; and in case such Archbishop, Bishop, or other Sole Ecclesiastical Corporation shall refuse or neglect within a reasonable Time after such Tender to accept such Sum or Sums of Money and execute such Renewal, then and in every such Case it shall and may be lawful for the said Ecclesiastical Commissioners, and they are hereby authorized and required, at the Requisition in Writing of such Tenant or Lessee, to ascertain by the issuing of a Commission, or by such other Ways and Means as they shall deem fit and expedient, the Amount of the Renewal Fines usually or customarily paid or payable on and for the Renewal of such Lease, and the Sum which, according to the usual and accustomed Mode of renewing the same, ought to be paid on the Renewal thereof, up to the Day upon and from which the Rent to be reserved by the Deed or Deeds of Conveyance of such Lands and Premises is to begin to accrue due; and such Tenant or Lessee shall, upon Payment to the said Ecclesiastical Commissioners, to and for the Use of such Archbishop, Bishop, or other Sole Ecclesiastical Corporation respectively, of such Sum so ascertained as aforesaid, and of all Rents and Arrears of Rent due upon such Lease, be entitled to have a Conveyance executed of the Fee Simple and Inheritance of and in the said Lands, Tenements, and Hereditaments, in like Manner as if such Lease had been fully renewed for such Term of Years or Lives respectively as in and by the said recited Act is required: Provided always, that no Tenant or Lessee holding any Lands or Premises by Lease for the Term of Twenty-one Years or of Forty Years, whereof less than One Year shall have expired, shall be entitled to have any Deeds of Conveyance of such Lands and Premises made or granted to him or her by virtue of the said recited Act and of this Act, or of either of them, unless, in addition to all Rent and Arrears of Rent due upon and reserved by such Lease, he or she shall have paid and satisfied to the Archbishop, Bishop, or other Ecclesiastical Person under whom he or she shall hold the said Lands and Premises, or to the said Ecclesiastical Commissioners, a proportional Part of the Fine or Fines and Fees usually and accustomarily paid and payable for and upon the Renewal of such Lease, up to and for such Day upon and from which the Rent to be reserved in and by such Deed of Conveyance is to begin to accrue due.
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