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In case of not making out a good Title, &c. Money to be paid into Court.
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XXVIII. And be it enacted, That in case any Person or Persons claiming to be entitled to or interested in any Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments, or other Matters or Things, for which any Sum of Money has been or shall be awarded or contracted for, or in or to any Charge, Lien, or Incumbrance thereon, shall refuse to appear before the said Commissioners, or shall not be able to make out a good Title thereto, or to prove such Claim as he shall make, to the Satisfaction of the said Commissioners, or shall refuse to execute such Conveyance or Conveyances as herein-after mentioned, or be under any Incapacity, or in case the Person or Persons so entitled or interested be absent from Ireland, or cannot be discovered, or in any other Case in which it shall seem expedient to the said Commissioners so to do, it shall and may be lawful for the said Commissioners in every such Case to order the said Sum or Sums so awarded or contracted for, or any Part thereof, to be paid into or lodged in the Bank of Ireland in the Name and with the Privity of the Accountant General of the Court of Chancery in Ireland, to be placed to his Account there ex parte the said Commissioners, to the Intent that the same might be subject to the Order, Control, and Disposition of the said Court; which said Court, on the Application of any Person or Persons making such Claims to such Sum or Sums of Money, or any Part thereof, or on the Application of the said Commissioners if they shall be entitled to receive the same or any Part thereof, by Motion on Petition, shall be and is hereby empowered, in a summary Way of Proceeding or otherwise, as to the said Court shall seem meet, to order the same to be laid out or invested as to the said Court shall seem meet, or to order Payment or Distribution thereof, or Payment of the Dividends or Interest thereof, according to the respective Estate or Estates, Title, or Interest of the Person or Persons making claim thereto, and to make such other Order in the Premises as to the said Court shall seem meet, just, and reasonable; and the Cashier or Cashiers of the Bank of Ireland who shall receive such Sum or Sums of Money is and are hereby required to give a Receipt or Receipts for the same, mentioning and specifying from whom and on whose Account the same were respectively received, to the Person or Persons from whom the same were received.
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