Inclosure Act 1852

XXI Allotments set out under Local Acts may be exchanged.

Where any Allotment has been made in trust or otherwise under any Inclosure Award for any public or parochial Purpose, or for the Benefit of the Inhabitants or others within any Parish or Manor, and it shall appear to the said Commissioners to be no longer necessary, convenient, or suitable for the Purposes for which the same shall have been made, it shall be lawful for the Commissioners, upon the Application in Writing of the Churchwardens and Overseers of the Poor of the Parish in which such Allotment is situated, or the Trustees for the Time being of such Allotment, and of the Person interested in any Land or other Subject Matter of Exchange under the said, recited Acts or either of them which he may be willing to give in Exchange for such Allotment, in case they shall be of opinion that such Exchange would be mutually beneficial, to cause to be framed, and to confirm, an Order of Exchange of such Allotment for such other Land or other Subject Matter of an Exchange as aforesaid, and all the Provisions of the said recited Acts applicable to Exchanges shall extend and be applicable to any such Applications for Exchange : Provided always, that it shall be lawful thereby to declare any new Trusts, if the same shall have been approved of by a Majority of the Persons for whose Benefit such Allotment as aforesaid was set out present at a Meeting convened by the Commissioners for the Purpose of considering the same.