IX Apportioning of Quit or other reserved Rents.
And be it further enacted, That whenever any Quit, Chief, or other Rent or Rent Charge, either for Term of Years or for Life or Lives, or in Fee, shall be reserved upon or payable out of any Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments, Part of which may be given, gold, of taken under the Provisions of the said recited Acts or this Act for the Purposes thereof respectively, and Difficulties may arise as to the apportioning such Rents, and exonerating the Portions of any such Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments so given, sold, or taken for any Claim in respect of such Rents, and as to the effectually charging the Remainder of such Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments with the Remainder of such Rent, it shall be lawful for the Public or Corporate Body or Trustees, or other Persons giving or selling any such Portion of any such Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments, or from whom the same may be taken under the Provisions of the said recited Acts or this Act, to apportion any such Rent, with the Consent and Concurrence of the said Commissioners; and the Lands, Tenements, and Hereditaments used and applied for the Purposes of the said Acts or this Act, shall in every such Case be wholly exonerated from any such Rents or any Part thereof, but the regaining Part of such Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments shall not be thereby discharged from the remaining Part of the Rent fixed by any such Apportionment, and the Rent so apportioned shall in every such Case be deemed the entire Rent upon the remaining Part of such Lands, Tenements, and Hereditaments; and all Remedies by Distress, Entry, Action, or otherwise, which might have been used and applied for the Recovery of the original entire Rent, shall be used, Enforced, and applied for the Recovery of the Rent fixed by such Apportionment.