An Act to explain and amend the Copyhold Acts. (the Forbes-Mackenzie Act).
WHEREAS Doubts have arisen as to the Construction of "The Copyhold Acts," and also of the Act of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Years of Her present Majesty, to "facilitate the Management and Improvement of Episcopal and Capitular Estates in England," and as to the Powers under the Provisions of the first-recited Acts of Ecclesiastical Corporations, sole or aggregate, to enfranchise Lands, and of the Copyhold Commissioners to confirm or consent to such Enfranchisements, and to nominate Trustees...