CURIOUS APPLICATION.
QUEEN ANNE'S BOUNTY. AMOUNT OF CORN RENT. A curious application was inarlo at Middleex Sessions recently, when Mr. P. E. Sandlands applied, on behalf of the Dean and Chapter of Christ Church, Oxford, and the Governors of Queen Anne's •bounty, for the appointment of threo referees to inquire into and ascertain tho average price of a Winchester bushel of marketable wheat in the county of Middlesex during tho past 14 years, in order that the amount of tho corn lent awarded by a local Act of 1803 to the vicar of Harrow and the Dean and Chapter might bo rcnscertained. . { .i Counsel explained that at* the time tho Act was passed the Michaelmas Sessions were directed to be held in the week of- ... the. Feast of St. Michael. Tho chairman, Sir Montagu Sharpe, K.C., remarked that tho Archangel had not had his feast yet. The application was adjourned. ...
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20721, 14 November 1930, Page 11
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