1. Short title.—(1) This Act may be called “The Sir Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy Baronetcy Act, 1915,” and
(2) Commencement.—It shall come into force at once.
2. Repeal of Act XX of 1860.—The said Act No. 20 of 1860 is hereby repealed, and the said
Promissory Notes of the Government of India, of the nominal value of rupees twenty-two lakhs, fifty-four
thousand and four hundred, shall henceforth cease to be vested in the Corporation created and constituted
by the said Act No. XX of 1860, and the Mansion House and other hereditaments, called Mazagon Castle,
situate in the Island of Bombay, with their rights, members and appurtenances, of which the said First
Baronet was seized to him and his heirs, shall, by force of this Act, from and immediately after the
passing of this Act, either as to the whole or, as the case may be, as to such parts thereof as shall not have
been sold, transferred, and conveyed under the powers conferred by section 10, stand limited, until such
time as the same shall have been sold, transferred, and conveyed under the powers conferred by the said
section 10, to the uses following (that is to say): to the use of the present, that is to say, the Fifth Baronet,
for and during the term of his natural life, and from and immediately after his decease, to the use of the
heirs male of the body of Sir Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy, First Baronet, who may succeed to the title of Baronet
conferred by the said Letters Patent as aforesaid, but as to each one of the said heirs male to the use of
such heir male during the term of his natural life only, and, upon failure and default of heirs male of the
body of the said Sir Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy, First Baronet, to whom the said tile and dignity of Baronet may
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descend as aforesaid to the use of the heirs, and assigns for ever of the said Sir Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy, the
Second Baronet, which ultimate remainder or reversion it shall be lawful for the heirs and assigns of the
said Second Baronet, at any time or times during the continuance of the said title and dignity of Baronet
and until there shall be such a failure of heirs male of the body of the said First Baronet as aforesaid, to
grant, convey, devise, and dispose of by Deed or Will, or by any other assurance or assurances by which
such an estate in remainder or reversion is capable by law of being conveyed or disposed of.
3. The Commissioner for the Northern Division, the Accountant-General, and the Collector of
Bombay to be a Corporation for execution of the Trusts of this Act.—The Commissioner for the time
being for the Northern Division of the Presidency of Bombay, the Accountant-General for the time being
of Bombay, and the Collector for the time being of Bombay, and the holders for the time being of those
offices respectively, and likewise the holder or holders for the time being of any one or more office or
offices which may hereafter be substituted by the Governor in Council of Bombay for any one or more of
the first mentioned offices, shall be, and they are hereby, created a Corporation with perpetual succession
and a common Seal under the style and title of “Sir Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy Baronet’s Trustees,” and the said
Corporation so hereby created (hereinafter styled “the Corporation”) are hereby constituted, as such
Corporation, the Trustees for executing the powers and purposes of this Act.
4. Present Baronet to continue to bear, and all future Baronets to take, names of First
Baronet.—The present Sir Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy, Fifth Baronet, shall continue to be called by the name of
“Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy,” and all other the heirs male of the body of Sir Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy, First Baronet,
to whom the said title and dignity shall descend, pursuant to the limitation of the Letters Patent whereby
the said dignity was granted, shall take upon themselves respectively the name of “Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy,”
in lieu and in the place of any other name or names whatsoever ; and the present Baronet, and all such
other heirs male of the said Sir Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy, First Baronet, severally and successively shall be
called by the name of “Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy,” and by that name shall name, style, and write themselves,
respectively, upon all occasions whatsoever.
5. Government Promissory Notes of a certain nominal value vested in Trustees.—Immediately
from and after the passing of this Act, the said Promissory Notes of the Government of India, of the
nominal value of rupees twenty-two lakhs, fifty-four thousand and four hundred, shall vest in the
Corporation who shall hold the same upon the trusts, and for the purposes, and with the powers,
hereinafter expressed of and concerning the same, that is to say:
(a) On trust to re-invest if paid off.—Upon trust, if the same or any part thereof should be
discharged by the Government of India, to invest the sum or sums paid by the Government of India,
in discharge of the same or any part thereof, in or upon any stocks, funds, or securities in which they
are by the provisions of this Act hereinafter authorised to invest the same, and in like manner, as often
as the same shall become necessary, to alter, vary and change such stocks, funds, and securities for
others of the same or a like nature;
(b) and to pay income to present Baronet for his life.— and upon further trust, from time to
time, to pay and apply the dividends, interest, and annual income of the said stocks, funds, and
securities unto and for the benefit of the present Baronet, that is to say, Sir Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy, Fifth
Baronet, during his natural life ;
(c) and after death of present Baronet to pay income to Baronet for time being.—and upon
further trust, from and immediately after the decease of the said Sir Jamsetjee Jajeebhoy Fifth
Baronet, to pay and apply the said dividends, interest, and annual income unto and for the benefit of
the person who, as heir male of the body of the said Sir Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy, First Baronet, shall, for
the time being, have succeeded to, and be in the enjoyment of, the title of Baronet conferred by the
said Letters Patent as aforesaid, notwithstanding any rule of Law or Equity to the contrary ;
(d) with ultimate trust for Second Baronet his executors, administrators and assigute.—and
upon further trust, upon failure and in default of heirs male of the body of the said Sir Jamsetjee
Jejeebhoy, First Baronet, to whom the said title and dignity of Baronet may descend, to hold the
corpus and also the income of the said Government Promissory Notes, stocks, funds, and securities
for the heirs and assigns forever of Sir Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy, the Second Baronet, which ultimate
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remainder or reversion it shall be lawful for the heirs and assigns of Sir Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy, the
Second Baronet, at any time or times during the continuance of the said title and dignity of Baronet,
and until there shall be a failure of heirs male of the body of the said First Baronet as aforesaid, to
assign, transfer, bequeath and dispose of by Deed or Will or other assurance or assurances.
6. Powers of investment.—The Corporation shall have power to invest the funds, which are subject
to the trusts of the Settlement effected by this Act, on the following securities and on no others:—
(a) in Promissory Notes, debentures, stock or other securities of the Government of India, or of
the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland;
(b) in bonds, debentures or annuities charged by the Imperial Parliament, or by an Act of
Legislative Council of the Governor General of India, on the revenues of India;
(c) in stock or debentures of or shares in Railway or other Companies, the interest whereon shall
have been guaranteed by the Secretary of State for India in Council;
(d) in debentures or other securities for moneys issued by, or on, behalf of, any municipal body
under the authority of any Act of a Legislature established in British India, or debentures issued by
the Trustees for the Improvement of the City of Bombay under the City of Bombay Improvement,
Act, 1898 (Bombay Act 4 of 1898), or debentures issued by the Trustees of the Port of Bombay under
the Bombay Port Trust Act, 1879 (Bombay Act 6 of 1879), or debentures issued by the Trustees of
the Port of Karachi under the Local Authorities Loans Act, 1914 (Act 9 of 1914), or other law for the
time being in force, or debentures issued by the Commissioners for the Port of Rangoon under the
Local Authorities Loans Act, 1914 ( Act 9 of 1914), or the Rangoon Port Act, 1905 (Baronet Act 4 of
1905).
(e) on any other security expressly authorised by any rule which the High Court of Judicature at
Bombay may, from time to time, prescribe as an investment for trust property consisting of money.
7. Prohibition against varying investments without consent of person entitled to income.—The
Corporation shall not vary any investment of the funds, subject to the Settlement effected by this Act,
without the consent in writing of the person for the time being entitled to the income of the said Funds.
8. Power to Baronet for the time being to purchase land to erect a Mansion House there on.—
The person for the time being entitled to, and in the enjoyment of, the title of Baronet conferred by the
said Letters Patent, shall have power, with the written, approval of the Corporation, —
(a) and to purchase land with a house thereon, and to pull the house down, and erect
another, or to enlarge, alter or add to house thereon.—to purchase land in any part of the Island of
Bombay for the purpose of erecting there on a Mansion House and all necessary or suitable accessory
buildings, and to erect thereon such Mansion House and accessory buildings;
(b) to purchase land in any part of the Island of Bombay with a dwelling house standing thereon,
and either to pull down the said dwelling house and any other building which may be upon the land,
and to erect upon the said land, in lieu thereof, a Mansion House, with all necessary or suitable
accessory buildings, or to enlarge alter, or add to the building or buildings which may be upon the
land, when purchased, so as to convert the same into a Mansion House, with all necessary or suitable
accessory buildings.
9. Power to trustees to sell securities to produce funds to pay for land, etc.—The Corporation
shall have power to sell a sufficient portion of the securities upon which the funds, which are subject to
the Settlement effected by this Act, shall for the time being be invested to produce the sum which shall be
required for the purpose of paying for any land which may be purchesed by the person for the time being
entitled to, and in the enjoyment of, the title of Baronet conferred by the said Letters Patent under the
powers conferred by section 8, and for erecting thereon a Mansion House, with the necessary or suitable
accessory buildings, or for paying for the purchase of any land with a house or other building stading
thereon which may be purchased under the powers conferred as aforesaid, and for pulling down the said
buildings, and erecting a Mansion House, with the necessary or suitable accessory buildings, in liue
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thereof or for altering and adding to such buildings for the purpose of converting the same into a Mansion
House, with the necessary or sutable accessary buildings, as the case may be:
Proviso that total sum raised shall not exceed Rs. 2,25,000.—Provided that the total sum raised by
the Corporation under the power conferred upon them by this section for the sale of the said securities
above-mentioned shall not exceed two lakhs and twenty five thousand rupees.
10. Power to Baronet for the time being to sell Mazngon Castle.—The person for the time being
entitled to, and in the enjoyment of, the title of Baronet conferred by the said Letters Patent, shall have
power, with the written consent and approval of the Corporation, to sell, transfer, and convey freed and
discharged from all uses and trusts created by this Act, the said Mansion House and other hereditaments,
called Mazagon Castle, situate in the Island of Bombay, with their rights, members and appurtenances,
and either in one parcel or in several parcels, and either at one time or from time to time, upon condition
that the proceeds of sale thereof shall be paid by the purchaser thereof direct to the Corporation.
11. Power to Trustees to apply proceeds of sale Mazagon Castle, not exceeding Rs. 2,75,000 in
paying for land purchased and for erecting Mansion House thoreon, etc.—The person for the time
being entitle to, and in the enjoyment of, the title of Baronet, conferred by the said Letters Patent may,
from time to time, request the Corporation, in writing, to pay, out of the proceeds of sale of the said
Mansion House and other hereditaments, called Mazagon Castle, if and when sold, the purchase money of
any land which may be purchased by the person for the time being entitled to, and in the enjoyment of,
the said title of Baronet, under the powers conferred by section 8; and all costs, charges, and expenses of,
and incidental to the purchase and acquisition of the same, and of the conveyance, and assurance of the
same to the Corporation, and also to pay all costs and expenses of, and incidental to the erection thereon
of, a Mansion House, with the necessary or suitable accessory buildings, and to pay the purchase money
of any land, with a house, or other building, standing thereon, which may be purchased by the person for
the time being entitled to, and in the enjoyment of, the said title of Baronet, under the powers conferred
by this Act, and all costs, charges and expenses of, and incidental to, the purchase and acquisition of the
same, and of the conveyance, and assurance of the same to the Corporation, and also to pay all costs, and
expenses of, and incidental to the pulling down of the said buildings, or any of them and of erecting a
Mansion House, with the necessary of suitable accessory buildings, in lieu thereof, or of altering, and
adding to, such buildings, for the purpose of converting the some into a Mansion House, with the
necessary or suitable accessory buildings, as the case may be, and the Corporation shall, upon such
request being made as aforesaid, make such payments out of the proceeds of sale of the said Mansion
House and other hereditaments called Mazagon Castle:
Provided that the total sum expended by the Corporation, under the powers conferred by this section,
out of the proceeds of sale of the said Mansion House and other hereditaments, called Mazagon Castle,
shall not exceed the sum of two lakhs and seventy-five thousand rupees.
12. Settlement of Mansion House, etc., in support of Baronetcy.—All lands and buildings which
may be purchased by the person for the time being entitled to, and in the enjoyment of, the title of
Baronet under the said Letters Patent under the powers conferred by section 8, with their rights, members,
and appurtenances shall be conveyed to the Corporation, and the Corporation shall hold the same, and
also all buildings which may be erected thereon under the powers conferred by section 8, upon trust for
Sir, Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy, Fifth Baronet, for and during the term of his natural life, and from and
immediately after his decease, upon trust for the heirs male of the body of Sir Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy, First
Baronet, who may succeed to the title of Baronet conferred by the said Letters Patent, but as to each one
of the said heirs male upon trust for such heir male during the term of his natural life only, and, upon
failure and default of heirs male of the body of the said Sir Jamstjee Jejeebhoy, First Baronet, to whom
the said title and dignity of Baronet, may descend as aforesaid, upon trust for the heirs and assigns of Sir
Jamsejee Jejeebhoy, the Second Baronet, which ultimate remainder or reversion it shall be lawful for the
heirs and assigns of the said Second Baronet at any time or times during the continuance of the said title
and dignity of Baronet, and until there shall be such failure of heirs male of the body of the said First
Baronet to grant, convey, devise and dispose of by Deed or Will, or by any other assurance or assurances
by which such an estate in remainder or reversion is capable by law of being conveyed or disposed of.
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13. Saving of rights of persons interested in reversion or remainder in Mazagon Castle on sale
thereof.—Any person or persons who shall have lawfully derived from the said Sir Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy,
Second Baronet, any interest in remainder or reversion in the said Mansion House and other
hereditaments, called Mazagon Castle, contingent upon such failure and default of heirs male of the body
of Sir Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy, First Baronet, shall, upon such failure and default of heirs male of the body of
Sir Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy, First Baronet, in the event of the said Mansion House and other hereditaments,
called Mazagon Castle, having been sold in pursuance of the power in that behalf conferred by section 10
be deemed to have a corresponding interest in the funds for the time being subject to the trusts of the
Settlement effected by this Act to the extent of the amount of the proceeds of sale of the said Mansion
House and other hereditaments, called Mazagon Castle, paid to the said Corporation in pursuance of
section 10.
14. Declaration of Trusts as to surplus proceeds of sale of Mazagon Castle over and above the
sum of Rs. 2,75,000.—The Corporation shall hold so much, if any of the proceeds of sale of the said
Mansion House and other hereditaments, called Mazagon Castle, if and when sold, as shall exceed the
sum of two lakhs and seventy-five thousand rupees, upon trust, to invest the same upon one or more of
the investments authorised by section 6, and shall hold the said investments, upon the same trusts, and for
the same ends, intents and purposes, and with the same powers, as are, by this Act, declared of and
concerning the funds which are subject to the Settlement effected by this Act.
15. Power to Trustees to invest the surplus annual interest and income of the Trust Fund and
premises during the minority of any Baronet, etc.—The Corporation during the minority of any person
for the time being entitled to, and in the enjoyment of, the title of Baronet under the limitations of the said
Letters Patent, shall pay and apply for and towards the maintenance, education, and benefit of such
Baronet, in each and every year during his minority so much only of the annual interest, dividends and
income of the said Trust Funds and premises as the Corporation shall, in their discretion, think proper;
and shall, from time to time, invest the residue of the said annual dividends, interest, and income of the
said Trust Funds and premises in and upon some one or more of the investments authorised by this Act
for the investment of the said Trust Funds; and shall, upon such Baronet attaining his majority, pay over,
transfer, and assign to him, or as he shall direct and for his own absolute benefit, the said investments and
all accumulations thereof.
16. Provision in case of refusal or discontinuance of names of First Baronet.—Provided always
that in case any person who, for the time being, shall be the heir male of the body of the said First Baronet
to whom the said title of Baronet shall have descended, shall for the space of one whole year after he
shall, by virtue of this Act, become entitled to the dividends, interest, and income of the said stocks,
funds, and securities or to the possession or receipts of the rents and profits of the said hereditaments; or,
being then under age, shall for the space of one whole year after he shall attain the age of twenty-one
years, refuse or neglect to use the names of “Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy” as hereinbefore enacted; or in case any
such person having so used those name, shall, for the space of six calendar months consecutively during
his natural life, discontinue so to use such names, then, in any or either of the said cases, the estate or
interest of the person who shall so refuse or neglect to use, or, having used, shall so discontinue to use,
the said names of “Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy” shall, during the remainder of his respective natural life, be
suspended; and that during any and every such suspension, the dividends, interest, and income of the said
stocks, funds and securities, and the possession and actual occupation, and also the rents and profits of the
said hereditaments, shall devolve and belong to the person who as heir male of the body of the First
Baronet, would have succeeded to, and been in the enjoyment of, the title of Baronet conferred by the said
Letters Patent, in case the persons so refusing or neglecting to use, or discontinuing to use, the said names
of “Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy” had departed this life; but if there should be no such heir male, then to the
person or persons who would be entitled to the same in case there had then been a total failure of issue
male of the First Baronet entitled to the said dignity of Baronet.
17. Baronet in possession may jointure.—It shall be lawful for Sir Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy, Fifth
Baronet, and for any person upon whom the said title of Baronet shall, from time to time, descend when
in the actual enjoyment of the said title, and who shall not refuse, neglect, or discontinue to use, for the
respective periods hereinbefore in that behalf mentioned, the said names of “Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy” as
hereinbefore enacted, either before or after his marriage with any woman or women by any Deed or
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Deeds, writing or writings, with or without power of revocation, to be by him sealed and delivered in the
presence of two or more credible witnesses (but subject and without prejudice to any annuity or annuities,
if any, which shall be then subsisting and payable by virtue of any appointment made under and in
pursuance of this present power), to limit and appoint unto any woman or women whom he shall marry,
for her or their life or lives, and for her or their jointure, or jointures, in bar of dower or other legal or
customary rights, any annuity or yearly sum not exceeding the sum of rupees ten thousand, clear of all
taxes, charges and deductions whatsoever, to commence and take effect immediately after the decease of
the person limiting or appointing the same, and to be issuing and payable out of the dividends, interest,
and annual income, of the said stocks, funds, and securities and to be paid and payable by equal
half-yearly payments on the thirtieth day of June and the thirty-first day of December; the first of the said
half-yearly payment to be made on the half-yearly day which shall first happen after the decease of the
person who shall have appointed such annuity or yearly sum, provided always, that in case any person on
whom such title shall descend, shall have refused or neglected to use the names of “Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy,”
or shall discontinue to use such names for six calendar months consecutively during his natural life, every
such limitation and appointment, either previously or afterwards made by him, shall be and become
inoperative and invalid; and no such annuity thereby created or appointed shall take effect or be payable
or chargeable on the said stocks, funds, and securities, notwithstanding any such limitation or
appointment.
18. Limit of aggregate of jointure payable contemporaneously.—Provided always, that the said
dividends, interest and annual income of the said stocks, funds, and securities shall not, at one and the
same time, be subject to the payment of more than the yearly sum of rupees twenty thousand for, or in
respect of, and jointure or jointures which shall be made in pursuance of the power hereinbefore
contained, so that, if by virtue of or under the same power, the said dividends, interest and annual income
would, in case this present provision had not been inserted, be charged at any one time with a greater
yearly sum for jointures in the whole than the yearly sum of rupees twenty thousand, the yearly sum
which shall occasion such excess, or such part thereof as shall occasion the same, shall, during the time of
such excess, abate and not be payable.
19. Mansion House and hereditaments not to be subject to joiuture.—The said Mansion House
and hereditaments called Mazagon castle, with their rights, members and appurtenances, and any lands,
houses, buildings and tenements which may be purchased or erected under the powers conferred by
section 8, with their rights, members, and appurtenances, shall not be subject to dower of any Dowager
Lady Jejeebhoy, or of the present or any future wife of Sir Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy, Fifth Baronet, or of any
wife of any of the persons who may successively be entitled to the Baronetcy under the aforesaid
limitations, or to any other right, interest, or estate whatsoever which any Dowager Lady Jejeebhoy or any
such wife or wives as aforesaid may or might have or claim to have in the said Mansion House, lands,
buildings and hereditaments, under any custom or law of the Parsees, or otherwise howsoever.
20. Alienation prohibited during the Baronetcy.—So long as the said title and dignity of Baronet
shall endure, and until there shall be a failure of the heirs male of the body of the First Baronet to whom
the said title and dignity of Baronet might descend, pursuant to the limitations of the said Letters Patent,
neither Sir Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy, Fifth Baronet, nor any of the heirs male of the body of Sir Jamsetjee
Jejeebhoy, First Baronet, in whose favour trusts are hereinbefore declared of the dividends, and annual
income of the said stocks, funds, and securities, or to whom the said Mansion House and hereditaments
called Mazagon Castle and any lands, buildings or other hereditaments, which may be purchased or
erected under the powers conferred by section 8 shall stand limited under this Act, shall transfer, dispose
of, alien, convey, charge, or encumber the said stocks, funds and securities, or any part thereof, or the
dividends, interest, and annual income thereof, or of any part thereof, or the said Mansion House or
hereditaments, or any lands, buildings or other hereditaments, which may be purchased or erected under
the power conferred by section 8 or any part thereof, for any greater or larger estate, interest or time, than
during his natural life, and for such portion thereof only as he shall continue to use the names of
“Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy,” nor shall have any power to discontinue or bar the estate of any person or persons
for whose benefit trusts are declared by this Act of the dividends, interest, and annual income of the said
stocks, funds, and securities or to or upon whom the said Mansion House and hereditaments, and any
lands, buildings and other hereditaments, which may be purchased or erected under the powers conferred
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by section 8, and the rents and profits thereof are, by this Act, limited to come or devolve in any manner
whatsoever, either by default or otherwise, or to prevent any such person or persons from succeeding to,
holding, or enjoying, receiving or taking, the same premises, according to the true intent of the provisions
hereinbefore contained; nor shall the same premises, or any of them, be held, by any Court of Law or
Equity, to have vested in any such person as aforesaid for any greater estate or interest than during his
life, and only during such portion thereof as he shall continue to use the names of “Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy,”
and every attempt to make any conveyance, assignment, or assurance contrary to the intention of this Act
shall be, and is hereby declared and enacted to be, void.
21. Power to augment the funds and securities subject to the Settlement, provided that total
amount of funds subject to the Settlement shall not exceed fifty lakh.—If at any time or times
hereafter the said Sir Power to Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy, Fifth Baronet, or any other person or persons shall be
desirous of augmenting the funds and securities for the time being subject to the trusts of this Act, and for
that purpose and with that intent shall at his or her oven expense transfer and deliver to the Corporation
any stocks, funds, or securities of the kinds specified in section 6, then and as often as the same shall
happen the Corporation may, with the previous consent of the Governor of Bombay in Council, accept
such stocks, funds and securities, and the same shall thenceforth be held by the Corporation upon the
same trusts as those which are declared by this Act of and concerning the trust funds which are the subject
of the Settlement effected by this Act, or upon such of them as shall be then subsisting and capable of
taking effect:
Provided that the total amount of the corpus of the trust funds which shall be subject to the trusts of
the Settlement effected by this Act shall at no time exceed fifty lakhs of rupees.
22. Provision as to insurances of Mazagon Castle, and other house or buildings purchased in
lieu thereof.—The person for the time being entitled to, and in the enjoyment of, the title of Baronet shall
at his own expense, insure the said Mansion House and other hereditaments, called Mazagon Castle, and
all buildings and offices accessory thereto, until such time as the same may be sold and the proceeds of
sale thereof paid to the Corporation, in the name to the Corporation against loss or damage by fire, in such
sum as the Corporation may deem adequate, and shall also, at his own expense, insure all houses and
other buildings, which may be purchased or erected under the powers conferred by section 8, from the
time when the same shall be conveyed to and become vested in the Corporation, against loss or damage
by fire, in such sum as the Corporation may deem adequate, and in case any such person shall at any time
neglect or refuse to insure the same in such amount or amounts, it shall be lawful for the Corporation to
insure the same and to apply any portion of the income of the funds for the time being subject to the trusts
of the Settlement effected by this Act to that purpose, and in case the hereditaments and premises so
insured or any part thereof shall be destroyed or damaged by fire, the moneys received in respect of such
insurance shall either be laid out under the directions of the Corporation in re-building or re-installing the
hereditaments and premises so destroyed or damaged by fire, or, upon the application of the person for
the time being entitled to, and in the enjoyment of, the said dignity of Baronet, and with the consent of the
Governor of Bombay in Council to be notified by a resolution of the Government of Bombay, may be laid
out in the purchase of other hereditaments in the Island of Bombay suitable for the support of the dignity
of the said Baronetcy and, in such last mentioned case, the hereditaments so purchased shall be conveyed
to and vested in the Corporation, and the Corporation shall hold the same upon the same trusts and for the
same ends, intents, and purposes, and with the same powers, as are declared and conferred by this Act of
and concerning the hereditaments and premises which shall have been so destroyed or damaged by fire as
aforesaid, or such of them as shall then be subsisting and capable of taking effect; and until such
insurance moneys shall have been so laid out as aforesaid, the Corporation may invest the same or any
part thereof in any of the securities specified in section 6.
23. Directions for keeping Mazagone Castle, and other houses or buildings purchased in lieu
thereof, in repair.—The person for the time being entitled to, and in the enjoyment of, the title of
Baronet conferred by the said letters Patent shall, at his own expense, keep in good repair, orders, and
condition, the said Mansion House and other hereditaments called Mazagon Castle and all offices and out
buildings accessory thereto, and likewise all houses and other buildings which may be purchased or
erected under the powers conferred by section 8, and all alterations and additions thereto, and all offices,
out-houses and other buildings accessory thereto, and, in case any person shall at any time neglect or
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refuse to keep the same or any part thereof in such good order and condition, it shall be lawful for the
Corporation to cause the same to be kept in good order and condition, and to defray the expenses
incidental thereto, out of the income of the funds for the time being subject to the trusts of the Settlement
effected by this Act.
24. Power to Trustees to sell land subject to Settlement.—The Corporation shall have power at any
time, with the consent of the person entitled to, and in the enjoyment of, the title of Baronet conferred by
the said Letters Patent, and of the Governor of Bombay in Council to be notified by a resolution of the
Government of Bombay to sell or exchange for other lands or hereditaments in the Island of Bombay any
lands or hereditaments which are subject to the trusts of the Settlement effected by this Act or any part
thereof, and upon any such exchange, to give or receive any money for equality of exchange:
Provided that the Corporation shall not sell the Mansion House, if any, or the buildings accessory
thereto, which may be purchased, or erected under the powers conferred by this Act, without having first
consulted all persons who may be interested in the said Mansion House, either by way of reversion, or
otherwise, and who may have attained their respective ages of majority:
Provided further that the foregoing proviso shall apply to the said Mansion House, and the buildings
accessory thereto only, and shall not apply to any lands, hereditaments, or premises, other than the land
upon which the said Mansion House and the buildings accessory thereto, may stand, or be erected, which
may be purchased under the powers conferred by this Act.
25. Directions as to how sale may be made.—Any sale which may be effected under the powers
conferred by section 24 may be made either by public auction or private contract, and the Corporation
may make any stipulations as to title, or evidence, or commencement of title, or otherwise, in any
conditions of sale or contract for sale or exchange, of the said hereditaments or any part thereof, and may
buy in, or rescind, or vary any contract for sale or exchange, and re-sell, or re-exchange, without being
responsible for any loss occasioned thereby.
26. Direction as investment of proceeds of sale of lands.—The Corporation shall, with all
convenient speed, invest all moneys which may be received by them upon any sale or exchange which
shall be effected by them under the powers conferred by section 24, either in the purchase of any one or
more of the securities specified in section 6, or in the purchase of other lands and hereditaments in the
Island of Bombay, suitable for the support of the dignity of the said title; provided that every such
purchase of lands or hereditaments be made with the consent in writing of the person for the time being
entitled to, and in the enjoyment of, and said title conferred by the said Letters Patent.
27. Declaration of Trusts as to investments of proceeds of sale of lands.—The Corporation shall
hold all stocks, funds, and securities which may be purchased by them in pursuance of the directions
contained in section 26 upon the same trusts, and to the same ends, intents, and purposes, and with the
same powers as are by this Act declared of and concerning the trust funds of the Settlement effected by
this Act, and shall hold all lands and hereditaments may be purchased by them in pursuance of the
directions contained in section 26 upon the same trusts and to the same ends, intents, and purposes, and
with the same powers and are declared by this Act of and concerning all lands and hereditaments which
may be purchased under the powers conferred by section 8.
28. Power to Baronet for the time being to enter into arrangement with Government as to landrevenue payable in respect of land purchased under section 8.—The person for the time being entitled
to, and in the enjoyment of, the title of Baronet conferred by the said Letters Patent as aforesaid, shall
have power with a view to the more advantageous sale of the land occupied by the said Mansion House
and other hereditaments, called Mazagon Castle, in other hereditaments, called Mazagon Castle, in
pursuance of the powers in that behalf conferred by section 10, and, notwithstanding anything in this Act
contained to the contrary, to enter into an arrangement with the Government of Bombay whereby, in
consideration of the waiver in perpetuity by the Government of Bombay of their right to enhance the
amount of the assessment to land revenue for the time being payable in respect of the land occupied by
the said Mansion House and other hereditaments, called Mazagon Castle, either the amount of the
assessment to land-revenue payable in respect of any land which may be purchased in pursuance of the
power in that behalf conferred by section 8, may be enhanced, or an assessment to land-revenue of any
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land so purchased, which at the time of the purchase thereof shall not be liable to the payment of
land-revenue, may be imposed thereon.
29. Indemnity of Trustees.—The Trustees for the time being action in the execution of the trusts and
powers hereby created and reposed in them respectively, and their successors, respectively, shall be
changed and chargeable for such moneys only as he and they respectively shall actually receive by virtue
of the trusts, powers and provisions of this Act, notwithstanding his, their, or any of their giving or
signing, or joining in giving or singing any receipt or receipts, for the sake of conformity; and he and they
respectively shall not be answerable or accountable for any banker or broker, agent, or other person with
whom or in whose hands any part of the said trust moneys shall or may be deposited or lodged for safe
custody, or otherwise in the execution of any of the trusts, powers and provisions hereinbefore created or
contained; and the Trustees for the time being acting in the execution of the trusts and powers hereby
created, and reposed in them respectively, and their successors respectively, shall not be answerable or
accountable for the insufficiency or deficiency of any security or securities, stocks or funds, in or upon
which the said trust moneys or any part thereof shall be placed out or invested, nor for any other
misfortune, loss or damage which may happen in the execution of the aforesaid trusts, powers and
provisions or in relation thereto; and it shall be lawful for him and them respectively with or out of the
money which shall come to his or their respective hands by virtue of the trusts and provisions of this Act,
to retain and reimburse to himself and themselves respectively all costs, damages and expenses which he
and they respectively shall or may sustain, expend, or disburse in or about the execution of the aforesaid
powers, trusts, and provisions or in relation thereto.
30. General saving clause.—Saving always 1
[the Government], and to all and every other person and
persons, bodies politic and corporate, and his, her and their respective heirs, successors executors, and
administrators and every of them (other than and except the devisees, heirs and assigns of the said Sir
Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy, First Baronet), all such estate, right, title, interest, claim, and demand whatsoever of,
in, to, out of, or upon the said Mansion House and hereditaments, called Mazagon Castle, and any lands,
buildings or other hereditaments, which may be purchased or erected, under the powers conferred by
section 8 or any parts thereof, as they, every, or any of them had before the passing of this Act and
would, could, or might have had, held, or enjoyed in case this Act had not been passed.