preceding provisions do not apply to an assurance by deed of land of any quantity, or to an assurance by will of land of the quantity hereinafter mentioned for certain public purposes. These are a public park, a schoolhouse for an elementary school, a public museum. Nor do they apply to an assurance by will of personal estate to be applied in or towards the purchase of land for all or any of the same purposes only.
But a will containing such an assurance, and a deed containing such an assurance and made otherwise than in good faith for full and valuable consideration, must be executed not less than twelve nionths*hefore the death of the assuror, or be a reproduction in substance of a devise made in a previous will in force at the time of such reproduction, and which was executed not less than twelve months before the death of the assuror, and must be enrolled with the Charity Commissioners within six months after the death of the testator, or in case of a deed the execution of the deed. The quantity of land so assured by will must not exceed twenty acres for any one public park, and not exceed two acres for any one public museum, and not exceed one acre for one schoolhouse. The expression (1) "Public park" includes any park, garden, or other land dedicated or to be dedicated to the recreation of the public ; (2) "Elementary school" means a school or depart ment of a school at which elementary education is the principal part of the education there given, and does not include any school or department of a school at which the ordinary payments in respect of the instruction from each. scholar exceed ninepence a week ; (3) " Schoolhouse" includes the teacher's dwelling-house, the playground (if any), and the offices and premises belonging to or required for a school ; (6) "Public museum" includes buildings used or to be used for the preservation of a collection of paintings or other w orks of art, or of objects of natural history, or of mechanical or philosophical inventions, instruments, models, or designs, and dedicated or to be dedicated to the recreation of the public, together with any libraries, reading-rooms, laboratories, ancl other offices and premises used or to be used in connection therewith. There are further and special exemp
tions in the case of gifts of land, or of money to be laid out in the purchase of land, for any of the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge, I.ondon, Durham, and the Victoria University, or any of the colleges within any of those universities, or for Keble, Eton, Winchester, and Westminster Colleges. And there is also another special exemption in the case of a bond fide assurance of land, for valuable consideration, to a society' or body of persons associated together for religious purposes or for the promotion of education, art, literature, science, or other like purposes. But to come within the benefit of the exemption the land must not exceed two acres for the erection thereon of a building for the above purposes, or any of them ; or be land whereon a building used or intended to be used for such purposes, or any of them, has already been erected. The trustees of such an assurance may, however, if they think fit, at any time cause the instrument to be enrolled in the Central Office.