DISPOSITION by THOMAS S. ESSON & anor. To The Education Authority of the County of Lanark.
AT EDINBURGH, the eleventh day of April in the year One thousand nine hundred and twenty one, between the hour of ten and ten thirty forenoon, the Disposition underwritten with Warrent of Registration thereon, was transmitted by Post and presented by E. Bonner, Register of Sasines, and is with said Warrant of Registration, recorded as follows vizt:- We Thomas Skene Esson and George Francis Dalziel, both Writers to the Signet in Edinburgh, heritable proprietors of the subjects hereinafter disponed In Consideration of the sum of Two thousand two hundred and fifty pounds sterling instantly paid to us by the Education Authority of the County of Lanark of which sum we hereby acknowledge receipt and discharge the said Education Authority Do Hereby Sell and Dispone to and in favour of the said Education Authority of the County of Lanark and their successors and assignees whomsoever heritably and irredeemably In The First Place All and Whole that plot of ground part of the lands of Lawhead Tarbrax and others lying in the Parish of Carnwath and County of Lanark extending said plot of ground to seven acres and nine one hundredths parts of an acre or thereby Imperial Standard Measure as delineated and coloured red on the plan annexed and signed by us relative hereto and bounded as follows videlicet:- on the North by the Public Highway leading from Auchengray to the Main Road to Carnwath and Edinburgh along which it extends from the point A on the said plan to the point B on the said plan One hundred and sixty one feet or thereby; on the East, North, North East, South East and South by other parts of the said lands of Lawhead Tarbrax and others along which it extends as follows:- on the East from the said point B to the point C on said plan seven hundred and eighty two feet or thereby; on the North from the said point C to the point D on said plan twelve feet or thereby; on the North east from the said point D to the point E on plan following the bend One hundred and ninty two feet or thereby; again on the East from the said point E to the point F on said plan twelve feet or thereby; again on the North from the said point F to to the point G on said plan Two hundred and twelve feet or thereby; again on the East from the said point G to the point H on said plan ninty five feet or thereby; again on the north east from the said point H to the point I on said plan thirteen feet or thereby; on the South from the said point I to the point J on said plan following the bend ninety feet or thereby; and again on the East from the said point J to the point K on said plan Two hundred and eighty feet or thereby. On the South by a service road leading from the first mentioned public highway along which it extends from the said point K to the point L on said plan following the bend Four hundred and seventy two feet or thereby And on the West by a continuation of the aforesaid service road along which it extends from the said point L to the said point A One thousand two hundred and fifty five feet or thereby all of said measurments being calculated from the Ordnance Survey Edition of Nineteen Eleven Lanarkshire Sheet XXI.I which plot of ground above disponed is part and portion of All and Whole the lands of Lawhead Tarbrax and others lying in the said Parish and County all as more particularly described in the Instrument of Sasine in favour of David Robertson Souter, Accountant, Gloucester Place, Edinburgh, recorded in the General Register of Sasines the fifteenth day of August, Eighteen hundred and fifty five together with the teinds parsonage and vicarage of the said plot of ground above disponed so far as have right thereto whole parts pendicles and pertinents thereof and our whole right title and interest present and future therein; In The Second Place a joint right in common with us and our successors in the Farm of Lawhead, forming part the said lands of Lawhead Tarbrax and others to the spring water and collecting tank situated at the point marked M on said plan on our said lands of Lawhead to the north east of the plot of ground above disponed in the First Place with a heritable and irredeemable servitude right of conveying away the water therefrom by means of and in accordance with the existing outlet from said tank and supply pipes leading from said tank through our said lands of Lawhead along the lines coloured blue on said plan and with a right of access to and along the line of said pipes and to the said tank for the purpose of cleaning maintaining and if necessary renewing the same, our said disponees and their foresaids being bound however always to make good any damage that may be done to our said lands in consequence of their operations, and the foresaid right to said spring and to the supply of water therefrom being always burdened with a servitude in favour of us and our successors in (Primo) the Lodge lying to the north of the plot of ground hereby disponed in the First Place, marked R on said plan and (secundo) the Gardener's House lying to the West of said plot of ground marked S on said plan of a supply of water to said Lodge and Gardener's House respectively by the existing supply pipes thereto: we and our successors being always bound to maintain the existing supply pipe coloured black on said plan serving said Lodge marked "R" from its junction with the branch pipe coloured blue on said plan and also the cistern situated in the outhouse at Lawhead Mansion House and the supply pipe coloured violet and said plan leading from said cistern to said gardener's cottage marked "S" on said plan and having a right of access along the lines of said pipes coloured black and violet so far as within said plot of ground above disponed for the purpose pf cleaning, maintaining and if necessary renewing said pipes coloured black and violet and said cistern and being always bound to make good any damage done to the surface of the said plot of ground above disponed by our operations, Declaring that we and our successors in Lawhead Farm shall be entitled to continue to draw water from the foresaid tank but only by the existing outlet therefrom to the line of pipes coloured yellow on said plan leading to Lawhead Farm and declaring that we and our successors shall be in no way liable for any lessening of the supply of said water in the said spring; And In The Third Place a heritable and irredeemable right of servitude and wayleave for a drain pipe for the purpose of conveying the overflow from the existing septic tank situated on said plot of ground above disponed at the point marked O on said plan along the line coloured red on said plan and of discharging the said overflow into a ditch situated on our said lands of Lawhead at the point marked P on said plan and of a right of access to and along the line of said pipe coloured red for the purpose of cleaning repairing and if necessary renewing the same our said disponees and their foresaids being bound however always to keep the said ditch into which said overflow is discharged properly cleaned and in such a condition as to avoid any nuisance being created, and also to make good any damage to our other lands in consequence of their exercise of said right of wayleave operations; With entry as at the term of Martinmas, Nineteen hundred and twenty, notwithstanding the date hereof: And we assign the writs but in respect that they relate to other subjects of greater value than those hereinbefore disponed and so cannot be delivered up we bind and oblige ourselves to make the said writs so long as they remain in our possession furth coming to the said Education Authority and their foresaids on the usual borrowing receipt and obligation to redeliver the same within a reasonable time and under a suitable penalty and to take any person to whom we may ultimately deliver the same bound in like manner; And we assign all right competent to us quoad the subjects above disponed to demand exhibition or delivery of any other or prior writs And we assign the rents; And we bind ourselves to be free and relieve the said Education Authority and their foresaids of all feu-duties casualties and public burdens And we grant warrandice; And we consent to registration hereof for preservation; IN WITNESS WHEREOF these presents consisting of this and the three preceding pages are together with the said Plan subscribed by us at Edinburgh on the seventh day of April, Nineteen hundred and twenty one before these witnesses, Margaret Calder Dobson and Patience Mary Singleton, both Clerks to Messrs Tods, Murray and Jamieson, sixty six, Queen Street, Edinburgh. (Signed) Thomas S. Esson. G.F. Dalziel. M.C. Dobson, Witness, P.M. Singleton, Witness.......REGISTER on behalf of the Education Authority of the County of Lanark in the Register of the County of Lanark. (Signed) Thos. Munro, Solicitor, Hamilton, Agent. Collated by Ted Robinson Collated by Angus Paterson Typed by Dora M. Stuart