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sion, who shill make report, and examine witnesses.—
" That they shall well, Oillently, and truly, according to
the best of their skill and knowledge, do, fulfil, perform,
and execute the several powers and trusts reposed in thern
by virtue of such commission, within the limits thereof,
without favour or affection, prejudice, malice, or
to any person whatever."
19. Certain sums chargeable on livings, &c., to be de-
ducted from the valuation.—Rents, synods, proxies, and
other charges, including salaries or stipends for perpetual
curates, which any such spiritual person or persons as
aforesaid is or are bound to pay in respect of his or their
archbishopric, bishopric, archdeaconry, deanery, pre-
bend, benefice, or other promotion spiritual as afore-
said, &c.
20 Not to he deducted unt ss mentioned in certificate.
21. That if the said tax, rate or assessment, or any
part thereof, piyahle by any body or person, shall he in
arrear and unpaid more than a reasonattle time after the
same shall have been demanded by or on the part of the
Commissioners under this Act, it shall and may be lawful
for such Commissioners, in every such case, to apply to
the Court of Chancery or Exct.equer in Ireland, by peti-
tion in a summary way for relief in that behalf.
22. Prim ity of Sequestration under this Act.
23. If incumbent die before Gale Day, tax to be ap-
portioned. (See 2 Eliz., c. 3, s. 5.) (See 23 and 24
Geo. 111., c. 16, 8.1.)
24. Arrears of tax due on death of such person to rank
as a judgment debt.
25. Nominee of Commissioners to be entitled to admi-
nistration.

26. Archbishops and bishops to return promotions,
&c: (See 29 Geo. 111., c. 26, a. 5.) (See 29 Geo.
11.. c. 26, a. 5 )
27. Provision for cases where archbishops are also
bishops, &c. (See 5 Geo. IV., c. 91, a. '70.)
28. That every archbishop and bishop within the limits
of whose province or diocese resp ctively any benefice or
office or promotion spiritual, by whatever name called,
known or described respectively, exempt or peculiar, shall
he locally s,tuate, shall have use and exercise ail the
powers and authorities necessary for the due execution by
them respectively of all the purposes and provisions of this
Act, and for enforcing the same with regard thereto re-
spr

,rectivety, as such archbishop and bishop respeciively
would have used and exercised if the same were not
exempt and peculiar, hut were subject in all respects to
tb jorimrction of such archbishop or bishop, &c.
29. Where benefices united, to be taxed as single
benrfices, &c.

30. When bishopric void, whs shall exectoe powers
of this Act. When archbishopric of Dublin void, who
shall ex,-cute powers of this Ac'.
31. And whereas his Majesty has been graciously pleased
to signiy that he has placed at the disposal of Parlia-
ment his interest in the temporalities and custody thereof
of the several bishoprics and archbishoprics mentioned
in this Act and the schedule (B) thereto annexed ; be it
therefore enacted, that the bishopric of Waterford, now
void, shall, from and after the passing of this Act, and the
other bishoprics n imed in the first cnlumn of the ache-
du'e to this Act annexed, shall, when and as the same may
severally become void, be thenceforth united to and held
together with the bishopric or archbishopric. mentioned
lei conjunction therewith respectively in the second column
of the said schedule (B); and that the archbishops or
bishops of the archbishoprics or bishoprics in such
second column named shall, at such times respectively, as
before mentioned, be and become by virtue of this Act,
and without further grant, installation, or ceremony
whatsoever, bishops respectively of the said bishoprics
named in such first column in conjunction therewith.
and shall have and exercise all and every the eccle-
siastical patronages and jurisdictions in appointing,
collating, and presenting to all and every the dig-
nities, rectories, vicarages, curacies, chapelries, or
other offices or promotions, by whatever name called,
known, or described, lawfully had, used, exercised,
and enjoyed by the respective bishops of the said
bishoprics in the first column of the said schedule named,
as also the right of nominating and appointing to all and
every the offices of Chancellor, Va:ar- General, Official,
Principal Registrar, and all other the ecclesiastical offices
of or belonging or appertaining to such lato-mentiond
bishoprics respectively; and his Most-Excellent Majesty,
his heirs and suecrssors, shall at all times thereafter grant
each such bi-hopric in the first column of the said sche•
dule (13) named, tnget ,er with the hi-hoprick or arch-
bishopric to which it may have been united in mintier
aforesaid, to e held by one and the same person.
32. Temporalities of bishoprics, in first column of
the said schedule (B), vested in the Commissioners under
this Act.
33. Arrears of rent, &c., since the death of Bishop of
Waterford, to he recovered by Commissioners.
34. Commissioners to pay sums charged on bishopric
of Waterford to executors of deceased. Commissioners
shall pay sums charged on bishoprics hereafter to be
suppressed.
35. That in the else of the said bishopric of Water-
ford, it shall and may be lawful for the said Commis-
sioners, from and after the passing of this Act, and in the
case of the other bishoprics named in the first column
of the schedule (B) to this Act annexed, it shall and
may be lawful fur such Commissioners, at and after
such times as the said bishoprics shall become resnectively
vacant, and such Commissioners are hereby em-
powered, by and with the consent of the Lord Lieu-
tenant, or other Chief Governor or Governors in Ireland,
to be testified in writing under his or their band
or hands, to sell and convey in fee simple, cr ex-
change, or to demise for any term of lives or years,
or lives and years, with or without covenant for renewal,
and for such purchase money, rent, or fine, as shall he
specified in and by such consent as aforesaid, the see house
and offices, and all or any part of the lands, tenements and
hereditantents, and possessions of or belonging to the said
bishopric of Waterford, or to the said other bishoprics :
provided always, that if the bishop for the time being of
the bishopric to which such bishopric of Waterford, or
such other his), opric so becoming vacant as aforesaid,
shall be united by virtue hereof as aforesaid, do and shall,
with and by the like consent as aforesaid, to be testified as
aforesaid, elect and choose the see house of such bishopric
of Waterford, or such other bishopric so becoming vacant,
as aforesaid, to be and continue for ever to be the see house
of such united bishopric, it shall not be lawful for the
said Commissioners to sell, exchange, convey or demise
the said see house and offices, so selected and chosen as
aforesaid, nor the mensal or demesne or other lands there-
of or thereto respectively belonging, &c.
36. Bishoprics now and to be vacant. Recital of anti
parties to deeds of conveyance and demise of see houses.
37. That the purchase moneys and fines arising or to
arise from such sales and demises respectively as aforesaid,
together with the rents (if any) to be thereby respectively
reserved, shall be applied and disposed of by said Commis•
sinners for the several purposes, and subject to the like
rules and regulations as are herein mentioned with respect
to the said annual tax hereby vested in and made payable
to said Commissioners.
38. Archbishoprics of Cashel and Tuam ancexal to
Armagh and Dublin respectively.
39. Bishoprics of Kiltnore and Ardagh to be malted.
40. Adjusts the rotation of Bishops sitting in Parlia-
ment.

41. The rotation of archiepiscopal sees.'
42. Is the saving of former provisions.
43. Revenues of Armagh and Derry reduced. [Blanks
for the sums.]
44. Bishops of Derry and Armagh exempted from an-
nual tax.
45. Commissioners may cover arrears by segoestration.
46. That while and so long as the temporalities of the
said archbishopric and bishspric repectively shall at any
time be in the custody of his most excellent Majesty,
heirs and successors, his said most excellent Majesty, his
heirs and successors, shall cause the said anon d payments
to be made to the said Commissioners in I,ke manner as
the same are hereby directed to be made by the archbi-
shop or bishop thereof respectively while the said sees
are full.
47. Sums now due ti frustoss of first fruits vested in
commissioners hereof.
48. Sums so due may be sued for and rec.vered as by
said trustees in name of and by commissioners.
49. Moneys now in hands of said trustees or officers
vested in commissioners.
50. Primate Boulter's and Robinson's Charities to be
vested in commissioners, and kept distinct.
51. Commissioners to put moneys out at interest.
62. That all and every the rents, issues, sni profits of
all lands, tenements, or hereditaments, and the said annual
tax and the proceeds thereof, and all and every sum and
sums of money and securities for money, vested in or
which chat accrue to, or in any manner come into, vr be

in the hands, power, custody, or possession, or at the dis-
posal of the said commissioners and their successors,
under and by virtue of this Act, and all interests, dividends,
profi's, and proceeds thereof, or any part thereof (s we
and except the
.perpetuity purchase fund hereinafter men-
tinned, and the properties and funds respectively be-
'clueatherl by Dr. Hugh Boulter and Dr. - Robinson,
and heretofore vested in the said Trustees and Commis-
sioners o' First Fruits in Ireland as hereinbefore mentioned,
and the interest, dividends, and proceeds thereof respec-
tively, and also save and except such other funds and
properties as may be hereafter bequeathed to or vested in
the said commissioners under this Act, and their suc•
censors, for any special purposes), shall he and the same
are hereby declared to be applicable, and shall be applied
in the manner and for the purposes following ; (that is to
say) in the first place, for the providing, in such manner
and proportions as the said commissioners shall deem fit.
tine, things necessary for the cerebration of divine service in
the church or chapel of every parish, union, perpetu curacy,
or chapelry, or chapel of ease in Ireland, as required
and authoriz d by any rubric or canon in force in
Engl Ind or Ireland, and also for the payment of the sala-
ries for the maintenance of the parish clerks or sextons, or
the clerks of any chapelry or chapel of ease, and also for
defraying such expenses of rebuilding, enlarging, or re-
pairing any church or chapel as aforesaid, as have been
heretofore defrayed by vestry assessment in Ireland, and
also for supplying such parts or proportions of the ex-
penses of providing for the said several matters aforesaid,
in and for and of putting into and keeping in repair ca-
thedral and parochial churches as the said commissioners
are hereafter directed to contribute for such purposes.
53. Provision for rebuilding and repairing cathedral
and parochial churches.
54. Repeals certain parts of Geo. IV.
55. That from and after the commencement of this Act
it shall not be lawful to make any rate or assessment in
any parish, union, chapelry, or place, for the purpose of
repaying, by instalments or otherwise, any loan or loans
heretofore made by the trustees and commissioners of the
first-fruits of ecclesiastical ben: flees in Ireland, for the pur-
pose of building, rebuilding, enlarging, or repairing the
church or chapel of any such parish, union, chapelry, or
place ; but that all sums so lent and advanced, and re
maining unpaid, shall be and the same are hereby remit'ed
and discharged.
56. Yearly estimate of expenses to be transmitted to
ordinary.
57. Bishop or ordinary to certify. Commissioners to
grant such sum as they may think fit.
56. Provides for the payment of clerks' salaries.
59. Salaries of chairs to be hereafter appointed.
60. Commissioners may advance money for extraor-
dinary repairs of church, chapel, cathedral, &c.
61. Any provision heretofore made by Vestry assess-
ment for maintenance cf curates, &r., shall cease, and
commissioners shill provide for same.
62. The expenditure of such money subjected to the
control of the commissioners.

63. Accounts to he furnished to commissioners.
64. Commissioners may sue for money unaccounted for
or unapplie'd:
65. That when and so soon. as the said commissioners
shall have in their hands any surplus or balance, after due
provision shall have been made for the several objects and
purposes liereinbefore mentioned, and not sooner, it shall
and may be lawful for the said commissioners to apply and.
di.pose of such surplus, or any part thereof, in such pro-
portions as the said commissioners shall seem fit, for all or
any of the objects hereinafter mentioned.
66. Commissioners may advance part of surplus for
building churches in certain cases.
67. Commissioners may assign pews to subscribers in
consideration of subscriptions.
68. Commissioners may advance money for building
glrbe.houses, &c.
69. Money so advanced to be repaid by incumbents.
70. Who shall not tie deemed successors to such locum.

bents.
71. In what manner successors Shall be liable.
72. For regul tting payment of instalments by successors,
of incumbents removed before receipt of the whole sum
granted.
73. To enforce punctuality, the commissioners required
to take a bond to his Majesty, for payment of instalments,
with interest'.
71. Commissioners may, at time of making advance,
signify their intention to require interest.
75. All sums to he advanced shall be a charge on all
the ecclesiastical emo uments of the benefice. In drfiult
of repayment, the ordinary may sequester, and put a se-
questrator, to be ruined by the commissioners, into pos-
session of the profits, until repayments, with costs and

charges.
76. Sum lent to he distinguished in the certificate.
77. In case benefice becomes void before the whole sum
shall be advanced, successor to receive the remainder upon
like security.
78. In..•umbent to keep buildings insured.
79. Not to extend to.obstruct or alter the laws now in
force for building glebe-houses.
80. Commis,ioners may grant 501. gratuitously in cer-
tain cases.
81. Power of commissioners to augment benefices out
of such surplus funds and moneys so as aforesaid from time
to time remaining in their hands or at their disposal, to
augment any benefice with cure of souls, living, or curacy,
appropriate or impropriate, or the maintenance of any
parson, vicar, curate, and minister, officiating in any
church or chapel in Ireland where the liturgy and rites of
the united churches of England and Ireland, as now by
law established, are or shall be used and observed, and
which shall appear to them to be under the clear yearly
value of -- pounds &c.
82. No augmentatio❑ unless a church be built at the
time, or within three years after.
83. If incumbent of augmented benefice do not reside,
salary to cease.
84. If incumbent of augmented benefice take a second,
the first to be void.
85. N., lapse without notice to patron.
86. Provisions hereof to extend to donatives and cu-
rates. Curacies and chapels augmented to be perpetual
cures and benefices.
87. No rector or vicar discharged hereby from cure of

souls.
SS. If augmented cure void for six months it shall lapse.
89. Nomination before advantage taken of lapse, good.
90. Donatives to be subject to visitation.
91. Consent of patron necessary.
92. Power to commissioners to agree with patron for
yearly allowance.
93. Such agreement to be with consent of patron.
Provided always, that in case of any such agreement es
aforesaid with any parson or vicar, the same shall hot with
the approbation and consent of his patron and ordinary ;
and in case of any such agreement made with any person
in right of his wife, that the wi`e may be a party to the
agreement, and seal and execute the same.
94. Entries of augmentations and order. Copies to be
evidence.
95. Power for commissioners to purchase hou'e and
land for augmented bulefice.
96. United benefices to be as a single benefice.
97. That from and after the commencement of this Act
it shall and may be lawful for the said commissioners
under this Act, by instrument in writing under their cor-
porate seal, by and with the consent of the Lord Lieute-
nant, or other chief governor or governors of Ireland for
the time being, and of his Majesty's Privy Council in
Ireland in council assembled (six at least consenting), and
with the consent of the respeclive patron or patrons, certi-
fied under his or their band and seal, or hands and seats,
attested by two or more credible witnesses subscribing
thereunto, to divide any parish in Ireland, the average
annual value whereof shall exceed - pounds.
98. Commissioners may divide also the glebe belonging
to parishes so divided.
99. Guardians, committees, &e., may consent.
100. Bounds of parishes to be first ascertained, and
map and statement of value transmitted to Lord-Lieutenant,
who shall confirm or alter same.
101. Commissioners shall adjust proportions of Crown
rents, &c., to be paid by incumbents of divided parishes.
102. Incumbent of divided parishes entitled to receive
disbursements from next successor, as if parish bad not
been divided.
103. When assent of his Majesty is required, a.•ent
of Lord-Lieutenant to be good.
104. Consent of archbishop, &c., to division of parish
not necessary when appointed after pa.sing of this Act.
105. That when any person or persons other than the
Crown, or an archbishop or bishop, si.ail be patron or
patrons of any living or parish so to be divid•.d us afore-
said, or shall be entitled to present a clerk thereto upon
i any vacancy or turn thereof, it shall and rosy be lawful