The Sun.
London, England, 1820-05-20 00:00:00

THE CLERGY.

The following Bill being now in its progress
through ParHarnett!, we insert it fur the iufotma.
tion of our Clerical Readers
A BILL, intituled, " An Act to amend and render more ef.

fectual an Act, passed in the fifty-fifth year of his late Ma-
jesty's Reign, for enabling Spiritual Persons to exchange
their Parsonage Houses or Glebe Lands, and for other
purposes therein mentioned."
Whereas an Act was passed in the Fifty-fifth year of the
reign of his late Majesty King George the Third, Intanled,
" An Act for enabling Spiritual Persons to exchange the
" Parsonage or Glebe Houses or ,Glebe Lands belonging. to
" their Benefices, for others of greater Value, or more con-
" veniently situated forotheir Residence and Occupation ; and'
" for annexing such Housceand Lands, so taken in Exchange,
" to such Benefices as Parsonage or Glebe Houses and Glebe
" Lands, and for purchasing and annexing Lands to become
" Glebe in certain cases, and for other purposes :"
And whereas it• is by the said tecited Act enacted, That
the Bishop shall, in cases of exchange and purchase under
the said Act, issue a Commission of Inquiry, for the purposes
therein-mentioned, to be directed to such Persons as are
therein described, and of whom one shall be a Barrister of
three years standing at the least,. to be named by the senior
Judge of Nisi Prius for the County in which the Benefice,
Perpetual Curacy, or Parochial Chapelry, whereto it shall be
proposed to annex any Buildings or Land, by exchange or ,
purchase under the said Act, shall be situate:
But inasmuch as the nomination of such Barrister by a
Judge of Nisi Prins is nut applicable to the County of Middle-
sex; be it therefore enacted by the King's Most Excellent
Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords
Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Par-
liament assembled, and by the authority of the sante, that
where any exchange or purchase shall be made, or be pro-
posed to be made, under the Authority of the said Act, in any
Benefice, Perpetual Curacy, or Parochial Chapelry, situate
within the said County of Middlesex, such Barrister shall be
named by the Chief Justice of the Court of King's Bench, for
the time being, or by the Chief Justice of the Couttof Commun.
Pleas at Westminster for the time being.
And whereas it is by the said recited Act enacted, That so
much of the Forms contained in the Schedules of the said
therein-recited Acts of the seventeenth and twenty-first
years of his then (and now late) Majesty King George
the Third, as were applicable to the provisions of that Act,
should, with such variations thereof as should render them
so applicable, be used and applied to the purposes of that
Act; hut inasmuch as the said Forms contained in the said
Schedules are not adapted to the provisions of the said.
first-recited Act, and the endeavours so to apply the
said Forms have been attended with inconvenience ; he it
therefore further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That so
much of the said first-recited Act atis directs that the Forms
contained in the Schedules of the said Acts of the seventeenth
and twenty-first yews of the reign of his said late Majesty,
should he used and applied to the purposes of the said first-
recited Act, shall be and the same is hereby repealed.