The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-03-29 00:00:00

ECCLESIASTICAL RESIDENCES

The following is an abstract of the principal clauses of the
bill brought into the House of Lords by the Archbishop of

Canterbury

Clause 1. Provides that whenever it shall appear to be expe-
dent to relieve any bishop, having more episcopal houses of
residence than one, from any of such houses ; or to provide
any bishop with a more convenient house of residence ; or to
add to, alter, improve, or take down and rebuild, the house of
residence belonging to his see; it shall be lawful, by the au-
thority provided in an act passed in the session of parliament,
held in the sixth and seventh years of the reign of his late
majesty, with the consent under the hand and episcopal seal
of such bishop to make such arrangements as may by such
authority be deemed most expedient, for selling and con-
veying, to such person or body corporate, and for such con-
sideration as may be approved by the like authority, any epis-
copal house of residence then belonging to the see of such
bishop, or for taking down the same or any part thereof, and
selling the site or materials thereof (as the circumstances may
render expedient), and for applying the proceeds of any such
sale towards the adding to, altering, improving, or taking
down and rebuilding of any remaining houee belonging to such
see, or towards the building of a new episcopal house of resi-
dence for the same see or any other site to be approved by the
like authority, or to such other purpose and in such manner
as shall appear to be most conducive to the permanent benefit
of such see ; and that so much of the said act as relates to
the providing of any bishop with a more suitable and conve-
nient residence shall be extended so as also to include and
apply to such adding to, altering, improving, or taking down
and rebuilding.
3. Chapters, deans, and canons may purchase and alter,
take down or rebuild. Provisions of 3 and 4 Victoria, c. 113,
a. 59, made applicable thereto.
4. Episcopal house may be made the deanery or a canonical
house.
5. Provisions respecting disposal of canonical houses, 4 and
5 Victoria, c. 39, s. IS, amended.
6. Trust moneys may be applied to purposes of act, as with-
in meaning of 3 and 4 Victoria, c. 113, s. 68.
7. Articles in episcopal house sold or taken down may be
sold, or removed to other episcopal house.
8. Certain articles to be deemed freehold fixtures ; all
fixtures, fittings, and other articles in such house, which
shall have been or shall be paid for out of any moneys pro-
vided or raised under such authority, or such provisions, and
which shall be set forth in an inventory in writing, certified
under the common seal of the ecclesiastical commissioners
for England, and registered in the registry of the diocese,
shall be deemed to be, to all intents and for all purposes, as
much part and parcel of the freehold of such house of ru-
sidence, as any fixtures can in any case now by law be held to
be part and pareel of the freehold.
9. Residence houses to be insured.

10. Corporations and persons under legal disability em-
powered to sell, and provides for the application of purchase
money where it exceeds £200; where less than £2OO, but
not exceeding £211; when not exceeding £29. Certificates
of cashier and receipts of guardians, &c., to be good dis-
charges.

11. Restriction as to mortgaging certain augmented be-
nefices.