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Bishops may consent to the building or purchase of an additional church by private subscription in any parish, &c. upon certificate of twelve or more householders that there is not accommodation for more than one fourth of the inhabitants, &c., and that they are willing to provide additional accommodation.
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5. [Recital.] Whenever any twelve or more substantial householders of any parish, township, or extra-parochial place shall certify in writing to the bishop of the diocese within which such parish, chapelry, township, or extra-parochial place shall be situate that there is not accommodation for more than one-fourth of the inhabitants thereof for the attendance upon divine service according to the rites of the Church of England, and that they or some of them, either by themselves or with the assistance of other persons belonging to the Church of England, are desirous of raising by private subscription such sum as may be necessary for building or purchasing a church or chapel, or any building or buildings to be used as a church or chapel, for the performance of the said service, and to provide out of pew rents of such church or chapel a competent stipend for the spiritual person who may officiate therein, and for a clerk thereof, and for all other expenses incident to the performance of divine service, and for maintaining the said church or chapel, and the said bishop shall be satisfied of the several particulars contained in such application, it shall be lawful for such bishop, if he shall think fit, to signify his consent to the building or purchasing such church or chapel, as the case may be, according to such plan, and upon such site as shall be submitted to and approved by him for that purpose.
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