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On Death or Removal of Incumbent of any newly-erected Parish, the Patron entitled to the first Avoidance may present to such new Parish.
Clerk so presented may be inducted;
and may qualify in any Church in the vacant Part, or in the old Parish Church, and enter on the Cure of Souls, &c.
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IX. And be it further enacted, That where any such Union or Unions shall be made by virtue of this Act, and a new Parish erected, and it shall happen that any Incumbent enjoying any Parish or Part of a Parish so united to any other Parish or Part of a Parish constituting the newly-erected Parish shall die or be removed, whereby the Parish or Part of a Parish which such Incumbent so dying or removed held and enjoyed is no longer an old Parish or Part of an old Parish, but is become Part of the united and newly-erected Parish, it shall and may be lawful, from and after the Death or Removal of such Incumbent, to and for the Patron or Patrons of such united and newly-erected Parish, who by Law is or are entitled to present or collate to the First Turn upon the Avoidance of such newly-erected Parish, to present or collate his Clerk to such newly erected Parish by the Name or Description which such newly-erected Parish is distinguished or called by in the Act of Council establishing such Union and erecting such Parish, as if all the Incumbents of such united and newly-erected Parish were then dead or removed, and as if such united and newly-erected Parish were then entirely void; and upon such Presentation, and Institution thereupon, or Collation, the Clerk so presented and instituted or collated shall be entitled to Induction to the said united and newly-erected Parish, as if all the Incumbents were dead or removed, and may be inducted into the Parish or Part of a Parish which shall be then void, without waiting for the Death or Removal of the other Incumbent or Incumbents, and may perform all Matters and Things for the qualifying or entitling himself, as by Law is required, to the said united Parish, in any Church, if any such there be in that Parish or Part of a Parish then become vacant, and in case there be no Church upon such Parish or Part of a Parish so vacant, then in the old Parish Church of the Parish from whence such Part of a Parish is taken; and such Clerk so presented and instituted or collated, and also inducted, shall then enter upon the Cure of Souls, and take and receive all such Tithes, Duties, or other Profits, in such vacant Parish or Part of a Parish, in as large and ample a Manner as the old and former Incumbent so dying or removed was by Law entitled to have, take, and receive in such Parish or Part of a Parish before it became void.
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