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Bishop shall ascertain the Rate and Proportion of Salary to be paid to Curates by Incumbents, and their Turns of Nomination.
When the Church is erected, the Curate to be nominated.
Nomination on Vacancies.
If any Incumbent neglect to nominate in his Turn, the Nomination shall lapse to the Bishop.
Allocation of Salary.
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XXVII. And be it further enacted, That it shall and may be lawful for the Archbishop or Bishop of the Diocese in which any such District or new Parish shall be formed, and he is hereby required to determine, in and by such Instrument as aforesaid, the Rates and Proportions of Salary which each of the Incumbents of the adjoining Parishes out of which such District shall be formed shall pay to the Curate of such District or Parish, and to regulate the Manner in which each of such Incumbents shall, on Vacancies of the said Curacy, nominate to the said Archbishop or Bishop, or their Successors, a sufficient Curate, and also to appoint which of the Incumbents shall first nominate, and the Order in which the several Incumbents of all such adjoining Parishes shall in their Turn nominate such Curate; and so soon as any such Church or Chapel shall be erected and set apart for Divine Worship, the Rector or Incumbent of One of the said adjoining Parishes, whose Turn it shall be, shall nominate to the said Archbishop or Bishop of the Diocese a sufficient Curate for such Church or Chapel; and such Curate shall be approved of and licensed by such Archbishop or Bishop, in such Manner as other Curates are by Law to be licensed and approved of; and upon every Vacancy of any such Cure, by the Death or Removal of such Curate, or by his Acceptance of any other Cure, or of any Benefice with Cure of Souls, another Curate shall be nominated by the Rector or Incumbent of such of the said adjoining Parishes whose Turn it shall be so to nominate, in Manner aforesaid; and in case the Rector or Incumbent of any such adjoining Parish for the Time being, whose Turn it shall be so to nominate, shall fail or neglect to nominate a Curate for the Space of Two Months next after any such Church or Chapel shall be erected and set apart, or next after any such Vacancy shall happen, such Incumbent shall forfeit and lose his Turn for that Time, and it shall and may be lawful for the Archbishop or Bishop respectively to appoint and license a Curate for the District where such Failure shall happen; and such Archbishop or Bishop shall in all Cases allocate such Salary for every such Curate, so to be nominated and appointed and licensed for any of the said Cures, as such Archbishop or Bishop is enabled to do by the Laws in force in Ireland in other Cases of Perpetual Cures.
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