|
|
Parishes appropriated and becoming vacant, not to be filled up until One Calendar Month after Notice to Commissioners.
|
IX. Provided always, and be it further enacted, That whensoever after the passing of this Act any Deanery, Archdeaconry, Dignity, Prebend, or Canonry to which any Rectory, Vicarage, Tithes, or Glebes, or any Part or Parts, Portion or Portions thereof respectively, or Ministers Money, or other Payment or Emolument as aforesaid, shall be appropriated or united, and not being in the Gift or Disposition of His Majesty, shall become void, and whensoever after the passing of this Act any Benefice whereof the Patronage or Right of Presentation or Collation shall be in any Archbishop, Bishop, or other Dignitary, and in which Benefice Divine Worship shall not have been celebrated for the Three Years next preceding the First Day of February One thousand eight hundred and thirty-three, shall become void, then and in either of such Cases it shall not be lawful to fill up such Vacancy or to appoint any Successor or Successors in such Deanery, Archdeaconry, Dignity, Prebend, or Canonry or Benefice, until the Expiration of One Calendar Month after Notice in Writing shall have been given to the said Ecclesiastical Commissioners by the Corporation or Person having the Patronage or Right of Appointment or Election thereunto, of such Vacancy or Avoidance having occurred; and any Election, Appointment, Presentation, Collation, Institution, or Induction which shall be made contrary to the true Intent and Meaning of the said recited Act or of this Act shall be null and void to all Intents and Purposes whatsoever; and it shall and may be lawful for the said Lord Lieutenant and Council, and for the said Ecclesiastical Commissioners respectively, to exercise all Powers with which they are respectively invested, in relation to such Deanery, Archdeaconry, Dignity, Prebend, or Canonry or Benefice, by the said recited Act or this Act, in such Manner as if the same were absolutely void: Provided always, that the Certificate of the Ordinary that Divine Service has not been celebrated in any such Benefice for Three Years next preceding the First Day of February One thousand eight hundred and thirty-three shall be conclusive Evidence of such Fact for all the Purposes of this Act and of the said recited Act.
|
