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Declaring the Meaning of the Clause of recited Act empowering the Archbishops of Armagh and Dublin to present a Fellow of Trinity College to certain selected Benefices;
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XVII. ‘And whereas it is by the said Act provided that upon each and every Avoidance happening after the Period in the said Act mentioned of certain Benefices to be selected from and out of the Benefices belonging to each of the Bishopricks mentioned in the First Column of the Schedule (B.) to the said Act annexed, it shall and may be lawful for the Archbishop of Armagh and Archbishop of Dublin to nominate and present to each such Benefice one of the Fellows or Ex-fellows of the College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity, near Dublin, being in Holy Orders; provided always, that in case the said Two Archbishops shall not be able to agree in such Nomination and Appointment, or shall decide upon the Person to be appointed to the said vacant Benefice, the first Turn therein to be exercised by the Archbishop of Armagh; and if on the Vacancy of any of the said Benefices so selected as aforesaid the said Archbishop shall not present thereto some such Fellow or Ex-fellow within such Period as any Patron ought to present to a Benefice in his Gift or Presentation, then and in such Case the Right of Presentation or Collation to such Benefice shall for that Turn devolve to the Bishop of the Diocese and be in all respects subject to the ordinary Law of Lapse: And whereas it is necessary to explain and amend the said herein-before recited Provision;’ be it therefore enacted and declared to be the Meaning of the said recited Provision, That upon each and every Avoidance of the Benefices selected as aforesaid, happening after the Time in the said Act mentioned, it shall and may be lawful for the said Archbishop of Armagh and Archbishop of Dublin to nominate and present to each such Benefice one of the Fellows or Ex-fellows of the College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity, near Dublin, being in Holy Orders; and that if on the Vacancy of any of the said Benefices, so selected as aforesaid, the said Archbishops shall not present thereto some such Fellow or Ex-fellow within such Period as any Patron ought to present to a Benefice in his Gift or Presentation, then and in such Case the Right of Presentation or Collation to such Benefice shall for that Turn devolve to the Bishop of the Diocese, and be in all respects subject to the ordinary Law of Lapse.
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