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Commissioners enabled to ascertain the Amount of existing Charges on Parishes for Purposes for which Vestry Assessments are now prohibited, and to pay them off.
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XLIV. And be it enacted, That it shall be lawful for the said Ecclesiastical Commissioners to inquire into and ascertain the Amount of all such Sums as may have been, at or previous to Easter Week in the said Year One thousand eight hundred and thirty-three, charged or chargeable upon any Parish, Union, or Chapelry, for or on account of any Balance of Account, Costs, Damages, or Expences due to any Churchwarden, or to any Clerk or Sexton for his Maintenance, and also the Amount of any Arrears of Vestry Cess accrued due and not collected for the Years One thousand eight hundred and thirty-one or One thousand eight hundred and thirty-two with which any Churchwarden may have been charged in his Account, and which he may have paid and cannot recover, and also the Amount of all Sums which any Churchwarden or Person may have paid or for which he may be liable on behalf of any Parish, Union, or Chapelry, for any Purpose now executed, and for which a Vestry Assessment may have been made in the Year One thousand eight hundred and thirty-one or One thousand eight hundred and thirty-two or One thousand eight hundred and thirty-three, not exceeding the Arrears due upon such Assessment; and the said Commissioners, having satisfied themselves of the Amount of all such Sums as aforesaid, shall, in such Manner and to such Extent, and subject to such Regulations as they in their Discretion shall think just and necessary, pay the said Sums to the Persons respectively entitled thereto.
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