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Compositions for Tithes made under 2 & 3 W. 4. c. 119. may be appealed against.
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XIII. ‘And whereas in Cases where the said Compositions for Tithes have been established by a sole Commissioner appointed by the Lord Lieutenant, in pursuance of an Act passed in the Second and Third Years of the Reign of His late Majesty King William the Fourth, intituled An Act to amend Three Acts passed respectively in the Fourth, Fifth, and in the Seventh and Eighth Years of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Fourth, providing for the establishing of Compositions for Tithes in Ireland, and to make such Compositions permanent, it is just and expedient, with a View to a final and satisfactory Settlement of the Amount of the said Compositions for Tithes, and the Rent-charges payable in liable thereof, that Appeals should be allowed within a limited Time against the Certificates of such Compositions where the Amount thereof may have been unduly affected by Fraud or Concealment;’ be it therefore enacted, That it shall and may be lawful for any Person or Persons in any Parish who would have been, in Case this Act had not been made, individually or collectively liable to the Payment of more than One Half of the Amount of the whole Composition established in and for such Parish, whether the several Sums payable by him or them respectively shall be or may have been payable to any Party entitled to the Receipt of any Composition, or to any Landlord who may have taken upon him the Payment of such Composition, at any Time before the First Day of October next to appeal to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland in Council in behalf of such Parish against the Certificate of such Composition, in like Manner as by the said Act of the Second and Third Years of His late Majesty King William the Fourth, and the Act therein recited, an Appeal might have been made by Direction of the Vested of the Parish within the Time thereby limited, and the Grounds of such Appeal shall be stated in Writing and signed by such Person or Persons and lodged with the Clerk of the Privy Council before the said First Day of October; and in like Manner it shall be lawful for any Person who would have been, in Case this Act had not been made, entitled to any Composition for Tithes, before the said First Day of October, to appeal to the said Lord Lieutenant in Council against such Certificate in like Manner as by the said last-mentioned Acts such Appeals might have been made within the Time thereby limited; and Notice of every such Appeal shall be posted on the Church Door or usual Place of posting Notices of Application of Grand Jury Presentments in the Barony or Half Barony in which the Parish to which such Application may refer is situate, and once inserted by or on behalf of the Appellant Party in some Newspaper circulating within such Parish within Ten Days next after such Appeal shall have been lodged with the Clerk of the Privy Council: Provided always, that where the Effect of any Composition may have been suspended previous to the passing of this Act by virtue of any Lease or Agreement in Writing, the Owners and Occupiers of any Lands upon which collectively a Sum exceeding One Half of the Amount of such Composition may have been applotted, shall be deemed and taken to be qualified within the Meaning of this Act to make such Appeal.
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