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When Tithe Free Lands have been subjected to Composition such Composition shall be reduced.
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XVII. And be it enacted, That where any Lands made subject to the Payment of any Part of a Composition (the Amount of such Composition not having been fixed by Agreement) shall, by virtue of any Decision in Law or Equity, have been or at any Time shall be declared to be exempt from the Payment of Tithes, it shall be lawful for the Court of Chancery or Exchequer in Ireland, upon the Petition of any Person liable to the Payment of Rent-charge in the Parish in which such Lands may be situate, to direct any Master of such Court or the Chief or Second Remembrancer, to inquiry into and ascertain, by Examination of the Commissioner or Commissioners or Umpire, as the Case may be, by whom such Composition may have been established, or otherwise upon the best Evidence which can be procured, the Sum included in the Amount of such Composition on account of the Tithes of such Land, and the Certificate and Applotment of such Composition; and the Entry of such Certificate in the Registry of the Diocese shall be amended accordingly under the Direction of such court, and the Rent-charges payable instead of such Composition for Tithes shall be reduced proportionably.
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