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Rent-charges to be variable in like manner as Tithe Compositions.
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XXXII. ‘And whereas the Compositions for Tithes by this Act abolished are liable to be increased or diminished from Time to Time with reference to the average Price of Corn as advertized in the Dublin Gazette during the preceding Seven Years, and it is just that the said Rent-charges which will by virtue of this Act become payable in lieu of such Compositions, and the Amount whereof is regulated thereby, should be subject to a similar Variation;’ be it therefore enacted, That it shall and may be lawful for any Three or more Persons in any Parish or Place, each charged with the annual Payment of Three Pounds or upwards in respect of any such Rent-charges, and for any Party entitled to the Receipt of such Rent-charges, or any Proportion thereof respectively, to make Application for the Increase or Diminution of the Composition in lieu whereof such Rent-charges may be payable, at such Periods from Time to Time and in such Manner as, if he or they were liable to the Payment or entitled to the Receipt of such Composition, he or they might respectively make such Application; and the like Notice of any such Application shall be given, and all such and the like Proceedings had thereupon, as by the Provisions of the said several Acts for establishing Compositions for Tithes in Ireland authorized and directed in the Case of Application thereunder; and such Composition shall be increased or diminished, and the Applotment thereof amended, accordingly, and the Rent-charges payable in lieu thereof increased or diminished in like Proportion: Provided that when the Price of any particular Species of Corn shall be stated in the Certificate of such Composition, the Justices to whom such Application may be made shall ascertain the Average Price of that Species of Corn from the said Gazette, and such Comparison shall be made between the Price thereof as stated in such Certificate and the Price thereof as so ascertained from the said Gazette, during each Period of Seven Years; and provided further, that where the Price of Corn shall not be stated in any such Certificate of Composition the said Justices shall ascertain from the said Gazette the average Price of Corn for the Period of Years with reference whereto such Composition may have been calculated, and deal therewith as if the same had been originally stated in such Certificate.
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