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As to building District Churches for several Parishes.
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XVII. That it shall be lawful for any Person, Body Politic or Corporate, in any Case in which there shall happen to be a District comprising Parts of Two or more adjacent Parishes (whether in the same or in different Dioceses) so far distant from the nearest Church or Chapel in which the Liturgy and Rites of the United Church of England and Ireland as by Law established are used and observed, that the Protestant Inhabitants thereof, or any considerable Number of them, cannot conveniently repair thither for Divine Worship, to erect a Church or Chapel, or appropriate any Church or Chapel or Building already erected upon any Site theretofore lawfully appropriated for ever for that Purpose, in some convenient Place in any One of the said adjacent Parishes: Provided always, that a District shall be previously appropriated and assigned to the said Church or Chapel, in the Manner herein-after mentioned, from the said adjacent Parishes, being in the same or in different Dioceses, by the Bishop of the Diocese in which the said Parishes shall be situate, or in case they shall be situate in different Dioceses, by the Bishops of the several Dioceses, who shall in the said last-mentioned Case determine which One of the Bishops of the said adjacent Dioceses shall have and exercise Episcopal Jurisdiction over the said District, and the Incumbent or Perpetual Curate thereof, and in case the said Bishops shall not agree therein, the same may be determined by the Lord Lieutenant or other Chief Governor and the Privy Council of Ireland.
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