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Churches and Chapels to be Perpetual Cures capable of Endowment.
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XXIII. That every such Proprietary Church or Chapel erected or appropriated or endowed, and every such Parochial Chapel of Ease and District Parochial Church or Chapel erected or appropriated, with or without Endowment as aforesaid, and whether under the Provisions of this or any other Act of Parliament, shall be, from and after the Endowment of such Proprietary Church or Chapel, and after the Erection of such Parochial Chapel of Ease and District Parochial Church or Chapel become and be, a Perpetual Cure and Benefice, by such Name as in the Case of an Endowment shall be mentioned in the Grant of such Endowment, and in default thereof, and in all other Cases, by such Name as by the Founders thereof, with the Consent of the Bishop of the Diocese or District, shall be given, or in default thereof by such Name as the Bishop of the Diocese shall think proper to give it; and the Incumbent or Curate thereof, duly nominated, appointed, and licensed thereto, and his Successors for ever, shall be esteemed to be in Law a Perpetual Curate, to all Intents and Purposes whatsoever, and a Body Politic or Corporate, and shall have perpetual Succession as such, and be capable of receiving to him and his Successors in perpetuity any Endowment in Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments, Money, or Public Stock or Funds, which may be granted unto him by virtue of this or any other Act, by any Deed of Endowment, or by last Will and Testament.
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