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Where Chapels, &c. are suffered to remain void for a certain Time, the same to lapse to the Bishop.
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XXVI. That in case any such Proprietary Church or Chapel, or Parochial Chapel of Ease, or District Parochial Church or Chapel, or Perpetual Curacy, erected, constituted, or endowed under the Provisions of this or any other Act, shall be suffered to remain void for the Space of Six Calendar Months without any Nomination of a fit and proper Person to serve the same, by the Patron or Patrons thereof, to the Bishop of the Diocese, or the Bishop having Jurisdiction over the said Church or Chapel, the same shall lapse to the said Bishop, and from him to the Metropolitan, and from the Metropolitan to the Crown, according to the Course of Law used in Cases of Presentative Livings and Benefices: Provided always, that in case the said Patron or Patrons shall, after having suffered the said Lapse to incur, afterwards present or nominate to the same before any Advantage taken of the same by the Bishop, Metropolitan, or by the Crown respectively, such Presentation or Nomination shall be as effectual as if made within Six Months, although so much Time has already elapsed as that the Title by Lapse shall have vested in the Crown.
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