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Where Church or Chapel is already erected, the District may be formed, the Bounds ascertained, and Church made a Perpetual Cure.
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XXXI. And be it further enacted, That if it shall appear proper to any Archbishop or Bishop in Ireland, in the Manner and under the Regulations prescribed in the said Act of the Eleventh and Twelfth Years of His late Majesty George the Third, or of this Act, to form any District from a Portion of any Parish, or from any contiguous Portions of Two or more adjoining Parishes, and if in any such Portion of a Parish a Church or Chapel shall have been previously erected for the Accommodation of the Inhabitants of such Parish who may live at a Distance from the Parish Church, it shall and may be lawful for such Archbishop or Bishop to form such District, and to ascertain the Bounds thereof in the Manner required by Law, and to make the Church or Chapel within such District a Perpetual Cure, although such Church or Chapel may have been erected before the Formation of such District, or the Ascertainment of the Bounds thereof; any thing in the said Act of the Eleventh and Twelfth Years of His late Majesty, or of this Act, to the contrary notwithstanding.
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