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Ecclesiastical Commissioners empowered to provide for the Purposes heretofore defrayed by Vestry Assessment for Part of the Year 1833.
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XLI. ‘And whereas it was by the said recited Act provided, that all Rates or Assessments upon any Parish, Union, Chapelry, or Place, or the Inhabitants thereof, or any of them, for certain Purposes in the said Act mentioned, and all Proceedings for the making, assessing, applotting, or levying the same, should from and after the Commencement of the said Act wholly cease and determine, and that every Rate, Assessment, or Applotment for any Church Purpose whatsoever should be and be deemed to be by all Courts of Justice totally void as to so much thereof as provides for the Church Purposes, or any of them, in such Act mentioned; and it was also by the said Act provided, that in all Parishes and Places where by virtue of any Law, Statute, or Custom Provision may have been theretofore made by Vestry or other Assessment for the Maintenance of any Curate, Lecturer, Clerk, or other Minister or Assistant in the Celebration of Divine Worship, or Attendant or Sexton, such Provision by Vestry or other Assessment should from and after the passing of the said Act wholly cease and determine, and future Provision for such Church and other Purposes was made by the said Act from and after the Commencement thereof: And whereas it is necessary, by reason of the said Enactments, that Provision should be made for the Purposes aforesaid for the Period of the Year One thousand eight hundred and thirty-three intervening between the Commencement of the said Act and the Easter Week next preceding, and also for all such Charges and Expences incurred previous to the Commencement of the said Act as would or ought to have been defrayed by Vestry Assessment in case the said Act had not been made;’ be it therefore enacted, That so much of the said recited Act as disables any Vestry called or holden in or for any Parish, Union, Chapelry, or Place, or any Person or Persons, from making, assessing, applotting, or levying any Rate or Assessment for any of the Purposes in the said Act mentioned, and so much of the said Act as authorizes and requires the said Ecclesiastical Commissioners to issue and pay the Sums required for the several Matters and Things by such Act directed to be included in the Estimates to be annually transmitted to the said Commissioners, or as authorized the said Commissioners to make Provision for the Maintenance of any Curate, Lecturer, Clerk, or other Minister or Assistant in the Celebration of Divine Worship, or Attendant or Sexton, in lieu of any Provision by Vestry Assessment or otherwise theretofore made for such Purposes by any Law, Statute, or Custom, shall take effect and be deemed to have taken effect from the Commencement of the Easter Week in the said Year One thousand eight hundred and thirty-three, and that any such Rate or Assessment made in such Week, or at any Time after and previous to the Commencement of the said Act, shall be utterly null and void in so far as respects any of the Church Purposes in the said Act mentioned, but no further; and that supplementary Estimates for the said Period intervening between Easter Week in the said Year One thousand eight hundred and thirty-three and the Commencement of the said Act shall with all convenient Speed be prepared, certified, and transmitted to the said Commissioners in manner and form by the said Act prescribed in respect of the annual Estimates to be transmitted to the said Commissioners.
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