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The Tithes, &c. of Parishes in which there may be no Vicar or Perpetual Curate may be disappropriated from the Dignities to which they are annexed, in like Manner as the Tithes of Parishes in which there shall be such Vicars or Curates.
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V. ‘And whereas the Provisions of the said Act for the Disappropriation of Parishes, or the Tithes or Portions of Tithes and Glebes thereof, from the Dignities to which the same may be united or appropriated, are limited to Cases in which there are Vicars or Curates discharging the Duties of such Parishes; and it is expedient to remove such Limitation;’ be it therefore enacted, That where there shall not be any Vicar or Curate in any Parish which, or the Tithes or any Portions of the Tithes and Glebes whereof, may be appropriated or united to any Archbishoprick, Bishoprick, Deanery, Archdeaconry, Dignity, Prebend, or Canonry, it shall and may be lawful for the said Lord Lieutenant or other Chief Governor or Governors and Council, if they shall so think fit, by and with the Consent and Approbation of the Archbishop, Bishop, Dean, Archdeacon, Dignitary, Prebendary, or Canon thereof, or whensoever such Archbishoprick, Bishoprick, Deanery, Archdeaconry, Dignity, Prebend, or Canonry shall be void, to disappropriate, disunite, and divest such Parish, and all Tithes, Portions of Tithes, or Glebes thereunto belonging, from and out of such Archbishoprick, Bishoprick, Deanery, Archdeaconry, Dignity, Prebend, or Canonry, and, if they shall so think fit, to order and direct that such Parish, Tithes or Portions of Tithes, or Glebes, so disunited, shall from thenceforward be united and annexed to any neighbouring Rectory, Vicarage, or Perpetual Curacy, as herein-after mentioned, or shall be and become for ever a separate Benefice and Parish: Provided nevertheless, that in the Rectory, Vicarage, or Perpetual Curacy to which such disappropriated Parish, Tithes or Portions of Tithes or Glebes may be united, or in the separate Benefice and Parish into which the said disappropriated Parish, Tithes or Portions of Tithes, or Glebes may be formed, Divine Service shall be constantly and duly celebrated; and if the same shall be made a separate Benefice and Parish, then and in such Case it shall and may be lawful for the King’s Majesty, or other Person or Persons, or Body or Bodies Corporate, having the Right of Nomination, Appointment, or Presentation to such Archbishoprick, Bishoprick, Deanery, Archdeaconry, Dignity, Prebend, or Canonry, from Time to Time to present, collate, nominate, and appoint a Clerk to be the Incumbent of such Parish; and such Clerk when duly presented, instituted, or collated, and inducted, and his Successors, shall be and become Bodies Politic and Corporate, and shall be perpetually endowed with all the Tithes, Portions of Tithes, and Glebes so belonging to such Parish, and so disappropriated, disunited, and divested as aforesaid, and shall have the actual Cure of Souls of and within the said Parish.
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