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How Commissioners shall proceed if Impropriator or Appropriator in any Parish of having a Vicar or Curate endowed shall of contribute to the Maintenance of an officiating Minister.
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XXIII. And be it enacted, That whensoever the Impropriator or Appropriator or Owner of the Appropriate or Impropriate Tithes of any Parish, not having a Vicar or Curate endowed, shall not maintain an officiating Minister in such Parish, or shall not have agreed to pay a Stipend or Salary for or towards the Maintenance of such officiating Minister, being by Law bound to maintain such Minister, then and in every such Case it shall and may be lawful for the Archbishop or Bishop of the Diocese in which such Parish is situate to certify to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners that there is no Vicar endowed, nor any Stipend paid to any Curate, or other Provision made by such Appropriator or Impropriator for the Discharge of the Spiritual Duties of such Parish, and that it is fit and proper that an officiating Minister should be maintained within the same; and thereupon the said Ecclesiastical Commissioners, if they shall deem it expedient so to do, shall fix and ascertain a proper and reasonable Stipend to be paid by the Impropriator or Appropriator or Owner of the Appropriate or Impropriate Tithes of such Parish, having regard to the annual Value of such Impropriate Tithes, and to the Extent of the Duty to be performed in such Parish; and the said Ecclesiastical Commissioners shall cause to be lodged in the Registry of the Diocese in which such Parish shall be situate a Certificate under their Seal of the Amount of the Stipend so ascertained, and shall also transmit to the Owner, or, if more than One, to each of the Owners of the Impropriate or Appropriate Tithes of such Parish a Copy of the said Certificate.
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