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Property of Minor Canons and Vicars Choral vested in the Ecclesiastical Commissioners subject to existing Interests, and for the Maintenance of such Members of such Corporations as have Duties to perform
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XXV. ‘And whereas it appears by the Report of certain Commissioners constituted and appointed by His Majesty for inquiring into Ecclesiastical Revenues and Patronage in Ireland, bearing Date the Fifteenth Day of April One thousand eight hundred and thirty-four, that there are in certain Cathedral Churches divers subordinate Corporations known by various Names, and that some of such Corporations have dvindled down to a single Individual in each, who appears to be wholly discharged of any Duty whatever, and that some such Offices would long since have become wholly obsolete and extinct but for the Emoluments which still attach and are enjoyed by the Individuals who fill them;’ be it therefore enacted, That the Right, Title, and Interest in and to all Lands, Tithes, Rents, Profits, and other Emoluments heretofore held and enjoyed by the Vicars Choral of the Cathedral Church of Saint Patrick’s, Cashel, or by any Corporation of or belonging to any Cathedral Church in Ireland, known by the Names of Minor or Petty Canons, Vicars Choral, Vicars Choral and Organists, Prebendaries and Vicars, or Vicars and Choirmen, or by any other Name, and whether sole or aggregate, who shall not discharge any Duty, or shall not discharge Duties commensurate with the Extent of their Emoluments, shall, in the Case of the said Vicars Choral of the Cathedral Church of Saint Patrick’s, Cashel, from and after the passing of this Act, and in the Case of each and every such other Corporation as aforesaid whensoever the Lord Lieutenant in Council shall on the Recommendation of the said Ecclesiastical Commissioners think fit so to direct, vest in the said Ecclesiastical Commissioners, subject nevertheless to all valid Leases, Charges, and Incumbrances now affecting the same, and that the Rents, Issues, and Profits thereof shall be by the said Ecclesiastical Commissioners applied during the Lives of the present Members of such Corporations respectively to their Use, in the same Manner and Proportions as the same may now be enjoyed by or divisible amongst each and every of them; and that on the Demise or Cession of the respective Members of such Corporations adequate Provision be made out of such Rents, Issues, and Profits for the due Maintenance of such and so many of his or their Successors as may in the Judgment of the said Commissioners be required for the effectual Discharge of the Duties, if any, appertaining to the Members of such Corporations respectively, in Cases where such Provision is not made from other Sources; and that the Surplus of such Rents, Issues, and Profits from Time to Time accruing to the said Ecclesiastical Commissioners shall be carried to the general Fund under the Administration of the said Commissioners, who shall have all and every the like Powers of leasing and demising the Lands and Tithes so vesting in them as such Corporations may now respectively have, and be in all respects subject to such and the like Restrictions and Conditions.
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