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Where Proprietary Church, &c. has been crecied and endowed. Bishop empowered, with Consent of Incumbent, to assign a particular District to the same.
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XIII. That where any Proprietary Church or Chapel, or any such Chapel of Ease, in which the Liturgy and Rites of the United Churches of England and Ireland as by Law established are to be used and observed, has been or shall be erected or appropriated and endowed, or it shall be intended, with such Consents as aforesaid, to erect or appropriate and endow any such Church or Chapel or Building, as a Proprietary Church or Chapel, or as a Chapel of Ease, with or without Endowment, and whether under the Provisions of this or any other Act of Parliament, or by any Ecclesiastical Authority, it shall be lawful for the Bishop of the Diocese (and he is hereby required, unless from special Circumstances he shall deem it not advisable so to do,) with the Consent of the Incumbent of the Parish, to assign a particular District to every such Church or Chapel so erected or appropriated or intended so to be, and where the Site of any such Proprietary Church or Chapel, or Chapel of Ease, so erected or appropriated and endowed as aforesaid, or intended so to be, shall be contiguous to Two or more Parishes, whether in the same Diocese or in Two or more contiguous Dioceses in the same Province, it shall be lawful for the Bishop of the Diocese, or Bishops of each and every of the Two or more contiguous Dioceses respectively, conjointly, with the Consent of the respective Incumbents, to assign a District to such Church or Chapel or intended Church or Chapel, to be formed from said Parish or from contiguous Portions of said Two or more adjacent Parishes, being in the same or in different Dioceses contiguous to each other, or from a Parish and contiguous Portion of a Parish or Portions of Parishes.
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