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As to Plurality of Benefices.
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XXIV. That if any Ecclesiastical Person already possessed of any Benefice, Curacy, or Preferment shall be nominated and appointed to officiate in any such Proprietary Church or Chapel, Parochial Chapel of Ease, or District Parochial Church or Chapel, erected or appropriated or endowed under the Provisions of this or any other Act, and shall accept such Appointment, and be duly licensed thereto, in such Case such Benefice, Curacy, or Preferment shall from thenceforth become absolutely void, and thereupon it shall be lawful for the Patron thereof to collate, nominate, or present thereto as if the former Incumbent or Curate had died; and in case any such Incumbent, Minister, or Curate duly licensed to officiate in any such Church or Chapelry shall be licensed, collated, inducted, or installed into any other Perpetual Curacy, Benefice, or Preferment, that in such Case the said Appointment of any such Person as such Incumbent, Minister, or Curate of such Church or Chapel as aforesaid shall be thenceforth absolutely void, and thereupon it shall be lawful for the Patron or Patrons thereof to nominate and appoint another fit and proper Person to officiate as such Incumbent, Minister, or Curate in such Church or Chapel, as if the former Incumbent, Minister, or Curate had died: Provided however, that in case any such Proprietary Church or Chapel, or Perpetual Curacy, erected, appropriated, endowed, or augmented under the Provisions of this or any other Act, and being without actual Cure of Souls of any Parish or Parochial District, shall be situated contiguous and convenient to any One or more Benefice or Benefices having no Parochial Church within the same, it shall be lawful for the Bishop of the Diocese, if he shall so think fit, by any Writing under his Hand and Seal, to be registered in the Registry of the Diocese, to license the holding of such Benefice or Benefices together with such Chapelry or Curacy, any Law or Statute to the contrary notwithstanding, but so that the special Reasons for granting such Licence shall be thereby assigned and stated.
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