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Power to grant Land for Site of Church or Chapel.
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XXX. That it shall be lawful for any Person or Persons whatsoever seised of an Estate in Fee Simple, Fee Tail, or for Life or Lives under any Settlement or Will, in his or their own Right, and for the Guardians, Trustees, or Feoffees for charitable and other Uses, and for any Married Woman seised in her own Right, and for Guardians of Minors and Committees of Lunatics and Idiots, with Consent of the Court of Chancery, seised of said Estate as aforesaid, of or in any Lands whereon any Parochial or District Chapel of Ease or Proprietary Chapel, or other licensed Building in which Divine Service according to the Liturgy and Rites of the Established Church of England and Ireland has been or shall be lawfully performed, is intended to and may be suitably built, or has been previously built, by Deed duly executed and registered and enrolled in manner herein-after mentioned, to grant in Fee Farm such Portion of Land as may be convenient and necessary (not exceeding One Acre Plantation Measure) as and for the Site of said Church or Chapel, and shall and may by such Deed reserve such yearly Rent out of said Land as shall be agreed upon between such Person so granting the same and the Incumbent, Chaplain, or Curate, or Trustees (if any), or the major Part of the said Trustees, of such Church or Chapelry, by and with the Consent of the Bishop of the Diocese in which such Church or Chapelry shall be situate, to be signified by a Certificate in Writing under his Hand and Seal, to be registered in the Registry of the Diocese, or by Indorsement on said Deed of Grant; provided that no such Consent of the said Bishop shall be given unless such Bishop shall be first satisfied that competent Provision has been made towards the perpetual Discharge of the Rent reserved by such Grant.
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