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Endowment of Provision for District Parochial Churches and Chapels of Ease and Proprietary Chapels by Strangers.
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XXXIV. That it shall be lawful for any Person under no legal Disability or Incapacity, or Body Politic or Corporate, having an Estate of Inheritance in Fee Simple or Fee Farm in his, her, or their own Right, or in right of their Corporation, in or of any Lands, Tithes, Tenements, or Hereditaments, and by and with the Consent of the Bishop of the Diocese, under his Hand and Seal, and without any Licence of Alienation or in Mortmain, by Deed indented, under Hand and Seal, or under the Corporate Seal, or in case of a private Person by last Will and Testament in Writing duly executed Three Months at least before the Death of such Testator, provided the Bishop of the Diocese shall confirm and approve of the same under his Hand and Seal, to grant, convey, devise, or bequeath Lands, Tithes, Tenements, or Hereditaments, not exceeding the clear yearly Value of One hundred and fifty Pounds, to any Incumbent or Curate officiating in any such Church or Chapel, and his Successors for ever, or to the Bishop of the Diocese and his Successors in trust for such Incumbent or Curate and his Successors for ever, when such Incumbent or Curate shall thereafter be admitted and licensed, or any Sum of Money, or Government or other Stock or Funds, not exceeding Three thousand Pounds, to any such Incumbent or Curate and his Successors for ever, or to any Trustee or Trustees on his Behalf, or to the Trustees of any such Church or Chapel, the same to be invested in Government or Public Securities in the Names of the Trustees of the said Church or Chapel, or, in case there shall be no Trustees, in the Names of the Incumbent or Curate of such Church or Chapel and the Churchwardens or Chapelwardens thereof, as a perpetual Endowment or Augmentation for such District Parochial Church or Chapel, or such Parochial Chapel of Ease, or Proprietary Church or Chapel, then already erected or intended to be thereafter erected and constituted by lawful Authority, or in aid of any Endowment or Provision made or to be made under the Provisions of this or any other Act of Parliament by the Incumbent of the Parish in which the said Church or Chapelry has been or shall be erected, or from which partly or wholly the District assigned thereto has been or shall be assigned, and such Grant or Conveyance, Devise or Bequest, shall be entered in the Registry of the Diocese to which such Church, Chapel, or District shall belong, and such Deed shall be enrolled in the Rolls Office of the High Court of Chancery in Ireland in manner herein-after provided; and every such Grant and Conveyance, Devise or Bequest, so made and enrolled and confirmed as aforesaid, shall be valid and effectual in Law to all Intents and Purposes, whether such Chapel or Church shall be vacant or full of an Incumbent at the Time of such Grant or Conveyance: Provided always, that every such Grant or Endowment intended for any Parochial or District or Proprietary Chapelry not then erected or constituted shall, at the Election of the Donor or his Representative, from and after the Expiration of Six Years from the Execution of such Deed or the Death of such Testator, be null and void, unless in the meanwhile such Church or Chapelry shall have been erected and constituted by lawful Authority.
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