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Power to issue a Commission to inspect and examine
Houses, &c. of Ecclesiastical Persons.
On Report of Commissioners that Dilapidations have been repaired, Ecclesiastical Person discharged from further Claim, &c.
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XXX. That it shall be lawful for the Person or Persons hereby empowered to entertain Memorials for building Ecclesiastical Residences, upon the Application in Writing of any One or more Ecclesiastical Person or Persons holding any See, Benefice, or Preferment, to issue a Commission, to be directed to Three or more fit and proper Persons, and One of whom shall be a competent Architect, to inspect and examine all and every of the several Houses, Buildings, and Improvements, Lands and Premises, of such Ecclesiastical Person or Persons in the said Commission mentioned, in pursuance of such Requisition or Requisitions, which said Commissioners shall be sworn to inquire and report the Matters referred by the said Commission, in the like Manner, and shall have the same Powers and Authorities, and the like Assistance of One or more Builders or Workmen, to be nominated by the Person or Persons issuing the said Commission, as Commissioners of Valuation of Buildings erected in pursuance of a Memorial as aforesaid, and shall inquire and report whether each and every of the said Buildings and Improvements, Lands and Tenements, is and are in good and sufficient Repair at the Time of such Inspection, and the Nature and Extent of the Dilapidations arising from Want of proper annual and necessary Repairs, or from the Neglect of timely Execution of permanent and substantial Repairs, or from wilful Default, and the Nature of the Repairs necessary to make good such Dilapidations, and whether the said Residences respectively stand in need of any and what permanent and substantial Repairs or Improvements, and the Sum of Money which they shall judge to be necessary to be expended upon the Repairs of such Dilapidations, and the effecting of such permanent Repairs and Improvements, and the Manner in which, and the Time or Times at and within which, such Repairs or Improvements respectively shall be made, distinguishing such as may be required immediately from such as may be required at a future Period; and upon the Return of the said Commission and Report it shall be lawful for the Person or Persons empowered to entertain Memorials as aforesaid to hear and determine such Objections as may be had and taken in Writing within Three Calendar Months after the Date thereof to the said Report or any Part thereof, and to confirm, alter, or amend the same as he or they shall think fit, and to fix a Time for the Repairs of such Dilapidations, and also, having regard to the Time and Manner in which such Dilapidations shall have accrued, and whether due Diligence shall have been exercised for the Purpose of obtaining or enforcing against any Predecessor or his Representatives the Amount of any Charge for Dilapidations, to determine whether such permanent Repairs and Improvements shall be executed by the Ecclesiastical Person holding such See, Benefice, or Preferment at his own proper Cost and Charge, or by way of Memorial and Charge, or by Money raised on Mortgage in manner aforesaid, and thereupon the said Report so amended or confirmed shall be entered at large in the Registry of the Diocese; and the Ecclesiastical Person holding such See, Benefice, or Preferment, and applying for such Inspection, shall, within the Time specified by such Person as aforesaid, effectually repair all such Dilapidations, and such Defects as may have happened by reason thereof as aforesaid, and execute all such Repairs and Works as by the said Report shall be required; and in default thereof it shall be lawful for the Person or Persons so empowered as aforesaid (having previously admonished him as aforesaid) to sequester such Portion of the Rents and Profits of such See, Benefice, or Preferment, and apply the Proceeds of the same, in like Manner as herein-before mentioned on a Commission issued on Complaint made of Dilapidations as aforesaid; and upon the Report of such Commissioners, approved and entered at large in the Registry of the Diocese as aforesaid, that such Dilapidations as shall have been so declared chargeable against such Ecclesiastical Person have been thoroughly repaired, such Ecclesiastical Person and his Representatives shall be thenceforth for ever discharged from all further Claim or Demand in respect of Dilapidations incurred at or previous to the Date of such Inspection, to the Period to be therein stated by the said Commissioners when the said Dilapidations shall have been thoroughly repaired; and upon the Execution of any such permanent Repairs or Improvements as aforesaid being duly reported, the said Ecclesiastical Person or his Representatives shall be entitled to a Certificate of Charge of the like Nature and Effect as if executed pursuant to a Memorial presented and approved of as aforesaid: Provided always, that in respect of any Glebe House belonging to any such Parochial Church, Chapelry, or Perpetual Curacy, it shall be lawful for the Bishop of the Diocese, if he shall so think fit, with the Consent of the Incumbent, to authorize and require the Rural Dean, with the Assistance of the Diocesan Architect or his sufficient Deputy, to be approved by said Bishop in Writing, from Time to Time to make an Inspection of such Glebe Houses, Buildings, and Improvements, Lands and Tenements, being within the District of such Rural Dean, and to report on the Condition of the same, in like Manner and with the Authorities of the said Commissioners in case of Inspection herein-before mentioned; and such Report may be objected to, altered and confirmed, registered and enforced, in like Manner and shall have the like Effect as the Report of such Commissioners as aforesaid; and upon a Certificate of the said Rural Dean, and Architect or Deputy, as aforesaid, that such Repairs have been executed in pursuance thereof, the Incumbent or his Representatives shall be entitled to the like Exoneration or Certificate of Charge as aforesaid.
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