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Recital of 3 G. 2. (I.) c. 11. § 3. requiring the Minister to give Notice of Applotments of Rates for Repair of Churches, after Divine Service.
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Extended to Cases of building Churches, by 40G.3. c.83. (I.)
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III. And Whereas by an Act made in the Parliament of Ireland in the Third Year of the Reign of King George the Second, intituled An Act for the better keeping Churches in Repair, it is amongst other Things enacted, that all and every Parish Cess or Tax that shall be made, raised or agreed upon at any Vestry held for any Parish for the Repair of the Parish Church or Chapel, or other necessary Charges belonging to such Church or Chapel, shall be applotted upon the respective Inhabitants of such Parish, in Manner in the said Act mentioned, which Applotment when made shall be returned to the Minister of the Parish, who the First Sunday after he hath received the same shall, after Divine Service in the Morning, give public Notice thereof, as also of a Vestry to be held in Ten Days after such Notice, in order to have the said Applotment examined into: And Whereas by an Act made in the Parliament of Ireland in the Fortieth Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Third, intituled An Act to facilitate the building and rebuilding of Churches and Chapels, it is enacted, that all Parishes and Unions may be cessed for the building and rebuilding of Churches and Chapels, in like Manner in all respects as they may for repairing Churches and Chapels: And Whereas in Cases where such Parochial Assessments have been made for rebuilding and building of Churches and Chapels, it has been often found impracticable to give such public Notice after Divine Service of the Applotment and of a Vestry, as is required by the Provisions of the said recited Acts;’ Be it therefore enacted, That in all Cases where Notice is by Law required to be given at or after Divine Service, of a Vestry to be held for the laying on or raising or applotting or confirming the Applotment of any Rate, Assessment or Cess, for or towards the repairing, building or rebuilding of any Church or Chapel in any Parish or Union, and it shall happen that there is not any Church or Chapel within such Parish or Union, or any Church or Chapel fit for the Celebration of Divine Service, the posting up of a Notice of such Vestry, by Direction of the Minister or Curate of such Parish or Union, on some conspicuous public Place in the Market Town nearest to the Site of or for the Church or Chapel in respect of the repairing, building or rebuilding whereof any such Assessment, Rate or Applotment shall be made, or proposed to be made, and delivering Three true Copies thereof to Three Householders of the said Parish or Union respectively, shall be deemed sufficient Notice of every such Vestry; any thing in the said recited Acts or either of them contained to the contrary in anywise notwithstanding.
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