Church of Ireland Act, 1851

CHURCH OF IRELAND ACT 1851

C A P. LXXII.

An Act to consolidate and amend the Laws relating to the Erection and Endowment of Churches and Chapels and Perpetual Curacies in Ireland. [7th August 1851.]

Whereas it is expedient to consolidate and amend the Laws relating to the Erection, Endowment, and Constitution of Churches, Proprietary and Parochial Chapelries, and Perpetual Curacies in Ireland, and to give further Facilities and Encouragement to well-disposed Persons for the Endowment of same with competent and permanent Provisions for the Ecclesiastical Persons ministering in same, and to enable such Persons, in certain Cases, to acquire the Patronage of such endowed Churches, Chapelries, or Curacies:’ Be it therefore enacted by the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same,