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As to Appropriation of a Site for Erection of Chapel thereon.
Endowment of Provision for Minister, and for Repairs.
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II. That it shall be lawful for any Person, Body Politic or Corporate, seised or possessed of a sufficient Estate for that Purpose, whether in his or their own Behalf, or in pursuance of any Trust theretofore created by Deed or Will, by and with the Consent of the Bishop of the Diocese, signified in Writing under his Hand and Seal, to allot or set apart in Fee Simple or Fee Farm, or for any Term of Years whereof Sixty Years shall be then unexpired, any Land, not exceeding One Plantation Acre, within any Parish, City, or Corporate Town in Ireland, or the Precincts thereof, the said Land not being within One measured Mile of any other Church or Chapel wherein the Liturgy and Rites of the United Churches of England and Ireland as by Law established are used and observed, unless situate within some City or Corporate Town, or within a Town containing One thousand Inhabitants, or the Suburbs, Liberties, or Precincts thereof, on which said Lands so set apart it shall be lawful for any Person, Body Politic or Corporate, with the like Consent of the Bishop of the said Diocese, to erect and build a Church or Chapel, or to appropriate as a Church or Chapel any Building already erected on such Land, in which the Liturgy and Rites of the United Church of England and Ireland as by Law established shall be used and observed: Provided always, that such Person, Body Politic or Corporate, shall first settle and assure (and he and they are hereby authorized and empowered so to do) Lands, Tenements, Tithes, or Hereditaments in Fee Simple or Fee Farm, or for a Term of Years whereof Sixty Years at the least shall be then unexpired, free from Incumbrance, and of the clear yearly Value of Fifty Pounds at the least, or Money in any of the Government Funds amounting at least to Twelve hundred and fifty Pounds, or a Sum equal thereto partly secured on Lands as aforesaid and partly in Money as aforesaid, as a Provision or Maintenance for a Minister or Curate to officiate in any such Church or Chapel, and his Successors for ever, and as a perpetual Endowment for such Church or Chapel, together with a Sum equal to Three Pounds in every One hundred Pounds of the original Cost of erecting and fitting up or purchasing such Church or Chapel, to be secured upon Lands or Money in the Funds as aforesaid, in aid of a Fund for the Repairs of such Church or Chapel, and also such further annual Sum as may be required for the Payment of any Rent or necessary Outgoings chargeable on or payable out of the Premises on which the said Church or Chapel may be erected, and which last-mentioned Sum shall be secured upon such Lands as aforesaid, or by a Sum of Money in such Public Securities as aforesaid, or partly in Money and partly in Lands, not being less in Amount than Twenty Years Purchase of such Rent or Outgoings, and that such Lands, Tenements, Tithes, or Hereditaments, and such Government Securities, shall, unless otherwise provided by the said Deed of Endowment, be vested in the Names of the Incumbent and Churchwardens or Chapelwardens of the said Church or Chapel, and their Successors for ever, so soon as they shall be respectively appointed, and in the first instance, and until such Incumbent and Church or Chapel Wardens shall be constituted and appointed, in the Bishop of the Diocese and his Successors, in trust for the Incumbent and Church or Chapel Wardens thereafter to be appointed, and from and after such Appointment in the said Incumbent and Churchwardens or Chapelwardens, and their Successors for ever; and that such Church or Chapel so erected or appropriated and endowed shall be for ever after called and known by such Name as the Founder or Founders of same shall in and by such Deed of Endowment, with the Consent of the Bishop of the Diocese, signified as aforesaid, direct and appoint.
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