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Memorial of proposed Building or Improvement to be presented and approved of.
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II. That any Ecclesiastical Person, from and after the passing of this Act, intending to erect or make or complete any Building or Improvement on his Demesne, Mensal, or Glebe Lands, and whether on a new or an ancient Site, shall, One Fortnight at the least before he shall have begun to erect or make such Building or Improvement, give unto the Person or Persons who by this Act is or are empowered to grant the Certificate of Charge herein-after mentioned a Memorial in Writing in Three Parts, subscribed with his proper Name and Handwriting, setting forth the Length, Breadth, Height, and Thickness of the Walls of such House or Houses as he intends to build or complete, with the Number of Stories to be contained in the same, together with the Situation of the Ground on which the same are to stand, and a general and sufficient Description of all Houses, Offices, or Buildings, or Parts of such Houses, Offices, or Buildings, Lands or Premises, intended to be improved, and the Occasion for the same, and the Nature and Extent of the intended Improvements, and the maximum Sum proposed to be expended in such Purchase, Buildings, or Improvements, together with an Account or Estimate of the clear yearly Income of his See, Benefice, or other Ecclesiastical Preferment, after all legal Deductions from the same, to be specified in said Memorial or a Schedule thereunto annexed, which said Deductions shall, according to the Circumstances of the Case, comprehend such of the following Particulars as shall be applicable thereto, namely, Tax payable to Ecclesiastical Commissioners, legal Salary of permanent and necessary Curate or Curates, Proxies, Visitation Fees, Charge for Diocesan Schools, Poor’s Rate (computed on an Average of Three Years next preceding) on Rentcharge, or other Ecclesiastical Revenues; and the Person or Persons hereby empowered to grant a Certificate of Charge shall, if he or they shall approve of such proposed Buildings or Improvements, in whole or in part, signify in Writing upon the said Memorial his or their Consent to the same, and shall express thereon the Date of such Approval, and cause one Part of such Memorial and Consent, signed by the Person or Persons giving such Consent, to be delivered to the Ecclesiastical Person presenting the same, or his Representatives, and shall cause one other Part of the said Memorial and Approval to be entered at large in the Registry of the Diocese wherein the said Building or Improvements are intended to be erected or made, and shall retain the Third Part thereof for his own Use.
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