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Commissioners may condemn Buildings herein mentioned to be taken down, and Lord Lieutenant may cause others to be erected.
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XXVIII. And Whereas by an Act made in the Parliament of Ireland, in the Twelfth Year of the Reign of King George the First, intituled An Act to explain and amend an Act, intituled ‘ An Act to encourage building of Houses, and making other Improvements on Church Lands, and to prevent Dilapidations,’ it is among other Things enacted, that upon Complaint of Dilapidations of Buildings on Church Lands, a Commission shall be granted, in Manner directed by the said recited Act, to view and examine the said Buildings, and the Commissioners shall return a just Report of the same to the Chief Governor or Governors of Ireland for the Time being, or to the Archbishops or Bishops respectively, by whom the said Commission shall be granted, who, upon hearing the Allegations of either Party, shall ascertain such Sum or Sums as he or they shall judge reasonable to be allowed for Dilapidations;’ Be it enacted, That in all Cases where any such Commission shall issue, whenever it shall appear to the Commissioners that any such Houses or Buildings are too ancient or decayed to be repaired, or are placed in any unhealthy or inconvenient Situation, it shall be lawful for such Commissioners to condemn such Houses or Buildings to be pulled down and destroyed; and it shall be lawful for the Lord Lieutenant or other Chief Governor or Governors of Ireland, or Archbishop or Archbishops respectively, by whom such Commission shall be granted, to direct that other Houses or Buildings shall be erected in some more healthy and convenient Situation within the Limits of the Benefice.
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