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In foreign ports and places, where a chaplain is appointed and maintained by subscription, consuls authorized to advance for support of churches and chapels, &c. a sum equal to the amount subscribed.
Account of sums advanced to be transmitted to secretary of state, and sums so advanced to be allowed.
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10. And whereas churches and chapels for the performance of divine service according to the rites and ceremonies of the united Church of England and Ireland, or of the Church of Scotland, have been erected, and proper grounds have been appropriated and set apart for the interment of the dead, in divers foreign ports and places, and chaplains have been appointed for the performance of divine service in the said churches and chapels, and are now resident in such foreign ports and places; and it is expedient to afford encouragement for the support of the churches and chapels so erected as aforesaid, and to promote the erection of other churches and chapels in foreign ports and places to which his Majesty’s subjects may resort, and wherein they may be resident in considerable numbers, for the purposes of trade or otherwise; Be it therefore enacted, that at any foreign port or place in which a chaplain is now or shall at any future time be resident and regularly employed in the celebration of divine service according to the rites and ceremonies of the united Church of England and Ireland, or of the Church of Scotland, and maintained by any voluntary subscription or rate levied among or upon his Majesty’s subjects resorting to or residing at such foreign port or place, or by any rate or duty levied under the authority of any of the Acts herein-after repealed,[1]
it shall and may be lawful for any consul general or consul, in obedience to any order for that purpose issued by his Majesty through one of his principal secretaries of state, to advance and pay from time to time, for and towards the maintenance and support of any such chaplain as aforesaid, or for and towards defraying the expenses incident to the due celebration of divine service in any such churches and chapels, or for and towards the maintaining any such burial grounds as aforesaid, or for and towards the interment of any of his Majesty’s subjects in any such burial grounds, any sum or sums of money not exceeding in any one year the amount of the sum or sums of money which during that year may have been raised at such port or place, for the said several purposes or any of them, by any such voluntary subscription or rate as aforesaid; and every such consul general or consul shall, once in each year, transmit to one of his Majesty’s principal secretaries of state an account, made up to the thirty-first day of December in the year next preceding, of all the sums of money actually raised at any such port or place as aforesaid, for the several purposes aforesaid or any of them, by any such voluntary subscription or rate as aforesaid, and of all sums of money by him actually paid and expended for such purposes or any of them, in obedience to any such orders as aforesaid, and which accounts shall by such principal secretary of state be transmitted to the Treasury, who shall give to any such consul general or consul as aforesaid credit for all sums of money, not exceeding the amount aforesaid, by them disbursed and expended in pursuance of any such order as aforesaid, for the purposes before mentioned, or any of them.
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