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Power of Commissioners to augment Benefices.
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XCIII. And be it further enacted, That it shall and may be lawful for the said Commissioners under this Act, when and as in their Judgment it may be proper, out of such surplus Funds and Monies so as aforesaid from Time to Time remaining in their Hands or at their Disposal, to augment any Benefice with Cure of Souls, Living, or Curacy, Appropriate or Impropriate, or the Maintenance of any Parson, Vicar, Curate, and Minister officiating in any Church or Chapel, or licensed Place of Worship in Ireland where the Liturgy and Rites of the United Church of England and Ireland as now by Law established are or shall be used and observed, and which shall appear to them to be under the clear yearly Value of Two hundred Pounds, after allowing the Deductions herein-before mentioned, either by the Purchase of Glebes or other Lands, or Tithes or Compositions for Tithes, or both, or by granting to the Incumbent of such Benefice or Living, or to such Parson, Vicar, Curate, or Minister, an annual Salary, to be paid out of the Rents, Issues, and Profits of the several Lands or Tenements and the Interest or Dividends of the several Monies and Properties hereby vested in such Commissioners as aforesaid, or in any other Manner as to the said Commissioners shall seem fit: Provided always, that the Value of such Benefice, Living, Maintenance, or Curacy, together with such Augmentation as aforesaid, shall not in the whole exceed the Value of Two hundred Pounds by the Year.
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