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Ecclesiastical Commissioners may make Leases and Renewals of Lands belonging to suspended Dignities or Benefices pending Suspension.
Tenants of such Lands may purchase Perpetuities pending Suspension.
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XVIII. And be it enacted, That whensoever, under the Provisions of the said Acts or this Act, the Appointment, Presentation, or Collation to any Dignity, Office, Rectory, or Benefice has been or shall be suspended, the said Ecclesiastical Commissioners shall, for and during such Period as such Dignity, Office, Rectory, or Benefice shall remain vacant, have, and at their Discretion exercise, by and in their own Name and Right, all such Powers of leasing and demising any Lands or Premises whatsoever belonging or appertaining or appropriated to or usually enjoyed with such Dignity, Office, Rectory, or Benefice as, in case no Suspension had taken place, any Person filling the same might have had or exercised; and it shall be lawful for the said Commissioners, in the Case of Lands or Premises demised by Leases customarily renewed from Time to Time, to accept Surrenders of such Leases, and to make new Leases or Renewals of the same respectively, in like Manner to all Intents and Purposes as the said Commissioners are authorized and required to do in respect of any Lands or Premises, at any Time belonging to any Bishoprick, and which may have been transferred to and vested in them by virtue of the said Acts; and that it shall be lawful for the respective Tenants, Lessees, or Under-tenants of any such Lands or Premises, during the Suspension of such Appointment, Presentation, or Collation as aforesaid, to apply to the said Commissioners for the Purchase of a perpetual Estate and Interest of and in any such Lands or Premises, in like Manner as such Tenants, Lessees, or Under-tenants respectively could or might have done, by virtue of the said recited Acts or this Act, in case the Appointment, Collation, or Presentation to such Dignity, Office, Rectory, or Benefice had not been so suspended; and in case of any such Application all such and the like Proceedings shall be had as by the said Acts prescribed in the Case of any Application for the Purchase of the Fee Simple and Inheritance of and in any Lands or Premises at any Time belonging to any Bishoprick, and which may have been transferred to and vested in the said Commissioners by virtue of the said Acts.
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