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Power to Archbishop, &c. to declare appropriate Parishes to be Perpetual Cures, &c.
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XXXVIII. That it shall be lawful for any Archbishop, Bishop, Dean, Archdeacon, or other Dignitary having any Parish with Cure of Souls appropriate and annexed to his See or Dignity as Part of the Corps thereof, by and with the Consent in the Case of an Archbishop of his Dean and Chapter, and in case of a Bishop with the Consent of the Archbishop of the Province and Dean and Chapter of the Diocese, and in all other Cases with the Consent of the Archbishop of the Province and Bishop and Dean and Chapter of the Diocese, there being Two Thirds at least of such Chapter present, and if there shall be no Dean and Chapter in any of the above Cases, with the Consent, in stead and lieu thereof, of the Archbishop and major Part of the rest of the beneficed Clergy in Synod or at Visitation assembled, testified by any Writing under their Hands and Seals, or being Parties to and affixing their Seals to such Writing as is herein-after mentioned, to declare, by any Writing under the Hand and Seal of such Ecclesiastical Person, to be deposited in the Registry of the Diocese and of the Province in which such Parish shall be situate, and enrolled in the Rolls Office of the High Court of Chancery, that such appropriate Parish shall be thenceforth deemed or taken to be a Perpetual Cure, and the Incumbent thereof and his Successors shall be duly licensed and admitted by the Bishop of the Diocese, and be a Body Politic and Corporate, capable of perpetual Succession and of receiving Endowment in that Behalf, and the Right of Nomination to any such Parish or Curacy aforesaid shall be vested in the Ecclesiastical Person or Corporation to whose See, Dignity, or Preferment the said Parish was appropriated, unless and until otherwise endowed under the Provisions herein contained; and the Ecclesiastical Person to whose See, Benefice or Preferment the said Parish is or was appropriate shall provide for the Minister or Curate officiating in said Church or Chapel such annual Salary and Allowance as of Right ought to be paid and allowed, and which he might have been liable to theretofore: Provided always, that the Cure of Souls and other Parochial or Ecclesiastical Duties in any such Parish shall remain as theretofore.
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