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Present incumbent of late united parishes, in one month after division, to call a vestry of St James’s parish to chose church-wardens, &c.
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XVI. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the said present incumbent, vicar, or minister of the said now united parishes of Saint Katherine’s, Saint James’s, and Saint John’s of Kilmainham, within one month after the said twenty fifth day of December next, is hereby authorised, impowered and required to call a vestry of the inhabitants of the said vicarage or parish of Saint James, as the same by this act is divided, for choosing church-wardens of the said vicarage or parish of Saint James for one year, and till the next Easter after, and then and for ever after, two church-wardens shall be yearly chosen for the said vicarage or parish, as usual in other vicarages or parishes, and that such church-wardens so chosen as aforesaid, for the said parish of Saint James, and their successors church-wardens of that parish, shall be a body corporate, and have power to sue or be sued by the name of the church-wardens of the parish of Saint James, and by that name to purchase or take lands, tenements, or hereditaments of the yearly value of one hundred pounds sterling, to the use of the said parish, the statute of mortmaine, or any other law of statute to the contrary notwithstanding. And that the present church-wardens of the said parish of Saint Katherine’s, and Saint James, and Saint John’s of Killmainham, from and after the said twenty fifth day of December next, shall continue in that office of church-wardens for the said distinct parish of Saint Katherine’s as divided as aforesaid, till the next Easter, and for ever after two church-wardens shall be yearly chosen for the said distinct parish or vicarage of Saint Katherine’s, as usual in other vicarages or parishes and such church-wardens so chosen for that parish or vicarage as aforesaid, and their successors church-wardens of the same, shall likewise be a body corporate, and have power to sue and be sued by the names of the church-wardens of the parish of Saint Katherine’s.
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