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Said bishop or any ecclesiastical person using copper for covering the mansion house, shall receive the sums expended, as if covered with lead, slates, &c.
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VIII. And whereas copper has been found by experience to be a more durable covering for houses than lead, slates, shingles or tiles, and to be a much more commodious and cheap covering for houses than lead; and whereas a doubt has arisen whether any ecclesiastical person building a house for the residence of himself and his successors, on his demesne or mensal lands of glebe, and covering the same with copper, would be entitled to receive or recover from his successor any sum of money which he should expend in building such house by virtue of the said acts now in force in this kingdom for encouraging the building of houses, and making other improvements on church lands, and preventing dilapidations: and whereas the said Walter, lord bishop of Leighlin and Ferns, means and intends, after the passing of this act, to build and erect a mansion house and offices fit and convenient for the residence of himself and his successors on the said lands, which shall in pursuance of this act be made and become the demesne or mensal lands of the said united bishopricks of Leighlin and Ferns, and to cover the same or part thereof with copper: be it therefore enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the said Walter, lord bishop of Leighlin and Ferns, his executors or administrators, if he shall build a mansion-house and offices on the said herein before mentioned lands, fit and convenient for the residence of himself and his successors, bishops of the said united fees of Leighlin and Ferns, and shall cover or roof the same, or any part thereof with copper, or any other ecclesiastical person using copper, he and they shall be entitled to receive and recover, and have such remedies for recovery of the same from his successor such sum or sums of money for building the said mansion-house or offices as he would be entitled to receive and recover by virtue of the said acts for encouraging the building of houses, and making other improvements on church lands, and preventing dilapidations; provided he had covered or roofed the same with lead, slates, shingles or tiles.
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