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Remedy in Cases of Impropriators refusing to repair Chancels or maintain officiating Clergyment.
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CII. ‘And whereas it is expedient to provide a more effectual Remedy in Cases where the Owners of Impropriations or Impropriate Tithes are by Law bound, but nevertheless refuse or neglect, to repair the Chancel of any Church, or maintain an officiating Clergyman, in Ireland;’ be it therefore enacted, That from and after the passing of this Act it shall and may be lawful for the said Commissioners, or any Archbishop or Bishop of the Diocese, to present a Petition to the Lord Chancellor, Lord Keeper, or Lords Commissioners for the Custody of the Great Seal, or Master of the Rolls, for the Time being, or to the Court of Exchequer, in Ireland, praying such Relief as the Nature of the Case may require; and it shall be lawful for the Lord Chancellor, Lord Keeper, and Commissioners for the Custody of the Great Seal, and for the Master of the Rolls, and the Court of Exchequer, in Ireland, and they are hereby required, to hear such Petition in a summary Way, and upon Affidavits or such other Evidence as shall be produced upon such Hearing in support of or in answer to such Petition, to determine the same, and to make such Order therein, and with respect to the Costs of such Petition, as to him or them shall seem just, and such Order shall be final and conclusive, unless the Party or Parties who shall think himself or themselves aggrieved thereby shall, within One Year from the Time such Order shall have been passed and entered by the proper Officer, have preferred an Appeal from such Decision to the House of Lords, to whom it is hereby enacted and declared that an Appeal shall lie from such Order; and neither such Petitions, nor any Proceedings upon the same or relative thereto, nor the Copies of any such Petitions or Proceedings, shall be subject or liable to the Payment of any Stamp Duty whatever.
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