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Commissioners may pay Compensation to Patrons in certain Cases.
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CXIV. And be it further enacted, That where any Person or Persons, other than the Crown, or an Archbishop or Bishop, shall be Patron or Patrons of any Living or Parish so to be divided as aforesaid, or shall be entitled to present a Clerk thereto upon any Vacancy or Turn thereof, it shall and may be lawful for the said Commissioners under this Act, if they shall think fit so to do, out of the surplus Funds remaining in their Hands, upon obtaining the Consent of such Patron or Patrons to such Division of any such Parish as aforesaid, to pay unto such Patron or Patrons such Sum or Sums of Money as the said Commissioners shall think fit as a Compensation for the Diminution of the annual Value of such Living or Parish, so that such Sum or Sums of Money shall in no Case exceed Twelve Years Purchase of the annual Sum by which the Income or annual Value of such divided Parish shall be reduced by means of and in consequence of such Division as aforesaid; and such Sum or Sums of Money shall be and become vested in and settled upon the same Person or Persons, and for and upon the same Uses, Estates, Trusts, and Limitations, and subject to the same Powers, Conditions, Charges, and Incumbrances, as the Advowson of or Right of Presentation to such divided Parish was vested in, settled upon, or subject to, or would have been vested in, settled upon, or subject to, or as near thereto as the Nature of the Case may admit.
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