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Lord Lieutenant, with Consent of Archbishop, Bishop, Dean, &c., may disunite Rectory, &c. from Archbishoprick. Bishoprick, Deanery, &c.
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CXXIV. ‘And whereas several Parishes, or the Tithes or Portions of Tithes and Glebes thereof, are appropriated or united to certain Archbishopricks, Bishopricks, Deaneries, Archdeaconries, Dignities, Prebends, or Canonries; and it is expedient that the same should be disappropriated, disunited, and divested out of such Archbishopricks, Bishopricks, Deaneries, Archdeaconries, Dignities, Prebends, or Canonries, and vested in the respective Vicars or Curates discharging the Duties of the Parishes in which the said Benefices, Tithes, or Portions of Tithes are respectively situate: And whereas the now Deans of Down and Raphoe freely consent that such Arrangements as aforesaid should be made in respect of their several Deaneries, and the Parishes or Tithes or Portions of Tithes and Glebes appropriated or united thereunto;’ be it therefore enacted, That it shall and may be lawful for the Lord Lieutenant or other Chief Governor or Governors of Ireland for the Time being, and His Majesty’s Privy Council there, in the Case of the said Deaneries of Down and Raphoe, when and as they may so think fit, and in the Case of any and every Archbishoprick, Bishoprick, or other Deanery, or Archdeaconry, Dignity, Prebend, or Canonry, by and with the Consent and Approbation of the Archbishop, Bishop, Dean, Archdeacon, Dignitary, Prebendary, or Canon thereof, or whensoever such Archbishoprick, Bishoprick, Deanery, Archdeaconry, Dignity, Prebend, or Canonry shall be void, to disappropriate, disunite, and divest any Rectory, Vicarage, Tithes or Portions of Tithes, and Glebes, or Part or Parts thereof, from and out of said Deaneries of Down and Raphoe respectively, or from and out of any Archbishoprick, Bishoprick, or other Deanery or Archdeaconry, Dignity, Prebend, or Canonry, and to unite any such Rectory, Vicarage, Tithes or Portions of Tithes to the Vicarages and Perpetual or other Curacies of such Parishes respectively, so that each such Rectory, Vicarage, Tithes or Portion of Tithes, and Glebes, or Part or Parts thereof, shall, with its respective Vicarage, Perpetual or other Curacy, form a distinct Parish or Benefice: Provided always, that whenever a Vicarage or Perpetual Curacy to which any Rectory, Vicarage, Tithes or Portions of Tithes, and Glebes, or Part or Parts thereof, shall have been so united as aforesaid, shall have been previous to such Union augmented either by the Trustees and Commissioners of First Fruits in Ireland, or by the said Ecclesiastical Commissioners, and that the whole of the net Income of the Benefice erected by such Union as aforesaid shall exceed the Sum of Two hundred Pounds, that then and in such Case the said Augmentation, or the Portion thereof whereby the whole Income of such Benefice shall exceed the Sum of Two hundred Pounds, shall cease and determine.
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