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If Incumbent of augmented Benefice take a second, the first to be void.
No Lapse without Notice to Patron.
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XCVI. And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That in case any Incumbent of any such Benefice, Living, or Curacy, or any Parson, Vicar, Curate, or Minister, whose Maintenance shall be augmented by the Grant of such annual Salary or otherwise by the said Commissioners under this Act, or which shall have been at any Time heretofore augmented by the said Trustees and Commissioners of First Fruits in Ireland, shall accept and take any other Benefice, Living, or Curacy, and be instituted and inducted into the Possession of the same, that then the said Benefice, Living, or Curacy which shall have been so augmented shall from thenceforth be and be deemed and adjudged absolutely void to all Intents and Purposes whatsoever; and that it shall be lawful for the Archbishop, Bishop, or other Patron to collate or present thereto, in like Manner and Form as if the former Incumbent had died or resigned, any Licence, Union, or other Dispensation to the contrary in anywise notwithstanding; and that every Licence, Union, or Dispensation, of what Name or Names, Quality or Qualities soever, obtained contrary to the true Meaning and Intention of this Act, shall be absolutely void and of none effect; and in case any Person already possessed of any Benefice, Living, or Curacy shall be collated or instituted to any of the said Benefices, Livings, or Curacies which have been heretofore augmented as aforesaid by the said Trustees and Commissioners of First Fruits in Ireland, or which shall be so augmented by the Commissioners under this Act as aforesaid, every such Collation, Presentation, or Nomination shall be utterly void to all Intents and Purposes whatsoever: Provided always, that no Lapse shall incur upon any Avoidance of any Benefice, Living, or Curacy which shall happen in consequence of this Act, until Six Months after Notice shall be given, in all Cases in which Notice is now by Law required, to the Person or Persons having a Right to present or nominate to the same, by the Archbishop or Bishop of the Diocese, or other Ordinary for the Time being, in Writing under his or their Hand and Archiepiscopal or Episcopal Seal or Seals of Office respectively.
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