Church Temporalities Act, 1840

Lord Lieutenant and Council empowered, at their Discretion, to cause such Applotment to be made.

The Expence to be defrayed by Grand Jury Presentment.

X. And be it enacted, That in every such Case it shall and may be lawful for the said Lord Lieutenant in Council, if he shall so think fit, to appoint One or more skilful Person or Persons to make such Applotment, who shall therein (subject to any Order or Orders of the Lord Lieutenant in Council made under this Act) have and exercise the like Powers, Privileges, and Authorities, and observe, as far as may be, the like Regulations, as are given and directed to be observed by the said Acts for establishing Compositions of Tithes; and the said Lord Lieutenant shall cause to be paid to the Person or Persons employed for the Purposes aforesaid such Remuneration as he shall think reasonable, and the Expences thereof shall be repaid by Grand Jury Presentment on or off the Parish in which such Expences shall have been incurred; and a Certificate of the Amount so expended in respect of each such Parish shall be transmitted, under the Hand of the Paymaster of Civil Services in Ireland, to the Treasurer of the County in which such Parish may be situate, and such Treasurer shall insert the Sum specified in such Certificate in his Warrant for the Collection of the Money to be raised and levied off such Parish by Presentment of the Grand Jury at the Assizes next succeeding, and such Sum shall be applotted (if need be by a separate Applotment) and raised and levied off the Lands liable to Rent-charge in such Parish, in like Manner, and by the like Ways and Means, as if such Sum had been presented by the said Grand Jury at such Assizes to be levied off such Lands, and thall be paid over by the said Treasurer, when and as by him received, to such Bank or Person, and in such Manner, as the Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury, or any Three or more of them, shall direct.