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'Act should not be prejudicial or available to or for any Plaintiff * or Defendant in any Action or Suit already commenced, or on ' or before the said First Day of January One thousand eight 'hundred and forty-five to be commenced, relating to any Right to present to or bestow any Church, Vicarage, or other Eccle'siastical Benefice in Ireland: And whereas in consequence of the Provisions of the said Acts numerous Actions of Quare impedit and Proceedings have been brought and instituted, and are now depending, for the Purpose of determining the Right of 'Presentation to divers Ecclesiastical Benefices and Preferments in Ireland, by Persons whose Claims to exercise such Right would but for the instituting of such Proceedings have been 'barred by the Provisions of the aforesaid Acts: And whereas ' numerous Actions and Proceedings have been brought and 'instituted and are now pending against Archbishops and Bishops 'in Ireland, for the Recovery of Advowsons and Rights of 'Presentation to Ecclesiastical Benefices and Preferments in their Dioceses the Patronage whereof has been for long and uninterrupted Periods exercised by them and their Predecessors in right of their Sees, and the said Archbishops and Bishops have 'been and will be put to heavy Expences in preparing to defend and in defending in the said Actions and Proceedings their Rights of Patronage for themselves and their Successors; and it is just and expedient that they should be enabled to charge such Expences on the Estates of their respective Sees, subject to the Regulations herein-after provided:' Be it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, That every Archbishop and Bishop in Ireland, Defendant Every Archin any Action of Quare impedit or other Action or Suit already bishop and brought or instituted against him, and which was pending on the Bishop, DefenSixteenth Day of June One thousand eight hundred and forty- dant in Actions five, or on which any Writ of Error or Appeal was then pending, Patronage, may for Right of for the Recovery of the Right of Presentation to or Patronage charge the of any Ecclesiastical Benefice or Preferment the Patronage Costs of such whereof has heretofore been enjoyed by him or his Predecessors Actions on the in right of his See or of any See united thereto, shall be entitled Revenues of to charge the Amount of all Costs reasonably incurred by him in or about the Preparation and Conduct of and consequent upon his Defence to such Action or Suit, including, if Occasion shall be, his Costs incidental to any Appeal or Writ of Error from any Judgment therein, (and which Costs respectively he shall not be enabled to recover from the Plaintiff or Plaintiffs in such Action, Suit, or Appeal, or Writ of Error, with the Costs also of creating any Securities hereby authorized to be made,) upon the Estates or other Revenues of his See, in manner herein-after directed; provided that a Judge before whom such Action or Suit shall Judge to cer have been first tried, or by whom the same shall have been first tify for Costs. determined, shall certify by Writing under his Hand, to be deposited and preserved in the Registry of the Diocese, that such Archbishop or Bishop had probable Cause for defending such Action or Suit, and that he ought to be allowed to charge his Costs under the Provisions of this Act; and that the presiding

Judge

the Sce.

On obtaining Judge's Certificate, Money for defraying Costs, &c. may be

raised by Mort

gage.

Judge of any Court of Error, or the Speaker of the House of Lords in Cases of Appeal or Writ of Error there prosecuted, shall in like manner certify that there was good Ground of prosecuting or defending such Appeal or Writ of Error; and if any sucir Action or Suit, Appeal or Writ of Error, shall be dismissed, abated. or discontinued before any Trial or Determination thereof, or the Plaintiff shall be nonsuited therein, then a Certificate, signed by a Judge of the Court in which such Action or Suit has been brought or instituted, shall be effectual for the Purposes aforesaid; and that no Judge shall be precluded from considering an Archbishop or Bishop, grounding his Defence to any such Action or Suit upon previous Presentations or Collations only, to have had probable Cause for such Defence; provided also, that the Amount of Costs to be charged under the Authority of this Act shall be determined and certified by some Officer to whom the Taxation of Costs between the Plaintiff and Defendant in such Action or Suit shall or would be referrable, and that his Certificate shall be also deposited in the Registry of the Diocese.

II. And be it enacted, That after such Certificates as aforesaid shall have been obtained by any Archbishop or Bishop, and deposited in the Registry of his Diocese, (which Certificates shall for the Purposes of the Securities hereby authorized to be made, be conclusive Evidence of his Authority to raise the Amount certified by such Taxing Officer to be due to him,) it shall be lawful for him to raise, by way of Loans, for his Benefit and Reimbursement, the same Amount, or any Part or Parts thereof, and all Costs incident to the Execution of these present Authorities, from any Persons or Corporations willing to advance the same, and, as a Security for the Money to be so raised, by any Deed or Deeds, duly sealed and delivered by him, and also registered in the Registry of his Diocese, to demise any Messuages, Lands, Towns, Tenements, Tithes, Rents-charge, or other Rents and Hereditaments of or belonging to his See, to the Persons or Corporations advancing the same Money, or to such Person or Persons as they respectively may appoint, by way of Mortgage, for any Term or Terms of Years, subject to proper Provisions for the Cesser of every such Term on Payment of the Principal Money to be so borrowed, with Interest thereon, to the Persons or Corporations who shall advance the same, their Executors, Administrators, Successors, or Assigns, at the Times and in the Manner herein-after mentioned; (that is to say,) the Interest thereof, or of so much thereof as shall from Time to Time remain unpaid, at such Rate as shall be agreed upon, to be paid on the half-yearly Days to be therein appointed, and One Thirtieth Part of the Principal Money at the End of the Third Year from the Determination of the Action or Suit, or the Cesser of the Proceedings with respect to which the said Costs shall have been incurred, and a like Thirtieth Part of the Principal Money at the End of each of the succeeding Twenty-nine Years, which Mortgage or Mortgages shall bind every succeeding Archbishop or Bishop of the same See, until the Principal Money and Interest thereby secured shall be paid off and discharged, as fully and effectually as if such Successor had made or executed the same,

III. And

III. And be it enacted, That every such Mortgage shall contain Mortgage to a Covenant from the Archbishop or Bishop making the same, for contain a Cove. himself, his Heirs, Executors, and Administrators, to pay and nant for Paykeep down so much of the said Principal Money and Interest as pal and Interest. shall become payable upon such Mortgage or Mortgages during his Continuance in his said See.

ment of Princi

IV. And be it enacted, That it shall not be lawful for any For Recovery Mortgagee under the foregoing Authorities to enter into the Pos- of Monies due session of the mortgaged Hereditaments or any Part thereof until on Mortgages. Some Principal Money or Interest secured by any such Mortgage or Mortgages shall be in arrear and unpaid for more than Forty Days after the same respectively shall have become due, but that when and so often as there shall be any such Arrear it shall be lawful for the Mortgagee or Mortgagees, his, her, or their Executors, Administrators, Successors, or Assigns, to recover the Monies so in arrear, together with the Costs and Charges attending the Recovery thereof, upon or out of the mortgaged Hereditaments, by Distress and Sale, in such Manner as Rent Service may by Law be recovered, or by entering on and receiving the Rents and Profits of the same Hereditaments, until full Payment of the same Arrears and Costs and Charges respectively.

V. Provided always, and be it enacted, That no Mortgagee or No Mortgagee Mortgagees of the Lands or Possessions of any See under the fore- to recover more going Provisions shall after any Avoidance thereof be entitled to than One Year's recover from the Hereditaments therein comprised more than One Interest, &c. Year's Interest accrued before such Avoidance upon any Principal Sum due thereon, or more than One Instalment of Principal Money which shall have previously fallen due.

after Avoidance.

Interest, and

VI. And be it enacted, That every Archbishop and Bishop For regulating making any such Mortgage as aforesaid, and his Successors, shall Payment of pay the Principal and Interest Monies thereby secured at the Principal and Times and in manner thereby appointed for the said Purposes, Proportions of or so much of the same Monies respectively as shall from Time Interest on to Time be due; and that upon every Avoidance which shall Avoidance. happen of the See during the Subsistence of any such Security the Archbishop or Bishop avoiding the same, his Heirs, Executors, or Administrators, shall pay so much of the accruing half-yearly Payment of Interest, if any, not actually due at the Time of such Avoidance, as shall be in proportion to the Time which at such Avoidance shall have elapsed of the current Half Year, and, in case such Avoidance shall happen in any Year at the End of which any Instalment of the said Principal Sum shall be due, shall also pay so much of the annual Instalment then accruing of the said Principal Sum as shall be in proportion to the Part which at such Avoidance shall have elapsed of the current Year of the Security: Provided also, that it shall be lawful for the Archbishop or Bishop Principal who shall be entitled to charge any such Principal Monies as afore- Monies may be said on the Security of the Possessions of his See, in lieu of charged on borrowing the same, to grant to any Trustee or Trustees for Estates of the himself any such Security for the same Monies, and Interest in lieu of borthereon at any Rate not exceeding Four Pounds per Centum per rowing. Annum, as he might have granted to any Person or Corporation advancing the same Monies; and that if any Archbishop or Bishop

entitled to charge any Principal and Interest Monies upon the Pos

See in Trust,

sessions

Mortgages not to interfere

with Power of leasing.

Who may charge Costs of Quare impedit.

sessions of his See under the Provisions of this Act shall die without having fully exercised or relinquished his Power, and before the Expiration of One Year from the Time at which the same Power shall have arisen, it shall be lawful for his Executors or Adminis trators to exercise the same Power to the like Extent as he might himself have done if still living, for the Benefit and in Increase of his Personal Estate; and that if any such Archbishop or Bishop shall die within Three Calendar Months next after the Deter mination of any Action or Suit, or the Cesser of the Proceedings in or with reference to which he shall have incurred any Costs, which, if living, and having obtained such Certificates as aforesaid, he might have charged on the Possessions of his See, then and in such Case his Executors or Administrators shall be at liberty t› apply for such Certificates, and after obtaining the same to create any such Security for the Benefit of his Personal Estate as he might himself have created for the Amount of such Costs and Interest thereon.

VII. Provided also, and be it enacted, That notwithstanding any such Mortgage or Mortgages as aforesaid it shall be lawful for the Archbishop or Bishop who shall have made the same, and his Successors, from Time to Time to make such Contracts and Agreements for Leases, and to grant such Leases, as he or they might have entered into or executed in case the said Mortgage or Mortgages had not been made.

VIII. And whereas many such Writs of Quare impedit have 'been sued out and Proceedings instituted by Persons who, under Family Settlement or otherwise, would only be entitled to a Life Estate or other limited Interest in the Advowsons or Right of Presentation to the Ecclesiastical Benefices to recover which the said Writs have been sued out and Proceedings instituted; and it ' is just and expedient that the said Plaintiffs in such Actions should be enabled, under certain Restrictions, to charge the ' reasonable Costs and Expences incurred by them in prosecuting such Claims upon the Estates of those who would be entitled in remainder to such Advowsons or Right of Presentation;' be it enacted, That it shall and may be lawful for every Person who has now sued out any Writ of Quare impedit or instituted or brought any other Action or Suit to recover the Right of Presentation to or Patronage of any Ecclesiastical Benefice or Preferment in Ireland, and who shall in such Action or Sul finally establish his Right to such Advowson, Presentation, or Patronage, and who shall be by any Family Settlement or otherwise entitled only to a Life Estate or other limited Interest in or to the Advowson or Right of Presentation or Patronage in respect of which he shall so establish his Right, shall be entitled to charge all such Costs as he shall have incurred in the bringing and prosecuting of such Actions, and all Costs incidental thereto, including the Costs incident to any Appeal or Writ of Error therein, and over and above all such Costs as he shall be entitled to recover from the Defendant or Defendants in such Action, upon the Fee and Inheritance of the said Advowson, Right of Presen tation, or Patronage, and also upon the Remainder, Fee, or Inheritance of all Lands, Tenements, and Hereditaments of which he shall be seised of the same Estate as in the said Advowson,

Right of Presentation, or Patronage, and which are or shall be settled to the same Uses as the said Advowson, Right of Presentation, or Patronage: Provided always, that the Amount of Costs to Such Costs to be charged under the Authority of this Act shall be determined and be determined certified by the Master of the Court of Common Pleas in Ireland, by Master of whose Certificate shall be final and conclusive, for the Purpose in Ireland. of the Securities hereby authorized to be made, that the Amount specified in such Certificate was properly and necessarily incurred.

Common Pleas

tificate.

IX. And be it enacted, That it shall be lawful for any Plaintiff Costs to be having obtained any Certificate as aforesaid, and which Certificate charged on shall be deposited in the Office for registering Deeds in Ireland, Lands, &c. by Deed under his Hand and Seal to charge the said Lands, Master's Cerspecified in Tenements, and Hereditaments which by this Act he is authorized to charge with the Amount specified in such Certificate; and such Charge, subject to all prior Incumbrances affecting the said Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments, shall, on being registered in the Office for registering Deeds in Ireland, pursuant to the Statutes for that Purpose, be as valid and effectual to all Intents and Purposes as if made by a Person having the absolute Interest in the said Lands, Tenements, and Hereditaments; and that it shall and may be lawful for the said Plaintiff to exercise such Power of charging said Lands in favour of any Person that he may think fit, either as a Security for the Loan of Money or otherwise; and that such Charge so created shall bear Interest from the Day of the Registration of the Deed creating same, at a Rate not exceeding Five Pounds per Centum per Annum, and shall be capable of being assigned and transferred.

X. Provided always, and be it enacted, That it shall not be Liability of lawful for any Person entitled to the said Charge to proceed to such Lands, &c. raise the Amount of the same by Sale of any of the Lands, Tene- limited. ments, and Hereditaments upon which same shall be so charged, during the Continuance of the Life Estate of the Person so creating said Charge, nor shall it be lawful for such Person, at the Determination of the said Life Estate, to charge more than One Year's Arrear of Interest accruing during the said Life Estate, upon the Inheritance or Remainder in the said Lands; and that it shall be lawful for the Person entitled to such Charge, whenever One Year's Interest shall be in arrear, to apply by Petition, verified by Affidavit, to a Court of Equity in Ireland, stating the Facts, and it shall and may be lawful for such Court of Equity, on being satisfied that such Charge has been rightly created under this Act, and that One Year's Interest is due thereon, to appoint a Receiver over all or a competent Part of the Lands, Tenements, and Hereditaments included in such Charge, for the Purpose of paying such Interest, or if a Receiver be already appointed over such Lands, then to extend the said Receiver to the Matter of such Petition.

XI. And be it enacted, That in case a Verdict shall be had Plaintiff may against any Plaintiff, Tenant for Life as aforesaid, in any such Suit charge his or Action, or the Plaintiff be nonsuited, or Judgment shall be given Costs, &c. if against such Plaintiff, or such Action shall be discontinued, dis- nonsuited, missed, or abated before any Trial thereof, it shall and may be Judge certifies provided the lawful for such Plaintiff to charge all such reasonable Costs and that they ought Expences which he shall incur in such Actions, including the to be charged.

Costs