Interpretation of Act. Alteration of XXI. And be it enacted, That the said recited Act shall continue and be in full Force and Effect, save and except so far as the same is altered by or inconsistent with this Act, and that the said recited Act and this Act shall be construed together as One Act; and that in the Construction of this Act, except where the Nature of the Provision or the Context of this Act shall exclude such Construction, the Words "Lands," "River," "Person" or "Persons," "Proprietor" or "Proprietors," "Quit or Chief Rent," and "Counties," shall be construed to extend and be applied as in said recited Act is directed and provided; and every Word importing the Singular Number only shall extend and be applied to several Persons and Things as well as one Person or Thing; and every Word importing the Plural Number shall extend and be applied to one Person or Thing as well as several Persons or Things; and every Word importing the Masculine Gender only shall extend and be applied to a Female as well as a Male; the Words "said Commissioners" shall mean the Commissioners or any Two of them acting in execution of the said recited Act and this Act; and the Word "Proprietor" in the said recited Act and this Act, in addition to the Meanings in the said recited Act applied to it, shall also mean the reputed Proprietor. XXII. And be it enacted, That this Act may be amended or repealed by any Act to be passed in the present Session of Parliament. WHEREAS, under the Provisions of an Act passed in the Sixth Year of the Reign of Her present Majesty, intituled "An Act to promote the Drainage of Lands, and Improvement of Navigation and Water Power in connexion with such Drainage, in Ireland," and of another Act passed in the Eighth and Ninth Years of the Reign of Her present Majesty amending the same, it is proposed to drain and improve by Drainage certain Lands within the District designated by the Commissioners for the Execution of the said Act the District of in the County of for which Purpose certain Maps, Plans, Sections, Estimate, and Schedules have been lodged, in pursuance of the Provisions of said first-recited Act, for public Inspection for Six successive Weeks, as thereby directed, at in the County of and which said Maps, Plans, Sections, and Estimate are signed by Commissioners for the Execution of the said Acts. And whereas I, the undersigned, am a Proprietor, within the Terms of said Act, of some of the Lands within said District, and comprised in said Schedules; that is to say, in the Townlands of Now these Presents witness, that I have assented and do hereby assent, as such Proprietor, to the Execution of the Works for the Drainage and Improvement by Drainage of the Lands within said District by the said Commissioners, pursuant to the Provisions of the said Acts. Lands, whose Concurrence in the above Assent is required under the Provisions of the said Act, do hereby consent to the Execution of the said Works. Witness my Hand, this Day of SCHEDULE (B.) 184 Memorandum of a Declaration under the Drainage Act. County of District of WE, the Commissioners acting in execution of an Act made and passed in the Sixth Year of the Reign of Her present Majesty Queen Victoria, intituled [here set forth Title of the original Act], and also of another Act passed in the Eighth and Ninth Years of the Reign of Her present Majesty amending the same, have heretofore, to wit, on the 18, made a Declaration in the Manner by the said Acts or one of them directed, and in the Schedule hereunto annexed we have set forth the several Lands which are the Subject of or contained in the said Declaration, as well as the Names of the Proprietors of such Lands respectively. In witness whereof, &c. Signed, sealed, and delivered by the said In Presence of Day of Townland. Barony or Parish. County, County of a Name of CA P. LXX. An Act for the further Amendment of the Church Building [31st July 1845.] WHEREAS an Act was passed in the Fifty-eighth Year of the Reign of His Majesty King George the Third, inti tuled An Act for building and promoting the building of addi- 58 G.3. c. 45. tional Churches in populous Parishes: And whereas another Act was passed in the Fifty-ninth Year of the Reign of His said Majesty King George the Third, intituled An Act to amend 59 G. 3. c. 184. and render more effectual an Act passed in the last Session of Parliament, for building and promoting the building of 'additional 3 G. 4. c. 72. 5 G. 4. c. 103. 6 6 ' additional Churches in populous Parishes: And whereas another Act was passed in the Third Year of the Reign of His Majesty 'King George the Fourth, intituled An Act to amend and render more effectual Two Acts, passed in the Fifty-eighth and Fifty"ninth Years of His late Majesty, for building and promoting the building of additional Churches in populous Parishes: And 'whereas another Act was passed in the Fifth Year of the Reign of His said Majesty King George the Fourth, intituled An Act to make further Provision, and to amend and render more effectual Three Acts, passed in the Fifty-eighth and Fifty-ninth Years of His late Majesty, and in the Third Year of His present Majesty, for building and promoting the building of 'additional Churches in populous Parishes: And whereas another 'Act was passed in the Session of Parliament holden in the 'Seventh and Eighth Years of the Reign of His said Majesty 7 & 8 G. 4. c. 72. King George the Fourth, intituled An Act to amend the Acts for building and promoting the building of additional Churches in populous Parishes: And whereas another Act was passed in the 'Session of Parliament holden in the First and Second Years ' of the Reign of His late Majesty King William the Fourth. 1 & 2 W. 4. c. 38. intituled An Act to amend and render more effectual an Act 'passed in the Seventh and Eighth Years of the Reign of His late Majesty, intituled An Act to amend the Acts for building and 'promoting the building of additional Churches in populous Parishes' And whereas another Act was passed in the Session 2&3 W. 4. c.61. of Parliament holden in the Second and Third Years of the 7 W. 4. & 1 Vict. c. 75. 6 Reign of His said late Majesty, to render more effectual the 'aforesaid Act passed in the Fifty-ninth Year of the Reign of His Majesty King George the Third: And whereas another Act was passed in the Session of Parliament holden in the First Year ' of the Reign of Her present Majesty Queen Victoria, intituled An Act to prolong for Ten Years Her Majesty's Commission for 'building new Churches: And whereas another Act was passed in the Session of Parliament holden in the First and Second Years of the Reign of Her said Majesty Queen Victoria, inti1&2 Vict.c.107. tuled An Act to amend and render more effectual the Church Building Acts: And whereas another Act was passed in the Session of Parliament holden in the Second and Third Years of 2&3 Vict. c. 49. the Reign of Her present Majesty, intituled An Act to make 'better Provision for the Assignment of Ecclesiastical Districts to Churches or Chapels augmented by the Governors of the Bounty of Queen Anne; and for other Purposes: And whereas another Act was passed in the Session of Parliament holden in the Third and Fourth Years of the Reign of Her present Majesty, intituled An Act to further amend the Church Building Acts: And whereas another Act was passed in the Session of 'Parliament holden in the Seventh and Eighth Years of the Reign of Her present Majesty, intituled An Act concerning Banns and Marriages in certain District Churches and Chapels: And whereas it is expedient that some of the Provisions of 'the herein-before recited Acts should be amended:' Be it there fore 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 3&4 Vict. c. 60. 7 & 8 Vict. c. 56. 5 Authority visions of Authority of the same, That, notwithstanding any Limitation or Explanation Restriction or other Thing contained in the herein-before recited and Extension Act passed in the Third Year of the Reign of His late Majesty of the ProKing George the Fourth, where a new Church has been already 3G. 4. c. 72. built or shall hereafter be built in any Parish or District Parish, $30. or ancient or parochial Chapelry, and where the Bishop of the Diocese and the Patron and Incumbent of such Parish, District Parish, or ancient or parochial Chapelry shall at any Time certify to Her Majesty's Commissioners for building new Churches that it will be for the Convenience of such Parish, District Parish, or ancient or parochial Chapelry that such new Church, being duly consecrated, should be substituted for the old or existing Church situate therein, it shall be lawful for the said Commissioners, by an Instrument under their Common Seal, with the Consents of such Bishop, Patron, and Incumbent, under their Hands and Seals, to declare that such new Church, being duly consecrated, shall be substituted for such old or existing Church, and to transfer the Endowments, Emoluments, or Rights belonging to such old or existing Church, or to the Incumbent or Minister thereof, to such new Church, and to the Incumbent or Minister thereof, and his Successors; and it shall be lawful in every such Case for the Trustees (if any) of such old or existing Church, or of any Rights, Emoluments, or Endowments belonging thereto, or to the Incumbent or Minister thereof, and they are hereby required, and indemnified for so doing, to transfer the same according to the Direction of the said Commissioners; and immediately from and after such Transfer all Glebe Lands, Tithes, and other Endowments, Emoluments, Fees, and Profits, and every Matter or Thing, whether real or personal, and all Rights and Privileges wherewith any such old or existing Church is, or was at the Time of such Substitution, endowed, or to which the Incumbent or Minister thereof was or is entitled, shall be vested in and belong to the Incumbent or Minister for the Time being of such new Church, and his Successors, in as ample a Manner as the Incumbent or Minister of the old or existing Church might have enjoyed the same if such Transfer had not taken place, and the Incumbent or Minister of such old or existing Church shall thereupon be, to all Intents and Purposes, the Rector, Vicar, Perpetual Curate, or Minister, as the Case may be, of such new Church, instead of Rector, Vicar, Perpetual Curate, or Minister of such old or existing Church, without any Presentation, Institution, Induction, Collation, or other Form of Law being had, observed, or required; and such new Church shall thereupon have the same Rights and Privileges as such old or existing Church, and such Offices of the Church as were performed and celebrated in such old or existing Church shall be performed and celebrated in such new Church, and such new Church shall be to all Intents and Purposes in lieu of the old or existing Church; and at any Time within Six Months after the Substitution of such new Church for the old or existing Church, the Bishop of the Diocese may of his own mere Motion issue, or if thereunto required by any Person claiming to hold a Pew or Seat free of Rent in such old or existing Church by Faculty or Prescription shall issue, a Commission under his Hand and Seal, directed to the Archdeacon of the Archdeaconry 8 & 9 VICT. M m in 3 G. 4. c. 72. 5 G. 4. c. 108. ' additional Churches in populous Parishes: And whereas another Act was passed in the Third Year of the Reign of His Majesty King George the Fourth, intituled An Act to amend and render more effectual Two Acts, passed in the Fifty-eighth and Fiftyninth Years of His late Majesty, for building and promoting the building of additional Churches in populous Parishes: And 'whereas another Act was passed in the Fifth Year of the Reign of His said Majesty King George the Fourth, intituled An Act to make further Provision, and to amend and render more effectual Three Acts, passed in the Fifty-eighth and Fifty-ninth Years of His late Majesty, and in the Third Year of His present Majesty, for building and promoting the building of "additional Churches in populous Parishes: And whereas another Act was passed in the Session of Parliament holden in the 'Seventh and Eighth Years of the Reign of His said Majesty 7 & 8 G. 4. c. 72. King George the Fourth, intituled An Act to amend the Acts for building and promoting the building of additional Churches in populous Parishes: And whereas another Act was passed in the 'Session of Parliament holden in the First and Second Years ' of the Reign of His late Majesty King William the Fourth, 1 & 2 W. 4. c. 38. intituled An Act to amend and render more effectual an Act passed in the Seventh and Eighth Years of the Reign of His late Majesty, intituled An Act to amend the Acts for building and 'promoting the building of additional Churches in populous Parishes: And whereas another Act was passed in the Session 2 & 3 W. 4. c.61. of Parliament holden in the Second and Third Years of the 7 W. 4. & 1 Vict. c. 75. 66 Reign of His said late Majesty, to render more effectual the 'aforesaid Act passed in the Fifty-ninth Year of the Reign of His Majesty King George the Third: And whereas another Act was passed in the Session of Parliament holden in the First Year of the Reign of Her present Majesty Queen Victoria, intituled An Act to prolong for Ten Years Her Majesty's Commission for building new Churches: And whereas another Act was passed in the Session of Parliament holden in the First and Second Years of the Reign of Her said Majesty Queen Victoria, inti1&2 Vict.c.107. tuled An Act to amend and render more effectual the Church 'Building Acts: And whereas another Act was passed in the Session of Parliament holden in the Second and Third Years of 2&3 Vict. c. 49. the Reign of Her present Majesty, intituled An Act to make 'better Provision for the Assignment of Ecclesiastical Districts to Churches or Chapels augmented by the Governors of the Bounty of Queen Anne; and for other Purposes: And whereas ' another Act was passed in the Session of Parliament holden in the Third and Fourth Years of the Reign of Her present Majesty, intituled An Act to further amend the Church Building Acts: And whereas another Act was passed in the Session of 'Parliament holden in the Seventh and Eighth Years of the 7 & 8 Vict. c. 56. Reign of Her present Majesty, intituled An Act concerning 3&4 Vict. c. 60. Banns and Marriages in certain District Churches and Chapels: And whereas it is expedient that some of the Provisions of the herein-before recited Acts should be amended:' Be it therefore 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 5 Authority |