A.D. 1877. Orders to be laid before Houses of Farlianent. Expenses of (4.) Penalties (other than penalties recoverable under the Acts relating to the Customs) shall be recovered in a summary manner, and shall be applied according to the provisions of the Fines Act (Ireland), 1851, and any Act amending the same. (5.) Orders shall be published in the Dublin Gazette. General. 7. Every Order under this Act shall be laid before both Houses of Parliament, within ten days after the making thereof, if Parliament is then sitting, and if not. then within ten days after the next meeting of Parliament. The expenses of the execution of this Act, other than expenses and compensation paid by Local Authorities, shall be paid out of money to be provided by Parliament. Short title. 8. This Act may be cited as The Destructive Insects Act, 1877. 5 10 1 [II.L.] Destructive Insects. ARRANGEMENT OF CLAUSES. Clause. 1. Short title. 2. The bishop may license a clergyman in certain cases. 3. Licence in cases of insufficient accommodation. 4. Licence in cases of habitual neglect of duty. 5. Commission of inquiry. 6. Who are to be commissioners. 7. Proceedings of commissioners. 8. Conditions of licence. 9. Avoidance of licence on new incumbency, except where the consent of the patron has been obtained to assignment of conventional district. 10. Revocation of licence. 11. Appeals. 12. Disposal of alms. 13. Fees payable under this Act. 14. Declaration by applicants, &c. 15. Interpretation of terms. A BILL 5 ΤΟ Provide further facilities for the Performance of Divine A.D. 1877. Worship according to the Rites of the Church of England. BE E 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, as follows: 1. This Act may be cited as the "Additional Facilities for Divine Short title. Worship Act, 1877." may license a clergyman in certain cases. 2. Whenever the bishop of a diocese, either from his own The bishop knowledge, or in consequence of an application made to him in writing by the archdeacon of the archdeaconry within which any 10 parish is situate, or by a churchwarden of any parish, or by any twenty-five parishioners of any parish, shall have reason to believe that it would be expedient that additional facilities for the performance of Divine worship should be provided in such parish, being a parish within such diocese, the said bishop may, if he think fit, in certain 15 cases, and subject to certain limitations, herein-after mentioned, license a clergyman to officiate within such parish, subject to the provisions herein-after contained. sufficient 3. The bishop may grant a licence under this Act where the Licence in accommodation provided by existing churches or other consecrated cases of in20 or licensed buildings within the parish is insufficient in amount accommodafor the requirements of the inhabitants of such parish. Before granting a licence under this section, the bishop shall give three months notice in writing to the incumbent, and shall in such notice state the reasons for granting such licence; and such incum25 bent may, within such three months, make provision for additional accommodation to the satisfaction of the bishop, or may transmit to the bishop in writing a statement of the time and manner in which he would provide the additional accommodation required by the tion. A.D. 1877. bishop, or the said incumbent may in such statement object to the proposed grant of such licence, and may state the reasons for his disapproval of the grant of such licence. Licence in cases of habitual neglect of duty. 1 & 2 Vict. o. 106. s. 77. Commission of inquiry. No licence shall be granted under this section unless the payment to the clergyman licensed thereby of such stipend as the bishop 5 shall in such licence direct is secured and sufficient additional accommodation is provided to the satisfaction of such bishop. In the event of the stipend of any clergyman to be licensed under this section being secured by a fund subscribed or guaranteed by parishioners, the bishop shall license such clergyman, if any, as 10 may be nominated to him by the persons subscribing or guaranteeing such fund, or the major part of them; provided that if the bishop shall not think that the clergyman so nominated to him as aforesaid is a fit person to be licensed, he may license any other clergyman to officiate under this section. In any licence granted under this section the bishop shall assign a conventional district to the clergyman named in such licence, and the consent of the incumbent shall not be necessary thereto. 15 4. The bishop may grant a licence under this Act when the incumbent has habitually neglected to discharge the duties apper- 20 taining to the cure of souls in his parish. Before granting a licence under this section, the bishop shall give three months notice in writing to the incumbent, requiring such incumbent to nominate to him a fit person with a sufficient stipend to be licensed by such bishop to perform or assist in per- 25 forming such duties; and such bishop shall specify in such notice the grounds of such requisition; and such licence shall not be granted if the incumbent complies within such three months with such requisition. In every licence granted under this section the bishop shall 30 appoint the stipend to be paid to the clergyman licensed thereby; and such stipend shall be paid by the incumbent, and shall not exceed the stipend which may be granted to a curate licensed by the bishop under an Act of the first and second year of the reign of Her Majesty, chapter one hundred and six, section seventy-seven; 35 and the payment of such stipend may be enforced by the bishop by monition, and by sequestration of the profits of the benefice held by such incumbent. 5. Before granting a licence under this Act, the bishop may, if he shall think fit, or shall, if requested in writing either by the 40 incumbent or by the person or persons making the application for such licence, appoint a commission of inquiry as hereinafter |