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One month after curate nominated to summon inhabitants to vestry to choose officers,
church wardens impowered to purchase lands of the yearly value of 100l. sterl.
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XI. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the next and first curate, minister or incumbent of the parish of Saint Luke, within one month after he is nominated as aforesaid, and lycensed by the ordinary to the cure of the said parish, is hereby authorized, impowered and required to call together the inhabitants of the parish to a vestry for choosing church-wardens, synodsmen or sidesmen, and other church officers, as are used to be annually chosen in other parishes, and that he the said curate or minister, or in his absence, his lycensed assistant in the cure of the said parish, and the inhabitants of the said parish, who shall then meet, shall choose two sit persons for church-wardens, who when so chosen, shall be church-wardens of the said parish of Saint Luke for one year after, and till next Easter after their being so chosen, and that for ever hereafter two church-wardens, synodsmen or sidesmen and overseers of the poor shall be yearly chosen at the times and in the manner as is usual in other parishes, and that such church-wardens of the parish of Saint Luke so chosen, and their successors, church-wardens of the said parish, shall be a body corporate, and have power to sue, or be sued by the name of the church-wardens of the parish of Saint Luke, and by that name to purchase or take lands, tenements, or hereditaments, of the yearly value of one hundred pounds sterling, to the use of the said parish, the statute of mortmain, or any other law or statute to the contrary notwithstanding. And the said first church-wardens of the said parish of Saint Luke, and their successors, be and hereby are impowered to rate and assess the several houses within the said parish of Saint Luke in such manner as they shall think sit, with the consent of the curate or minister, and the inhabitants of the said parish, or the major part of them, at such meetings as shall be appointed to that purpose for and towards the building or erecting a church within the said parish to be constituted as aforesaid, under the name and title of the church of Saint Luke, if the voluntary contributions that shall be made towards the said buildings shall fall short and not be sufficient to do it, and to levy the same with the necessary charges of such levying by distress and sale of the goods so distrained, the overplus, if any, to be restored to the owner or owners of the said goods. And that the church-wardens of the parish of Saint Nicholas without the walls, for the time being, shall, from and after the division of the said parish, remain and continue church-wardens of the distinct parish of Saint Nicholas without the Walls, as divided as aforesaid, for one year, and till the next Easter after; and for ever after two church-wardens shall be yearly chosen for that distinct parish as usual in other parishes, and such church-wardens so chosen for that parish and their successors church-Wardens of the fame, shall likewise be a body corporate, and have power to sue or be sued by the name of the church-wardens of the parish of Saint Nicholas without the Walls, and by that name to purchase or take lands, tenements, or hereditaments of the yearly value of one hundred pounds sterling, to the use of the said parish, the statute of mortmaine, or any other law or statute to the contrary notwithstanding.
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