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As to Lands held in right of any Ecclesiastical Benefice.
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XII. And be it enacted, That when the Land to which the Application for a Loan under this Act shall relate shall be Land held in right of any Ecclesiastical Benefice, the Commissioners of Public Works shall not proceed thereon unless the Bishop of the Diocese and the Patron of such Benefice shall have consented in Writing to such Application; and for the Purposes of this Act the Person or Persons (if not more than Two), or the Majority of the Persons (if more than Two), or the Guardian, Committee, Husband, or Attorney (as the Case may be) of any such Person or Persons respectively, being Minors, Idiots, Lunatics, Femes Covert, or beyond the Seas, or the Corporation, who or which would for the Time being be entitled to the Right of Presentation to any Benefice, if the same were then vacant, shall be considered as the Patron thereof; and in case of the Queen being the Patron, the Consent in that Behalf of the Lord Lieutenant or other Chief Governor or Governors of Ireland for the Time being under his Hand and Seal or their Hands and Seals shall be as good and valid in Law, to all Intents and Purposes, as if the Consent of Her Majesty had been there unto duly signified as by Law required; and any Corporation may consent by Writing under the Common Seal of such Corporation.
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