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Successors of Archbishop of Armagh and Bishop of Derry may deduct from Money to be paid to Ecclesiastical Commissioners a certain Sum on account of Poor Rate, &c.
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III. ‘And whereas under the said last-recited Act, to alter and amend the Laws relating to the Temporalities of the Church in Ireland, the Successor to the present Archbishop of Armagh, and the present Bishop of Derry, and his and their Successors for ever, Archbishops of Armagh and Bishops of Derry, are bound, from and out of the Revenues of the said Archbishoprick and Bishoprick respectively, to pay to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for Ireland, half-yearly, Sums in the said Act specified, and it is but just that such Persons so paying such Annuity be empowered to deduct an Allowance for Poor Rate Deduction from the same:’ Be it therefore, enacted, That the Successor of the present Archbishop of Armagh, and the present Bishop of Derry, and his or their Successors in such Sees respectively, shall be entitled to deduct from the Sum to be paid by him to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for Ireland such Amount or Sum as the Commissioners shall ascertain as proper to be deducted for or on account of any Poor Rate or Poundage Rate for the Relief or Employment of the Poor, or for repaying any Advances made for these Purposes, and paid or payable or deducted in respect of Ecclesiastical Property by the Tenants of such See, such Deduction to bear the same Proportion to the entire Poundage for Poor Rate allowed in such Half Year to his Tenants by such Archbishop or Bishop as the said half-yearly Annuity bears to the Rent and Fines received by such Archbishop or Bishop in such Half Year.
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