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Patronage to be vested in Trustees.
Trustees of Chapel already built enabled to consent.
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IV. That whenever any such Person, Body Politic or Corporate, shall have erected or appropriated and endowed, or joined in erecting, appropriating, and endowing, any Church or Chapel, or shall have endowed any Church or Chapel or Building already erected, in pursuance of the foregoing Provisions of this Act, whensoever the said Church or Chapel shall have been erected, the said Persons, Bodies Politic and Corporate, together with the Person or Persons in whom the Patronage of such Church or Chapel was theretofore vested, by such Deed of Endowment, executed and enrolled in manner aforesaid, shall vest the Patronage of the said Church or Chapel in Trustees, who shall not be fewer than Five nor more than Seven in Number, and being Members of the United Church of England and Ireland, to be for that Purpose named in the first instance by the said Person or Persons, Body Politic or Corporate, so erecting or appropriating or endowing such Church or Chapel, or joining in so doing, in manner aforesaid, together with the former Patron or Patrons thereof; and it shall be lawful for the Trustees of any such Church or Chapel receiving any such Endowment as aforesaid, or the major Part of them, by and with the Consent of the Ordinary of the Diocese, signified in manner aforesaid, to enter into any such Consent in and by the said Deed of Endowment as to the Manner and Order of the Nomination and Appointment to such Church or Chapel, and such Consent and Agreement of such Trustees, or the major Part of them, shall be valid and effectual to all Intents and Purposes, any Law, Trust, or Direction to the contrary in anywise notwithstanding; and the Nomination of the Minister or Curate of such Church or Chapel shall thereupon be vested in the said Trustees and their Successors for ever, who shall thereupon be the Patrons of such Church or Chapel; and the Vacancies which shall from Time to Time occur in the Number of such Trustees, from Death, Resignation, or Inability to act, shall be filled up in such Manner as by the said Deed of Endowment shall be provided, and in default of any such Provision in such Manner as the Bishop of the Diocese shall under his Hand and Seal direct and appoint; and if it shall happen that all the Trustees of the said Church or Chapel for the Time being shall die without having (in pursuance of any such Power in the said Deed of Endowment contained) appointed any other Trustee or Trustees as their Successors, then and in such Case it shall be lawful for the Minister for the Time being of such Church or Chapel, with the Consent of the Bishop of the Diocese, to appoint the Number of Trustees by the Deed of Endowment required, and in case there shall happen to be no such Minister, it shall be lawful for the Bishop of the Diocese to nominate and appoint the requisite Number of Trustees as aforesaid.
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