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Endowment of Chapels of Ease with Land in Fee Simple.
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V. ‘And whereas many pious and well-disposed Persons might be induced to erect and build Chapels more commodious for themselves and their Families in large Parishes, and endow same with a competent Provision for a Minister or Curate to officiate therein, if by Law enabled so to do, and if they were to have the Patronage of such Church or Chapel:’ Be it enacted, That it shall be lawful for any Person, Body Politic or Corporate, seised of a sufficient Estate for that Purpose, whether in his or their own Behalf or in pursuance of any Trust theretofore created by Deed or Will, by and with the Consent of the Bishop of the Diocese, signified in Writing under his Hand and Seal, to allot or set apart in Fee Simple or Fee Farm any Land, not exceeding One Plantation Acre, within any Parish, City, or Corporate Town in Ireland or the Precints thereof, at any Distance from the Parish Church, on which said Lands so set apart it shall be lawful for any Person, Body Politic or Corporate, with the like Consent of the Bishop of the said Diocese, to erect and build a Church or Chapel, or to appropriate as a Church or Chapel any Building already erected on such Lands, in which the Liturgy and Rites of the United Church of England and Ireland as by Law established shall be used and observed; provided always, that such Person, Body Politic or Corporate, shall first settle and assure (and he and they are hereby authorized and empowered so to do) Lands, Tenements, Tithes, or Hereditaments in Fee Simple or Fee Farm, free from Incumbrance, and of the clear yearly Value of Fifty Pounds at the least, as a Provision or Maintenance for a Minister or Curate to officiate in any such Church or Chapel, and his Successors for ever, and as a perpetual Endowment for such Church or Chapel, and also such further annual Sum as may be required for the Payment of any Rent or necessary Outgoings chargeable on or payable out of the Premises on which the said Church or Chapel may be erected, and which last-mentioned Sum shall be secured upon such Lands as aforesaid, not being less in Amount than Twenty Years Purchase of such Rent or Outgoings, and that such Lands, Tenements, Tithes, or Hereditaments shall, unless otherwise provided by the said Deed of Endowment, be vested in the Incumbent and Churchwardens or Chapelwardens of the said Church or Chapel and their Successors for ever, so soon as they shall be respectively appointed, and in the first instance, and until such Incumbent and Churchwardens shall be constituted and appointed, in the Bishop of the Diocese and his Successors, in trust for the Incumbent and Churchwardens thereof to be appointed, and from and after such Appointment in the said Incumbent and Churchwardens and their Successors for ever; and that such Church or Chapel so erected or appropriated and endowed shall be for ever after called and known by such Name as the Founder or Founders of same shall in and by such Deed of Endowment, with the Consent of the Bishop of the Diocese, signified as aforesaid, direct and appoint.
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