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Saint Mary’s,
The Rector,
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V. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all the rest and residue of the said present parish of Saint Mary, not taken out or appointed for the said parish of Saint Thomas as aforesaid, shall be the parish of Saint Mary, and so for ever after the said twenty fourth day of March one thousand seven hundred and forty nine be called, deemed, and taken; and the parish-church, now in the present parish of Saint Mary, with the church-yard, cemetry, vaults, vestry-house, rooms, buildings, and burying places belonging to the same, shall for ever after the said twenty fourth day of March one thousand seven hundred and forty nine be for the use of the minister and parishioners of the said new parish of Saint Mary for and in order to the service of God there, and for a cemetry, church-yard, or burying place for the parishioners of the said parish; and that William Fletcher clerk, now rector or minister of the present parish of Saint Mary, shall from and after the said twenty fourth day of March one thousand seven hundred and forty nine be the present and immediate rector or minister of the new parish of Saint Mary, hereby constituted; subject nevertheless to the visitation and power of the ordinary of the diocess, in such manner as the rectors of the said present parish have heretofore been, and no otherwise, and to such canons, rules, and laws ecclesiastical, as ministers and rectors of churches are usually and of right ought to be subject and liable unto.
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