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Where any Parish not having a Church shall not be united to any other Parish, the Archbishop or Bishop may make an Order for the Parishioners to use the Church of any adjoining Parish, and such Parishioners shall contribute to the Maintenance of such Church.
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V. And Whereas several Parishes in Ireland having no Churches or Chapels, or none fit for the Celebration of Divine Service, are not or cannot, as the Law now stands, be episcopally or by Charter united with other Parishes, though contiguous and having Churches fit for the Celebration of Divine Service; and it is expedient and proper that the Inhabitants of such Parishes, not provided with Churches or Chapels fit for Divine Service, should have and enjoy the Use and Benefit of the Churches convenient to the Districts wherein they reside, and that in consideration of such Use and Enjoyment they should contribute to the Support and Maintenance of such Churches;’ Be it therefore enacted, That it shall and may be lawful to and for the respective Archbishops and Bishops in Ireland, within their respective Dioceses, to order and direct, by any Instrument under their Archiepiscopal or Episcopal Seals, that the Inhabitants of any Parish or Parishes within their respective Dioceses, not having a Church or Chapel fit for the Celebration of Divine Service, or that the Inhabitants of any District or Portion of any such Parish shall and may use and resort to the Church of any adjoining Parish fit for Divine Service, in such Instrument mentioned; and that thereupon and from thenceforth, until the Inhabitants of the said Parish or Parishes, or Districts or Portions of Parishes, so unprovided with Churches or Chapels fit for Divine Service as aforesaid, shall build up or sufficiently repair their Parish Church or Chapel, or until the Archbishop or Bishop shall revoke such Order, which it shall be lawful for him or them to do at any Time by Writing under his or their Archiepiscopal or Episcopal Seal, such Inhabitants may lawfully use and resort to such Church of such adjoining Parish as shall be mentioned in such Instrument; and all the Inhabitants of all or any such Parishes or Parish, or District or Portion of a Parish as aforesaid, shall contribute and shall be assessed and rated towards the Repairs of the Church of such adjoining Parish, and for the providing all necessary Charges belonging to the same, and towards the Payment of all annual Instalments thereafter to be due and payable to the Trustees and Commissioners of the First Fruits of Ecclesiastical Benefices in Ireland, on or of any Loan or Loans for or in respect of rebuilding or building or repairing any such Church of such adjoining Parish, and shall be bound and compellable so to do, as if the said Parish so having a Church fit for Divine Service, and the Parish or District, or Portion of the Parish, the Inhabitants whereof shall have been by such Instrument as aforesaid empowered to use and resort to the said last mentioned Churches, were One entire Parish.
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