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VIII. And be it further enacted, That wherever, by reason of the Dissolution of any Union or Unions, real or temporary, or from or by reason of any of the Causes aforesaid, or any other lawful Cause, the Inhabitants of any Parish or District, or Portion of any Parish, shall cease to be liable and bound to contribute towards the Payment of any such Instalment or Instalments as aforesaid, payable on or of any Loan or Loans for the building or rebuilding or repairing, or necessary Charges of the Church of any adjoining Parish, to which they may be before bound to contribute as aforesaid, then and in such Case it shall from time to time be thereupon lawful to and for the said Trustees and Commissioners of the First Fruits of Ecclesiastical Benefices in Ireland, and they are hereby required, upon the Petition or Memorial of the Minister or Curate and Churchwardens of the Parish or Parishes remaining liable to the Payment of any such annual Instalment or Instalments, to order and direct, that in lieu and stead of the annual Instalment or Instalments which would otherwise thereupon by Law become due and payable, a smaller and reduced annual Instalment, or Sum or Sums, shall be thereafter paid and payable to the said Trustees and Commissioners, as the only annual Instalment or Instalments of such Loan or Loans, the same to be paid and payable, and to continue to be paid and payable until such Loan or Loans shall be fully and entirely paid off and discharged, and no longer; and from and after the making of any such Orders respectively, the reduced annual Instalment or Instalments therein ordered to be paid, shall be and shall continue to be paid and payable yearly and every Year, until such Loan or Loans shall be fully and entirely paid off and discharged, although Sixteen Years or more may have elapsed since the granting or issuing of such Loan or Loans respectively.
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