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Application to bishop shall state certain particulars as to services and free seats.
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10. Provided always, that every application which shall be made under the provisions of this Act to the bishop of any diocese shall state that the church or chapel is to be appropriated to the performance of divine service according to the rites of the Church of England, and shall offer to set apart such number or proportion of free seats as is required by the said recited Acts in cases in which churches or chapels are built or purchased under the provisions of the said recited Acts with any money advanced by the commissioners under the said recited Acts, and shall also offer to provide out of the pew rents arising from the remaining part of the seats of such church or chapel a competent salary for the spiritual person who may officiate therein, and for all other expenses incident to the performance of such divine service, and for maintaining the said church or chapel: Provided also, that no pew rents shall be taken, nor any service performed in such church or chapel, whether built or purchased by subscription only, or jointly by subscription and by rates, before the same shall have been duly consecrated, and a duplicate copy of such application, with the assent of the bishop of the diocese to the same, shall be deposited in such church or chapel.
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