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Fund to be provided for Repairs of Church or Chapel, in addition to that set apart for Support of Minister.
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IV. ‘And whereas it was by the herein-before recited Act passed in the Sixth and Seventh Years of the Reign of His late Majesty, amongst other things, enacted, that upon any Lands set apart for that Purpose as in the said reciting Act mentioned it should and might be lawful to and for any Person or Persons, Bodies Politic or Corporate, to erect and build a Church or Chapel, or to appropriate as a Church or Chapel any Building already erected on such Land, in which the Liturgy and Rites of the United Church of England and Ireland as by Law established was to be used and observed, who should first settle and assure Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments held in Fee Simple or for Lives with Covenant for perpetual Renewal thereof, or for a Term of Ninety-nine Years, of which Sixty Years at the least should be then unexpired, free from Incumbrances, and of the clear yearly Value of Fifty Pounds at the least, or Money in any of the Government Funds amounting at the least to One thousand two hundred and fifty Pounds, as a Provision or Maintenance for a Minister to officiate in such Church or Chapel, and his Successors for ever, as a perpetual Endowment of such Church or Chapel: And whereas it is expedient that a Fund should be provided for the Repairs of every such Church or Chapel in like Manner as is by Law required in respect of Churches and Chapels built or appropriated under similar Enactments in England;’ be it therefore enacted, That, in addition to the Endowment required to be made for the Support or Maintenance of the Minister and his Successors to officiate in any Church or Chapel built or appropriated under the Provisions of the said recited Act, it shall, from and after the passing of this Act, be necessary also to provide a Fund for the Repairs of the said Church or Chapel in manner following; (namely,) one Sum equal in Amount to Three Pounds upon every One hundred Pounds of the original Cost of erecting and fitting up, or of purchasing such Chapel or Building, to be secured upon Lands or Money in the Funds as aforesaid, and also a further Sum to be reserved annually out of the Pew Rents of the said Church or Chapel, after the Rate of Three Pounds for every One hundred Pounds of the Sum so to be provided as last aforesaid.
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