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In Cases of Divisions of Parishes, &c. Power to apportion Charges for Improvements on Glebes, &c.
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III. And be it enacted, That in case the Lord Lieutenant or other Chief Governor or Governors of Ireland and Privy Council shall by virtue of the Powers in that Behalf in them vested under any Act now in force or under this Act divide old Parishes, or separate any Parish or Part or Parts of a Parish or Parishes heretofore united, and in case the Incumbent of any Union or Parish or Part of a Parish divided or separated shall by virtue of any Law or Statute be entitled to receive from the next Successor of such Incumbent in such Union, Parish or Parishes, or Part thereof, any Sum or Sums of Money on account of any Purchase of or Addition to Glebes, or of any Buildings or Improvements, or of Money paid by such Person to his immediate Predecessor on such Accounts respectively, then and in every such Case it shall and may be lawful for such Lord Lieutenant or other Chief Governor or Governors and Privy Council to order and direct that such Sum or Sums of Money shall be charged and chargeable, in such Shares and Proportions as they shall think just and reasonable, upon the several Parishes or Part or Parts of Parishes respectively theretofore united; and such Shares and Proportions shall be paid and payable by the several Incumbents of such Parishes respectively, or Part or Parts of Parishes respectively, to such Person and at such Times and in such Manner as the whole of such Sum or Sums of Money would have been payable by virtue of any Law or Statute in force in Ireland in case such Division or Separation had not taken place: Provided always, that it shall and may be lawful for every such Incumbent or other Person, or his Representatives, having paid any such Share or Proportion in manner aforesaid, to receive and recover from his next and immediate Successor such Part of such Share and Proportion, at such Time, and by such Ways and Means, as if such Share or Proportion had been paid by him to his next and immediate Predecessor by virtue of any Law or Statute in force in Ireland, unless there shall be any Provision to the contrary thereof contained in such Order of such Lord Lieutenant or other Chief Governor or Governors and Privy Council as aforesaid, in which last-mentioned Case such Part of such Share or Proportion shall not be recoverable from such Successor.
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