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Successor in case of Division or Disappropriation of Benefices.
Apportionment by Lord Lieutenant and Council.
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XIV. That in case any Parish or other Ecclesiastical Preferment shall be lawfully divided, or any Parish or Parishes, or Ecclesiastical Preferment or Preferments, or Part or Parts thereof, theretofore united or appropriated to any See, Dignity, or Benefice, or other Ecclesiastical Preferment, shall be separated or disappropriated therefrom, whereon any such Charge as aforesaid shall be subsisting at the Time of said Division or Separation or Disappropriation, the Incumbent or other Ecclesiastical Person for the Time being entitled to the Rents, Issues, and Profits of the Part of the said divided, disunited, or disappropriate Parish, Dignity, or Preferment, or Part of a Parish or Preferment, on which the said Building or Improvement shall have been made, shall be deemed and taken to be exclusively the Successor of the Ecclesiastical Person entitled to the Charge, to all Intents and Purposes of this Act, notwithstanding that the Amount of the then existing Charge shall exceed Two Years Income of the said Parish or Preferment, or Part of a Parish or Preferment: Provided always, that the Lord Lieutenant or other Chief Governor or Governors and Privy Council of Ireland, upon any such Division or Separation or Disappropriation of any such Parish or Parishes or Ecclesiastical Preferment, or Parts of any Parish or Preferment, upon which any such Charge shall be then subsisting, shall have regard to such Charge, with a view to its Apportionment; and it shall and may be lawful for them to apportion any such Charge as they shall think just and reasonable upon the several Parishes or Preferments, or Parts of Parishes or Preferments theretofore united; and the respective Incumbents of the said divided Parishes or Parts of Parishes, and their respective Successors therein, shall in respect of such apportioned Parts of the said Charge be deemed and taken to be respectively the Successors of the Ecclesiastical Persons entitled to said Charge, to all Intents and Purposes of this Act.
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