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For Removal of Doubts as to the Erection and Endowment of Churches and Chapels.
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VI. And whereas by the said Second Section of the original Act it is provided that it shall be lawful for any Person seised or possessed of a sufficient Estate for that Purpose to allot or set apart in Fee Simple, or Fee Farm any Land not exceeding One Acre Plantation Measure as a Site for a Church or Chapel as therein provided, and Doubts have arisen whether the said Provisional extends to and includes the Case of Persons enabled by the Twenty-ninth Section of the said original. Act to appropriate and set apart a Portion of Land no exceeding One Acre as and for a Site for a Church or Chapels as therein provided, and it is expedient to remove such Doubts:’ Be it therefore declared and enacted, That any Person enabled by any Deed or Will, or by the Provisions of the Twenty-ninth Section of the original Act, to set apart One Acre Plantation Measure as and for a Site for a Church or Chapel, shall and may erect and endow a Church or Chapel thereon, or co-operate with any Person or Persons who shall erect or build and endow such Church or Chapel thereon, in like Manner and subject in all respects to the like Restrictions and Regulations as arc contained in the said Section in cast the Party allotting the Site had been seised of an Estate in Fee Simple or Fee Farm in the said Lands; and the Right of Patronage may be vested in Trustees in the like Manner and with the like Consequences in all respects as by the said Second and following Sections of the original Act is provided.
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