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XIV. From and after the passing of this Act whenever Application shall be made by a Tenant holding any Lands or Premises by Lease or Contract from any Archbishop, Bishop or other Sole Ecclesiastical Corporation in Ireland, or from the said Ecclesiastical Commissioners for the Purchase of the Fee Simple and Inheritance of such Lands or Premises, pursuant to the Provisions of the Acts relating to the Temporalities of the Church in Ireland, or any of them, is shall be lawful for the said Ecclesiastical commissioners, and they are hereby required, in addition of the several other Mattes which they are by the Provisions of the Acts now in force authorized or required to ascertain previous to the Conveyance of such Fee Simple and Inheritance, also to ascertain whether any Mines or any Quarries of Marble or Slate shall have been opened or discovered within or under the said Lands or Premises; and if any such Mines or Quarries shall have been opened or discovered, then to ascertain whether the same shall have been demised to any Person or Persons, or comprised in or made the Subject of any Contract for a Lease or Demise thereof.
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