not be prevented by death or removal, the certificate of Certificate may be given though the archbishop or bishop shall be as effectual, as if the buildings not whole plan proposed in such memorial had been com- completed. pleted before the granting of such certificate. The 17 17 Geo. 2. c. 8. Geo. 2. c. 8. s. 1. Ir. requires in case of intended repairs, s. 1. Ir. an account in the general of the house, out-houses, or Notice of inother buildings, and the several parts thereof, intended tended repairs. to be repaired, and of the sum intended to be laid out in such repairs, (except annual necessary repairs), to be delivered to the person empowered to grant such certificate, a fortnight before such repairs are begun. By the 12 Geo. 1. c. 10. s. 9. Ir. the chief governor and every 12 Geo. 1. c. 10. archbishop and bishop, are respectively authorized to s. 9. Ir. grant a commission to 2 or more persons, to view and examine the houses and improvements made on church to view improvelands, and to administer an oath to said commissioners, to return a true, just, and faithful account and estimate of the said buildings and improvements, according to the best of their skill and knowledge; and such commissioners shall have power to examine witnesses upon oath, upon any article of account given in, and alleged to be expended on said buildings, &c.

Commissioners

ments.

recoverable, tho'

whole with which

able.

9 Geo. 2.c. 13.

The 9 Geo. 2. c. 13. s. 1. Ir. provides that every arch- Apportionment bishop, bishop, or other ecclesiastical person entitled to predecessor has receive 2-4ths or 1-4th of the money certified (as by 12 not paid the Geo. 1. c. 10.), who shall pay more than 1-4th of the he was chargemoney charged in such certificate, shall receive from his next successor, his executors or administrators, so much s 1. Ir. of the said 2-4ths or 1-4th as such archbishop, &c. shall have paid more than the 1-4th of the whole money charged in such certificate; to be recovered in like manner as if the whole money charged upon such archbishop, &c. had been paid according to the 10 W. 3. c. 6. and the 12 Geo. 1. c. 10. And this act further provides (s. 2.) that s. 2. 3. & 4. no archbishop, &c. shall be deemed a successor within the meaning of these acts, who shall die or be removed within one year from the death, translation, or removal of his immediate predecessor. But by s. 3. & 4. every archbishop, &c. who shall be first entitled to a year's profit of such archbishoprick, &c. shall be deemed the

next

Who deemed

successors.

s. 6. & 7. Ir.

next successor, and shall pay one moiety of such sum ás Apportionment, he is chargeable with, as soon as he is so become a sucwhen payable. cessor, and the other moiety by 2 equal half-yearly pay31 Geo.3.c.19. ments within the next year. The 3 1 Geo. 3. c. 19. Ir. amends these acts by providing (s. 6. & 7.) that where any archApportionment, bishop, &c. shall be removed or die, before he shall have though work not completed. completed the buildings or improvements, pursuant to the memorial prescribed and approved of according to these acts, such sum as shall appear by the return of the commissioners, (upon a commission specially framed for the purpose,) to be requisite for completing such buildings, &c. shall be deducted out of the sum which such archbishop, &c. his executors, &c. would have been entitled to receive by said acts, in case he had completed the same; and every archbishop, &c. his executors, &c. who shall die or be removed before he shall finish the said buildings, &c. shall obtain a certificate for the difference between the sum, which he or his executors would be entitled to receive, and such sum as shall be so returned to be necessary for completing such buildings, &c. And 1. 8. & 9. by s. 8. & 9. the successor of the person so dying or removed before the completion of said buildings, shall, after finishing the same agreeably to a memorial to be presented by him to the person authorized to approve of the same, obtain a certificate as directed by the 12 Geo. 1. c. 10. ascertaining the sum by him expended, and the value of the living, and be entitled to all the advantages thereby provided for the original builder; and his execu tors, &c, shall recover 3-4ths of the aggregate sum, composed of the sum by his executors, &c. paid to his predecessor, his executors, &c. and of the sum ascertained to be expended by him in finishing said buildings, &c. provided that such aggregate sum shall not exceed 1 year's clear income of such archbishoprick, &c.; and the first successor of the person who shall have finished said buildings, &c. his executors, &c. shall receive from his next successor, his executors, &c. 2-3ds thereof, and such successor, his executors, &c. having paid said 2-3ds shall receive from his next successor, his executors, &c. one moiety of what he has so paid.

The

sum,

he

where buildings,

c. on new sites 11 & 12 Geo.3.

c. 17. s. 3. Ir.

c. 27. s. 6. ir.

The 11 & 12 Geo. 3. c. 17. s. 3. Ir. enacts, that where Apportionment, any archbishop, bishop, or other ecclesiastical person shall obtain a certificate for erecting new buildings, or making other necessary improvements, on a new site, within his demesne, glebe, or mensal lands, as directed by the 12 Geo. 1. c. 10. such archbishop, &c. shall instead of 3-4ths receive the full sum comprised in such certificate, not exceeding however 2 years clear income: but by s. 4. improvements, &c. to buildings formerly made are excepted. And such successor having paid said his executors, &c. shall receive 3-4ths thereof from his next successor; and he, his executors, &c. shall receive 2-3ds thereof from his next successor; and he, his executors, &c. shall receive from his next successor one-half thereof, that is 1-4th of the sum in the certificate mentioned. This act was amended by the 13 & 14 Geo. 3. c.27. s.6. Ir. which 13 & 14 Geo. 3. provided, that no archbishop, &c. should be entitled to a certificate for the full sum, (not exceeding however 2 years income), except he should previous thereto have completed the building or improvement, agreeable to a memorial approved of for that purpose, but should receive only 3-4 ths of so much as should be expended before the death or removal of such archbishop, &c. But these acts are further amended by the 31 Geo. 3. c. 19. Ir. which 31 Geo. 3. c.19. provides (s. 1.&2.) that where any archbishop, &c. shall erect any new buildings or make other improvements on a new site as directed by these acts, and shall be removed or die before he shall have completed the same, such sum as shall appear by the return of the commissioners (upon a commission to be issued specially for such purpose) to be requisite for completing such buildings, &c. shall be deducted out of the sum to which such archbishop, &c. would have been entitled by the 11 & 12 Geo. 3. and 13 & 14 Geo. 3. in case he had completed the same before his death or removal; and every archbishop, &c. his executors, &c. who shall be removed or die before completing such building, &c. shall obtain a certificate for the difference between the sum so returned by the commissioners, and the sum to which he would have been entitled, in case said buildings, &c. had been completed. And by. s. 3. where any certificate shall be granted for buildings, &c. which

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s. 3.

s. 4.

which shall be left unfinished at the time of the death or removal of such archbishop, &c. the successor who shall be so chargeable as aforesaid, and who shall complete such buildings, &c. agreeable to a memorial duly approved of, and shall obtain a certificate according to the 12 Geo. 1. c. 10. ascertaining the sum expended in finishing said buildings, &c. and the yearly value of such archbishoprick, &c. shall be considered as the original builder or improver, and shall be entitled to all the advantages provided by the 11 & 12 Geo. 3. c. 17. and 13 & 14 Geo. 3. c. 27. and shall recover the sum so expended by him, added to the sum by him paid to his predecessor, his executors, &c.: but by s. 4. the aggregate sum to be so received, shall not exceed 2 years income of such archbishoprick, &c.; and the first successor of the person so finishing said buildings, &c. having paid said sum, shall recover 3-4ths thereof from his next successor; and so the 2d and 3d successor, and their several executors, &c. shall receive 2-3ds and 1-3d respectively. Apportionments, By the 31 Geo. 3. c. 19. s. 5. Ir. all ecclesiastical perwhen payable for buildings on old sons or their successors, their executors, &c. respectively, who shall have finished such buildings or improvements, pursuant to the 11 & 12 Geo. 3. c. 17. or 13 & 14 Geo. 3. c. 27. or to this act, shall be entitled to receive from their successors, their executors, &c. the sum so certified as aforesaid, in manner following, viz:-the first successor of the person who so finished said buildings, &c. shall pay one moiety of the 3-4ths at the end of one year after the death or removal of his predecessor, and the other moiety by two equal half-yearly payments, within the next year, but shall not be compellable to pay the re-maining 4th until 3 years from the death or removal of his predecessor; and the other persons in succession, their executors, &c. shall pay the moiety of the sums, with which they are respectively chargeable, at the end of one year after the death or removal of their predecessors, and the other moiety by 2 equal half-yearly payments within the next year. And this act provides (s. 10.) that when any archbishop, &c. shall die or be removed, leaving any buildings, &c. whether on a new or old site, un

or new sites.

31 Geo.3. c. 19. s. 5. Ir.

s.10.

finished

recover apporti

finished, the immediate and every other successor of such Successors may archbishop, &c. his executors, &c. shall recover from onments, though their successors, their executors, &c. such portions of the buildings not completed. money paid by them, by virtue of a certificate granted under this act, to their predecessor or predecessors or their executors, &c. as appointed to be paid to persons making buildings, &c. by the 12 Geo. 1. c. 10. and at such times and in such manner as directed by the 9 Geo. 2. c. 13. Ir. Besides these acts for the encouragement of building Building of glebe-houses englebe houses, there are some Irish statutes also which forced. contain provisions for enforcing this duty of residence, 1 Geo. 2. c. 15. and for compelling the building of such houses. The 1 s. 5. Ir. Geo. 2. c. 15. s. 5. Ir. for this purpose provides, that every rector, vicar, curate, or other ecclesiastical person who shall be admitted into any ecclesiastical benifice, of the yearly value of £150. or upwards, having no house fit for the residence of the incumbent thereof, and being endowed with glebe land lying near his parish church fit and convenient for building, shall within a certain time to be appointed by the archbishop or bishop of the diocess, after he has been 2 years in possession of such benefice, build and improve upon such glebe-land, by erecting one dwelling-house of stone and lime, or brick and lime, and timbered in the roof and in the floors of such dwelling-house with oak or fir timber, (bog oak excepted) and covered with slates, shingles, or tiles: and in case any such rector or vicar shall neglect or refuse so to do, the bishop of the diocess, with the consent of the archbishop of the province, under his archiepiscopal seal, or if such benefice be within the diocess of an archbishop, then such archbishop with the consent of the chief governor, &c. under his hand and seal, may sequester a fourth part of the profits of such benefice, till a sum not exceeding 14 years income be received; which sum such archbishop or bishop shall cause to be laid out, in making such building and improvement upon such glebe-land. And by the 31 Geo. 2. c. 11. s. 1. Ir. every person who shall 31 Geo. 2. c. 11 accept of any deanery, archdeaconry, dignity, prebend, or of one or more rectories having no vicarage endowed, vicarage perpetual, curacy, or other ecclesiastical prefer

s. 1. Ir.