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Power to apply any Part of the Funds vested in them (except Boulter’s and Robinson’s) to augment small Benefices.
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XXXII. From and after the passing of this Act it shall be lawful for the said Ecclesiastical Commissioners, if they shall think fit, out of any of the Funds or Properties now vested or which may hereafter become vested in them by virtue of any Act heretofore passed or which may hereafter be passed, or out of the Interest, Dividends, or Proceeds of such Funds or Properties as aforesaid (save and except the Properties and Funds respectively bequeathed by Doctor Hugh Boulter and Doctor Richard Robinson, and formerly vested in the Trustees and Commissioners of First Fruits in Ireland, and the Interest, Dividends, and Proceeds thereof respectively, and also save and except such other Funds and Properties as have been heretofore or may be hereafter bequeathed to and vested in the said Ecclesiastical Commissioners for any special Purposes), after due and reasonable Provision shall have been made for the several Objects and Purposes specified in the Sixty-third and Seventy-first Sections of the Act of the Third and Fourth Years of His Majesty King William the Fourth, Chapter Thirty-seven, and not sooner, to augment any Benefice with Cure of Souls, Living, or Curacy, appropriate or impropriate, or to increase the Maintenance of any Parson, Vicar, Curate, or Minister officiating in any Church or Chapel or licensed Place of Worship in Ireland, where the Liturgy and Rites of the United Church of England and Ireland, as now by Law established, are or shall be used and observed, and which shall appear to them to be under the clear yearly Value of Two hundred Pounds (after allowing the Deductions mentioned in the said Act of the Third and Fourth Years of His Majesty King William the Fourth, Chapter Thirty-seven,) either by the Purchase of Glebes or other Lands or Composition for Tithes, or both, or by granting to the Incumbent of such Benefice or Living, or to such Parson, Vicar, Curate, or Minister, an annual Salary to be paid out of the Rents, Issues, and Profits of the several Lands or Tenements, and the Interests or Dividends of the several Monies and Properties by the said Act vested in such Commissioners as aforesaid, or in any other Manner as to the said Commissioners shall seem fit: Provided always, that the Value of such Benefice, Living, Maintenance, or Curacy, together with such Augmentation as aforesaid, shall not in the whole exceed the Value of Two hundred Pounds by the Year; and provided also, that nothing herein contained shall be deemed or taken to alter or affect any of the Provisions or Enactments contained in the Sections Ninety-four to One hundred and five of the Said Act.
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