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What is to be deemed Evidence of Liability to pay Stipend or repair Chancels.
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XXI. And be it enacted, That in any Case in which any Petition shall be presented pursuant to the said recited Act or this Act for the Repair of any Chancel, or for Recovery of any Stipend or Salary of an officiating Minister, or any Arrears thereof, the Certificate of the Archbishop or Bishop of the Diocese in which the Church or Parish is situate, that such Chancel has been repaired or such Salary usually paid to the officiating Minister of such Parish, or that such Chancel has at any Time been agreed to be repaired or such Salary to be paid by the Owner or Owners of the Impropriation or Appropriation or Appropriate or Impropriate Tithes, as the Case may be, of such Parish, shall be primâ facie Evidence of the Liability of such Owner or Owners to pay such Stipend or Salary or repair such Chancel, as the Case may be; and every such Stipend or Salary shall be a Charge upon such Appropriate or Impropriate Tithes, paramount to all other Charges whatsoever.
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