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Churches new, continued.

May procure sites in certain cases, 440.

But may not take a private dwelling-house, garden, &c.
without consent of the owner, &c. 441.

May advance money to parishes to purchase sites on certain
terms, ib. see 465.

Commissioners may purchase a site, and charge the expense
upon the parish, where it does not procure a site, 420.
Sums expended in such purchase, or advanced to parishes, to
be paid out of the church rates, 442.

Rates may be raised in extra-parochial places for the pur-
poses of the Act, ib.

Church-wardens may borrow money on the credit of the
rates, upon certain conditions, 443.

May borrow money, &c. for the enlargement of churches or
chapels, ib.

No application to be made to build by means of rates, unless
with the consent of the majority of the inhabitants, &c.
paying poor rates, 444.

Or in case of a select vestry, with the consent of four-fifths, ib.
No application to be made where one-third of the proprietors
in value dissent, ib.

The mode of making dissent, 466.

Church-wardens may raise rates for the purposes of the Act,
445.

The Commissioners may build churches upon such plans as
they deem convenient, ib. .

May settle the amount of pew rents, ib.

Application thereof, ib.

May assign stipends to officiating Clergymen out of such
rents, ib.

Differences on the subject, between the Commissioners and
Bishop, to be settled by the Archbishop, ib.

Bishops may direct the performance of a third service, with
a sermon, under certain circumstances, 446.

Provision for the Clergymen who may perform the additional
service, 447.

In whom the patronage of the district church is to be,
448.

The Incumbent of the parish is to nominate, where a chapel
is built wholly or in part by rates, ib.

Rights of Brazen Nose College saved, ib.

District churches to be repaired by rates upon the district,
ib.

The district to be liable for repairs of the parish church for
twenty years, ib.

Deeds respecting salaries under the Act to be enrolled and
registered, 449.

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Churches new, continued.

Appointment of Church-wardens, ib.

Where additional chapels are built, the Church-wardens of
the parish are to act, 450.

Pews to be provided for the Minister, &c. and free seats to a
certain extent for the poor, ib.

In what order subscribers may choose pews, ib.
Pews to be let to raise the Minister's salary, 451.

Pew rents may be altered, with certain consents, ib.
Proceedings where pew rents are in arrear, ib. but see
470.

No opening for burial to be made in a church or chapel built
under the Act, 452.

Nor grave in a churchyard at a less distance than twenty
feet from the walls of the church, ib.

Accounts to be laid before Parliament annually, ib.
Letters free of postage, 453.

Limitation of actions, general issue, treble costs, ib.
Powers of Bishops, &c. saved, 454.

And ecclesiastical jurisdiction, ib.

Further enactments as to the Exchequer bills, 455-

The King may supply vacancies of the Commissioners,
456.

Commissioners shall be a body corporate, ib.

Shall have a discretionary power to allow the whole expense
of building, ib.

May treat with and make grants to divisions of parishes, ib.
May unite parts of contiguous parishes into ecclesiastical
districts, 457.

And build chapels for the use of such districts, ib.
Regulations thereon, ib.

May build or assist in building without previously determin-
ing the division of the parish, or whether the building shall
be a church or a chapel, 458.

Where parishes are divided, may apportion glebe, tithes, &c.
without regard to local situation, 459.

In dividing parishes, shall apportion permanent charges, as
well as glebe, tithes, &c. ib.

Clerks and sextons of divisions of parishes may recover their
fees, ib.

Commissioners may make a table of fees with consent of the
Bishop, 460.

New churches are to be distinct benefices and churches, but
to be served by Stipendiary Curates during the existing
incumbency, ib.

After the existing incumbency, the patronage of the divided
parishes is to belong to the Patron of the original church,
461.

Churches new, continued.

Church-wardens, with consent of the vestry and the Bishop
of the diocese, may raise money upon the credit of the
rates for the repair of churches or chapels, and provide for
the repayment thereof, ib.

Corporate bodies may give up rights of patronage, and endow
chapels, 462.

The Commissioners may assign districts to chapels already
built, ib.

To be under the care of the Curate, but under the control
of the Incumbent, ib.

The Commissioners, with consent of the Bishop, may deter-
mine the proportion of fees, ib.

Acts relating to banns of marriage, &c. to apply to churches
and chapels of districts, 463.

Apportionments of glebe, tithes, &c. to be registered, ib.
Chapels built under the former Act not to be perpetual
curacies, &c. 464.

The Commissioners may grant money for providing sites
without repayment or security, 465.

Church-wardens of a parish or divided parish, or of a conso-
lidated or district chapelry, may levy rates, ib.

No application to build or enlarge a church to be made, if
one-third of the proprietors in value dissent, 466.

The mode of signifying dissent, ib.

Certain rates may be assessed where the necessary consents
are obtained, 467.

The Commissioners may assign the pew rents, and order a
fixed stipend to the Minister, ib.

How the surplus of pew rents, after payment of stipend, is
to be disposed of, 468.

Assignment of stipend to be registered, 469.

Appointment of a Clerk to be annual, ib.

A select vestry to be appointed for management of a new
church or chapel, ib.

Who shall appoint a Church or Chapel-warden, ib.
Church-wardens may alter pew rents, ib.

Pews to be let to parishioners only, and sold by private con-

tract, 470.

Rents to be payable in advance, ib.

Subscribers may be discharged from payment of rent, and
may assign, ib.

How lands unconsecrated, acquired by the Commissioners,
shall be disposed of, ib.

Stamp duties on contracts, &c. relating to building churches,
may be allowed, 471.

Parishes, &c. are to furnish lands for burial grounds when
required, ib.

Churches new, continued.

Powers of the former Act extended to lands for additional
churchyards, 472.

Such burial ground to be consecrated, ib.

Commissioners may alter fences of churchyards, and turn
foot-paths, ib.

Rates may be laid on any parish for rebuilding or enlarging
the church, 473.

Directions thereon, ib.

How the parliamentary fees are to be discharged, 474.
Ordnance, &c. may grant sites for churches, 475.
No consideration required, 476.

Grantors indemnified, ib.

Forms of grant or conveyance, ib.

Commissioners may receive lands, 477.

Fines, 478.

Commissioners may lend money at legal interest, ib.
Loans charged on rates, 479.

Money may be raised by annuities, 480.

Commissioners to make loans, &c. ib.

Commissioners to take land on paying value, ib.
How value assessed, 481.

Quit and other rents apportioned in cases of division, 482.
Apportionment of charitable gifts and debts, 483.

Regulation as to letting pews, 492.

Regulations respecting the building a new church in lieu of
the old, 495.

Commissioners may reconvey land, 498.

Building of additional churches by contribution, 500.
Subscribers may elect trustees for management, 501.

Upon death or resignation new ones may be chosen, ib.
Service and free seats, 502.

Life trustees to nominate Minister, 503.

Vaults may be disposed of, 504.

Parishes may be divided, ib.

Persons building and endowing a chapel to nominate Min-
ister, ib.

Commissioners of woods, &c. may grant materials for build-
ing churches, &c. ib.

Duties, &c. on materials may be remitted, ib. see the Digest,
p. lxii. note ".

Churchyards, 411. 472. see Burial grounds.

Church service, 177. see Uniformity.

Church-wardens under new church Acts, 449.
Clerks, parish, 459. annual appointment of, 469.
Colleges.

May use Latin service, 199.

May lend money under the Gilbert's Act, 217.

Colleges continued.

And for purchasing glebe, 248.

Not restricted as to number of advowsons, 305.

Colonies, ordination for, 207.

Common Prayer, 177. 192. 194.

Composition, 345.

Congregation of dissenters, 381.

Consent to marriage, 321.

Conveyance under the new church Acts, 428. 476.

Conviction, form of, under Vagrant Act, 408.

Copyhold lands may be annexed to benefices and become free,
243. 246. 265.

Corn, clergy buying and selling, 98.

Sown on glebe, 335.

Correction, Chaplains of houses of, 137. 138. 140. 145.
Curacies, augmented by Queen Anne's Bounty, 296.

As to licence for, 578.

Curate.

Bishop may appoint where nonresident Incumbent neglects
to appoint, 120.

What the licence shall specify, ib.

Of the Curate's residence in such case, ib.

Under what circumstances the Curate must reside in the
parish, ib.

Where the duty is inadequately performed, the Bishop may
appoint a Curate, 121.

What particulars must be stated by a person applying for a
Curate's licence, 122.

Bishops may enforce performance of church service both
morning and evening, ib.

Shall appoint the salary, and specify it in the licence, ib.
Of which the licence shall be evidence, ib.

Are to settle disputes concerning it, ib.

What fees are to be paid by the Curate, 123.

Signature of the declaration under the Act of Uniformity, 13
and 14 Car. 2. cap. 4. ib.

Stipends to Curates of Incumbents instituted before July 20,
1813, not to exceed certain rates, except in cases of neg-
lect, ib.

In case of subsequent institution, the salary to be in propor-
tion to the value and population, ib.

How the value of certain benefices is to be estimated,
124.

Where the benefice exceeds 400l. per annum, ib.

Discretionary power in the Bishop to allow smaller salaries,
125.

Where the Curate serves two churches of the same Incum-
bent interchangeably, ib.

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