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order vest a further portion of land in the said body; that is A.D. 1869.

to say,

1. In the case of a see house a quantity of land not exceeding

thirty acres, being land adjoining and usually occupied with
the said see house.

2. In the case of any other ecclesiastical residence a quantity of
land not exceeding ten acres, being land adjoining to and
usually occupied with the said ecclesiastical residence.
There shall be paid to the said commissioners by the said repre-
10 sentative body as the price of the land to be vested in them, in
pursuance of this section, such sum as may be agreed upon or
may be determined by arbitration.

Any vesting order made by the commissioners in pursuance of this section shall have annexed thereto a map accurately defining the 15 land thereby vested.

29. Where any real or personal property becoming vested in the Enactments commissioners by virtue of this Act consists or is the produce with respect to private of property or monies given by private persons out of their own endowments. resources since the year sixteen hundred and sixty, or consists or is 20 the produce of monies raised by private subscription since such lastmentioned year, and does not come within the description of a church or ecclesiastical residence in this Act otherwise provided for, the commissioners shall, on the application of the representative body of the said Church, by order vest such property, 25 herein-after referred to as a private endowment, in that body, if they apply to the commissioners for the same within six months after the said first of January one thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, but if no such application is made by the said representative body of the said Church to the commissioners within 30 the said period, the commissioners shall, in the case of an endowment by a private person, if such person be alive, by order vest the same in him on his application, and if such person died within twenty-five years before the passing of this Act, then, on application of his real or personal representatives, by order vest the 35 property in them, so that the application be made by such private person or his representatives within six months after the expiration of the said prescribed period, but if no application be made by the said representative body of the said Church, or by any person by this Act authorized to make the same, within the period prescribed 40 for such representative body and person respectively, then the commissioners shall dispose of the endowments aforesaid in such manner as they think expedient.

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to mixed endowments.

30. Where any real or personal property becoming vested in the Enactments commissioners, in pursuance of this Act, on the said first of January with respect one thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, and coming within the description of a private endowment, consists of part of a house or other building, or of part of a field, or part of any property that 5 cannot be conveniently divided, the commissioners shall ascertain and by order declare the annual value of the part which is private endowment and of the other part, and it shall be lawful for the representative body of the said Church, or any person or body of persons authorized by this Act to apply for an order vesting a 10 private endowment in him or them, to do one of the following things, either to require the whole of such property to be vested in him or them on payment to the commissioners of the value of such part of the property as does not consist of private endowment, or to require the commissioners to pay to such person or 15 body of persons as aforesaid the value of such part of the property as consists of private endowment.

Limitation

of right to purchase fee simple in consideration of perpetual

rent.

There shall be paid by or to the commissioners, according to circumstances, on account of any property in respect of which money is made payable under this section, such amount as may be deter- 20 mined by the commissioners, subject to arbitration as herein-after mentioned, not exceeding in the case of a building twelve times the annual value of the part in respect of which the money is payable or in case of any other description of property twenty-two times and a half the annual value of the part in respect of which the money is 25 payable.

Management of Property by Commissioners.

31. No application under the Act of the session of the third and fourth years of King William the Fourth, chapter thirty-seven, and the Acts amending the same, or any of them, by any immediate 30 or inferior tenants, for the purchase or conveyance of the fee simple and inheritance of any lands shall be made after the expiration of three years from the first day of January one thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, but save as aforesaid nothing in this Act contained shall prejudice or affect the right of any such immediate 35 or inferior tenant to purchase or have such conveyance of the fee simple and inheritance as aforesaid :

In any case in which by any of the provisions of the said Acts it is required that anything relating to any such purchase or conveyance shall be done by the ecclesiastical commissioners for 40

Ireland, such provision shall be construed as if the commissioners A.D. 1869. hereby constituted were named therein instead of such ecclesiastical commissioners.

tithe rent

land.

32. The commissioners may at any time after the first day of Sale of 5 January one thousand eight hundred and seventy-one sell any charge to rentcharge in lieu of tithes vested in them under this Act to the owners of owner of the land charged therewith in consideration of a sum equal to twenty-two and a half times the amount of such rentcharge; and upon any such sale being so made, the commissioners 10 shall by order declare the rentcharge to be merged in the land out of which it issued, and the same shall merge and be extinguished accordingly.

Upon the application of any owner so purchasing, the commissioners may, by order, declare his purchase money or any part thereof 15 to be payable by instalments, and the land out of which such rentcharge issued to be accordingly charged as from a day to be mentioned in such order for forty-five years thence next ensuing, with an annual sum equal to four pounds ten shillings for every one hundred pounds of the purchase money or part thereof so 20 payable by instalments. The annual sum charged by such order shall have priority over all charges and incumbrances, except quit or crown rents, and shall be payable by the same persons, and be recoverable in the same manner, as the rentcharge in lieu of tithes. heretofore payable out of the same lands.

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"Owner" for the purposes of this section shall mean the person for the time being liable to pay rentcharge in lieu of tithes under the provisions of the Act of the first and second years of the reign of Her present Majesty chapter one hundred and nine.

commis

33. The commissioners may at any time after the first of Power of 30 January one thousand eight hundred and seventy-one sell by sioners to public auction or private contract, or otherwise convert into money, sell their any real or personal property vested in them by this Act, subject property. to the other provisions of this Act, and to the following conditions:

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(1.) They shall not sell to the public any perpetual yearly rent
issuing out of any land, or any right to mines or quarries,

in
any land where the fee simple of the land subject to
such rent or right, is vested in some person other than
the commissioners, until they have given notice to the
owner of such land that they are willing to sell the same
to him at the price herein-after mentioned, and the owner
has declined to accept their offer:

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(2.) Perpetuity rents shall be offered to the owner of the land out which they issue at a capital sum equal to twenty-five times the annual amount of such rents:

(3.) The price of the rights to mines or quarries shall be fixed by the commissioners by order:

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(4.) They shall not sell to the public the fee simple of any land
in which any archbishop, bishop, or person holding any
such benefice or cathedral preferment as aforesaid has a
life interest during the continuance of such life interest:
(5.) They shall not sell to the public the fee simple of any land 10
which is held immediately from or under the commissioners
by virtue of any lease, until they have given notice to
the lessee that they are willing to sell the fee simple to
him for a price to be named by the commissioners in such
notice, and such lessee has declined to accept their offer; 15
and they shall not sell to the public the fee simple of any
land which is held immediately from or under the com-
missioners by virtue of any lease for twenty-one years or
for three lives, or twenty-one years, or for forty years, or
for three lives, until the expiration of three years from 20
the first day of January one thousand eight hundred and
seventy-one :

(6.) Notice shall be given to the owner, where such owner is
known to the commissioners, by sending by post a letter
containing the terms of the offer addressed to him at his 25
last known place of abode; where he is not known, notice
may be given by advertising the terms in the Dublin
Gazette; and in one or more local newspapers as the
commissioners may determine:

(7.) An owner shall be deemed to have declined to accept the 30 offer of the commissioners if he do not accept the same in writing, and pay or secure the purchase money to the commissioners within three months after the giving of such notice as aforesaid:

(8.)

"Owner of land" for the purposes of this section shall include 35
"limited owner" as defined by the "Landed Property
(Ireland) Improvement Act, 1860;" and any limited
owner may raise the money required for any purchase
under this section or any part thereof, by mortgage (at
a rate of interest not exceeding five pounds per centum 40
per annum) of the land of which he is such limited owner
as aforesaid.

34. All purchase monies, rents, and other monies whatsoever A.D. 1869. payable to the commissioners under or by reason of any of the Payment of provisions of this Act shall be paid into such bank, and be invested money into bank. in such manner as may from time to time be determined by the 5 commissioners of the treasury.

sioners.

35. The commissioners appointed under this Act shall publish at Accounts by least once in every year, at such time as the Commissioners of the commisTreasury may direct, an account of their receipts and expenditure, with such particulars as may be required by the Commissioners of 10 the Treasury, and shall also submit their account to the Comptroller and Auditor General at such time and in such manner as the said Commissioners of the Treasury may require.

Regium Donum and College of Maynooth.

tion to non

36. When the annual parliamentary grant for the expenses of Compensa15 the non-conforming, scceding, and protestant dissenting ministers conforming in Ireland, commonly called the Regium Donum, and in this Act ministers. referred to by that name, is discontinued, the commissioners shall as soon as may be after such discontinuance ascertain and declare by order the amount of the yearly sum theretofore received thereout 20 by each minister of any Protestant nonconforming congregation in Ireland, and shall pay to each such minister, so long as he lives and continues to perform the duties of his ministry, whether in the same or in a different congregation of the church or religious community to which he may belong, an annuity equal to the yearly 25 amount so ascertained as aforesaid.

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For the purposes of this section the yearly sum received shall be the amount actually received by such minister during the financial year ending the thirty-first of March one thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine.

The Commissioners shall also on such discontinuance as aforesaid ascertain and declare by order the amount of any yearly sum to which any assistant successor to a minister in such congregation may be prospectively entitled, and shall secure to such successor a deferred life annuity of the same value and payable in the same 35 events as the yearly sum for which it is substituted.

respect of

37. When the annual parliamentary grant for the salaries of the Compensatheological professors of the College of the General Assembly of the tion in Presbyterian Church situated at Belfast is discontinued, the commis- salaries of sioners shall, as soon as may be after such discontinuance, ascertain professors 40 and declare by order the amount of the yearly salary theretofore buildings received thereout by each such professor in the said college, and at Belfast. shall pay to each such professor, so long as he lives and continues

and college