RY FORMS. Private Act (re-building chapel or church). PARLIAMENTA- said new chapel [or church], and the regulating the letting of the pews of the said new chapel [or church], and the providing for the repairs thereof, and all other matters and things necessary to be done in and about the execution of this act, shall be done and executed by his Majesty's said commissioners for building new churches, in such and the same manner in all respects as if the said chapel [or church] was built in pursuance of the powers and authorities of the said act, for the building and promoting the building of additional churches, and as if the said new chapel [or church], to be erected as aforesaid, was in all respects built in pursuance of the powers in the said act contained, and as if such powers in all respects extended to such chapel [or church] so to be built, and the requisite consents for building the same had been procured; and that all and every the powers and authorities contained in the said act, or such as shall be taken to extend or relate to the building the said new chapel [or church] and to the regulations thereof in all respects whatsoever, except so far as such powers or authorities are altered or varied by this act, and except that all and every acts, matters and things to be done in and about the erecting, building, ordering and regulating the said chapel [or church], or in anywise relating thereto, or otherwise in pursuance of this act, shall be done with the consent of the said (patron), or his heirs. New chapel [or church] to be vested in the patron. New chapel [or present chapel. And be it further enacted, That the land to be appropriated, purchased, or acquired as and for the site of the said new chapel [or church] shall be conveyed to and be and remain vested in the said (patron), and his heirs, instead of the said church commissioners, and shall be appropriated, when consecrated, to ecclesiastical purposes for ever. And be it further enacted, That the said new chapel [or church], when built, shall be taken and considered in all respects to be in lieu of the said existing chapel [or church], and nothing in this present act contained, shall be construed or taken to extend to the defeating, altering or prejudicing the rights of the said (patron), as patron of the said chapel [or church]; and the chaplain or incumbent for the time being of the said new chapel [or church], when the same shall have been erected and set apart and dedicated to and for the service of God, and as and for a place of divine worship according to the rights and ceremonies of the Church of England, shall have and be entitled to all such endowments, emoluments, and rights in all respects as he was entitled to before the passing of this act, such new chapel [or church] in all respects to be considered in lieu of the said chapel [or church] now in being; and the same endowments, rights, privileges and emoluments in anywise belonging to the present chapel [or church], shall in all respects belong to and go with the said new chapel [or church], and the chaplain or incumbent thereof, as if this act had not passed, and the said existing chapel [or church] had not been pulled down. And be it further enacted, That the said new chapel [or church] shall be under the same jurisdiction in all respects as the existing chapel [or church], and shall be visited as churches or chapels in the diocese of are visited. And be it further enacted, That nothing in this act contained shall authorize any rates or levies, either for the erection of the said intended new chapel [or church], or for the maintenance, repairs or support thereof, or in anywise relating thereto; and that the said new chapel [or church] shall be repaired, supported and maintained out of the same funds and by the same ways and means as have been lawfully employed in the repairs, support and maintenance of the present existing chapel [or church], unless and until any alteration shall be made, with the unanimous consent of the ordinary, the patrons and incumbents of the said new chapel [or church], and of the vicarages of aforesaid, and of two-thirds in number and value of their respective vestries duly assembled, after customary notice of the matter to be taken into consideration. Provided also, and be it further enacted, That the receipt of the nominee of the said (patron), for any monies payable to him for the purchase of the site of the present chapel [or church] or the materials of the said chapel [or church], shall be sufficient discharges to the purchaser or purchasers thereof, for the monies in such receipt expressed to be received. And be it further enacted, That this act shall be deemed and Public act. taken to be a public act, and shall be judicially taken notice of as such, by all judges, justices and others, without being specially pleaded. PARLIAMENTA RY FORMS. Private Act Burying-ground (additional). No. CCCCV. A Bill for providing an additional Burial-Ground for a Parish (1). NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that an application is intended to be to purchase a piece of ground conveniently situated for an additional cemetery or burial ground-for the said parish; and it is also intended to take power by the said act to raise money for that purpose by assessments on the parishioners. 2. The Petition to Parliament (3). To &c. (4). The humble Petition of the vicar and churchwardens of SHEWETH, That the present cemetery or burial-ground belonging to the parish That it is therefore necessary that an additional cemetery or burial-ground should be provided for the interment of the dead within the said parish. (1) See ante," PRACTICAL DIRECTIONS," chap. I. and ibid, c. II. sec. ii. (2) See ibid, pl. 1. PARLIAMENTA RY FORMS. Private Act That it will be requisite that additional rates should be levied on the owners and occupiers of lands and houses in the said parish, and other powers provided to defray the expenses thereof, but which can- Burying-ground not be done without the aid of Parliament. (additional). Your Petitioners therefore, &c. (1). 3. THE BILL. An Act for providing an additional Burial-Ground for the Parish WHEREAS the present cemetery or burial-ground belonging to the Preamble. parish of in the county of is confined within very narrow limits, and having been long in use, is so occupied and filled with vaults as to be rendered altogether inadequate to the purposes of a burial-ground for the increased and increasing population of the said parish: And whereas the purchase of the ground adjoining the end of the said burial-ground, within the said parish, and certain houses and other buildings thereon, will afford convenient means of enlarging the same, and will be a great benefit to the said parish, and of public utility; but inasmuch as the same cannot be accomplished without the aid and authority of Parliament; May it therefore please Your Majesty that it may be enacted, and be it enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, that within calendar months after the passing of this act, a general meeting of the churchwardens, overseers of the poor, vestrymen and occupiers of lands and tenements within the said try. parish of paying to the rates of the said parish, for the time being, shall be held at the vestry-room in the church of the said parish upon public notice to be openly read and published in the church of the said parish by order of the churchwardens and overseers, or either of them, upon the Sunday next preceding the day of such meeting, during or immediately after divine service; and the said churchwardens, overseers, vestrymen, and occupiers as aforesaid present at such meeting, or at any meetings to be held either by adjournment or by notice to be given in manner aforesaid, or the major part of them, shall proceed to put this act in execution, and are hereby vested with full authority for executing the same. (1) See ante, p. 46. Power to call a meetings of ves first and other PARLIAMENTA RY FORMS. Private Act And be it further enacted, That the said churchwardens, overseers, vestrymen, and occupiers as aforesaid, or any five or more of them, Burying-ground shall have full power and authority at any time or times within the (additional). space of years from the passing of this act to treat and agree, and to employ any person or persons to treat and agree for the purchase of the several houses, buildings, lands, tenements, and hereditaments, of what nature and kind soever, situate at the Power to purchase lands. If purchases not made within five years, powers to cease. Inaccuracies in descriptions, &c. not to prejudice. Corporate bodies, &c. em and ends of the said church-yard, and specified or referred to in the Schedule hereunto annexed, and of any subsisting leases, terms, estates, and interests therein, as they shall judge necessary or proper to be purchased, for the purpose of enlarging or improving the said cemetery or burial-ground, or for any of the purposes of this act. And be it further enacted, That if the said churchwardens, overseers, vestrymen, and occupiers as aforesaid, shall not, within the space of five years, to be computed from the passing of this act, agree for or cause to be valued and paid for as hereinafter mentioned, the houses, buildings, lands, tenements, and hereditaments which they are hereby empowered to purchase as aforesaid, or so much thereof as they shall deem necessary or proper for the purposes of this act, then and from thenceforth those powers which are hereby granted to them for such purpose only, shall cease and be utterly void. And be it further enacted, That if any of the houses, buildings, lands, tenements, and hereditaments, within the limits mentioned or referred to in the said Schedule, or any of the persons in whose possession or occupation the same, or any part thereof, are or is stated or described to be, or the owner or owners, lessee or lessees thereof, or any person interested therein, or in any part thereof, or claiming any interest therein, shall happen to be misnamed, mis-spelt, misstated, omitted, or incorrectly described in the said Schedule, then and in such case, if it shall appear to any two justices of the peace for the county of and shall be certified by writing under their hands, that such misnomer, mis-spelling, mis-statement, omission, or incorrect description proceeded from mistake, such misnomer, mis-spelling, mis-statement, omission, or incorrect description shall not prevent or retard the execution of this act, but the said premises, and every part thereof, shall and may be purchased, sold, agreed for, valued, and assessed in manner in this act mentioned, and conveyed, disposed of, and applied for the purposes of this act, as fully and effectually as if the same were properly named, spelt, stated, inserted, and described in the said Schedule. And be it further enacted, That it shall be lawful for all bodies powered to sell. politic, corporate, collegiate, or ecclesiastical, corporations aggregate |