Ecclesiastical Commissioners Act 1840

LX Repeal of 5 & 6 W.4 c.30., 6 & 7 W.4 c.67., and 2 & 3 Vict. c.55. Treasurer of Queen Anne's Bounty to account.

And be it enacted, That an Act passed in the Sixth Year of the Reign of His late Majesty, intituled An Act for protecting the Revenues of vacant Ecclesiastical Dignities, Prebends, Canonries, and Benefices with Cure of Souls, and for preventing the Lapse thereof during the pending Inquiries respecting the State of the Established Church in England and Wales; and also another Act passed in the Seventh Year of the Reign of His late Majesty, intituled An Act for suspending for One Year Appointments to certain Dignities and Offices in Cathedral and Collegiate Churches, and to Sinecure Rectories ; and also so much of another Act passed in the last Session of Parliament, intituled An Act to suspend until the First Day of August One thousand eight hundred and forty certain Cathedral and other Ecclesiastical Preferments, and the Operation of the new Arrangement of Dioceses upon the existing Ecclesiastical Courts, as relates to the Two last-recited Acts of the Reign of His late Majesty, be and the same are hereby repealed, except only as to the Dioceses or Cathedral Churches of Saint Asaph and Bangor, and as to all Matters and Things done under the Authority of the said Three last-recited Acts, or either of them, all which Matters and Things shall remain in full Force and Effect as if the said Acts were not repealed ; and the said Acts, so far as they relate to the said Two last-mentioned Dioceses and Churches, shall be continued and remain in force until the First Day of August in the Year One thousand eight hundred and forty-one, and, if Parliament shall be then sitting, until the End of the then Session of Parliament; but, notwithstanding any thing in the said Acts contained, it shall be lawful for the Bishop of Bangor for the Time being to collate to any vacant Canonry, Prebend, Dignity, or Office not having any Estate or Endowment belonging thereto ; and that within One Calendar Month after the passing of this Act the Treasurer of the Governors of the Bounty of Queen Anne shall deliver to the said Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England a full and particular Account of all Monies received and paid by him under and by virtue of the said Acts or any of them, and of all Things done by him, and of all Proceedings then pending in respect thereof, except so far as concerns the said Two last-mentioned Dioceses and Churches ; and that within such Time after the Delivery of such Account as shall be specified in any Order made upon him far that Purpose by the said Commissioners, he shall pay and deliver, or cause to be paid and delivered, to the said Commissioners, or into such Bank as shall be named in such Order, to their Account, for the Purposes of this Act, all Monies then remaining in his Hands or to his Account, and all Exchequer Bills and other Securities for Money, and all Books of Accounts, Papers, and Writings in his Possession or Power in respect thereof, except as last herein excepted; and that it shall be lawful for the said Commissioners to allow to the said Treasurer in his Accounts such Sum of Money as shall appear to them to be just and reasonable in compensation for his Pains and Trouble, and also all proper Costs, Charges, and Expences incurred in the Execution of the Trusts reposed in him by the said Acts; and that the Receipt in Writing of the said Commissioners, under their Common Seal, shall be an effectual Discharge to the said Treasurer for all Monies and other Things therein expressed to be received by them ; and this Act shall not in any other Manner than herein or in the first-recited Act expressly provided extend or apply to either of the said Two last-mentioned Dioceses and Cathedral Churches or the Chapters of such Churches.