Gifts for Churches Act 1811

1811 CHAPTER 115

An Act for amending the Act Forty-third George Third, to promote the building, repairing, or otherwise providing the Churches and Chapels, and of Houses for the Residence of Ministers, and the providing of Church Yards and Glebes.

[26th June 1811]

WHEREAS by an [43 G. 3. c. 108.] Act passed in the Forty-third Year of His present Majesty's Reign, intituled, An Act to promote the building, repairing, or otherwise providing of Churches and Chapels, and of Houses for the Residence of Ministers, and the providing of Church yards and Glebes ; it was enacted, that every Person and Persons having in hit or their own Right any Estate or Interest in Possession, Reversion, or Contingency of or in any Lands or Tenements, or of any Property of or in any Goods or Chattels, mould have full Power, Licence, and Authority, by Deed inrolled, in such Manner, and within such Time as is directed in England by the Statute made in the Twenty-seventh Year of the Reign of King Henry the Eighth, and in Ireland by the Statute made in the Tenth Year of the Reign of King Charles the First, for Inrolment of Bargains and Sales; or by his, her, or their last Will or Testament in Writing, duly executed according to Law, such Deed or such Will or Testament being duly executed Three Calendar Months at least before the Death of such Grantor or Testator, including the Days of the Execution and Death, to .give and grant to and veil in any Person or Persons, or Body Politic or Corporate, and their Heirs and Successors respectively, all such his, her, or their Estate, Interest, or Property in such Lands or Tenements not exceeding Five Acres, or Goods and Chattels, or any Part or Parts thereof, not, exceeding in Value Five hundred Pounds, for or towards the erecting, rebuilding, repairing, purchasing, or providing any Church or Chapel where the Liturgy and Rites of the said united Church are or shall be used or observed, or any Mansion House for the Residence of any Minster of the said United Church, officiating or to officiate in any such Church or Chapel, or of any Outbuildings, Offices, Church Yard, or Glebe for the same respectively, and to be for those Purposes applied according to the Will of the said Benefactor in and by such Deed enrolled, or by such Will or Testament executed as aforesaid expressed (the Consent and Approbation of the Ordinary being first obtained), and: in Default of such Direction, Limitation, or Appointment, in such Manner as shall be directed and appointed by the Patron and Ordinary, with the Consent and Approbation of the Parson, Vicar, or other Incumbent; and such Person and Persons, Bodies Politic and Corporate, and their Heirs and Successors respectively, should have full Capacity and Ability to purchase, receive, take, hold, and enjoy for the Purposes aforesaid, as well from such Persons as shall be so charitably disposed to give the same, as from all other Persons as shall be willing to fell or alien to such Person or Persons, Bodies Politic; or Corporate, any Lands or Tenements, Goods or Chattels, with, out any Licence or Writ of Ad quod damnum : And whereas Doubts have arisen whether the Powers and Provisions of the said Act will enable His Majesty to make any such Grant for the Purposes before mentioned : And whereas it is expedient that the Powers of the said Act should be extended for that Purpose;

be it therefore enacted by the King's moll Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual arid Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same,