Irish Church Act 1869

16 Compensation to diocesan and district schoolmasters, clerks, sextons, &c.

The Commissioners shall, as soon as may be after the passing of this Act, ascertain and declare by order the following particulars:

(1) The amount of yearly salary which each schoolmaster of any diocesan or district school in Ireland is entitled to receive under any warrant of the Lord Lieutenant in Council made under the provisions of the Act of the session of the fifty-third year of the reign of His late Majesty King George the Third, chapter one hundred and seven, or any statutory amendment thereof:

(2) The amount of yearly salary which each clerk, sexton, or other holder of a freehold office of a similar character, or of any office held during good behaviour which the Commissioners may think equal to a freehold office, connected with any cathedral, parish, chapelry, and chapel of ease in Ireland, is entitled to receive, and of the emoluments of which he will be deprived by this Act:

and the Commissioners shall every year, after the first of January one thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, pay to each such diocesan schoolmaster, clerk, sexton, and officer respectively, so long as he lives and continues to perform the duties of his office personally or by sufficient deputy in the same school, cathedral, church, or chapel, or, in the case of a clerk, sexton, or officer of the said church, any duties of the same kind which shall be assigned to him by the representative body of the Church herein-after mentioned, and which he will agree to perform, an annuity equal to the amount of his yearly salary and emoluments so ascertained as aforesaid, or shall, on the application of such annuitant, being a clerk, sexton, or officer of the said church, made at any time between the first day of January one thousand eight hundred and seventy-one and the first day of January one thousand eight hundred and seventy-two, and with the consent of the Church body herein-after mentioned, cause the present value of such life annuity to be estimated, and pay the same to such annuitant, or to such annuitant and Church body, in such proportions as they shall agree r Provided that no commutation shall be made of the salary of an annuitant, being a sexton, clerk, or other officer as aforesaid, without the consent of the ecclesiastical person under whom such sexton, clerk, or officer may be serving at the time of the application being made for commutation.