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Ecclesiastical Commissioners Act 1840

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Ecclesiastical Commissioners Act 1840

1840 CHAPTER 113

An Act to carry into effect, with certain Modifications, the Fourth Report of the Commissioners of Ecclesiastical Duties and Revenues.

[11th August 1840]

WHEREAS an [6 & 7 W. 4. c. 77.] Act was passed in the Seventh Year of the Reign of His late Majesty, intituled An Act for carrying into effect the Reports of the Commissioners appointed to consider the State of the Established Church in England and Wales with reference to Ecclesiastical Duties and Revenues, so far as they relate to Episcopal Dioceses, Revenues, and Patronage, constituting the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England to be One Body Politic and Corporate for the Purposes set forth in the said Act: And whereas the Commissioners first mentioned in the said Act, in their Fourth Report to His late Majesty, bearing Date the Twenty-fourth Day of June in the Year One thousand eight hundred and thirty-six, made certain Recommendations touching Cathedral and Collegiate Churches, and other Things in the said Report specified: And whereas it is expedient that the said Recommendations should be adopted, with certain Alterations:

Be it therefore enacted by the Queen'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,

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