XXXIVProvision for Archdeaconries.

And be it enacted, That, so soon as conveniently may be, and by the Authority herein-after provided, subject to the Consent of the Bishop, any Archdeaconry may be endowed by the Annexation either of an entire Canonry or of a Canonry charged with the Payment of such Portion of its Income as shall be determined on towards providing for another Archdeacon in the same Diocese, or with such last-mentioned Portion of the Income of a Canonry, or by Augmentation out of the common Fund herein-after mentioned, provided that the said Augmentation shall not be such as to raise the average annual Income of any Archdeaconry to an Amount exceeding Two hundred Pounds ; and that no Canonry shall be so charged with the Payment of a Portion of the Income thereof to any Archdeacon, unless the average annual Income of such Canonry, after the Payment of such Portion as aforesaid, shall amount to or exceed Five hundred Pounds : Provided always, that no Archdeacon shall be entitled to hold any Endowment or Augmentation, or other Emolument as such Archdeacon under the Provisions of this Act, unless he shall be resident for the Space of Eight Months in every Year within the Diocese in which his Archdeaconry is situate, or as to any present Archdeacon, within the Diocese in which his Archdeaconry was situate before the passing of the first-recited Act, subject to the same Provisions as to Licences for Non-residence which are enacted with respect to Incumbents of Benefices by an [1 & 2 Vict. c. 106.] Act passed in the Second Year of Her present Majesty, intituled An Act to abridge the holding of Benefices in Plurality, and to make better Provision for the Residence of the Clergy.