A.D. 1869. to perform the duties of his present or any other professorship in the said college, an annuity equal to the yearly amount so ascertained as aforesaid. Commu tation of Belfast. The commissioners shall also pay in respect of the buildings of the said college a sum not exceeding fifteen thousand pounds 5 to trustees to be appointed in that behalf by the moderator of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland. For the purposes of this section the yearly sum received by any such professor shall be the amount actually received by such professor during the financial year ending the thirty-first of March 10 one thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine. 38. Any minister or assistant successor of any Protestant nonconforming congregation, or any professor of the said college at Belfast to or for whom any annuity is paid or secured under this Act by reason of the discontinuance of the said grant called the 15 professors at Regium Donum, may apply to the commissioners to commute his annuity for a capital sum to be paid to him, and the said commissioners, if satisfied that the annuity of the applicant is not incumbered, or if incumbered that the incumbrancers consent to the commutation, shall cause the then present value of the annuity to 20 be estimated, and shall pay the amount of such estimated value to trustees, such trustees to be appointed in the case of any such professor as aforesaid by the applicant and the Moderator for the time being of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church, and in the case of any such minister or assistant successor as aforesaid 25 by such minister or assistant successor and the Moderator for the time being of the General Assembly or synod or presbytery, as the case may be, of the church or religious community to which such minister or assistant successor may belong. Repeal of tion on the cessation of certain 39. On and after the first day of January one thousand eight 30 hundred and seventy-one, the Act of the fortieth year of the reign of His late Majesty King George the Third, chapter eighty-five, except the fourth and fifth sections thereof, the Act of the eighth and ninth years of the reign of Her present Majesty, chapter twentyannual sums. five, except the first three sections thereof, and the Act of the 35 twenty-third and twenty-fourth years of the reign of Her said present Majesty, chapter one hundred and four, shall be and the same are hereby repealed. When the annual sums herein-after mentioned cease to be paid, compensation shall be made in respect thereof by payment 40 of capital sums as follows, that is to say: (1.) In respect of the annual sum paid out of the said Regium Donum to the fund for supporting the widows and orphans СТ 5 10 15 20 of ministers of the synod of Ulster, by payment of the A.D. 1869. capital sum herein-after mentioned to the Presbyterian Widows Fund Association. (2.) In respect of the annual sum paid out of the Regium Donum (4.) In respect of the annual sum paid to the trustees of the College of Maynooth in pursuance of the Act of Parliament in that behalf, by payment of the capital sum herein-after mentioned to the trustees of the said college. The capital sum to be paid in respect of each of the annual sums aforesaid shall be fourteen times the amount of each such annual sum, and the amount of each of the annual sums aforesaid, shall for the purposes of this Act, be deemed to be the amount actually paid on account of such sum by or by order of the Commissioners 25 of the Treasury during the financial year ending the thirty-first day of March one thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine. trustees of 40. Any sums of money remaining due from the trustees of the Remission of said College of Maynooth to the Commissioners of Public Works debt to in Ireland, in respect of advances made by the said commissioners Maynooth. 30 on the security of the sums payable to the said trustees under the sixth section of the said Act of the eighth and ninth years of the reign of Her present Majesty, chapter twenty-five, shall be and the same are hereby released. 35 40 Appeal. 41. The following rules shall be enacted with respect to appeals Regulations against the orders of the commissioners: (1.) Where any person feels aggrieved by the value set by the as to appeal. A.D. 1869. under this Act, he may, if he think fit, refer such ques- (2.) Where any person feels aggrieved by any judgment or order Possession to 42. The possession of the house No. 24, Upper Merrion Street, be given up in the city of Dublin, now occupied as an office by the said of 24, Upper Merrion Ecclesiastical Commissioners, and all furniture and fittings therein, Street. and also all books, accounts, deeds, maps, documents, and papers whatsoever at the date of this Act belonging to the said Eccle- 15 siastical Commissioners, or under their control, or the control of any of their officers, shall immediately after the passing of this Act, be delivered up by the person or persons having charge of the same respectively to the commissioners. Compensa tion to Ecclesiastical Commissioners and their officers. Compensa 20 43. There shall be paid to Arthur Edward Gayer and William Charles Quinn (two of the said Ecclesiastical Commissioners), to Robert Franks (their secretary), to George Lefroy (their treasurer), and to the several other officers of the said Ecclesiastical Commissioners whose services may not be required by the commissioners hereby constituted, such annual sums respectively as the said last- 25 mentioned commissioners, with the assent of the Lord Lieutenant, may recommend, and shall be approved of by the Commissioners of the Treasury. 44. The commissioners shall ascertain and by order declare the tion tovicars- amount of the fees or other emoluments received by each vicargeneral and other officers general, official principal, commissary-general, or chancellor, or by annuities registrar or joint registrar of any diocese or united dioceses in equal to their average in Ireland, on an average of the three years ending the first day of come for the January one thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine, and of which three years they may be deprived by this Act; and shall, as from the first day of January one thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, out of any funds for the time being in the hands of the commissioners under the provisions of this Act, pay to each such vicar-general, official principal, commissary-general, chancellor, ending 1st January 1870. 30 35 5 or registrar, during his life, such annuity by way of retiring pension A.D. 1869. as the commissioners, with the joint approval of the Lord Lieutenant and of the Commissioners of the Treasury, may recommend. Delivery up of Documents. 45. All and singular the records, books, accounts, deeds, maps, Delivery up documents, and papers whatsoever which in anywise relate to or of books by registrars. concern any of the property or premises vested or to become vested in the commissioners under any of the provisions of this Act shall, within three months next after the said first day of January one 10 thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, be delivered up to the commissioners by the respective registrars of the several provincial and diocesan or united diocesan or other registries in Ireland, or other the officers then having the custody or possession of the same respectively. 46. It shall not be lawful for the commissioners to expend any Commismoney whatever in or about the building, rebuilding, or enlarging sioners not to expend of any cathedral or other church, or any chapel, see-house, glebe- moneys in house, or other building belonging to the said Church or any building. 20 person holding office therein, or connected therewith, or in enlarging or improving any churchyard or graveyard, nor to grant or advance any money for the purposes aforesaid, or any of them. 47. It shall not be lawful for the commissioners, after the first Commissionday of January one thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, to ers not to expend 25 expend any money whatever upon any such buildings, churchyard, moneys in or graveyard as aforesaid, whether for repairs or otherwise, nor in repairs. payment of salaries of clerks or sextons of any parish, chapelry, or chapel of ease who may be appointed after the passing of this Act, or in providing any church or chapel with fuel, lighting, or things 30 necessary for the celebration of Divine service, nor to grant or advance any money for the purposes aforesaid, or any of them: Provided, that in the meantime, and until the said first day of January one thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, it shall be lawful for the commissioners to expend such sums of money as 35 they may ascertain, and by order declare, to be necessary for keeping any such buildings as aforesaid in substantial repair and preservation, or for providing any church or chapel with fuel, lighting, or other things requisite for the decent performance of Divine worship as heretofore in such church or chapel. A.D. 1869. Payment of building charge. Regulations as to payment of annuity. Power of security for 48. Nothing herein contained shall affect the right of any archbishop, bishop, or person holding any benefice or cathedral preferment in the said Church, and whose annuity has not been commuted in pursuance of this Act, to receive the amount of any building charge to which such archbishop, bishop, or other 5 person would have been entitled if this Act had not passed; and in the event of the circumstances occurring under which such person or his representatives would have been entitled, if this Act had not passed, to receive such charge, the commissioners shall pay the same to such person or his representatives. 49. Every annuity payable by the commissioners under this Act shall be deemed to accrue due from day to day, and shall be paid at such intervals not exceeding in any case six months, and in such manner as the commissioners may judge expedient. 10 The commissioners may deduct from any annuity payable by them 15 any sums they may have been required to pay to any incumbrancer in respect of any charge which would have been payable out of the property for which such annuity is substituted if no substitution had taken place. 50. Where the commissioners sell any land or interest in land 20. commission- in pursuance of this Act, the commissioners may credit the purers to accept mortgages as chaser with such part of the purchase money, not exceeding three fourth parts, as they think proper, on having payment of the same, with interest at the rate of four per centum per annum, secured to the satisfaction of the commissioners; and any such purchase money 25 may be made payable by instalments, not exceeding thirty-two in a portion of purchase money. Power to pay by instalments. Sales of lands, &c. may be made in Landed number. 51. Where the commissioners are authorized or required under this Act to pay any capital sum in respect of any commuted annuity they may, if they think fit, instead of paying such sum at once, 30 elect to pay the same by half-yearly instalments, not exceeding eight in number, together with interest at the rate of three and a half pounds per cent. on any part of the capital for the time being remaining unpaid. Where the representative body of the said church is liable to pay 35 any capital sum to the commissioners, such capital sum may be paid by twenty-two yearly instalments with interest at the rate of three and a half per cent. on the amount of the purchase money remaining unpaid, to be secured in such manner as the commissioners think expedient. 52. If in any case in which the commissioners are by this Act authorized or directed to sell any property it appears to them to be expedient that the same should be sold, or the sale thereof 40 |