10 Morc/i 1831.
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(Ireland.)
BILL To amend an Act passed in the Seventh Year ofthe Reign of his late Majesty King George the Fourth, intituled, " An Act to consolidate and amend the Laws which
" regulate the levy and application of Church Rates and " Parish Cesses, and the election of Churchwardens, and
" the maintenance of Parish Clerks, in Ireland."
Note.—The
Words printed in Tta/zcs are proposed to be inserted
in the Committee.
r^(Il5lrl<[£2;s3 by an Act passed in the seventh year of the reign Preamble: of his late Majesty King George the Fourth, intituled, " An * °~* * "• *
" Act to consolidate and amend the Laws which regulate the levy and " application of Church Rates and Parish Cesses, and the election of 5
" Churchwardens, and the maintenance of Parish Clerks, in Ireland," it was among other things enacted, That whenever any Vestry should be called or holden in any parish, union or chapelry in Ireland, respecting or relating to all or any of the purposes in the said Act mentioned, that is to say, amongst others, to the building, rebuilding, enlarging or io repairing ofthe church or chapel of any parish, union or chapelry, or
the providing things necessary for the celebration of divine service therein, as required and authorized by any rubric or canon in force in England or Ireland, or the making any rate to defray the expenses of such building, rebuilding or enlarging or repairing, or other necessary 15 charges, or any of them, no matter should be proceeded upon at such
Vestry, save and except the matters in the said Act aforesaid, or some of them, for the purpose of which such Vestry should be held, and that no inhabitant ofsuch parish, being a Roman Catholic, should be capable of voting at such Vestry holden for such purposes as aforesaid:
20 And whereas it is expedient that the several matters and things com-
prehended in the said terms, " repairing of any church or chapel of any parish, union or chapelry," and in the said terms, " providing things 227.
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