ECCLESIASTICAL COMMISSION (IRELAND).
THE REPORT Of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for Ireland, for the Year
ending the 1st day of August 1852.
TO HIS EXCELLENCY ABCHIBALD WILLIAM,
EARL OF EGLINTON AND WINTON, LORD LIEUTENANT-GENERAL AND GENERAL GOVERNOR OF IRELAND,
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WE, the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for Ireland, whose hands and cor¬
porate seal are hereunto annexed, beg leave to submit to your Excellency the Annual Report of the proceedings of the Commissioners for the year ending the 1st of August instant, pursuant to the provisions of the Act 3 & 4 Will.
4, c.
37.
We have the satisfaction to report to your Excellency, that the Commis¬ sioners have been enabled this vear, by reason of an improvement iu the state of their funds, to appropriate "a larger sum to the rebuilding and repair of Churches than it has been in their power to do for some years past, and to set apart a small sum for the enlargement, and the painting and cleaning of the interior of Churches, and for the fencing of Churchyards; annexing it as a condition to their grants, in the cases of enlargement and painting, that liberal aid should be afforded by private contribution; the result of which has been, that tho contributions, in aid of a sum of 2,500/.
so set apart, have exceeded 3,400/.
By this arrangement provision has been made lor 24 cases of enlarge¬ ment, m of painting or cleaning, and 15 of enclosing fences.
The sum appropriated to Rebuildings has been 7,139 I 10 s.
10 d of which 3 439/ 10* 10 rf.
was for carrying on Works undertaken in preceding years, in which the Commissioners had been previously aided by private subscriptions, and 3,700/.
for the commencement of nine new cases; a sum ol 2,j36 L, m addition thereto, being available from private sources.
The sum allotted to General Repairs, including external painting and the repairs of Churchyard fences, has been 17,820 /.
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9 tf, which is in course ot SpSudUuw on 977 cases, making the total sum appropriated to Church Works this year 27,459/.
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In selecting from the numerous applications in their Office, under the.head
of Enlargements, Internal Painting and Enclosing Fences, the few cases which ha^Sril/bcen the subject oV their grants of this ^>^~ have experienced great difficulty, as very many of the cases which they have been obliged to defer are of an equally pressing nature.
The nine cases of Rebuilding which have been provided forJ^ J^^ £ the whole or in part, are as follow:-**, Lisnaskea; 2d, Der £n, tothm the Diocese of Clogher; 3d, Donamon, in *c D^e of E]pl^n ; 4th Ardfe t, in the Diocese of Ardfert; 5th Kilncmanagh, in the Diocese of I ^«n Innisharmon, in the Diocese of Cork ; 7th Badoiiy Lowerin the ttoc^eot Derry ; 8th, Lismalin, in the Diocese of Cashel; and, 9th, Cong, in the Uocese of TuVm.
In the first of these cases the subscriptions amount 0 912/ n the second to 379/.;
in the third, to 50/.;
m the fourth, to 300 /.,
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remaining: three cases the Commis-395/,; and m the sixth, to 500/.,
but in tnt iemdmi"f , obliged to nro-tioners were unable to procure any subscriptions, ^^u^^chu^b vide for them altogether out of their own funds.
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