ECCLESIASTIC.
COMMISSION (IRELAND).
ANNUAL REPORT AND ACCOUNT
or THE
ECCLESIASTICAL COMMISSIONERS FOR IRELAND,
for the Year ended the 1st day of August 1866.
TO HIS EXCELLENCY THE MOST NOBLE JAMES MARQUIS OF ABERCORN, LORD LIEUTENANT GENERAL
AND GENERAL GOVERNOR OF IRELAND, &c.
&c.
&c.
WE, the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for Ireland, whose hands and cor¬
porate seal are hereunto annexed, beg leave, in pursuance of the pro¬ visions of the Act 3 & 4 Will.
4, c.
37, to submit to your Excellency the Report of the proceedings of the Commissioners for the year which ended the 1st of August ] 866, and an account of their receipts and disbursements during the same period, distinguishing the specific sources from which all moneys have been derived, and the specific purposes to which they have been applied; also, an account of their receipts and disbursements in relation to Primate Boulter's and Primate Ptobin-son's Funds.
The sum appropriated at the usual annual special meeting of the Board in November 1865, for the several Church Works of this }ear, amounted to 48,124/.
10 s.
Ad.;
of this sum, 2,112/.
9 s.
3d.
was set apart towards the completion of 12 Churches undertaken in former j ears* and 12,700/.
towards erecting 14 Parish and District Parochial Churches, 1,475/.
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Id.
to complete the amounts required for the enlargement of 12 Churches already partially provided for, and 6,075 /.
towards the enlargement of 15 other Churches, and the "residue, amounting to 25 762/.,
was appropriated to the repairs of Churches, and for fencing Churchyards, including the expenses connected with carrying out these several works.
The 14 Parish and District Parochial Churches, for the building of which grants were made, are,—
Newtown Hamilton --} .
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[ m the Diocese of Armagh, Dunmoyle --
--J Ardstraw ---
-in the Diocese of Derry* Grey Abbey ----in the Diocese of Down.
St.
Thomas, Belfast -
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id the Diocese oi Connor.
St.
James's Belfast --
-J Gilford -----in the Diocese of Dromore.
Holmpatrick ----in the Diocese of Dublin.
Aghavoe ----in the Diocese of Ossory.
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