[35 Vict.] Irish Church Act Amendment, [h.l.]
ILL
intituled
An Act to amend The Irish Church Act, 1869, so far as a.d. 1872.
respects a Vacancy in the office of Commissioner of Church
Temporahties in Ireland.
WHEREAS by The Irish Church Act, 1869, in this Act
referred to as the principal Act, it is amongst other
things enacted that the following persons, that' is to say,
Viscount Monck, Higlit Honourable James Anthony Lawson,
5 one of the justices of the Court of Common Pleas in Ireland,
and George Alexander Hamilton, Esquire, shall be constituted
Commissioners under the said Act; and shall be a body corporate
and be styled the Commissioners of Church Temporalities in Ireland,
and it is by the said Act further provided that any power or act by
10 such Act vested in or authorised to be done by the said Commis¬
sioners, may be exercised or done by any one of them, with the
qualification that ady person aggrieved by any order of one Com¬
missioner may require his case to be heard by the three Com¬
missioners :
15 And whereas George Alexander Hamilton, Esquire, one of the
Commissioners appointed by the said Act, died on the seventeenth
day of September one thousand eight hundred and seventy-one :
And whereas it is expedient that the vacancy so created in the
of6.ce of Commissioner of Church Temporalities in Ireland should
20 not be filled up, and that provisions such as are in this Act
contained should be made for the execution of the said Act by
two Commissioners:
Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty,
by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and
25 Temporal, and Commons, in this j)resent Parliament assembled,
and by the authority of the same, as follows :
1. No person shall be appointed to fill the vacancy occasioned by Vacancy in
« the death of the said George Alexander Hamilton, and subiect as
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