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17 MörcÄ 1828.
A BILL To provide for the establishing of Compositions for Tithes
in Jre/and, for a time to be limited.
^SjCSl^ ^ Gfc Jlt Cfc )3 & for the purpose of further encouraging the Preamble: ^£ily^|' industry and enterprise of owners, farmers, and oecupiers of of^„"d°)wnfrr^&c Land in Zreto««/, and rendering the incomes arising from Tithes in and preventing con-Trete*/, more certain in amount, and more easy of collection, and of Tithes.
avoiding controversies respecting the same, it is expedient that provision should be made for the authorizing Compositions to be made for Tithes there, to endure for a time to be limited ;
$<£ tt t&ettfor* (tttamO by The KING's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, i o and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority
of the same, THAT at any time after the passing of this Act, it shall be lawful for the Lord Lieutenant, or other chief governor or governors of /refottrf, upon the application of the rector, vicar or other ecclesi-astical ineumbent, or of any impropriator or other person or persons 15 entitled to any tithes or portion of tithes, or of any or more of the
owners or oecupiers of land, each holding or possessing lands of the yearly value (if owners) or at the yearly rent (if oecupiers) of not less than pounds, in any parish in /rc/flwd', to give orders and di-rections from time to time, when and as such Lord Lieutenant, or other 20 chief governor or governors shall think proper, to the churchwardens
of any such parish, such orders and directions to be signified to such churchwardens by the chief secretary to the Lord Lieutenant, or other chief governor or governors of Ztc/ömü?,
or in his absence by the under secretary, that a special vestry shall be assembled in such parish, to pro-25 ceed in carrying into execution the purposes of this Act, and that such
vestry shall be composed of all persons occupying land within such parish, who shall during the year ending on the day of then next preceding, have paid or been charged with rectorial Tithes 152 A
to
Lord Lieutenant on application of ineumbent or im-prepriator, or landholders oecu-pying tenty poMwos a year each, may give Orders that special vestries be assembled in Parishes, for car-rying this Act into execution, con-sisting of persons having paid rectorial Tithes, or *Äree yoanrfs vicanal Tithes, for the year ending on _/jrst iVcWemter
