PARLIAMENTA RY FORMS. Private Act willing to undertake the same may make proposals for that purpose, to be offered and presented to the said trustees at a certain time and place in such notice to be mentioned; and copies or full abstracts of all contracts made in pursuance of this act shall be entered in a Particulars to be book or books to be kept for that purpose. And, that every such contract or contracts shall specify the several works to be done, and the prices to be received or paid for the same, and the time or times at which the said works shall be completed, and the penalties to be incurred for non-performance thereof, and shall be signed by any ten or more of the said trustees present at any meeting to be called for the purpose of entering into the same; and also by the person or persons contracting to perform such works respectively. contained in contracts. Trustees may compound for breach of contract. Trustees are not to contract till the church commissioners have approved of plan, &c. Materials to be vested in the trustees. And be it further enacted, That it shall be lawful for the said trustees, from time to time, as they shall think fit, to compound and agree with any person or persons, on account of any breach or nonperformance of any such contract or contracts for such sum or sums of money as they shall think proper. Provided always, That nothing in this Act contained shall extend, or be construed to extend, to authorize the said trustees to begin to build, or contract for building such church, until a plan, elevation, and section thereof, with such vestry, offices and other conveniences, as aforesaid, and the scantlings of the proposed timbers to be used, and the whole specification thereof, together with an estimate of the expence of erecting the same, shall have been first formed; nor until such plan, elevation, section, specification, and estimate, shall not only have been agreed to by a majority of the said trustees present at some meeting or meetings to be specially called for that purpose, but shall also have been approved of by the Right Reverend the Lord Bishop of and also by his Majesty's said commissioners for building and promoting the building of churches and chapels in populous parishes, or by their architect or surveyor for the time being. And be it further enacted, That, until the said new church, together with the vaults, catacombs, and appurtenances to the same, shall be built and completed, all the stones, bricks, tiles, timber, iron, lead, and other materials, to be purchased or procured for building the same, or for any works to be erected or executed by virtue of this act, or for any of the purposes of this act, shall belong to and be the property of, and the same is and are hereby vested in the said trustees for executing this act; and it shall be lawful for the said trustees, in the name of their clerk, to bring or cause to be brought any action or actions, or to direct the preferring of any bill or bills of indictment (as the case may require) against without particularly specifying or stating the name or names of all PARLIAMENTA RY FORMS. Private Act And be it further enacted, That such new church, when the same New church to be consecrated, shall be completed and fit for divine worship, and every minister of ficiating therein for the time being, shall be subject in all respects to the ordinary ecclesiastical jurisdiction by law established; and it shall and may be lawful to and for the Lord Bishop of for the time being, or any other bishop duly authorized by the said Lord Bishop of and he, or such bishop so authorized as aforesaid, is hereby authorized and empowered to consecrate the said church; and divine service shall be from time to time for ever after performed therein according to the rights of the United Church of England and Ireland as by law established. And be it further enacted, That such new church when the same And called the shall have been built, completed, and consecrated, shall from thence- parish church of forth for ever be called and known by the name of, and shall to all intents and purposes be "the parish-church of the parish of in the county of ;" and that divine service, the solemnization of matrimony, burial of the dead, and all other matters and things whatsoever, which were or of right have been used to be celebrated, solemnized, administered, had, done or performed in the parish-church, shall and may, from and immediately after the consecration of the said new church, be in like manner celebrated, solemnized, administered, had, done and performed in the said new church, vaults, and catacombs, to be erected under the same, any law, statute, usage, or custom, to the contrary notwithstanding. Provided also, That no burials shall at any time be made or Burials under allowed under the site of the said intended church, except such as shall be in vaults or catacombs, and inclosed in leaden or other metal coffins. the church. PARLIAMENTA RY FORMS. Private Act The present minister of the new church. Patron to have the like right of nomination to the new as to the old church. The rector, &c. to receive the rials, &c. as in the old church. And be it further enacted, That the honourable and reverend doctor of divinity, the present rector of the said parish of And be it further enacted, That the said right honourable (patron), or the person or persons for the time being seised of or entitled to the rectory and advowson of the parish-church of the said parish of and having the right of nominating and appointing a rector to the present parish-church, shall, from and after the completion and consecration of the said new church, have such and the like estate and estates, right, title, and titles, of and in the said new church, as he, she, or they respectively now have, or might or would have had, to the nomination and appointment of a rector of the said present church, according to his, her, or their rights and estates respectively, from thenceforth for ever; and from and after the death or avoidance of the present or any succeeding or future rector, shall and may nominate and appoint, upon every vacancy, a fit person to be a minister of the said new church, which person and his successors, so to be appointed and nominated, shall after such nomination and appointment, be ministers successively of such new church, and shall have and enjoy such oblations, mortuaries, Easter-offerings, glebes, tithes, profits, commodities, and other ecclesiastical dues and duties arising within the said parish, as the present rector is entitled to have and enjoy, or that any of his predecessors, rectors of the said parish, ought to have had and enjoyed. And be it further enacted, That the rector, churchwardens, clerk like fees for bu- and sexton of the said parish for the time being, shall respectively, from time to time, have, receive, take and enjoy the like burial fees, dues, and profits from or in respect of the burials, monuments, tombs, and other stones, to be had, erected, or placed within the said intended church, vaults, and catacombs, as are now payable to the said rector, churchwardens, clerk, and sexton, for or in respect of the burials, monuments, tombs, and other stones within the present church of the said parish; or such other rates, fees, and dues with respect to the burials, and the erecting of monuments, tombs, and other stones, within the said intended church, vaults, and catacombs, as may hereafter from time to time be ordered, settled, and established by the said rector, churchwardens, and trustees, with the approbation of the ordinary of the diocese for the time being." Provided always, and be it further enacted, That the person who, at the time of the completion and consecration of the said intended church, shall hold the office of parish-clerk of the said parish of shall, and he is hereby declared to be and continue the parish-clerk of the said parish, and shall perform the several duties of his said office at the said new church. PARLIAMENTA RY FORMS. Private Act The present new church. Sexton to per form the duty at the new church. Provided also, and be it further enacted, That the person who at the time of the completion and consecration of the said intended church, shall hold the office of sexton of the said parish shall continue and perform the several duties of such office, at the said new church, and the walls and catacombs under the same, as at the present church, and at the several burial grounds in and belonging for the time being to the said parish. Provided also, and it is hereby declared, That the appointment of Appointment of parish clerk and all and every clerk and clerks, to officiate as well at the new church sexton to reas at the parish chapel, and also the appointment of the sexton of the said parish shall remain, and for ever hereafter be vested in such person and persons who, at the time of the passing of this act, had the right of appointing the parish-clerk and sexton of the said parish respectively; this act, or any thing herein contained to the contrary thereof in anywise notwithstanding. main as hereto fore. &c. And be it further enacted, That it shall and may be lawful to Seats for rector, and for the said trustees, and they are hereby required to set out and allot a pew in the said new church unto and for the rector of the said parish for the time being; one other pew in the said new church, unto and for the churchwardens of the said parish for the time being; one other pew for the overseers of the poor of the said parish for the time being; and one other pew for the servants of the rector of the said parish for the time being; which said pews shall respectively be and remain for ever thereafter the pews of the rector, churchwardens, and overseers of the poor of the said parish for the time being. the use of the poor. And be it further enacted, That in the said new church, the Free sittings for said trustees shall cause to be set out and appropriated, in a convenient manner, a sufficient number of sittings in the gallery of the said new church and parish chapel, and also in the body of the same respectively, not being less than one fifth of the whole number of sittings in the said church and chapel respectively, which shall for ever afterwards be free and open, to be used and occupied during the time of divine service and the administration of the holy sa PARLIAMENTA RY FORMS. Private Act Building (church). Other seats to be let by the trustees, giving a preference to in habitants. Pews to be numbered. crament of the Lord's supper, by any poor person or persons, being inhabitants of the said parish who shall be willing to use and occupy the same, without any payment, appointment, pre-emption, or permission whatsoever: Provided always, that it shall be also lawful for the said trustees to set out and allot to or to the use of all such children as shall be receiving education in any free or charity school in the said parish, a sufficient number of sittings, or such other fit and convenient seats in the said new church and parish chapel, as to them the said trustees shall seem proper or necessary, without receiving for the same any payment or emolument whatever. And be it further enacted, That all other the pews and seats to be made and erected in the said intended church, and the galleries thereof, shall and may be let to inhabitant householders of the said parish, and to any other person or persons, subject to the preference hereinafter mentioned by the said trustees, for such time or times, and at or for such annual rents, and subject to such rules, orders, and regulations as the said trustees shall think proper, and from time to time agree and direct in that behalf; and that the rents or sums of money to be paid for the use and occupation of any seats or pews, shall be paid, applied, and disposed of, for the purposes of this Act, and shall be recovered and recoverable in such manner as hereinafter mentioned: Provided always, that it shall and may be lawful to and for the several parishioners of the said parish, and residents therein, to have the preference, on demand in writing made to the trustees, of hiring or renting such pews respectively, at such rent or rents, sum or sums of money, and under such rules, orders, and regulations as aforesaid, to any other person or person, not being a parishioner or parishioners: Provided always, that no pew or seat shall be let to any person or persons not an inhabitant householder or inhabitant householders of the said parish for any longer term or period than one year: Provided also that if any such householder or householders shall take any cuch pew or seat for any longer term or period than one year, and shall cease to be an inhabitant householder or inhabitant householders of the said parish, then and in every such case his, her, or their term, estate, and interest in such pew or seat respectively shall, at the end or expiration of the then current year of the said term or period, cease and determine, to all intents and purposes whatsoever. And be it further enacted, That the said trustees shall and they are hereby directed to cause the several seats or pews in the said new church to be numbered, and the several numbers of such seats to be entered in proper books, and also the several annual rents |