No. 3. Queen Anne's Bountys. All augmented churches and curacies shall be benefices, and their Ministers bodies corporate, and enabled to take lands, &c. in perpetuity: impropriators, and Rectors of mother-churches, are excluded from the benefit of the augmentations, and must allow the Minister the usual pension. No Rector, &c. of a motherchurch within a parish where the augmented church or chapel is situate shall be discharged from cure of souls": augmented cures are subjected to lapse x. All agreements with benefactors, touching the patronage of any augmented cure, with the consents and in the cases mentioned, shall be good, and the advowson, patronage, &c. shall be vested in such benefactors y. Agreements of Guardians on behalf of infants or idiots shall be good. Agreements by Parsons or Vicars shall be with consent of Patron and Ordinary a. Where a person is seized in right of his wife, she must be a party to the agreement b: such agreements shall be effectual for supplying cures vacant at the time of such augmentation c. All or any part of the estate, settled for augmentation, may be exchanged for other estate in land or tithes d. Donatives augmented shall be subject to the Bishop's visitation and jurisdictione; but a donative is not to be augmented without the Patron's consent f Where it falls to the lot of any curacy, &c. to be augmented, the Governors may enter into any agreement with the Patron for an allowance to the Minister, and if the Patron other than the King will not make such agreement, the Governors may refuse the augmentation 8. All All augmentations, agreements, exchanges, &c. shall be entered in a book, to be kept by the Governors, and attested copies shall be evidence h. All lands, tithes, &c. allotted to any church or chapel by the Governors, shall be annexed thereto for ever i. Stat. 36 Geo. III. Cap. 83. All churches and chapels augmented by Queen Anne's s. 1. p. 286. ts. 4. p. 287. " s. 5. p. 289. * s. 6. ib. s. 15. p. 291. ε s. 16. p. 292. y s. 8. ib. ds. 13. ib. exp. 291. e s. 14. i s. 21. ib. Bounty shall be deemed benefices, so that the licence thereto shall render other livings voidable, in like manner as institution k. Stat. 43 GEO. III. Cap. 107. No. 4. The power given by stat. 1 Geo. 1. of exchanging any of Exchange of buildings the estates settled for augmentation, is extended to all build- and lands. ings and lands belonging to an augmented benefice1. Where a living shall be augmented by lot or benefaction, and there is no suitable residence for the Minister, the Governors may dispose of the money in building, repairing, or purchasing a residence, &c.m Stat. 45 GEO. III. Cap. 84. The Bishops are empowered from time to time to inform themselves of the value of benefices returned into the Exchequer within their dioceses, and certify the same to the Governors of Queen Anne's Bounty, who shall be empowered to act upon such new certificates as they are now empowered to do with respect to livings not returned into the Exchequer. Certificates, returned into the Exchequer for the purpose of ascertaining what livings were to be discharged from first-fruits and tenths, shall not as to first-fruits, &c. be altered in any manner o. No. 5. Any persons having in their own right any money, goods, Gifts of chattels, or other personal effects, may give or grant to the personal property to Governors such money, &c. without any deed enrolled, or the Gootherwise P; but the law in force as to the conveyance of any lands, &c. by deed, or the disposition thereof, or of any personal property by will, is not altered 9. s. 3. p. 296. they are also benefices within stat. 57 Geo. 3. c. 99. as to residence, Curates' salaries, &c. I s. 2. p. 299. ms. 3. ib. " s. 1. p. 301. 9 s. 4. ib. • s. 2. p. 302. P s. 3. ib. vernors. No. 1. PART I. CLASS VII. Stat. 9 GEO. II. Cap. 36. NO manors, lands, tenements, &c. nor any sums of money or other personal estate, to be laid out in the purchase of lands or tenements, shall be given or conveyed, or charged or encumbered, for the benefit of any charitable uses, unless such gift, or conveyance of such lands, &c. or personal estate, be made by deed indented, sealed and delivered in the presence of two or more witnesses, twelve months before the death of the donor or grantee, and be enrolled in the Court of Chancery within six months after execution; and unless the stock be transferred six months before the death of the donor, and be to take effect in possession, and be without power of revocation, trust, &c. for the benefit of the donor, or any person claiming under him a. This provision is not to extend to any purchase of land or transfer of stock made bonâ fide and for valuable consideration b. All gifts and conveyances, transfers, or settlements made otherwise than according to the Act shall be void c. The Act is not to prejudice any dispositions in trust for the two Universities, or the three colleges therein mentionedd, and (by stat. 45 Geo. 3. c. 101.) the restriction as to the number of advowsons to be held by them is removed. No. 2. Parish re gisters. PART I. CLASS VIII. Stat. 52 GEO. III. Cap. 146. Statutes relating to Marriage and Parish Registers. ALL officiating Ministers are to keep registers of public and private baptisms, marriages, and burials; and directions are given as to the provision and mode of keeping the re gister books, and as to the nature of the certificate to be made, where the baptism or burial is performed in any other than the parish church or churchyard, &c. and by any other than the Minister of the parish f. The officiating Minister is to keep the register books in an iron chest 5, and annual copies of registers are to be made, which are to be verified by the Minister according to the form therein stated h: these are to be transmitted to the respective Registrars of dioceses by the Church-wardens, and the Registrars are to report to the Bishops whether the copies have been sent ink, and the Church-wardens are to certify the default of the Minister to verify'. Where there has been a baptism or burial in an extraparochial place, where there is no church or chapel, the Minister who has officiated is to deliver a memorandum thereof to the Minister of the adjoining parish, within a month, signed as therein mentioned, and containing certain particulars; and the latter Minister is to make an entry in the register book of the parish m. Certain special enactments are then made as to postages, custody of register books, and a report to the Privy-council"; and it is declared, that any person wilfully making false entries or false copies, or permitting them to be made, or forging or altering, destroying or injuring the register book, or permitting or causing it to be done, shall be guilty of felony°; but any accidental error in an entry may be corrected within a month after its discovery, according to the form therein mentioned P. The statute then concludes with certain special provisions, extends the Act to churches and chapels not parochial, and contains at the end a schedule of forms to be used 9. Stat. 4 GEO. IV. Cap. 76. No. 2. All banns of matrimony shall be published in the parish Marriage. church, or in some public chapel in which such banns may be lawfully published, of such parish or chapelry wherein Banns of marriage. the persons to be married dwell, according to the form prescribed by the rubric, upon three Sundays preceding the solemnization, during the time of morning service or of evening service, (if there be no morning service,) immediately after the second lesson; and when persons to be married dwell in divers parishes, &c. the banns shall be published in the church, &c. belonging to such parish where each person dwells; and the rules prescribed by the rubric, not altered by the Act, shall be observed: and in all cases, where banns shall have been published, the marriage shall be solemnized in one of the churches, &c. where such banns have been published. The Bishop, with consent of the Patron and Incumbent of a church in which any public chapel may be situated having a chapelry annexed, or any chapel in an extra-parochial place, may authorize publication of banns and solemnization of marriage in such chapel for persons residing in the chapelry or extra-parochial places; but in such a case a notice, according to the Act, must be placed in a conspicuous part of the interior of such chapel t; and all provisions relating to marriage registers are extended to such chapels ". A proper book is to be provided for the registration of banns, and the banns are to be published from such book, and after publication, it is to be signed by the Minister, or some person under his direction *. No Clergyman shall be obliged to publish banns, unless the parties give seven days' notice in writing to him, dated on the day of delivery, of their Christian names and surnames, and of their houses of abode, and of the time during which they have dwelt therein y. No Clergyman marrying persons, both or one of whom shall be under twenty-one, after banns published, shall be punishable for marrying them without consent, unless such Clergyman shall have notice of dissent; and in case the parents or guardians publicly declare in the church or * s. 2. p. 317. $s. 3. p. 318. ts. 4. ib. ys. 6. p. 318. " s. 5. ib. * s. 6. ib. |