Churchwardens' Manual: their duties, powers, rights, and privilagesSumner, George Henry
Religion
Churchwardens' Manual: their duties, powers, rights, and privilages
Sumner, George Henry
Church maintenance and repair; Church of England
And be it further enacted that the . . . register books . . . shall be
kept by and remain in the power and custody of the Rector, Curate, or
other officiating Minister of each respective parish or chapelry as
aforesaid, and shall be by him safely and securely kept in a dry, well
painted iron chest, to be provided and repaired, as occasion may require,
at the expense of the parish or chapelry, and which said chest,
containing the said books, shall be constantly kept locked in some dry,
safe, and secure place within the usual place of residence of such
Rector, Vicar, Curate, or other officiating minister, if resident within
the parish or chapelry, or in the parish church or chapel; and the said
books shall not, nor shall any of them, be taken or removed from or out
of the said chest, at any time or for any cause whatever, except for the
purpose of making such entries therein as aforesaid, or for the
inspection of persons desirous to make search therein, or to obtain
copies from or out of the same, or to be produced as evidence in some
court of law or equity, or to be inspected as to the state and condition
thereof, or for some other purposes of this Act; and that immediately
after making such inspection, entries, or producing the said books
respectively for the purposes aforesaid, the said books shall forthwith
again be safely and securely deposited in the said chest.
APPENDIX X.
43 Geo. III, cap. 108.
CONVENIENCES.--Permits conveyance of site to any Body Political or
Corporate.
--Contains no clause avoiding the conveyance if Service is discontinued
for a time.
INCONVENIENCES.--Requires the concurrence of Ordinary.
--Will be avoided (unless made for valuable consideration) if grantor
dies within three months.
--Must be strictly for a Church or Chapel.
--Must be enrolled within six months.
--No provision for grant by a person under disability, _e.g._, tenant for
life.
_Place of Worship Sites' Act_.
36 & 37 Vict., cap. 50.
CONVENIENCES.--Enables tenant for life to convey.
--Does not require consent of Ordinary.
--Deed will not be avoided by death of grantor within twelve months after
execution of it.
INCONVENIENCES.--Contains no power of conveyance to a Body Corporate
except permission given to make Ecclesiastical Commissioners trustees of
the site.
--Contains clauses involving the loss of the property, (_a_) if the land
be used for any other purpose than that of a site for a place of worship;
(_b_) if Service be discontinued in the place of worship for one year.
--May give difficulty as to consecration, if the Mission Room becomes a
Church, owing to possible reversion to profane uses on the temporary
discontinuance of Services.
School Sites' Act.
4 & 5 Vict., cap 38; 7 & 8 Vict., cap. 37.
CONVENIENCES.--Enable tenants for life to convey.
--Permit conveyance to Bodies Corporate making Minister and Churchwardens
a corporation with perpetual succession for the purposes of these Acts.
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