A Treatise on the Powers and Duties of Parish Vestries in Ecclesiastical Matters: Being a Vestryman's Guide |
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14 VICT according act of parliament adjournment adopting this act affixed aforesaid appear apply appointed assessed authority Braintree Burder chairman charge Church Building Acts church or chapel church rate churchwardens churchwardens and overseers cited commissioners common law consent course Court of Arches Court of Peculiars Court of Queen's Curt custom decided duly duty Ecclesiastical Courts election enforce expenses further enacted Gosling granted Hagg held Ibid illegal inhabitants judgment jurisdiction justices liable Lord Denman mandamus matter ment minister necessary Notes of Ecc notice Pancras parish church parishioners party payment person poll poor rate present proceedings prohibition proper Provided purposes Queen's Bench question rate-payers reason refuse regulate relief repairs respect SECT select vestry show of hands spiritual court statute Sturges Bourne's Act temporal Courts terton thereof tical tion validity Veley vestry clerk vestry meeting vestrymen wardens
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Page 210 - And be it further enacted, that this act shall be deemed and taken to be a public act, and shall be judicially taken notice of as such by all judges, justices, and others, without being specially pleaded.
Page 217 - ... shall mean the railway and works, of whatever description, by the special act authorized to be executed. 3. The following words and expressions, both in this and the special act, shall have the meanings hereby assigned to them, unless there be something in the subject or context repugnant to such construction...
Page 21 - ... chapels during or after divine service, shall be reduced into writing, and copies thereof either in writing or in print, or partly in writing and partly in print...
Page 209 - ... detailed account of the place where such estate or charitable foundation may be situate, or in what mode and security such bequest may be invested, specifying also the yearly rental of each, and the particular appropriation thereof, together with the names of the persons partaking of their benefit (except where such benefit shall be allotted to the poor of the parish generally), and to what amount in each case, and also stating the name and description of the persons in whom such estates are...
Page 131 - ... who ought to receive and collect the same, by warrant under the hand and seal of such justice, to convene before any two or more such justices of the peace any person so refusing or neglecting to pay such rate, and to examine upon oath...
Page 214 - Be it therefore enacted, that the churchwardens or other persons to whom it belongs to convene meetings of the vestry in any such parish shall, within the space of one calendar month from and after the making and publishing of any order of the commissioners so applied for, if such order extend to...
Page 185 - ... least before the day to be appointed for holding such vestry, by the publication of such notice in the parish church or chapel, on some Sunday, during or immediately after divine service, and by 1831. affixing the same, fairly written or printed, on the principal door of such church or chapel.
Page 132 - Provided likewise, that if the validity of such rate, or the liability of the person from whom it is demanded to pay the same, be disputed, and the party disputing the same give notice thereof to the Justices, the Justices shall forbear giving judgment thereupon, and the person or persons demanding the same may then proceed to the recovery of their demand, according to due course of law, as heretofore used and accustomed : Proviso.
Page 193 - Three successive Days, commencing at Eight of the Clock in the Forenoon and ending at Four of the Clock in the Afternoon of...
Page 196 - ... rate-payers of the said parish as fit and proper persons to be inspectors of votes, four of such eight to be nominated by the churchwardens, and the other four to be nominated by the meeting; and after such nomination...