Commissioners appointed by this Act; and the Word "Graduate" shall include all Persons who at the Date of this Act hold any Academical Degree not merely honorary in either of the said existing Universities, or who shall hold any such Academical Degree in the 5 University hereby established.

XXXIII. This Act shall take effect from and after the Day of

When Act to

take effect.

ARRANGEMENT OF CLAUSES.

Preamble.

Interpretation; Sect. 1.

Owners at a Public Meeting may order Advowson to be sold; 2.
Majority to bind Minority; 3.

Meeting to decide Question of Sale, and if decided in Affirmative to appoint elected Trustees; 4.

Certificate by Two Justices of Consent of Owners being obtained, and of Names (if any) of elected Trustees, to be sufficient Evidence; 5.

If determined to sell Advowson, same to become absolutely vested in Trustees, and Trustees to proceed to a Sale; 6.

Conveyance of the Advowson; 7.

Receipts of Trustees to be sufficient Discharges; 8.
Application of Monies; 9.

As to investing Monies; 10.

Resolutions of Trustees; 11.

For supplying Vacancies in the Number of Trustees; 12.
Trustees not to be accountable for involuntary Losses; 13.

Vacancies in the Incumbency before Sale to be filled up; 14.

Owners may consent to advance Money for Purposes authorized by Acts commonly called Gilbert's Acts; 15.

Evidence of Consent; 16.

Extent of Act; 17.

A

BILL

ΤΟ

To enable Parishioners and others, forming a
numerous Class, to sell Advowsons held by or in
trust for them, and to apply the Proceeds in
providing Parsonage Houses, augmenting small
Livings, and to other beneficial Purposes; and
for giving other Powers to such Persons.

W

HEREAS it is expedient to authorize the Sale of Advow- Preamble. sons in Cases where the same are vested in, or in Trustees for, Inhabitants, Ratepayers, Freeholders, or other Persons, forming a numerous Class, and deriving no pecuniary Advantage 5 therefrom, in order that the Monies arising from such Sales may be applied to the Erection, Rebuilding, or Improvement (where necessary) of Parsonage Houses, and to the Augmentation of the Livings (where the same are small), and to other bencficial Purposes as herein-after provided; and that other Powers should be 10 conferred upon such Persons: Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, as follows: