Ecclesiastical Commissioners Act 1873
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1873 c. 64 |
| Year | 1873 |
Ecclesiastical Commissioners Act, 1873
(36 & 37 Vict.) CHAPTER 64.
An Act for amending the Ecclesiastical Commissioners Acts, 1840 and 1850, and for other purposes.
[5th August 1873]
Whereas by the Lichfield Chapter Act, 1706, the rectory of Tatenhill, otherwise Tattenhill, in the county of Stafford, in the diocese of Lichfield (of the perpetual advowson whereof Her Majesty was seised in right of the Duchy of Lancaster) was annexed, as in the said Act stated, to the deanery of the cathedral church of Lichfield, in consideration of the small income arising to the dean of Lichfield out if the revenue of the church at Lichfield, and on condition that the dean of Lichfield and his successors should make such allowance to a curate or curates for the said parish as the bishop should for the time being appoint:
And whereas by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners Act, 1840, all the estate and interest which the holder of any deanery had in any lands or endowments whatsoever annexed to such deanery, and enjoyed by the holder of such deanery separately and in addition to his share of the corporate revenues of the chapter, were, after the next avoidance of such deanery, vested in the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England:
And whereas it is provided by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners Act, 1850, to the effect that no dean of any cathedral or collegiate church appointed after the tenth of April one thousand eight hundred and fifty should hold with his deanery any benefice not situate within the city or town of the cathedral or collegiate church in which he was dean:
And whereas the rectory of Tatenhill is not situate within the city of Lichfield:
And whereas the Ecclesiastical Commissioners are required by an Order in Council dated the fifteenth day of June one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two, and made in pursuance of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners Act, 1840, and the Ecclesiastical Commissioners Act, 1841, to pay out of their common fund annual sums in order to make up the average annual receipts of the dean of Lichfield from the divisible corporate revenues of the chapter of Lichfield to an income of one thousand pounds:
And whereas it has been decided by the Court of Common Pleas that the above-recited enactments of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners Act, 1840, and the Ecclesiastical Commissioners Act, 1850, do not extend to the rectory of Tatenhill, with its lands and endowments, and it is expedient so to extend the same and to sever the said rectory from the deanery of Lichfield:
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:
1 Application of 3 & 4 Vict. c. 113. s. 50. and 13 & 14 Vict. c. 94. s. 19. to rectory of Tatenhill, and severance of rectory from deanery of Lichfield.
1. Upon the avoidance of the deanery of Lichfield which happens next after the passing of this Act, the provisions of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners Act, 1840, and the Ecclesiastical Commissioners Act, 1850, and the enactments amending the same, shall apply...
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