§ Bill considered in Committee (according to Order).
THE EARL OF BELMORE,in moving to insert a new clause after Clause 2, said, that it was in harmony with the principle of the Bill, which was one to amend the Acts relating to the endowment of district parishes and building of churches, and that it was not objected to by the Most Rev. Prelate (the Archbishop of Dublin). As the law now stood in any case where a district parish was formed out of two or more parishes, and the bishop, by the power he now possessed, compelled the incumbents of those parishes to contribute towards the endowment of the new parish, or in case it was made out of a portion of one parish, then the incumben 627 of that parish, and they alone, had the patronage of the new incumbency in such order and with such number of turns each as the bishop might think fit. It might BO happen, and indeed sometimes did happen, that the endowment was augmented by private persons in the form of subscriptions or donations, and the object of this Amendment was to provide that in the case of any person subscribing not less than £500, the bishop might, if he chose, give that person one or more turns in the nomination of the incumbent. As the clause was not objected to, he would, with this short explanation, move its insertion.
§ Motion agreed to; Clause inserted.
§ Amendment made; the Report thereof to be received To-Morrow; and Bill to be printed as amended. (No. 205.)