Ecclesiastical Commissioners Act 1840

LII Proviso respecting the separate Estates.

Provided nevertheless, and be it enacted, That so much and such Parts of the Lands, Tithes, or other Hereditaments annexed or belonging to or, usually held and enjoyed with the respective Deaneries or any of the Dignities or Canonries of the Cathedral Churches of York, Chichester, Exeter, Hereford, Lichfield, Salisbury, and Wells respectively, or belonging to the Prebends not residentiary in such Churches, as may be deemed proper, shall, by the Authority hereinafter provided, be from Time to Time, upon the Vacancies of the said respective Deaneries, Dignities, Prebends, or Offices, transferred to and vested in the Chapters of the said last-mentioned Churches respectively, so as to augment the divisible Corporate Revenues of such Chapters, or be applied by the like Authority to make such Provision for the Deans of the said Cathedral Churches respectively as by the like Authority shall be deemed just and proper.