Ecclesiastical Commissioners Act 1841

XX Enlarged Discretion as to Mode of fixing Incomes.

And be it declared and enacted. That, notwithstanding any thing in the secondly recited [3 & 4 Vict. c. 113. ss. 52, 66.] Act contained relating to the Payment of fixed annual Sums by certain Deans and Canons, and the Payment of other annual Sums to certain Deans and Chapters therein respectively named or referred to, or relating to the Transfer of Parts of the Lands, Tithes, or other Hereditaments therein specified to the Chapters of York, Chichester, Exeter, Hereford, Lichfield, Salisbury, and Wells respectively, for the Purposes therein respectively specified, it shall be lawful, by the Authority in the same Act provided, to carry such Purposes or any of them into effect by any Mode of Payment, Contribution, Augmentation, or Endowment which may be deemed fit, as well as by the Modes in the said Act specified; and that the Scale of Payments and Receipts may from Time to Time in any Case be revised, and if need be, varied by the like Authority, so as to preserve, as nearly as may be, the intended average annual Incomes respectively, but not so as to affect any Dean or Canon in possession at the Time of making any such Variation.