Ecclesiastical Commissioners Act 1850

1. Introductory Text

2. Appointment of Church Estates Commissioners.

3. II. Salaries to First Church Estates Commissioner and Commissioner appointed by Archbishop.

4. III. First Church Estates Commissioner may sit in the House of Commons.

5. IV. Church Estates Commissioners to sign Declaration.

6. V. Treasurer and Secretary not to be the same Person. First Church Estates Commissioner and Commissioner appointed by Archbishop to be joint Treasurers.

7. VI. Estates held in trust for the Ecclesiastical Commissioners to be vested in the First Church Estates Commissioner for the Time being.

8. VII. As to Appointment of Estates Committee.

9. VIII. The Estates Committee to manage all Property of the Commissioners.

10. IX. Chairman of Estates Committee.

11. X. Two Church Estates Commissioners to be present at Meetings of Ecclesiastical Commissioners.

12. XI. Ecclesiatical Commissioners may make special References to Estates Committee or Commissioners.

13. XII. Ecclesiastical Commissioners may make General Rules for the Direction of the Estates Committee.

14. XIII. So much of 6 & 7 W.4 c.77 as provides who shall be Chairman repealed, and other Regulations made.

15. XIV. As to the Audit of Accounts.

16. XV. Episcopal Fund to be transferred to the Common Fund.

17. XVI. Certain Provisions of 5 & 6 Vict, c.26 as to Deficiency of Incomes of Bishops repealed.

18. XVII. Fixed Incomes maybe secured to Archbishops and Bishops appointed after 1st January 1848.

19. XVIII. As to Endowments of Deans of Salisbury and Wells.

20. XIX. Deans appointed after 10th of April 1850 not to hold any Benefice not situated within the City or Town, &c.

21. XX. Commissioners may, by Authority of 3 & 4 Vict. c.113 and 4 & 5 Vict. c.39, commute for any Prebend annexed to a Dignity or Office.

22. XXI. Commuted Lands, &c. to be subject to similar Uses as Lands vested under former Acts.

23. XXII. Benefices annexed to Sees of Gloucester and Bristol, Oxford, and Peterborough to be severed from the Sees.

24. XXIII. Owners of Impropriation Tithes may annex the same to the Parsonage or Vicarage.

25. XXIV. Extension of the Powers of 6 & 7 W.4 c.77 s.10 for abolishing peculiar or exempt Jurisdictions.

26. XXV. Construction of 3 & 4 Vict. c.113 s.56 as to the Transfer of Estates of newly endowed Archdeaconries to Commissioners.

27. XXVI. Annual Report to be made of all Proceedings of the Commission to One of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, and to be laid before Parliament.

28. XXVII. Powers of 7 & 8 Vict. c.94 s.9 relating to the Alteration of Boundaries of Districts, extended.

29. XXVIII. Powers, &e. of former Acts extended to this Act.

30. XXIX. Act may be amended, &c.