If in any case in which a place of worship has been built, and a district has been defined and set apart, under the provisions of the said two last-recited Acts, application shall be made to the said court to erect such district alone, or such district with additions thereto, into a new parish quoad omnia, with the requisite consent of heritors, and that the said court shall give effect to such application, it shall and may be competent for the said court to declare and appoint the place of worship already erected in such district to be the church of such new parish, and to appoint and declare the dwelling house already erected for the minister to be the manse of such new parish; and the commissioners under the said last-recited Acts shall thereupon cease to hold such place of worship and such dwelling house for the purposes of the said last-recited Acts; and the provisions contained in the said last-recited Acts for upholding such place of worship and such dwelling house in repair shall cease and determine, and the burden of upholding the same shall fall on the parties who by the law of Scotland would be bound to uphold the church and manse of the parish if such church and manse had been appointed to be built for the newly erected parish; and in fixing the stipend to be paid to the minister of such newly-erected parish the said court shall compute as stipends the sum paid by authority of the said last-recited Acts to the minister in such district, which sum shall be continued to be paid to the minister of such newly-erected parish . . . F1
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F1Words repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1892 (c. 19)