formularies of the said Church, shall be binding on any ecclesiastical person now licensed as a curate or holding an archbishopric, bishopric, benefice, or cathedral preferment in Ireland, being an annuitant or person entitled to compensation under this Act, who shall within one month after the making of such alteration signify in writing to the Church body hereafter mentioned his dissent therefrom, so as to deprive such person of any annuity or other compensation to which under this Act he may be entitled.

On and after the first day of January, 1871, all jurisdiction, whether contentious or otherwise, of all the ecclesiastical, peculiar, exempt, and other courts and persons in Ireland at the time of the passing of this Act having any jurisdiction whatsoever exerciseable in any cause, suit, or matter, matrimonial, spiritual, or ecclesiastical, or in any way connected with or arising out of the ecclesiastical law of Ireland, shall cease; and on and after the said first day of January, 1871, the Act of the session of the 27th and 28th years of the reign of Her present Majesty, chapter 54, shall be repealed, and on and after the last mentioned day the ecclesiastical law of Ireland, except in so far as relates to matrimonial causes and matters, shall cease to exist as law.

If at any time it be shown to the satisfaction of Her Majesty that the bishops, clergy, and laity of the said Church in Ireland, or the persons who, for the time being, may succeed to the exercise and discharge of the episcopal functions of such bishops, clergy and laity in communion with such persons, have appointed any persons or body to represent the said Church and to hold property for any of the uses or purposes thereof, it shall be lawful for Her Majesty by charter to incorporate such body, with power, notwithstanding the statutes of Mortmain, to hold lands to such extent as is in this Act provided but not further or otherwise.

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(Redemption of annuities and life interest of ecclesiastical persons. ing charge to be paid on commutation of annuity. Enactments with respect to churches, with respect to burial grounds, with respect to ecclesiastical residences. Power to convey additional land to church body. Enactments with respect to private endowments. Movable chattels belonging to see or church. Limitation of right to purchase fee simple in consideration of perpetual rent. Sale of tithe rent charge to owners of land. Commissioners may purchase surrender or assignment of lease.)

The Commissioners may at any time after the first of January, 1871, sell by public auction or private contract, or otherwise convert into money, any real or personal property vested in them by this Act. (Orders of Commissioners operating as conveyance, etc., to be liable to stamp duty. Payment of money into bank.)

The Commissioners appointed under this Act shall prepare in such form, and either annually or for such shorter periods, as the treasury may direct, accounts of the receipts and expenditure of the capital and of the revenues derived from all property, real and personal, vested in the Commissioners, or of any other funds falling under their control and management and under the provisions of this Act; and within three months after the expiration of each year, or other shorter period, to which the accounts relate, the Commissioners shall transmit the same to the Comptroller and Auditor General, to be audited, certified, and reported upon with reference to the provisions of this Act, and in conformity with the powers and regulations prescribed in the Exchequer and Audit Departments Act, 1866, for the rendering and auditing of appropriation accounts; and the accounts, with the reports of the Comptroller and Auditor General thereon, shall be laid before both Houses of Parliament not later than two months after the date on which they shall have been rendered for audit, if Parliament be then sitting, and if not sitting, then within a week after it shall be next assembled: Provided always, that the expense of such audit shall be included in the incidental expenses herein before mentioned of carrying this Act into execution, and shall be defrayed accordingly.

When the annual parliamentary grant for the expenses of the nonconforming, seceding, and Protestant dissenting ministers in Ireland, commonly called the Regium Donum, and in this Act referred to by that name, is discontinued, the Commissioners shall as soon as may be after such discontinuance ascertain and declare by order the amount of the yearly sum theretofore received thereout by each minister of any Protestant nonconforming congregation in Ireland, or which he would have been entitled to receive if such grant had not been discontinued, and shall pay to each such minister, so long as he lives and is continued in the ministry, by and with the consent of the governing body of the church or religious community to which he may belong, an annuity equal to the yearly amount so ascertained as aforesaid.

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(Commutation of annuities of nonconformist ministers. Repeal of Maynooth Acts. Compensation on the cessation of certain annual sums. Persons aggrieved may appeal.)

Supplemental provisions:-All and singular the records, books, accounts, deeds, maps, documents, and papers whatsoever which in any wise relate to or concern any of the property or premises vested

or to become vested in the Commissioners under any of the provisions of this Act shall, within three months next after the said first day of January, 1871, be delivered up to the Commissioners by the respective registrars of the several provincial and diocesan or united diocesan or other registries in Ireland, or other the officers then having the custody or possession of the same respectively, on getting receipts therefor from the said Commissioners: Provided always, that the said Commissioners shall preserve the said books, accounts, deeds, maps, documents, and papers, and shall permit reasonable access to the same, and shall hand over to the representative body such of the said books, accounts, deeds, maps, documents, and papers, if any, as may exclusively relate to property to which the said representative body shall have become entitled, and certified copies of such of them as may relate to the said property, jointly with other property, and at the close of the commission shall lodge the residue thereof in the Public Record Office of Ireland.

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Statutes 1869, p. 228-60.

III. SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY.

(a) General.-Hallam, H.

3V. 1827, 1872.

1. GENERAL.

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From Henry VII to George III, laborious and conscientious, but narrow. May, T. E. Constitutional History of England. 2v. 1863. From 1760 to 1860, topical in arrangement, judicial, interesting.

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From 1603 to 1642. Exhaustive and judicious, but dull; supplemented by his "History of the Great Civil War, 1642-9." 3v. 1886-91, and "History of the Commonwealth and Protectorate, 1649-60." 1894.

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Mahon, Lord. History of England, 1713-83. 7V. 1853.
Clear and trustworthy, but dull; Tory.

Massey, W. History of England, 1760-1820. 4V. 1855.

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More detailed and more reliable, but less interesting than either Martineau or McCarthy; Walpole is perhaps strongest on economic, Martineau on social, and McCarthy on political history.

Ward, T. H. (ed). Reign of Queen Victoria. 2V. 1887.

A collection of essays by authorities, superior to Molesworth (1874).

(b) Ecclesiastical.-Stoughton, J. History of Religion in Eng

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A history of his religious opinions to 1845; supplemented by his "Letters and Correspondence," edited by Anne Mosley. 2v. 1891.

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Very important; supplemented by "Records of English Catholics under the Penal Laws," diaries and letters, 1532-94, edited by T. F. Knox, 1878–92. Anglican Church.-Lawson, J. P. Life and Times of Wm. Laud. 2V. 1829.

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