Years of the Reign of Her Majesty, intituled "An Act to carry 3 & 4 Vict. "into effect, with certain Modifications, the Fourth Report of the c.113. "Commissioners of Ecclesiastical Duties and Revenues," the Deanery of the said College will on the next Vacancy thereof become sup 5 pressed, and all the Lands, Tithes, Tithe Rentcharges, and other Hereditaments (excepting any Rights of Patronage), and all other Emoluments and Endowments belonging to the said Deanery, will on such Avoidance become absolutely vested in the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, and all the Lands, Tithes, and other Hereditaments 10 (excepting Rights of Patronage) belonging to the respective Dignities or Offices of Treasurer, Precentor, Chancellor, and the several Prebendaries or other Officers of the said Collegiate Church (except as to such Parts thereof as are permanently annexed to the said Bishopric) have already, as to such of the said Dignities and Offices as 15 were vacant at the passing of this Act or have since become vacant, and as to all others will immediately upon the next Vacancies thereof respectively, become vested absolutely in the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England, and their Successors, for the Purposes of the said Act, subject nevertheless to such Leases as at the respective Times of 20 such Vacancies occurring were or shall be subsisting and in force; but in the said Act is contained a Proviso that nothing therein contained should in any Manner apply to or affect any Dignity, Office, or Prebend which was permanently annexed to any Bishopric, Archdeaconry, Professorship, or Lectureship, or to any School, or the 25 Mastership thereof: AND WHEREAS Eleven of the Prebends in the said Collegiate Church have become vacant, and are so distinguished in the First Schedule to this Act, and all the Lands, Tithes, and other Hereditaments constituting or belonging to the said last-mentioned Prebends (excepting Rights of Patronage) have become vested 30 (subject to the subsisting Leases affecting the same) in the said Ecclesiastical Commissioners, for the Purposes of the said Act: AND WHEREAS, in order to provide for the Restoration of the Fabric of the said Collegiate Church and Buildings to a proper Condition of Repair, and for augmenting the Endowment of the said College, with a view to 35 carry out in an efficient Manner, and with greater Advantage, the Purposes for which the said College was founded by the said Royal Charter, as in this Act is before expressed, a Proposal has been agreed upon by the said Ecclesiastical Commissioners and the Right Reverend Connop Thirlwall, D.D., the present Bishop of 40 Saint David's and Dean of the said Collegiate Church, that the Lands and Hereditaments situate at Brecknock, described in the First Part of the Second Schedule to this Act, at present held by the said Bishop, and also the said Prebend of Llangadock and Parsonage of Mothvey, respectively described in the Second Part of the said Second Schedule to this Act, (whether the 665. 45 same Constitution of College of Christ of Brecknock. Government of College to be vested in Trustees nominated under Order Chancery. same respectively be held by the said Bishop in right of his said I. That the said College of Christ of Brecknock shall from and after the passing of this Act, and at all Times for ever thereafter, continue and be constituted a College and Collegiate School, to be called "The 25 College of Christ of Brecknock,” for affording Instruction, in Letters and Divinity according to the Articles and Formularies of the United Church of England and Ireland, and in other Branches of useful Knowledge, by competent Instructors, including a Divinity Lectureship, and for Encouragement to meritorious Scholars for their 30 Advancement in Learning. II. All the Constitutions, Ordinances, Statutes, and Regulations affecting or relating to the said College of Christ of Brecknock, whether under or by virtue of the aforesaid Royal Charter, or otherwise, shall be and the same are hereby repealed; and that the said 35 of Court of College, and all and singular its Endowments, Property, and Revenues, and the Government and Management of the said College shall, on the due Appointment of a governing Body as herein-after provided, be vested in such Persons, of whom the Bishop of the Diocese shall be One, and their Successors, possessing such Qualifications and 40 to be nominated in such Manner and under and subject to such new or other Ordinances, Statutes, Rules, and Regulations respectively as, having regard to the fundamental Principles and Constitution of the the said College in this Act before expressed, shall from Time to Time be expressed and contained in any Scheme or Schemes which shall be approved of and confirmed by an Order or Orders of the High Court of Chancery to be obtained under the Provisions 5 in this Act contained; and the Persons so nominated, and their Successors, shall be a Body Corporate by such Name or Style as shall be declared by such Order, and shall have and use a Common Seal, and by that Name shall have perpetual Succession, and shall and may sue and be sued in all Courts and Places, and 10 shall and may take, purchase, and hold Lands and Real Estates and other Property in trust for the Purposes of the said College and School, according and subject to the Powers and Provisions of this Act, and all the Powers of the said Corporation may be exercised so long as there shall be Three Members thereof; 15 provided that notwithstanding the Incorporation of the Persons so to be nominated as aforesaid the individual Members of such Corporate Body shall in the Exercise of the Powers and Trusts to be vested in them be responsible in like Manner as other Trustees for the due Execution of the Trust reposed in them: Provided also, 20 that until the Appointment of such governing Body, the said College, its Endowments, Property, and Revenues shall be and continue vested in the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, subject to the Provisions of this Act. from Uses III. The Lands and Hereditaments described in the First Part of Lands and Heredita25 the Second Schedule to this Act, including the Site of the Church, ments to be School-house, Buildings, Ground, and Premises belonging to the said discharged Collegiate Church of Christ of Brecknock, and also the said Prebend and Trusts or Portion of the Prebend of Llangadock and Parsonage of Mothvey, of Charter of Henry described in the Second Part of the said Second Schedule, and all VIII. 30 and singular other the Lands, Tithes, Tithe Rentcharges, Tenements, and Hereditaments belonging to the said Collegiate Church, or to any One or more of the respective Dignities or Offices of Dean, Treasurer, Precentor, Chancellor, Prebendaries, or any other Dignity or Office, Dignities or Offices, in or connected with the said Collegiate 35 Church, shall from and after the passing of this Act (but subject and without Prejudice as to the Prebendaries of the respective Prebends not vacant at the passing of this Act to the Rights and Interests of the present Holders thereof so long as they continue to hold the same, and subject and without Prejudice to such Leases 40 as shall then legally affect the same respectively) be absolutely and for ever discharged of and from all the Uses, Trusts, or Purposes to or for which the same Hereditaments and Estates are or may be subject or liable to be held or applied pursuant to the said Royal Charter of the Thirty-second Year of the Reign of King Henry the Eighth, 665. B Not to dis sent Holders tatives of deceased Eighth, or any other Royal Charter or Charters, or Act or Acts of Parliament, or otherwise howsoever, and of and from all Right, Title, or Interest of the said Connop Bishop of Saint David's, and his Successors, Bishops of Saint David's for the Time being, or any Lecturer or Master of the said College and School, (the Proviso in the said 5 Act of the Third and Fourth Years of Her Majesty's Reign contained and herein-before recited in anywise notwithstanding); procharge pre- vided that nothing in this Act contained shall discharge the present or Represen- Holders of any of the said Prebends or other Offices from their respective Liabilities for the Payment of the yearly Pensions or 10 Holders from Sums mentioned in the First Schedule to this Act to be payable in Pensions and respect thereof, or to discharge any of such present Holders, or the DilapidaRepresentatives of any deceased Holders of any of the said Prebends or Offices, from their respective Liabilities on account of the Dilapidations in the State and Condition of the said Collegiate Church and 15 Buildings, but all such Liabilities may be enforced by the said Ecclesiastical Commissioners, or, at their Request, but not otherwise, by Her Majesty's Attorney General, for the Benefit of the said College, by all such Ways and Means as might have been had or taken by the said Attorney General against any Person or Persons, Body or 20 Bodies Corporate or Collegiate, if this Act had not been passed. tions. Endowment IV. All and singular the Lands and Hereditaments described in of College. the First Part of the Second Schedule to this Act, including the Site of the said Church, Schoolhouse, and other Buildings, Ground, and Premises belonging to the said College, and the said Prebend of 25 Llangadock and Parsonage of Mothvey, described in the Second Part of the same Schedule, together with the yearly Pensions or Sums mentioned in the First Schedule to this Act to be payable by the said several Prebendaries of the said Prebends, not being vacant at the passing of this Act as aforesaid, so long as they shall respectively 30 continue to hold the same, and also One Half Part of the reserved Rents payable in respect of any of the said Prebends already vacant, and which shall become payable in respect of the other Prebends from the respective Periods of the same becoming vacant, under any Leases lawfully granted or to be granted by any of the Pre- 35 bendaries of the said College, except the said Prebend of Llangammarch, so long as any such Lease or Leases shall continue, and One equal Sixth Part of and in the net Rents and Profits for the Time being arising from all the Prebends mentioned in the said First Schedule, except the said Prebend of Llangammarch, which 40 shall accrue from and after the Vacancy of such Prebends respectively, and the Determination of such Leases as aforesaid, whichever shall last happen, or such specific Prebend or Prebends, or such specific Part of any Prebend or Prebends, as may hereafter be appropriated in in lieu of such One Half Part of the reserved Rents, and One Sixth Part of the Rents and Profits, as herein-after provided, shall (subject and without Prejudice as in this Act is before mentioned) be and constitute the general Endowment and Property of the said College and 5 School, and the same shall be and become vested, without any other Conveyance than the Authority of this Act, in the Persons who shall be nominated in a Scheme to be approved of by the said Court of Chancery as the governing Body of the said College by such Name or Style of Incorporation as shall be expressed in such Scheme, and their Suc10 cessors for ever, in trust for the said College and School, and be held, possessed, administered, and managed respectively by such Persons for the Benefit of the said College and School, and the Promotion of the Objects thereof, in such Manner, with such Powers and Authorities, as are in this Act contained, and under and subject to such Statutes, Ordi15 nances, Rules, and Regulations as shall be prescribed and directed by such Scheme and Order so long and so far as the same Statutes, Ordinances, Rules, and Regulations shall remain in force, and according to such new or altered Statutes, Ordinances, Rules, and Regulations as from Time to Time, or at any Time afterwards shall be made or 20 approved of by the Court of Chancery under the Powers for that Purpose herein-after given; and that in the meantime, until such governing Body shall be appointed, the Rents, Profits, and Proceeds of such Lands and Hereditaments, and of the other Property and Endowment of the said College and School shall be vested in and 25 received by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, to be dealt with as the said Court of Chancery shall from Time to Time direct. vide Fund Church and V. The said Ecclesiastical Commissioners shall, out of their Com- Commissionmon Fund, pay to the Persons to be nominated and incorporated as ers to proaforesaid the Sum of Five thousand Pounds, by such Instalments and for the Re30 to be applied either in restoring the said Church and Collegiate and storation of School Buildings, or in providing other more suitable Buildings on School any other Site to be procured for that Purpose, or in such other Buildings. Manner as the said Court of Chancery shall direct or approve, and which said Sum of Five thousand Pounds shall be and be considered 35 in full Satisfaction of all Claims by or on the Part of the said College on account of the Rents and Profits of the Property belonging to the said College or the Dignitaries or Officers thereof (except as in this Act is otherwise provided) up to the First Day of October after the passing of this Act. 40 VI. All the Rents and Profits which have or shall have accrued Payment in due prior to the said First Day of October, for or in respect respect of past Rents of the Prebend, Parsonage, Lands, and Hereditaments described and Profits. in the Second Schedule to this Act, and which shall then remain 665. due |