Teinds Act 1808
Teinds Act 1808 (1808 c. 138)
- Teinds Act 1808 (1808 c. 138)
- [1.] Stipends modified before the passing of this Act, not to be again modified for 15 years.
- 2 Stipends modified after the passing of this Act, not to be again modified for 20 years.
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- 7 Commissioners of teinds may refuse to augment or modify stipends.
- 8 Stipends which shall be augmented shall be wholly modified in grain or victual, unless where it shall appear necessary.
- 9 Money stipends to be converted into grain or victual, except as aforesaid, according to the fiar prices of the county on average of seven years.
- 10 Where there are no fiars applicable in the county where the parish is situate, the fiar prices may be taken from two or more adjoining counties.
- 11 Ministers not to receive stipend in kind, but to receive it in money according to the fiar prices of the grain into which the same shall have been modified.
- 12 Where the parish shall not be altogether situated in one county two or more commissioners may fix upon adjoining counties for taking the fiar prices.
- 13 Conversion to be made according to the highest fiar price.
- 14 Right of surrendering teinds not to be taken away.
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- 16 Regulations may be made for abridging the forms and expence of citation, and for expediting the business.
- 17 In cases of augmentation moderator and clerk of the presbytery to be cited and furnished with statement of present stipend, and the addition intended to be craved, &c.
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