PART III.

RETURN showing the Particulars of all PURCHASES, SALES, or LEASES made
or granted by the CHAPTER of Manchester since the year 1850, to which the
Ecclesiastical Commissioners have been parties, or to which they have given
their assent.

PURCHASES AND SALES.

THE Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England have not assented or been parties to any purchase or sale by the Chapter of Manchester since the year 1850. The only subsequent purchase required the sanction of the Church Estates Commissioners, under the Act 14 & 15 Vict., c. 104, and not that of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England. The chapter have purchased, as from the 16th April 1857, of the executors of the late John Rigg, for the sum of 1,400 l., the leasehold interest in 74a. Or. 24p. of land, with buildings thereon, situate at Newton Heath, in the parish of Manchester, held under lease for 21 years, from 16th April 1848, subject to an annual reserved rent of 18 l. 15 s. The approval of the Church Estates Commissioners was given to this purchase, subject to the stipulation, under the authority of the Acts 14 & 15 Vict. c. 104, 17 & 18 Vict. c. 116, and the subsequent Extension Acts, that the chapter should pay to the Church Estates Commissioners, in respect of the surplus accruing from the transaction, a sum of 2,000 l., such sum to be applied, after paying the costs of the transaction, to the benefit of the Common Fund of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England.

LEASES.

Note. The Commissioners have not imposed any stipulations as a condition of their Assent to these Leases.

MANCHESTER PARISH.

COPY of all OFFICIAL CORRESPONDENCE between the Ecclesiastical Commissioners and Parties connected with the Parish of Manchester, in reference to the DISTRIBUTION by the Commissioners of the SURPLUS REVENUES of the COLLEGIATE and PARISH CHURCH of Manchester, under the Provisions of "The Manchester Parish Division Act, 1850;" and also in reference to the Participation by Incumbents of Benefices within the ancient Parish of Manchester in Grants made from the "Common Fund" (in continuation of Parliamentary Paper, No. 229, of Session 1861);

&c.

(Mr. Bazley.)

Ordered, by The House of Commons, to be Printed,
29 June 1864.

[Price 6 d.]

443.

Under 8 oz.

MORTGAGED BENEFICES.

RETURN to an Order of the Honourable The House of Commons,
dated 27 July 1863;-for,

'A RETURN "of all BENEFICES that have been MORTGAGED to the GoVERNORS OF QUEEN ANNE'S BOUNTY since the 24th day of November 1847 to the present time, for the Building, Altering, or Repairing, of ECCLESIASTICAL RESIDENCES; stating the Amount of the LOAN, and Date of its Advance."