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for payment of the monies theretofore borrowed for the purpose of
building certain district Churches; one rate to be called the Churchwardens'Rate
for payment of "the annuities heretofore granted for
“raising monies for purchasing the new Burial Ground of the Parish,
"and for defraying all expenses incurred or to be incurred by the
"Churchwardens of the Parish for the time being by virtue of their
"office, or by order of the Vestry (except such of the same expenses
"as are othorwise provided for)"; and a third rate, to be assessed on
the district of St. Mary " for repairing upholding and rebuilding
"the Parish Church and the Chapel of Ease, and for providing
"furniture for the same respectively (except the ordinary or
"annual repairs, otherwise provided for)." This Act by s. 7, also varies
the application of the profits derived from the Stonesfield Estate
which are directed to be divided into four equal parts—one of which is to
be paid to the senior Churchwarden for the time being of the Parish of
St. Mary, Islington, and the other three to the Churchwardens of each of the
three then exist ing district Churches. The amount received by the senior
Churchwarden was to be applied in defraying the incidental expenses of
carrying on Divine Worship in the Chapel-of-Ease, and these incidental
expenses are defined as insurance, wine, warming, lighting, salaries of
organists, beadles, and pew openers, and other incidents of the same or a
like nature, and in the next place in defraying the expensesof the ordinary
or annual repairs of the Chapel-of-Ease. Prior to this Act, all the
profits arising from the Stonefields' Estate had been expended, by virtue
of an Act (51 Greorge III., cap. 216), in payment of all expenses
attending the repairing and keeping in repair, and ornamenting the
Parish Church of St. Mary, Islington, and attending the office of
Churchwarden, and any surplus remaining was to be used in erecting and
building, and keeping in repair the Chapel-of-Ease, then about to be
erected and built. In section 17, it is enacted that the mortuary money
and fees arising from the burial grounds attached to the Parish Church and
the Chapel-of-Ease, except such parts thereof as the Vicar, Clerk, and
Sexton of the Parish shall be entitled to, shall, after paying thereout the
expenses on insuring the Church and the Chapel-of-Ease, from damage
by lire, to be carried to the credit of the Churchwardens' Rate. Section 19
provides for the appointment of the Beadle of the Chapel-of-Ease, and of
the organist and pew openers of the Parish Church and the Chapel-ofEase
by the occupiers of lands, etc., within the district of St. Mary, at
the Vestry to be held on Easter Tuesday in each year or at such other