of Co
the move.
the father
J. Hongkong thestral is, by special agreement & the Phillitary Church, of a Colonial ordinance
and in Virtue
as of
the Military Chaplain, as well.
Colonial Chaplain must receive the Bishop's permission to officiate in the Cathedral. The resident Naval Chaplain is by terms of the Bishop's Letters Patent expressly subjected to his jurisdiction, being "the Chaplain on a ship within 100 miles of the Coast of China".
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But I should hesitate to
require any Military Chaplain except in reference to his officiating in the Cathedral, or Naval Chaplain
to require Exceptional license. His status is too complicated and ill-defined. The position of Military Chaplain
has lately been the subject at home and of Parliamentary
of litigation discussion. It is, I fear, too uncertain, as also the position of the Naval Chaplain
regarded as
to be of the factory on
settled. And the relationships of such Chaplains to their Superior officers in the army and Navy is transiently
such as to make an
in their
case
Episcopal intervention
severally undesirable. But I would venture to say, to my Reverend Brethren both of the army
within
and
Navy - You are of the Church of England when you are within the limits of Episcopal jurisdiction, as Clergymen of the Church of England, there not at liberty the fon