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I have acknowledged the receipt of the Arch Bishop's letter & forwarded a reply.
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1.
Two proposals face the Archbishop of Canterbury are now before in
To the Foreign Office for the consecration of a Bishop for North China under 5 Vict c. 6. Kuan as the Jerusalem Act.
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2. To the Colonial Office for the consecration of a Bishop to the See of Victoria, Hong Kong.
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Expect to the first proposal I may observe that the department is not, as a general rule, concerned
at
proceed in under 5 Vict c. 6, as the Act applies
Only
to the consecration of Bishops for foreign countries. But in the present case it happens that fan Aden ui lounail gr849 peran in holy orders in China put under the jurisdiction & authority of the See
of
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Victoria, and latter Letters Patent creating the Diocese subsequent dellen Patent, after a recital that the Bishop is empowered to exercise Episcopal functions not only within the diocese of Victoria, but in places aforesaid ". The is therefore assumed to derive his power partly from the Letters Patent-
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When therefor, in 1860 the same question
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If affording a decision, Bishop for N. China was brought forward. the Law Officers stated that the Order in Council cannot be revoked without the consent
of the Archbishop fautertwing def. the Bose, & Victoria for the time being.
a such revocation limited the
+
power vested in the Bishop & the Letters Patent.
But on it has been decided by now Kimberley to Noake the Letters Patent creating the See of Victoria difficulty, upon the completion pouch revocation, in disposing of the Order in Council of 1849 + proceeding under 5 Vict c. 6.-
then will h
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Inform las Franville
Franville that it has now been decided to make the Letters Patent creating the See of Victoria, a third Letters Patent for that purpose
an was in course of preparation.
des crable
? Add that it if should be found necessary to proceed at once to the consecration of a Bishop for N. China, it would
weermag been revoking the Order in Council obtain the consent of the Archbishop of Canterbury to such revocation.
Enclose copy of the Law Officers' minute of 4th April 1860,
or refer to it, if the C.O. has been already furnished with a copy.-
First obtain
Law Officers'
approval of draft
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