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I have to thank you for your instant respecting the status and powers of the Bishop of Victoria, Hong Kong, and enclosing a copy of the despatch dated 10th May addressed to the acting Governor of Hong Kong.
I have to thank your Lordships for your willingness to expedite legislation with regard to St Paul's College, so that the Statutes may be amended in a manner to suit the changed circumstances of the Bishop as Trustee of the property in the College.
In your Despatch, your Lordship remarks that you are not, for the present, prepared to direct the initiation of any legislation with the view of conferring upon Bishop Burdon power and jurisdiction over the Clergy in Hong Kong. I presume you deem such legislation unnecessary and that his supervision of the Clergy may be secured in some other way.
There seems to have arisen some difficulty as to the Bishop's authority in what is called the Cathedral in which the Colonial Chaplain officiates; and the Statutes I believe provide, that, in the absence of the Bishop, appointed by Letters Patent, all authority in this Church devolves on the officiating Minister, i.e. The Colonial Chaplain.
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