families at home, resided at Pauls College.
3. Other Chaplains in China have each a house provided for them. There are residences provided for the Chaplains at Canton, Foochow, in Japan at Yokohama, and Shanghai.
4. The income of the Colonial Chaplain is smaller than it was some years since. The number of Marriages in St John's Cathedral, the only source from which the Chaplain derives fees, has for some time been diminishing. During the last two years I celebrated 19 Marriages, while for the corresponding period in the preceding decade I find 40 Entries in the Marriage Register Book. This diminution has not arisen from Marriages being celebrated elsewhere than in the Cathedral. During both periods the Colonial Chaplain, as far as Protestants have been concerned, has enjoyed virtually a monopoly of Marriages in the Colony.
5. In reference to the last sentence of the preceding paragraph, I remark that ever since the Establishment of the Colony, the Colonial Chaplain has enjoyed this monopoly of celebrating Marriages and, while fully...