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some Colonies, like Malta, could not be withdrawu without risk of irritation on one side or the other.
5. The existing provisions respecting the extra- diocesan ministrations of the Colonial Bishops and Clergy might be reduced to the enactments neces- sary to secure that those ministrations should not take place in any Euglish or Irish Diocese without the permission or authority of the Diocesan.
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It is not expected that these arrangements would establish a wholly uniform system throughout the Colonies, which is forbidden by the anomalous com- position of the Empire. Their effect would be to hasten the introduction, in all Colonies which have representative institutions, of those relations, or rather that absence of relation, between the Home Government and the Colonial Churches which already practically exist in Canada.
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Copies are annexed of some despatches and other Annexure. documents calculated to exhibit the views with which the first Colonial dioceses were founded, and
the present position of the Government.
It has been thought unnecessary to increase the bulk of this paper by printing voluminous despatches addressed to the Secretary of State.
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ANNEXURE 1.
Account of the Establishment of Colonial Bishoprics with reference to their present Legal Position.
THIS statement is intended principally to exhibit―
1. The powers ostensibly given to the Bishop in each Colony.
2. The constitution of the Colony at the time when those powers were given.
3. The various legal questions which have arisen.
4. The amount of Local Legislation which has taken place in Colonies affected by the recent Judg- ment in the case of the Bishop of Natal.
5. The status of the Colonial Bishops and Clergy
in England and Ireland.
Annexure 2,
No. 1.
April 11, 1783. August 26, 1783. Annexure 2,
Nos. 2, 3, 4, 5.
NORTH AMERICA.
Before the foundation of any Colonial Bishopric, a species of loose jurisdiction or authority appears to have been exercised over Colonial Clergy by the Bishop of Loudon, in virtue or by aid of the Royal Instructions to Colonial Governors.
The first Colonial Bishopric was that of Nova Scotia, then largely peopled by Loyalist refugees from the United States, which had recently estab- lished their independence.
Sir Guy Carleton, afterwards Lord Dorchester, first, in 1783, as Governor of New York, and subsequently, in 1787, as Governor-General of British North America, represented the political expediency of supporting British feeling in Nova Scotia by the foundation of a Bishopric and Episcopal College. It was alleged by him that the
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