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SIR,
No. 859.
(GENERAL.)
(GIBRALTAR.)
FOREIGN OFFICE to COLONIAL OFFICE.
Foreign Office, September 25, 1873. In reply to your letter of the 9th instant relative to the appointment of a successor to the present Bishop of Gibraltar, I am directed by Earl Granville to inform you that his Lordship has consulted the Lord Chancellor as to the proposed form of . mandate for the consecration of the new bishop, and that by the Lord Chancellor's advice Lord Granville would suggest that the first sentence of the mandate, which in the draft enclosed in your letter terminates with the words “to the intent that he should "exercise his functions in one of our possessions abroad," should be altered to run as follows:-
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"To the intent that he should exercise his functions in one or more of our possessions abroad, and should also exercise with respect to the churches, congregations, and clergy of the members of the Church of England upon the continent of Europe all such functions as were formerly exercised by the Bishop of London for the time being and afterwards by the Bishop for the time being of Gibraltar."
The Undor Secretary of State,
Colonial Office.
I am, &c.
(Signed)
E. HAMMOND
⚫ 18978.382.
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PUBLIC RECORD
OFFICE
Reference :-
ITIL C.O. 885
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