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supposing the French for any reason were to abandon the coast or any part of the coast for a time, so that there were no French boats in the waters we apprehend that the British would have a right in such a case to fish the unused parts, and we think that this is the meaning of the words "competition
91 concurrence in the Treaty of 1783, showing that the same waters are not to be fished at one and the same time by French and British, but that the latter are in all cases to give up fishing in waters which the French are in fact occupying,
We have, &c. (Signed)
Earl Granville, K.G.
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J. D. COLERIDGE. H. JAMES.
J. PARKER DEANE.
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MY LORD,
No. 871. (British Guna.)
LAW OFFICERS to COLONIAL OFFICE.
WE were honoured with your Lordship's commands, signified in Mr. Holland's
Temple, November 6, 1873. letter of the 17th October ultimo, stating that he was directed by your Lordship to submit the following statement for our consideration.
1. By the Act of Parliament 6 Geo. 4. c. 88. salaries payable from the Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom_were provided amongst others for the Bishop of "Jamaica" and the Bishop of "Barbados" and the Leeward Islands.
2. By the Act of Parliament 5 Vict. sess. 2. c. 4. Her Majesty was empowered to establish three or more diocese within the above named dioceses, and to apportion the stipends payable to the Bishops of "Jamaica and "Barbados" and the “Leeward Islands
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between the bishops of the dioceses into which those dioceses might be
sub-divided.
3. That by Letters Patent, dated the 21st day of August 1842, British Guiana was separated from the diocese of Barbados and made a separate diocese, of which the present bishop was by those Letters Patent appointed bishop with a salary of 2,000%. per annum, payable from the Consolidated Fund. That those Letters Patent are sub- stantially the same as those by which the diocese of Nova Scotia was created in 1787. House of Commons Paper, No. 476 of 1866, pp. 5-7.
4. That by the Act of Parliament 31 & 32 Vict. c. 120. the Consolidated Fund was relieved from the payment of the salaries of the bishops and other ecclesiastical persons in the West Indies on the determination of the existing incumbencies.
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5. That in a Despatch to the Governor of Barbados, dated the 30th of January 1871, your Lordship said "Her Majesty will not be advised any longer to act on the statutes "of George IV. and Victoria by creating ecclesiastical officers or by appointing "ecclesiastical officers in the West Indies; it will therefore rest with the clergy and laity of the Anglican communion in the Windward Islands, with or without the assistance of the Legislatures, to make known their own arrangements as has been "done in Canada, Australia, and the Cape of Good Hope, and will be done in Jamaica "for establishing or maintaining an effective episcopal organization." Commons Paper, No. 269 of 1871, page 53 (annexed).
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6. That instructions to the same effect were sent to the Governor of Trinidad in a Despatch dated 6th of January 1871, House of Commons Paper, No. 269 of 1871, p. 53. 7. That the last named Despatch was communicated to the Governor of British Guiana in a Despatch dated the 11th of February 1871. House of Commons Paper, No. 259 of 1873, p. 99 (annexed).
8. That in accordance with that policy Trinidad had been separated from the diocese of Barbados and the Anglican communion in that Colony had made their own arrange- ments for the appointment and maintenance of a bishop (pp. 86-90 and p. 93 of last named paper).
9. That an Act had also been passed by the Legislature of Barbados, and had been confirmed by Her Majesty, by the advice of the Law Officers of the Crown, for the appointment of a bishop of the Church of England in that Colony (pp. 119-124 of same paper).
10. That, lastly, an Ordinance had been passed by the Legislature of British Guiana "to incorporate the diocesan synod of British Guiana, and to provide for the election "of a bishop for the diocese."
Mr. Holland was pleased further to say that he was to transmit to us a copy of a Despatch from the Governor of British Guiana, transmitting that Ordinance with other enclosures, and also to transmit to us a copy of a letter from the Archbishop of Canterbury, in reply to one from your Lordship, inquiring whether his Grace was aware of any objection to the Ordinance.
That we would observe that the Ordinance provides, s. 1, for a "diocesan synod "of the Church of England in British Guiana," to be styled "the diocesan synod of "Guiana," and, ss. 4-9, for the appointment of a bishop to the diocese, as created by the Letters Patent of 1842. That it does not affect (s. 9) the spiritual power or authority vested in the present bishop, or the spiritual rights, power, or authority
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