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that behalf mentioned in and by such Letters- Patent, whether under the name of Dioceses or Sees or otherwise; and the term "Diocese" or "See," as used in any such Letters-Patent, or in any Royal Mandate or License for the consecra- tion of any such Bishop as aforesaid by which legal jurisdiction shall not have been or shall not be conferred, and in all Acts, Ordinances, Deeds, and Instruments whatsoever having reference thereto, shall be construed to mean the district or place in any of Her Majesty's Colonies or foreign Possessions within which any such Bishop shall have been appointed and authorized to exer- cise Episcopal functions, for the benefit of such clergy, congregations, and persons as may volun- tarily have submitted or may voluntarily submit themselves thereto.

III. All Episcopal acts which might lawfully have been done within any such district or place by any such Bishop, if he had been lawfully chosen and consecrated Bishop by the free and voluntary consent of such clergy, congregations, and persons as aforesaid, without any Letters Patent, or Royal Mandate, or License, shall be deemed to be, and to have been, valid and lawful, if done by any such Bishop appointed under any such Letters Patent, or Royal Mandate, or License by which legal juris- diction shall not have been conferred, as aforesaid, unless it shall be otherwise declared by any Law

in force within such district or place for the time being.

IV. No Priest or Deacon heretofore ordained, or hereafter to be ordained, by any Bishop, who, at the time of such ordination, shall have been actually residing and exercising episcopal functions within any district or place in any of Her Majesty's Colonies or Foreign Possessions expressly or by reference described in any such Letters Patent, or Royal Mandate, or License as aforesaid, shall be or be deemed to have been subject to the dis- abilities or incapacities imposed by the Act of Parliament next hereinafter mentioned upon persons ordained Priests or Deacons by a Colonial Bishop, who, at the time of such ordination, did not actually possess an Episcopal jurisdiction over some diocese, district, or place.

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V. From and after the passing of this Act, so 59 Geo. III, c. 60. much of the Act passed in the fifty-ninth year of

His late Majesty King George the Third, intituled "An Act to permit the Archbishops of Canterbury “and York, and the Bishop of London, for the "time being, to admit persons into Holy Orders, "specially for the Colonies," as renders any person admitted into Holy Orders by the Bishops of Quebec, Nova Scotia, or Calcutta, or by any other Bishop or Archbishop than those of England or Ireland, incapable of officiating in any church or chapel of England or Ireland without special per- mission from the Archbishop of the province in which he proposes to officiate, or of having, hold- ing, or enjoying, or of being admitted to any parsonage or other ecclesiastical preferment in England or Ireland, or of acting as Curate therein, without the consent and approbation of the Arch- bishop of the province, shall be repealed, so far as relates to persons ordained by Bishops actually residing and lawfully exercising episcopal jurisdic- tion or episcopal functions without legal jurisdie- tion, over or with respect to clergy, congregations, or persons professing the religion of the United Church of England and Ireland in any of Her Majesty's Colonies or Foreign Possessions: Pro- vided always, that no person so ordained shall officiate in any church or chapel of England or Ireland without the permission of the Bishop of the Diocese in which he proposes to officiate; which permission may be given either generally or for any limited period of time, or for any particular occasion, as the case may be.

VI. The provisions of the Act passed in the 15 & 16 Vict., v. 52. session of the fifteenth and sixteenth years of Her present Majesty, intituled "An Act to enable Colonial and other Bishops to perform certain Episcopal functions under Commission from Bishops of England and Ireland;" and of another Act passed in the session of the sixteenth and seven- teenth years of Her present Majesty, intituled "An Act to extend the provisions of an Act of the fifteenth and sixteenth years of Her present Majesty, intituled An Act to enable Colonial and other Bishops to perform certain episcopal functions, under Commission from Bishops of England and Ireland,'" so far as relates to persons ordained Deacons or Priests by such Bishops as therein respectively mentioned, in pursuance of any request

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