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Colonial Bishops.
upon the Request and by the Commission in Writing under the Hand and Seal of the Bishop of any Diocese in England or Ireland, and with the Consent and Licence in Writing of the Archbishop of the Province within which such Diocese shall be situated, shall have been or may hereafter be ordained a Deacon or Priest within 5 the Limits of such Diocese by any such Bishop as in the said Two Sections is mentioned; and all Admissions, Institutions, and Inductions to Benefices in the United Church of England and Ireland, and all Appointments to act as Curates and Chaplains therein of Persons so admitted into Holy Orders by any such 10 Bishop upon and by any such Request and Commission as afore- said, shall, notwithstanding anything herein contained, be to all Intents and Purposes good and valid in Law.
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Such Or- 6. Provided always, That every Bishop who shall ordain any dination to
Person in pursuance of such Request and Commission as aforesaid 15 be subject to Conditions as shall be subject to the several Provisions and Limitations established to Title, &c.; by the Laws of this Realm or Canons Ecclesiastical as to the Titles of the Persons to be ordained, and as to the Oaths and Subscriptions to be by such Persons taken and made; and further that all Letters of Orders of Persons so ordained shall be issued in 20 the Name and be subscribed with the Signature of the ordaining Bishop as Commissary of the Bishop of the Diocese within which such Ordination shall take place, and shall be sealed with the Seal of the Bishop of such Diocese; and all such Acts of Ordination shall be recorded and registered in like Manner as if they had been 25 performed by the Bishop of such Diocese.
and regis- tered in English
or Irish
Diocese.
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7. Nothing contained in an Act passed in the Fifty-third 53 Geo. 3. Year of His late Majesty King George the Third, intituled “An "Act for continuing in the East India Company for a further
Term the Possession of the British Territories in India, with 30 " certain exclusive Privileges, for establishing further Regulations "for the Government of the said Territories, and the better Admi "nistration of Justice within the same, and for regulating the Trade to and from the Places within the Limits of the said Company's Charter;" or in another Act passed in the Third 35 and Fourth Years of His late Majesty King William the Fourth, intituled "An Act for effecting an Arrangement with the East "India Company, and for the better Government of His Majesty's "Indian Territories till the Thirtieth Day of April One thousand
eight hundred and fifty-four," or in any Letters Patent issued 40 under Authority of the said Acts, or either of them, shall prevent any Person who shall be or shall have been Bishop of Calcutta, performing Madras, or Bombay in India from performing Episcopal Functions
and 3 & 4 W. 4.
not to pre
vent Indian Bishops from
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Colonial Bishops.
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Functions
not extending to the Exercise of Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction in pur- Episcopal suance of any such Request and Commission as aforesaid in any e Com- Diocese in England or Ireland.
mission.
such as
8. All Episcopal Acts which might lawfully have been done within Episcopal 5 any District or Place by any Bishop lawfully chosen and conse- Acts valid if crated by the free and voluntary Consent of any Clergy, Congre- might have gations, and Persons voluntarily accepting him as their Bishop, been founder on voluntary without any Letters Patent, or Royal Mandate or Licence, shall Consent. be deemed to be and to have been valid and lawful if done by any
10 such Bishop appointed under any Letters Patent, or Royal Mandate
or Licence, by which legal Jurisdiction shall have not been conferred, unless it shall be otherwise declared by any Law in force within such District or Place for the Time being.
9. Any Bishop exercising Episcopal Functions in any of Her Letters
Patent may
15 Majesty's Colonies or Foreign Possessions by or under Authority of be surren
any Royal Letters Patent may by Writing under his Hand and dered. Seal declare his Desire to surrender such Letters Patent if he shall think fit so to do, and on the Acceptance of such Surrender by Her Majesty, signified through One of Her Majesty's Principal 20 Secretaries of State, all Letters Patent appointing such Bishop or creating or purporting to create the Diocese of such Bishop shall become and be from thenceforth null and void; but such Surrender shall not operate to prevent any such Bishop from continuing after the Acceptance thereof to exercise within the District constituting 25 such Diocese all such Episcopal Functions and to do all such Acts as he might lawfully have exercised and done respectively within such District for the Benefit of such Clergy, Congregations, and Persons as may voluntarily submit themselves thereto, if he had been lawfully chosen and consecrated Bishop by the voluntary Consent
30 of such Clergy, Congregations, and Persons as aforesaid, unless it shall be otherwise declared by any Law in force within such District for the Time being.
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cence may
be given
Consecration
10. Notwithstanding anything contained in the Act passed in the Royal Li- Session of the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Years of King Charles 35 the Second, intituled "An Act for the Uniformity of Publick in lien of
Prayers, and Administration of Sacraments, and other Rites and Manilate for "Ceremonies; and for establishing the Form of making, ordaining, of Bishops " and consecrating Bishops, Priests, and Deacons in the Church of to exercise
England," or in any other Law or Statute of the United King- tions out
Kingdom.
their Func-
40 dom, it shall be lawful for any Bishops or Bishop within the United of United
Kingdom, if they or he shall be authorized so to do by Licence under Her Majesty's Royal Sign Manual, to consecrate from Time
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