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Bishop may have had any legal or equitable interest in his Episcopal character, be it enacted as follows: In case not less than one-half of the Clergy officiating in virtue of any licence or other instru- ment issued by such Bishop within the limits assigned, or intended to be assigned, to the Bishop as his Diocese by such Letters-Patent as aforesaid, and not less than fifty of the lay members of the congregations of such Clergy, shall prefer a petition to the Queen that provision may be made as in such petition set forth for the future disposal of such property as aforesaid, and in case such Bishop, if living, and in the exercise of his Episcopal functions, and the Archbishop of Canterbury for the time being shall, under their respective hands and seals, recommend to Her Majesty that the prayer of such petition should be granted, it shall be lawful for Her Majesty, if She shall think fit, to declare by Warrant under Her Sign-Manual and Signet Her assent to the prayer of such petition (not being contrary to the Law of the Colony in which the said Diocese or intended Diocese is situated, or of that part of her dominions in which such property may be); and from the date of such assent the provision so set forth as aforesaid shall for all purposes whatever be effectual at law. Provided that every such Petition shall be published in some newspaper in the Colony in which such Diocese or intended Diocese is situate, and that no Order in Council shall be made in relation thereto before six months or after twelve months have elapsed from the date of such publication.

III. The following enactments are hereby repealed

as from the passing thereof, viz., the fourth section

Repeal of 59

Geo. III, c. 60, 8. 4.

and (in part) s. 5,

of an Act passed in the fifty-ninth year of His late and of 3 and 4 Vict.

Majesty King George III, cap. 60, " to permit the c. 33, s. 5.

Archbishops of Canterbury and York, and the Bishop of London, for the time being, to admit Persons into Holy Orders specially for the Colonies;” the fifth section of the same Act, so far as it relates to the fourth section and the sixth section of an Act of the third and fourth years of Her present Majesty, chapter thirty-three, "to make certain Provisions and Regulations in respect to the Exercise within England and Ireland of their Office by the Bishops and Clergy of the Protestant Episcopal Church in

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Scotland; and also to extend such Provisions and Regulations to the Bishops and Clergy of the Pro- testant Episcopal Church in the United States of America; and also to make further Regulations in respect to Bishops and Clergy other than those of the United Church of England and Ireland," but the repeal of the foregoing enactments shall not impair the validity of anything done, or of any right, title, obligation, or liability acquired or incurred under of those enactments before the passing of

any

this Act.

IV. And whereas by the fourth and fifth sec- tions of the above recited Act of the third and fourth years of Her present Majesty, provision was made to prevent any Bisliop, Priest, or Deacon, not being a Bishop, Priest or Deacon of the United Church of England and Ireland, or of Her Majesty's Foreign Possessions, from officiating, except as therein mentioned, in any Church or Chapel in England or Ireland, in which the Liturgy of the said United Church should be used:

Be it hereby enacted as follows: For the

purposes of the last recited Act,and of this Act, any Bishop shall be deemed to be and to have been a Bishop of one

of Her Majesty's Foreign Possessions, who shall have

Bishops and Clergy been canonically consecrated by, or shall derive his

of Her Majesty's

Foreigu Posses-

sions.

Ordinations by Colonial Bishops on request of English or Irish Diocesan.

canonical consecration from or under Bishops of English or Irish Dioceses, and shall have been accepted as Diocesan Bishop of any district within any of Her Majesty's said Possessions, by persons residing within such district, and professing the religion of the United Church of England and Ireland; and any Priest or Deacon ordained, except as bercinafter mentioned, by any such Bishop while 80 accepted as aforesaid, shall for the purposes aforesaid he deemed to be a Priest or Deacon of one of Her Majesty's Foreign Possessions.

V. And whereas by an Act of the fifteenth and sixteenth years of Her present Majesty, chapter fifty-two, intituled "An Act to enable Colonial and other Bishops to perform certain Episcopal Func- tions, under Commission from Bishops of England and Ireland," certain disqualifications were declared not to extend to any person ordained Deacon or Priest, in pursuance of auch request and commis-

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