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differed. If not incapacitated their case would seem better than that of any other class of Clergy above described, except those ordained by English or Irish Diocesans.

This being the state of the law, the Bill now pro- Effect of proposal posed which, with some slight alterations rendered Bill. necessary by the disestablishment of the Irish Church, is similar to one which was approved by the Law Officers and submitted on the part of a Committee of English and Colonial Bishops, begins by sweeping aside all the existing heterogeneous disqualifications prospectively (sec. 2), and in part (sec. 3) retrospectively. As the third section is dealing with the past, it is necessary to keep the term "Established Church of England and Ireland." It then imposes on every Priest or Deacon not ordained by an English Diocesan one single and uniform amount of disqualification, viz., that imposed on the Scottish Episcopal Clergy by 27 and 28 Vict., cap. 94; the provisions of which are transferred verbatim into the present Bill, secs. 4 and 5, with the addition only that a declaration is

required, before suck Print or draion can officiate in Lagland.

The 6th section is intended to prevent the dis- qualification of the existing Irish Clergy from English preferment, and of persons admitted under 15 and 16 Viet., cap. 52.

The 7th, 8th, and 9th sections provide, in lieu of the repealed Act, 15 and 16 Vict., cap. 52, that the above disqualification shall not attach to persons ordained by Colonial or Indian Bishops under com- mission from an English Diocesan.

The remaining sections require no explanation. The repealed Act 16 and 17 Vict., cap. 49, it is unnecessary to re-enact, being intended to obviate disqualifications which after the passing of the pro- posed Act will not exist.

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To enable Her Majesty to revoke Letters-Patent creating Dioceses and Archdeaconries in the Colonies, and to remove certain Disabilities affecting Clergy ordained by Bishops not being Bishops of Dioceses in England.

WHEREAS divers Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland bave been, from time to time, passed under authority of Parliament or otherwise, estab- lishing dioceses and archdeaconries in Her Majesty's Colonial Possessions: And whereas doubts have arisen whether Her Majesty has power to revoke the

same, and it is expedient to remove such doubts: And whereas it is further expedient that the laws relating to clergy ordained by bishops not being bishops of dioceses in England should be amended, and that certain disabilities affecting such clergy should be removed: Now therefore be it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:-

I. Her Majesty may, from time to time, by Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, revoke in

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