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No. 177.

(CANADA.)

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MY LORD DUKE,

QUEEN'S ADVOCATE to_COLONIAL OFFICE.

Doctors' Commons, May 4, 1863.

I AM honoured with your Grace's commands, signified in Sir F. Rogers' letter of the 30th April ultimo, stating that with reference to the Report of the Law Officers of the 21st April ultimo,* on the subject of the consecration of the Rev. James Williams to the see of Quebec, he was directed to inform me that having communicated with the Archbishop of Canterbury his Grace has concurred with the Secretary of State in adopting my suggestion that the more convenient course would be to advise Her Majesty to issue Her mandate to the Bishop of Montreal, the Metropolitan of Canada. That with this view a form of mandate has been drawn up, of which a copy is annexed. That the mandate is framed, as nearly as circumstances admit, upon that adopted in this country, as will be seen on turning to the third enclosure of the accompanying copy of a letter from the Home Office; and to request that I would furnish your Grace with any observations which I may have to make upon this instrument, and to state that your Grace is also desirous of receiving my opinion as to the form in which it should be issued, whether it will be necessary to adopt the style of Letters Patent, or whether

the simpler and much more convenient form of a warrant. under the Sign Manual and Signet would be sufficient.

In obedience to your Grace's commands I have taken these papers into considera- tion, and have the honour to

Report

That I am of opinion that the form of the proposed mandate is, with the slight alteration which I have made therein, proper to be issued. I have also the honour to state that I am of opinion, having regard to the Imperial Statute 3 & 4 Vict. c. 35. 8. 3, and to the statute passed by the Canadian Legislature and reserved for the signification of Her Majesty's pleasure thereon upon the 19th June 1856, and to the confirmation of that statute, after argument before the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council by Her Majesty in Council on the 6th of May 1857, and to the rules and regulations made in pursuance of such statutes by the members of the English Church in Canada, and to the fact that the Bishop of Quebec is to be consecrated in Canada by the Metropolitan of Canada and his suffragans, that the form of a warrant under the Royal Signet and Sign Manual in lieu of Letters Patent may be adopted.

His Grace the Duke of Newcastle, K.G.,

&c.

&c.

I have, &c. (Signed)

&c.

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