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ANNEXURE 1.

Account of the Establishment of Colonial Bishoprics with reference to their present Legal Position.

THIS statement is intended principally to exhibit-

1. The powers ostensibly given to the Bishop in each Colony.

2. The constitution of the Colony at the time when those powers were given.

3. The various legal questions which have arisen.

4. The amount of Local Legislation which has taken place in Colonies affected by the recent Judg- ment in the case of the Bishop of Natal.

5. The status of the Colonial Bishops and Clergy

in England and Ireland.

TUITI

PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE

Reference —

C.O.885

PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE, LONDON

ALLY WITHOUT PERMISSION OF THE BE REPRODUCED PHOTOGRAPHIC- COPYRIGHT PHOTOGRAPH-NOT TO

Annexure 2,

No. 1.

April 11, 1783. August 26, 1783. Annexure 2,

Nos. 2, 3, 4, 5.

NORTH AMERICA.

Before the foundation of any Colonial Bishopric, a species of loose jurisdiction or authority appears to have been exercised over Colonial Clergy by the Bishop of Loudon, in virtue or by aid of the Royal Instructions to Colonial Governors.

The first Colonial Bishopric was that of Nova Scotia, then largely peopled by Loyalist refugees from the United States, which had recently estab- lished their independence.

Sir Guy Carleton, afterwards Lord Dorchester, first, in 1783, as Governor of New York, and subsequently, in 1787, as Governor-General of British North America, represented the political expediency of supporting British feeling in Nova Scotia by the foundation of a Bishopric and Episcopal College. It was alleged by him that the

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