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PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE

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C.O.8

885

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

3. PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE, LONDON

Nor to officiate

without

Notice to

Diocesan or contrary to

tion.

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Colonial Bishops.

he had been ordained by a Bishop of the United Church of England or Ireland : *Provided always, that the Provisions of this Section shall not apply to any such Person who shall hold or shall have held any Benefice or Ecclesiastical Preferment in England or Ireland.

7. Any Person who shall have been admitted into the Holy Orders of Priest or Deacon by any Bishop not being a Bishop of a Diocese in England or Ireland, and who does not hold or who has not held any Benefice or Ecclesiastical Preferment in

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bis Injune- England or Ireland, who shall knowingly officiate on more than 10

One Day within Three Months in any Church or Chapel in any Diocese in England or Ireland without notifying the same to the Bishop of the Diocese in which such Church or Chapel is situate, or who shall officiate contrary to any Injunction of the Bishop of the Diocese under his Hand and Seal, shall for 15 every such Offence forfeit and pay the Sum of Ten Pounds to the Governor of Queen Anne's Bounty, to be recovered by Action of Debt, brought in the Name of the Treasurer of the said Bounty, in any of Her Majesty's Courts of Record at Westminster, or in the Court of Session in Scotland at the Suit of the Public Prosecutor, or 20 in Ireland in any Court of Common Law in the Name of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners.

Exception of Persons ordained

Irish Diocesan..

8. Nothing in the Two last preceding Sections of this Act contained shall extend or be held to extend to any Person who,

under Com- upon the Request and by the Commission in Writing under the 25 mission from Hand and Seal of the Bishop of any Diocese in England or Ireland, English or 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 the Limits of such Diocese by any such Bishop as in the said 30 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 Bishop upon and by any such Request and Commission as afore- 35 said, shall, notwithstanding anything herein contained, he to all Intents and Purposes good and valid in Law: Provided always, that no such Bishop as last aforesaid shall oflicite as a Bishop under any such Request or Commission, or shall otherwise perform any Episcopal Function in the United Church of England and 40 Ireland, without the Consent of Her Majesty, to be signified by One of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, unless such Bishop

shall

Colonial Bishops.

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shall have been consecrated under and by virtue of Iler Majesty's Royal Letters Patent or Mandate or Licence.

dination to

9. Provided always, That every Bishop who shall ordain any Such Or- Person in pursuance of such Request and Commission as aforesaid be subject to 5 shall be subject to the several Provisions and Limitations established Conditions as

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

to Title, &c.; Subscriptions to be by such Persons taken and made; and further that all Letters of Orders of Persons so ordained shall be issued in

10 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 he scaled with the Seal and regis of the Bishop of such Diocese; and all such Acts of Ordination English or shall be recorded and registered in like Manner as if they had been Irish

15 performed by the Bishop of such Diocese. ́*)

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tered in

Diocese.

10. Nothing contained in an Act passed in the Fifty-third Year of His late Majesty King George the Third, intituled "An 53 Geo. 3. "Act for continuing in the East India Company for a further "Term the Possession of the British Territories in India, with 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 25 and Fourth Years of His late Majesty King William the Fourth,

intituled "An Act for effecting an Arrangement with the East and 3 & 4 "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

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30 under Authority of the said Acts, or either of them, shall prevent not to pre

any Person who shall be or shall have been Bishop of Calcutta, Bishops from Madras, or Bombay in India from performing Episcopal Functions performing not extending to the Exercise of Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction in pur- Functions suance of any such Request and Commission as aforesaid in any under Com-

Episcopal 35 Diocese in England or Ireland.

mission.

11. Whereas by the Act passed in the Fifty-ninth Year of His 59 Geo. 3. Late Majesty King George the Third (being One of the said Acts e. 60. hereby repealed) it is (amongst other things) enacted that no Person who after the passing of that Act should have been ordained 40 a Deacon or Priest by a Colonial Bishop who at the Time of such Ordination did not actually possess an Episcopal Jurisdiction over some Diocese, District, or Place, or was not actually residing within

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