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Colonial Episcopate.

PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE

C.O.885

Reference :-

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PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE, LONDON

3 & 4 Vict., c. 33.

THIS statement is intended to show as shortly as possible, and, therefore, without endeavouring to anticipate objections of detail, why the Judgments

of the Privy Council and of the Rolls Court in the cases of "the Bishop of Natal" and "Colenso e. Gladstone and others," call for legislation, as affecting-1. The status in England of priests and deacons who have been ordained in the Colonics; 2. The status of certain Colonial Bishops and their dioceses.

I. By 13 and 14 Car. II, c. 4, § 13, no man inay administer the sacrament or hold ecclesiastical preferment in England unless he is ordained by a bishop, and in the exercise of his functions he is by

59 Geo. III, c. 60. other Acts subjected to various conditions and disqualifications unless he is ordained by an English or Irish diocesan bishop.

5 Vict., c. 6.

15 & 16 Vict., c. 62.

16 & 17 Vict., c. 49. 26 & 27 Vict., c. 94.

Of those disqualifications which attach to colo- nially ordained clergy, the most material are contained in the 4th section of the Act 59 Geo. III. c. 60, which is as follows:-

"Provided always that no person who after the passing of this Act shall have been ordained a deacon or priest by a Colonial bishop, who at the time of such ordination did not actually posses an episcopal jurisdiction over some diocese, district or place, or was not actually residing within such division, district or place, shall be capable in any way or on any pretence whatever of at any time holding any parsonage or other ecclesiastical preferment within His Majesty's dominions, or of being a stipendiary curate or chaplain, or of officiating at any place or in any manner as a Minister of the Established Church of England or Ireland."

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