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CONFIDENTIAL.

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اة القمة العملاقة

February 8, 1868.

Memorandum on a Draft Colonial Church Bill, submitted on the part of a Committee of English and Colonial Bishops.

THE Bill now submitted leaves wholly untouched the status of Colonial Bishops in their respective Dioceses, and confines itself to ascertaining the status in England and Ireland of Priests and Deacons ordained by them.

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13 & 14 Car. II, cap. 4, sec. 14.

The following is the present state of the law respecting the effect of ordination in enabling Priests and Deacons to officiate or hold preferment in Her Majesty's dominions:

i. No mau may hold preferment or administer the Sacrament in England unless he is episcopally ordained.

ii. No man may officiate in England or Ireland

3 & 4 Vict., cap. 33, except he is Bishop, Priest, or Deacon of the

sec. 5.

27 & 28 Vict,, cap. 94.

3 & 4 Vict., cap. 33,

secs. 1 and 3.

5 Vict., cap. 6,

sec. 4.

59 Gro. III, cap. 60, seca. 1 and 2.

Ibid., sec. 3.

United Church of England or Ireland;

Or of any of Her Majesty's foreign possessions;

Or of the Scottish Episcopal Church;

Or a Bishop or Priest of the Church of the United States;

Or has been ordained by a Bishop consecrated under the Jerusalem Bishopric Act.

As to the clergy of Her Majesty's foreign posses- sions, it is provided that:

1. A person ordained by the Archbishop of Canterbury, or of York, or by the Bishop of London, for Colonial employment, without title, is not capable of preferment in the United Kingdoin without consent of the Diocesan Bishop and of the ordaining Prelate, and a certificate of good behaviour in the Colony.

2. A person ordained by an Archbishop or Bishop, other than those of England or Ireland, is not

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