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seal of the bishop of any diocese in England, and with the consent and license in writing of the archbishop of the province within which such diocese shall be situated, may hereafter be ordained a deacon or priest within the limits of such diocese by a bishop not being a bishop of a diocese in England; and all admissions, institutions, and inductions to benefices or other ecclesiastical preferment in the Church of England, and all appointments to act as curates and chaplains therein

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persons so admitted into holy orders by any such bishop upon and by any such request and commission as aforesaid, shall, notwithstanding anything herein contained, be to all intents and purposes good and valid in law.

VIII. Provided always, that every bishop who shall ordain any person in pursuance of such request and commission as aforesaid shall be subject to the several provisions and limitations established 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 subscriptions to be by such persons taken and made; and further that all letters of orders of persons so ordained shall be issued in the name and be subscribed with the signature of the ordaining bishop as commissary of the bishop of the diocese at whose request and by whose commission he shall officiate in conferring such orders, and shall be sealed with the seal of the bishop of such diocese ;

Such Ordination to be subject to conditions as to title, &c.

and all such acts of ordination shall be recorded and and registered in English Diocese, registered in like manner as if they had been per- formed by the bishop of such diocese.

IX. Nothing contained in an Act passed in the 53 Geo. III, c. 155. fifty-third year of His late Majesty King George the Third, intituled "An 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 administration 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 and fourth years of His late Majesty King William the Fourth, intituled Wm. IV, c. 85,

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"An Act for effecting an arrangement with the East India Company, and for the better government Indian Bishops

of His Majesty's Indian territories till the 30th day from performing

of April, 1854," or in any letters patent issued under Episcopal functions under Commission. authority of the said Acts, or either of them, shall prevent any person who shall be or shall have been Bishop of Calcutta, Madras, or Bombay in India from performing episcopal functious not extending to the exercise of ecclesiastical jurisdiction in pursuance of any such request and commission as aforesaid in any diocese in England.

This Act not to affect power of Diocesan.

Act not to repea! 27 and 28 Vict., c. 94.

Interpretation of term,

Short title.

X. Nothing in this Act contained shall be con- strued to permit any bishop to perform any function peculiar to the office of a bishop within any diocese

in England without the consent in writing under the hand of the bishop of the said diocese, or to limit or affect any power, authority, or jurisdiction, now or hereafter lawfully possessed by any bishop of a diocese in England.

XI. Nothing in this Act contained shall be con- strued to affect or to repeal any of the provisions of an Act passed in the twenty-seventh and twenty- eighth years of the reign of Her present Majesty, intituled "An Act to remove disabilities affecting the bishops and clergy of the Protestant episcopal church in Scotland."

XII. The word "bishop” shall, in this Act, include archbishop.

XIII. This Act may be cited as "The Colonial Dioceses and Clergy Act, 1873."

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