CO129-126 - Sir MacDonnell - 1867 [11-12] — Page 99

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Grace, notwithstanding the very different

I had indulged before

anticipations

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leaving England. that the bootlege be closed and the Searchers dismiled, and

that, when funds

paid

be

are

again available, deblo

and monies husbanded in case opportunitip for reopening the bollege should happily be presented.

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I am also under the necessity of addreping Your Gpace concerning the of the Bishopric of Victoria.

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ncome

Your Grace

my

is aware that trevious

Consecration the See of Victoria

was in avoidance two

years.

On

my

alpaintment. I expected that the arrears

of the Bishopnic, which I

informed

cannot

legally

am

competently

be alienated

from the See would have been

me

paid to

by the Thuotes, viz. the Committee of the leolonial Bishoprics Fund of which

Your Grace is cresident. Allow me to remind Your Space that the sum in

£2000, is the interest of question, viz.

contributed exclusively for the see

money

see was

of Victoria, and legally becured for its special endowment when the bee erected according to the formal request of Land Grey, the leolonial perretary of that day, and the official aforrance to that effect given to Hois Lordship

to His Ladship on the funt of the Committee of the Colonial Bishoprics

Fund, is

correspondence to be perused the bolonial Office atteds. On

my

consecration I duly applied for trese

at