Α BILL FOR Further suspending the Operation of the New Arrangement of [Note.-The Words printed in Italics are proposed to be inserted in the Committee.] 5 c. 77, ss. 20 HEREAS an Act was passed in the seventh year of the Preamble: reign of his late Majesty, intituled, "An Act for carrying 6 & 7 W. 4, into effect the Reports of the Commissioners appointed to consider the 25. State of the Established Church in England and Wales, with reference to Ecclesiastical Duties and Revenues, so far as they relate to Episcopal Dioceses, Revenues and Patronage ;" and the said Act contains certain temporary provisions relating to the State and Jurisdiction of all the Ecclesiastical Courts in England and Wales: And whereas the said temporary provisions, having been from time to time continued 10 by certain other Acts of Parliament, were further continued, together with a further provision respecting the Visitations of Bishops and Archdeacons, and now stand continued, by an Act passed in the fifth year of Her Majesty's reign, intituled, "An Act to explain and 4 & 5 Vict. amend two several Acts relating to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England," until the First day of August next, and, if Parliament shall be then sitting, until the end of the then Session of Parliament: And whereas it is expedient that the said temporary provisions, and such further provisions as aforesaid, should be further continued for a limited time; Be it Enacted, by The QUEEN's most Excellent MAJESTY, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parlia 15 c. 39, s. 28. 5 1. Existing Ec clesiastical Courts not to be affected by diocesan changes for another year. 2. ment assembled, and by the Authority of the same, THAT so much of the last-recited Act as relates to the said temporary provisions and to the Visitations of Bishops and Archdeacons, shall continue and be in force until the First day of October in the year One thousand eight hundred and Forty-three. And be it Enacted, That this Act may be amended or repealed by Act may be amended or repealed. AN ACT to alter and amend the Law relating to 5 10 W 1. House may in certain HEREAS it is expedient to alter and amend the Law Preamble. relating to Ecclesiastical Houses of Residence; BE it Enacted, by The QUEEN's most Excellent MAJESTY, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, THAT whenever it shall appear to be expedient to Episcopal relieve any Bishop, having more episcopal houses of residence than one, from any of such houses; or to provide any Bishop with a more convenient house of residence; or to add to, alter, improve, or take down and rebuild any episcopal house of residence, or to improve the demesnes thereof; it shall be lawful, by the authority provided in an Act passed in the Session of Parliament held in the sixth and seventh years of the reign of his late Majesty, intituled, 6 & 7 Will. 4, "An Act for carrying into effect the Reports of the Commissioners c.77. 15 appointed to consider the State of the Established Church in England and Wales, with reference to Ecclesiastical Duties and Revenues, so far as they relate to Episcopal Dioceses, Revenues and Patronage," with the consent, under the hand and episcopal seal of the Bishop, to make such arrangements as may by such authority be deemed 20 most expedient, for selling and conveying to such person or body corporate, and for such consideration as may be approved by the like authority, any episcopal house of residence then belonging to the See of such Bishop, or for taking down the same or any part thereof, and selling the site or the materials thereof (as the circumstances may render expedient); or for adding to, altering, improving or taking down and rebuilding any episcopal house of residence; or cases be taken sold, or may altered. down and be rebuilt or 5 for improving the demesnes adjoining to any such house by the purchase of any land, tenement or hereditament in the immediate neighbourhood or within the view thereof; or for building a new episcopal house of residence for any See on any site to be approved by the like authority; and for applying the proceeds of any such sale as aforesaid, or any part thereof, to any of such purposes, or to any such other purposes, and in such manner as shall appear to be Provisions of most conducive to the permanent benefit of the See; and that so 6 & 7 Will. 4, much of the said Act as relates to the providing of any Bishop with c. 77, s. 1, made applia more suitable and convenient residence, shall be extended so as to 10 include and apply to any of the purposes of this Act. cable thereto. 2. Commission ers to state their reasons for the alteration. 3. Repeal of 2 & 3 Vict. c. 18, except ing Mort gages. And be it Enacted, That in any scheme which shall be laid before Her Majesty in Council by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England under this Act, recommending any arrangement for taking down or selling any episcopal residence, or changing the site thereof, 15 the said Commissioners shall set forth particularly the grounds and reasons upon which they deem it expedient to offer such recommendation. And be it Enacted, That an Act passed in the Session of Parliament held in the second and third years of Her Majesty's reign, 20 as to subsist- intituled, "An Act to enable Archbishops and Bishops to raise Money on Mortgage of their Sees for the purpose of Building and otherwise providing fit Houses for their Residence," shall be repealed: Provided that nothing herein contained shall affect any subsisting mortgage made under the provisions thereof; but that every such mortgage, and all proceedings completed and in progress in respect thereof, shall be as valid and effectual, and all the parties to such mortgage or to any such proceeding shall continue subject to the same conditions and provisions as if the said Act had not been repealed. 4. Deficiency in Bishop's Income may be supplied. 25 30 And be it Enacted, That in case such a deficiency shall have been, or would be, created in the average annual income of any Bishop appointed after the passing of the said first-recited Act, by the effecting of any mortgage or other arrangement, under either of the I said Acts or this Act, as to reduce it below the average annual 35 income of such Bishop named in the first-recited Act, or in any order of Her Majesty in Council issued under the provisions thereof, it shall be lawful, by the authority aforesaid, out of any monies from time to time standing to the credit and account of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England, being part of payments from the larger 40 Sees respectively towards the augmentation of the incomes of the Bishops of the smaller Sees, if it shall be deemed fit, and if such monies, after duly considering all the claims thereon, shall appear to be |