caravans, and to deposit such chest or chests of tea, and other goods, For securing For entering and bonding goods by the East-India Com pany. (13) And be it further enacted, that in case any goods, wares, or merchandize, the produce of any place or places within the limits of the East-India Company's charter, shall be brought into any of the said docks or basons, on board of any ship or vessel, and shall not be duly entered at the Custom-House in London, and also at such other office of his Majesty's revenue as shall be required by law, within seven days next after the ship or vessel importing the said goods, wares, or merchandize shall have entered the said inner dock, then and in every such case the directors of the United Company of Merchants of England, trading to the East-Indies, or some officer or officers appointed by them for that purpose, shall, and they are hereby required, on the next ensuing day (not being a Sunday, Christmas-day, or Good Friday, or a day appointed by his Majesty's proclamation for the purpose of a general fast or thanksgiving) to cause such goods, wares, LAWS. 1806. 46 Geo. 3, c. 113, § 28. 1814. 54 Geo. 3, c. 228. $ 12. § 14. or LAWS. 1814. c. 218, § 15. or merchandize to be duly entered at the Custom-House, or other proper revenue officer, and thereupon to give security according to law for the payment of the duties to which the same shall be subject. goods when fanded, to_be sent to the EastIndia Company's warehouses. Application of goods sold at the the proceeds of East-India Company's sales. (14) And be it further enacted, that all ships and Goods bonded, 54 Geo. 3, vessels arriving in the said inner dock shall be cleared and prohibited and discharged with all convenient speed, and all goods, wares, and merchandize imported in private trade, which shall be landed therefrom, and which shall be bonded by the said United Company as aforesaid, or otherwise howsoever, and which are prohibited goods, shall, without loss of time (unless the contrary shall be ordered by the Lords Commissioners of his Majesty's treasury, or any three or more of them, as hereinafter mentioned), be sent to and deposited in the warehouses of the said United Company, who shall account to the said East-India Dock Company for the rates and duties payable to them in respect of the same; and such goods, wares, and merchandize shall be sold, under the order and authority of the Court of Directors of the said United Company, on account of the proper owners thereof, and the duties of customs and excise, and the rates, charges, and expenses payable to the said EastIndia Dock Company, in respect of the same, shall be deducted and paid to the proper officers of his Majesty's revenue, and to the said East-India Dock Company, their receivers or collectors, by the said United Company; provided always, that the said United Company shall not be or be deemed liable to the payment of any freight for any such goods, wares, or merchandize, so deposited in their warehouses, beyond the nett proceeds of such goods, wares, and merchandize, on such sale as aforesaid, after retaining and defraying the warehouse rent, costs and charges of landing, sale and management, the dock dues and duties payable to his Majesty in respect thereof; and the master and owner or owners of any vessel from which any such goods, wares, or merchandize shall have been landed, shall have the same lien upon such nett proceeds of such goods, wares, and merchandize, for the freight thereof, as they shall have been entitled to upon the same goods, wares, and merchandize, before the landing thereof, or if he or they shall give notice in writing of his or their claim or lien before such nett proceeds shall have been paid over to the consignees or owners of such goods, wares, or merchandize. $ 16. (15) And be it further enacted, that the said United East-IndiaComCompany shall, and they are hereby required, at their pany to remove goods as soon as own proper costs and charges, to provide proper and landed. sufficient caravans or carriages, lighters or craft, with sufficient servants or workmen ready to remove or carry away any goods, wares, and merchandize, to be deposited in their warehouses when and as soon as the same shall be landed in the discharge of any ship or vessel in the said inner dock, and to cause all such goods, wares, and merchandize to be forthwith removed and carried away accordingly. ECCLESIASTICAL ESTABLISHMENT. By the charter of King William, granted in 1698, the Company are required to maintain ministers in India; and it is likewise provided, that no such minister shall be sent out until he shall have been approved of by the Archbishop of Canterbury, or the Bishop of London, for the time being. It is under this restriction that the Court of Directors have, from time to time, nominated chaplains to their several presidencies of Bengal, Madras, Bombay, Prince of Wales' Island, St. Helena, and to their factory in China. At that period it was required that all ministers sent to reside in India should learn within one year of their arrival the Portuguese language, and should apply themselves to learn the native language of the country where they might reside, the better to enable them to instruct the Gentoos, servants of the Company, in the Protestant religion. As the period approached when the renewal of the Company's exclusive privileges came under the consideration of Parliament in 1813, petitions from various parts of the kingdom were presented to the Legislature, praying that provision might be made for the resort to India of missionaries, and other persons, who might be desirous of proceeding to that country, for the purpose of introducing amongst the natives useful knowledge and religious and moral improvement. Amongst the resolutions submitted by Lord Castlereagh to the House of Commons, in 1813, there was one declaring it to be expedient that the church establishment, in the British territories in the East-Indies, should be placed under the superintendance of a bishop and three archdeacons; and that adequate provision provision should be made from the territorial revenues of India for their maintenance. It was at the same time remarked, that provision ought to be made for the maintenance of some members of the Scotch church. On an assurance that every disposition would be shewn by the EastIndia Company to support the Scotch church in India, the proposed resolution was agreed to. The 49th and four following sections of the 53d Geo. III, cap. 155, were accordingly passed, providing that should his Majesty be pleased, by his letters-patent under the great seal, to erect, found, and constitute one bishoprick for the whole of the British territories in the East-Indies, and three archdeaconries, certain salaries should be paid out of the revenues at a specified rate of exchange, to commence from the time the parties respectively take upon them their several offices. The letters-patent were accordingly issued on the 2d May 1814, by which the British territories in India were constituted and ordained to be a BISHOP's See, to be called the BISHOPRICK of CALCUTTA; and to be subject and subordinate to the Archiepiscopal See of Canterbury, in the same manner as any bishop of any see within the province of Canterbury, except in the matter of appeals from judgments, decrees, and sentences pronounced by the BISHOP of CALCUTTA. The bishop has full power to confer the orders of deacon and priest, and to perform all the other functions peculiar to a bishop, and by himself, or by his commissary or commissaries to exercise jurisdiction, spiritual and ecclesiastical, in and throughout the see and diocese, according to the ecclesiastical laws of England; and to grant licence to officiate to all ministers and chaplains of all the churches or chapels, or other places within the diocese wherein divine service may be performed, and to visit such ministers with all manner of jurisdiction, power, and coercion ecclesiastical, that may be requisite. And for aiding the bishop an archdeaconry is established at the three presidencies of Fort William, Fort St. George, and Bombay, subject and subordinate to the Bishop's see. The archdeacon is appointed the commissary of the bishop within each archdeaconry. After the death of either of the said archdeacons, the bishop is invested with power to to collate to the office of archdeacon, in all times to come, any priest, being one of the Company's chaplains resident in India. In the event of the death of the bishop, the functions, of the see are to be exercised, as far as by law they may be, by the Archdeacon of Calcutta; or in the case of a vacancy of the said archdeaconry, then by the Archdeacon of Madras, or the Archdeacon of Bombay, or by two clergymen of the church of England, resident within the diocese, as may be directed by the governor-general in council. During a vacancy of either of the archdeacons, and till the bishop shall collate a successor, the duties are to be performed by one of the chaplains of the presidency; and if no chaplain be there, then by a discreet minister in priest's orders of the church of England, to be nominated by the governor in council of the presidency. The Court of Directors, their respective governments, and others, are to aid and assist the bishop and archdeacons in the execution of these premises. The bishop is to appoint a registrar at each presidency. All matters are to be judicially examined and proceeded in before the bishop, or his commissary or commissaries. The judges of the Supreme Court at Calcutta, and the members of council there, are constituted the King's commissioners delegate, to hear appeals, any three of whom, one being a judge of the Supreme Court, have power finally to decide and determine such appeals in as ample manner and form as the commissioners appointed under the great seal, by virtue of the statute of the twenty-fifth of Henry VIII.: one of the judges concurring in the decision on any appeal. If any archdeacon or chaplain be deprived of his office, or be suspended therefrom, or subjected to ecclesiastical punishment, or censure, a copy of the sentence promulgated is to be transmitted by the bishop, or his commissaries, to the Government. The supreme courts at Calcutta, Madras, and Bombay, have the power of interference by writ of prohibition or mandamus. The provisions of the several charters whereby ecclesiastical jurisdiction is given to the said Courts of Judicature and Recorder's Court respectively, so far as the same does not appertain to the correction of clerks or the spiritual su perintendance |