for the time being, the sum of one hundred and fifty pounds, on the first day of January in every year; and every such whole yearly payment to each of such Archdeacons shall be made only on production to us of a certificate, under the hand of the bishop for the time being of the diocese in which his archdeaconry is situate, that such Archdeacon has duly resided as aforesaid during the preceding year; and that the first of such payments shall be made on the first day of January next ensuing; and that whenever a vacancy in any of the said archdeaconries shall happen on any other day than the first day of January, the then next yearly payment shall be duly apportioned between, and paid to the archdeacon making the vacancy, or his representatives, and the archdeacon succeeding to the said archdeaconry so becoming vacant, according to the time which shall have elapsed from the last day of payment to the day of such vacancy inclusive; and that such proportion shall be paid to the respective parties accordingly; and that if the next vacancy of a canonry in the said cathedral church of Saint Paul (not being the canonry so annexed to the said archdeaconry of London) shall happen on any other day than the first day of January, there shall be paid to the Archdeacon of London, for the time being, a proportionate part of the said annual sum of one hundred and eighty pounds, according to the time which shall have elapsed from the first day of January last, or from the last day of payment, as the case may be, to the day of such vacancy inclusive.

"And we further recommend and propose, that nothing herein contained shall prevent us from recommending and proposing any other measures relating to the matters to which this our scheme applies, or any of them, in conformity with the provisions of the said recited Acts, or either of them."

And whereas the said scheme has been approved by Her Majesty in Council; now, therefore, Her Majesty, by and with the advice of Her said Council, is pleased hereby to ratify the said scheme, and to order and direct that the same and every part thereof shall take effect immediately from and after the time when this Order shall have been duly published in the London Gazette, pursuant to the said Act; and Her Majesty, by and with the like advice, is pleased hereby to direct, that this Order be forthwith registered by the Registrars of the several dioceses of York, London, Salisbury, and Hereford respectively. Wm. L. Bathurst.

At the Court at Buckingham-Palace, the 10th day of June 1843,

PRESENT,

The QUEEN's Most Excellent Majesty in Council.

WHEREAS the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England have, in pursuance of an Act, passed in the session of Parliament held in the third and fourth years of Her Majesty's reign, intituled "An Act to carry into effect, with "certain modifications, the fourth report of the "Commissioners of Ecclesiastical Duties and "Revenues;" and of another Act, passed in the session of Parliament held in the fourth and fifth years of Her Majesty's reign, intituled "An "Act to explain and amend two several Acts relating to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England," duly prepared and laid before Her esty in Council a scheme, bearing date the

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eleventh day of April one thousand eight hundred and forty-three, in the words and figures following, that is to say:

"We, the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England, in pursuance of an Act, passed in the session of Parliament held in the third and fourth years of your Majesty's reign, intituled "An Act "to carry into effect, with certain modifications, "the fourth report of the Commissioners of Ec"clesiastical Duties and Revenues," and of an Act, passed in the session of Parliament held in the fourth and fifth years of your Majesty's reign, intituled "An Act to explain and amend two "several Acts relating to the Ecclesiastical Com"missioners for England," have prepared, and now humbly lay before your Majesty in Council, the following scheme, for making additional provision for the cure of souls in certain parishes where such assistance is most required.

"Whereas, under the authority of the said recited Acts, we prepared and laid before your Majesty in Council a scheme, bearing date the nineteenth day of April, and a scheme, bearing date the sixteenth day of August, in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty-two, in which we recommended and proposed, that certain grants should be made, in augmentation of the incomes of certain benefices and churches, in certain classes, and subject to certain limitations therein mentioned; and the said schemes were ratified by Orders of your Majesty in Council, bearing date, respectively, the twenty-seventh day of the same month of April, and the twentyseventh day of the same month of August, which Orders have been duly gazetted:

"And whereas it appears to us, upon further considering the amount of the funds now applicable to the purposes of the said recited Acts, 1843.

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to be expedient, that the limitations in the first of the said Orders mentioned should be varied, so as forthwith to extend the first class therein mentioned to benefices and churches having a population amounting to one thousand, and an average annual net income below one hundred and twenty pounds, and to the raising such income as nearly as may be to that amount, and so as forthwith to extend the second class therein mentioned to benefices and churches having a like amount of population, and an average annual net income below one hundred and fifty pounds:

"And whereas we have satisfied ourselves, after due inquiry, that the benefices and churches described in the Schedule hereunto annexed, marked A. 1, fall within the first of such classes, subject to the limitations in the said first Order mentioned; and that the benefices and churches described in the Schedule hereunto annexed, marked A. 2, fall within the same class, subject to the same limitations, so proposed to be extended as aforesaid; and that all the said benefices and churches are fit and proper to be forthwith augmented, by the respective annual amounts stated in the last column of the said Schedules respectively :

"And whereas application had been made to us, before the said nineteenth day of April, on behalf of the seventeen of the said churches hereinafter particularly named, and before the said sixteenth day of August, on behalf of the thirteen of the said churches hereinafter also particularly named, as then respectively coming within the said first class, in all respects, except that the proceedings for legally assigning districts thereto were not fully completed, and such proceedings are now completed:

"And whereas by an Order of your Majesty in Council, bearing date the sixth day of October,

in the year one thousand eight hundred and fortyone, the income of the then united benefice of Saint Paul and Saint James, in Norwich, was augmented by an annual grant of eighteen pounds out of the monies vested in us; and the said benefice has since been disunited, and formed into two separate benefices, and both the said benefices now fall within the said first class, and are fit and proper to be augmented, by the respective sums set opposite to their names in the said Schedule marked A. 1:

"And whereas, from the source set opposite to the name of each of the benefices and churches described in the Schedule hereunto annexed, marked B., in the sixth column of such Schedule, the benefaction stated in the seventh column of the same Schedule has either been paid to us on account of such benefice or church, or permanently secured to the incumbent thereof, as therein respectively specified; and we have satisfied ourselves that the said last-mentioned benefices and churches fall within the second of such classes, as limited by the said first Order, so extended as aforesaid, and are fit and proper to be forthwith augmented, by the respective annual amounts stated in the last column of the same Schedule; and the benefaction to the perpetual curacy of Guisborough, in the same Schedule mentioned, was paid to us previously to the passing of the said second-mentioned scheme, but was not included therein :

"And whereas the benefices and churches described in the Schedule hereunto annexed, marked C., are situate within the places set opposite to the names thereof, respectively, in the fifth column of the same Schedule; and certain tithes or lands now vested in us arise or are situate in such places, respectively; and, after due inquiry and