NEW-YORK BIBLE AND COMMON PRAYER BOOK SOCIETY.

New York, June 1, 1832.

I DO HEREBY CERTIFY, that this edition of the Common Prayer Book, Book of Offices, &c., (having been compared with the standard books, and corrected by the same,) is permitted to be published as an edition duly compared and corrected by a suitable person appointed for that purpose, as the canon directs.

BENJAMIN T. ONDERDONK, Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church is the State of New York.

PIERCY & REED, Printers.

THE

RATIFICATION OF THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER.

By the Bishops, the Clergy, and the Laity of the Protestant Episcopal

Church in the United States of America, in Convention, this 16th day of October, in the Year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-nine.

This Convention having in their present Session, set forth A Book of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments, and other Riles and Ceremonies of the Church, do hereby establish the said book: And they declare it to be the Liturgy of this Church: And require, that it be received as such by all the members of the same: And this book shall be in use from and after the first day of October, in the Year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety.

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