the usual house of residence belonging to the same,) shall for a period exceeding three months altogether, or to be accounted at several times, in the course of any one year absent himself from his benefice, without leaving a curate or curates duly licensed or approved by the bishop to perform such ecclesiastical duties, or shall, for a period of one month after the death, resignation, or removal of any curate who shall have served his church or chapel, neglect to notify such death, resignation, or removal to the bishop, or shall for the period of four months after the death, resignation, or removal of such curate neglect to nominate to the bishop a proper curate, in every such case the bishop is hereby authorized to appoint and license a proper curate, with such salary as is by this act allowed and directed, to serve the church or chapel of the benefice in respect of which such neglect or default shall have occurred: provided always, that such licence shall in every case specify whether the curate is required to reside within the parish or place, or not; and if the curate is permitted by the bishop to reside out of the parish or place, the grounds upon which the curate is so permitted to reside out of the same shall be specified in such licence; and the distance of the residence of any curate from any such church or chapel which he shall be licensed to serve shall not exceed three statute miles, except in cases of necessity, to be approved by the bishop, and specified in the licence.

Curate to reside on Benefices, under certain Circumstances.

76. And be it enacted, that in every case where a curate is appointed to serve in any benefice upon which the incumbent either does not reside or has not satisfied the bishop of his full purpose to reside during four months in the year, such curate shall be required by the bishop to reside within the parish or place in which such benefice is situate, or if no convenient residence can be procured within such parish or place, then within three statute miles of the church or chapel of the benefice in which he shall be licensed to serve, except in cases of necessity, to be approved of by the bishop, and specified in the licence, and such place of residence shall also be specified in the licence.

If Duty inadequately performed, the Bishop may appoint a Curate; but

Incumbent may appeal.

77. And be it enacted, that whenever the bishop shall see reason to believe that the ecclesiastical duties of any benefice are inadequately performed, it shall be lawful for him to issue a commission to four beneficed clergymen of his diocese, or if the benefice be within his peculiar jurisdiction but locally situate in another diocese, then to four beneficed elergymen of such last-mentioned diocese, one whereof shall be the rural dean, if any, of the rural deanery or district wherein such benefice is situated, directing them to inquire into the facts of the case; and it shall be lawful for the incumbent of the said benefice to add to such commissioners one other incumbent of a benefice within the same diocese ; and if the said commissioners, or the major part of them, report in writing under their hands to the said bishop that in their opinion the duties of such benefice are inadequately performed, it shall be lawful for such bishop, if he shall see fit, by writing under his hand, to require the spiritual person holding such benefice, though he may actually reside or be engaged in performing the duties thereof, to nominate to him a fit person or persons, with sufficient stipend or stipends, to be licensed by him to perform or to assist in performing such duties, specifying therein the grounds of such requisition; and if such spiritual person shall neglect or omit to make such nomination for the space of three months after such requisition so made as aforesaid, it shall be lawful for the bishop to appoint and license a curate or curates, as the case shall appear to him to require, with such stipend or stipends as he shall think fit to appoint, not exceeding the respective stipends allowed to curates by this act in the case of non-resident incumbents, nor, except in the case of negligence,

exceeding one-half of the net annual value of such benefice; and such bishop shall cause a copy of every such requisition, and the evidence to found the same, to be forthwith filed in the registry of his court: provided always, that it shall be lawful for any such spiritual person within one month after the service upon him of such requisition to nominate a curate, or of notice of any such appointment and licence of such curate or curates, to appeal to the archbishop of the province, who shall approve or revoke such requisition, or confirm or annul such appointment, as to him may seem just and proper.

In large Benefices an Assistant Curate may be required.-Appeal.

78. And be it enacted, that whenever the annual value of any benefice the incumbent whereof was not in possession at the time of the passing of this act shall exceed five hundred pounds, and the population thereof shall amount to three thousand persons, or though the population do not amount to three thousand persons, if there be in the said benefice a second church or chapel situated not less than two miles from the mother church, and with a hamlet or district connected with it containing four hundred persons, it shall be lawful for the bishop, if he shall see fit, to require the spiritual person holding such benefice, although he shall be resident thereon or engaged in performing the duties thereof, to nominate a fit and proper person to be licensed as a curate to assist in performing the duties of such benefice, and to be paid by the person holding the same; and if a fit person shall not be nominated to the bishop within three months after his requisition for that purpose shall have been delivered to the incumbent, or left at his last or usual place of abode, it shall be lawful for the bishop to appoint and license a curate, with such stipend as he shall think fit to appoint, not exceeding the respective stipends allowed to curates by this act, nor in any case exceeding one-fifth part of the net annual value of the benefice: provided always, that such spiritual person may, within one month after service upon him of such requisition to nominate a curate, or of notice of any such appointment of a curate, appeal to the archbishop of the province, who shall approve or revoke such requisition, or confirm or annul such appointment, as to him may appear just and proper.

Stipend to be paid by Committee of Lunatic's Estate.

79. And be it enacted, that in case of a stipend being assigned by the bishop, according to the provisions of this act, to the curate of any benefice, the incumbent whereof shall have been duly found a lunatic or person of unsound mind, the committee of the estate of any such lunatic or person of unsound mind shall pay such stipend to such curate out of the profits of the benefice which shall come to his hands.

(To be concluded in the next Number.)

NOTICES OF MARRIAGE UNDER THE NEW ACT.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES.

SIR, AS Chairman of the Board of Guardians of the Lincoln Union, I think it my duty, in concurrence with the unanimous wish of the board, to make public the following case, which has occurred under the New Marriage Act. I remain, your obedient servant,

Lincoln, Oct. 3. A. LESLIE MELVILLE. "At a weekly meeting of the guardians, held on Wednesday, Sept. 26, 1838, "The notice of marriage between Dennis Talbot and Elizabeth Cartledge was read a second time. The notice stated that the parties had both resided, for the term of three weeks, in the parish of Holton-cum-Beckering. On inquiry through the relieving officer and the parish officer, it appeared that there were no

such parties resident or known in the parish; upon which the clerk of the board was directed to enter the following minute on the books:

"This board are unanimously of opinion, that the above notice of marriage cannot be considered as any notice at all, from its appearing, on inquiry, that the parties do not reside at Holton-cum-Beckering.'

"The clerk of the board having sent a copy of this minute to the registrargeneral, with a full representation of the case, the following answer was received :

"General Register-office, Oct. 1, 1838. "Sir,-By direction of the registrar-general, I beg to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 27th ult., and in reply to inform you, that in the case to which you refer, unless the issue of the certificate is forbidden by some person authorized on that behalf, or a caveat is duly entered against the grant thereof, it will be incumbent on you to deliver the certificate as directed by the 7th section of the Marriage Act. "I am, Sir, your obedient servant,

"THOMAS MANN, Chief Clerk.

"Robert Cooke, Esq., Superintendent Registrar.'"

INCORPORATED SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING THE ENLARGEMENT, BUILDING, AND REPAIRING, OF CHURCHES AND CHAPELS.

A MEETING of this Society was held at their chambers in St. Martin's Place, on Monday, the 15th October, the Lord Bishop of Rochester in the chair. There were present the venerable Archdeacon Cambridge, N. Connop, jun. Esq., E. H. Locker, Esq., Benjamin Harrison, Esq., J. S. Cocks, Esq., &c.

Among other business transacted, grants were voted towards increasing the accommodation in the church at West Somerton, Norfolk; increasing the accommodation in the chapel at Leinthall Earls, parish of Aymestry, Hereford; repewing and building gallery in the church at Awliscombe, Devon; repewing the church at Waltham, Leicester; building a new gallery in the church at Woodford, Wilts; increasing the accommodation in the chapel at Broughton, parish of Cartmel, Lancaster; building a new chapel at Crowboro, parish of Withyham, Sussex; enlarging the chapel at Heaton Norris, Lancaster; increasing the accommodation in the church of St. Mary, Nottingham.

The Lord Bishop of Ely will hold an ordination in the Cathedral at Ely, on Sunday, December 2nd.

The Lord Bishop of Lincoln's next ordination will be held at Lincoln, on Sunday, the 16th day of December.

The Bishop of Winchester will hold his next general ordination on Sunday, Dec. 16. The next general ordination of the Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol will be held at Gloucester, on the Sunday before Christmas-day.

Emly, F. S.

V.

S Deeping, St. James

Lincoln Lincoln Sir. T. Whitcote, Bt.

Kempthorne, John, the Chaplaincy of the Gloucester and Bristol Infirmary
Murray, William, the Chaplaincy of the Colchester Union House

Pruen, William A. {

St. Helen's R.
Worcester

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Worcester Worcester D. & C. of Worcester

Abraham, Charles J....
Ashworth, T. H.

CLERICAL APPOINTMENTS.

Assistant Master in Eton College.

Domestic Chaplain to the Earl of Carnarvon. Baines, Edward......... Examining Chaplain to the Bishop of Ely. Blackstone, F. C....... Vicar of Heckfield, Hants, a Surrogate for the Diocese of Winton.

Burton, Frederick...... Officiating Minister of the New Church in the Old Kent Road. Campbell, J. W.

Chaplain to the Hastings, 74.

Ordinary of Newgate.

Chaplain to the Gloucester Infirmary.

Chaplain to the Colchester Union House.

Chaplain of Whitecross Street Prison.

Officiating Minister of the New Church at Runcorn,
Cheshire.

Head Master of the Free Grammar School at Highgate.
Domestic Chaplain to the Earl of Beauchamp.

Domestic Chaplain to Viscount Lorton.

The Prebend of Hareham Marney, in the Church of En-
dillion.

Chaplain to the Hon. E. I. C., on the Madras Establishment.
Curate of St. Clements, Worcester.

Domestic Chaplain to Earl Cowper.

Chaplain to the Wareham and Purbeck Union.
Domestic Chaplain to the Earl of Egremont.
Domestic Chaplain to Earl Bathurst

A Minor Canon of Durham Cathedral.
Domestic Chaplain to the Marquis of Huntly.
Head Master of Bangor Grammar School.
Domestic Chaplain to the Queen Dowager at Malta.

PREFERMENTS.

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