xxiv List of Statutes and Canons. 3 Vict. c. 15, p. 321. 3 & 4 Vict. c. 60, pp. 62, 92.—s. 8, p. 93, 94.—s. 15, p. 62, 64. 3 & 4 Vict. c. 86, pp. 290, 292.—s. 6, p. 293. 3 & 4 Vict. c. 89, p. 132. 3 & 4 Vict. c. 93, s. 1, p. 203. 4 & 5 Vict. c. 36, p. 161. 5 Vict. c. 7, p. 132. 5 & 6 Vict. c. 50, p. 132. 6 & 7 Vict. c. 36, s. 1, p. 128.— .—s. 2, p. 128.—s. 3, p. 129.—s. 5, 6 & 7 Vict. c. 37, pp. 15, 63, 64.—s. 15, pp. 63, 64.—s. 17, pp. 3, 4, 14, 26, 43, 63, 64. 6 & 7 Vict. c. 48, p. 132. .—s. 18, pp. 63, 64. 6 & 7 Vict. c. 67, s. 3, p. 245. 7 & 8 Vict. c. 40, p. 132. —s. 5, 7 & 8 Vict. c. 59, pp. 104, 110.—s. 2, p. 105.—s. 3, p. 105.— 8 & 9 Vict. c. 70, s. 6, pp. 3, 15, 16, 27, 43.—s. 7, pp. 3, 15, 16, 24, 28, 43,- -s. 8, p. 4.—s. 13, p. 51. 8 & 9 Vict. c. 85, s. 12, p. 11. 8 & 9 Vict. c. 97, p. 132. 9 & 10 Vict. c. 50, p. 132. 10 & 11 Vict. c. 34, s. 103, p. 299. 10 & 11 Vict. c. 65, p. 305. 10 & 11 Vict. c. 77, p. 132. 11 & 12 Vict. c. 63, s. 82, p. 299. 12 & 13 Vict. c. 61, p. 132. RUBRICS AND OFFICES OF THE CHURCH. Rubric. To the order for the administration of the holy communion, 47, 290. Introductory to book of common prayer, 48, 291. To the visitation of the sick, 49. At the end of the order for the administration of the holy communion p. 291. Office. For the burial of the dead, 292, 317. For the Holy Communion, p. 295. Rubric. To the office for the burial of the dead, 300, 317. List of Rubrics, Canons, &c. Office. For the visitation of the sick, 303. XXV Rubric. To the ministration of public baptism of infants, 307. To the ministration of private baptism of infants, 307. To the office of matrimony, 307. On the salvation of baptized children dying in their infancy, 317. On the use of the sign of the cross in baptism, 317. An Act has just received the Royal Assent, to which the attention of our readers is directed. It is called "An Act to prevent the holding of Vestry or other Meetings in Churches, and for regulating the Appointment of Vestry Clerks." It will be found at length in the Appendix, p. xviii a. A PRACTICAL GUIDE ΤΟ CHURCH WARDENS. CHAPTER I. ON THE OFFICES OF CHURCHWARDEN AND SIDESMAN, THE LIABILITIES OF PARTIES TO BE CHOSEN, THEIR APPOINTMENT, AND ADMISSION. SECTION I. On the Offices of Churchwarden and Sidesman. CHURCHWARDENS are officers of the parish in ecclesiastical affairs, as the constables are in civil (a). They are the guardians or keepers of the church, and the legal representatives of the parish body (b), and are also, to a certain degree at least, guardians of the moral character and public decency of the parish (c); and the main branches of their duty are-First, To present all matters happening in the parish contrary to the ecclesiastical laws (d); and, Secondly, To keep in repair the church, to guard the various things belonging to the church, and to provide such things as may be necessary for the decent service of it (e). Their duties seem originally to have been limited to such matters only as concern the church, considered materially as an edifice, building, or place of public worship, the duty of suppressing profaneness and immorality having been entrusted to two persons chosen by the parishioners as assistants to the churchwardens, who, from their power of inquiring into offences detrimental to the interests of religion, and of presenting the offenders to the next provincial council or episcopal synod, were called questmen or synod's men, which last appellation has been converted into the name of sidesmen : but great part of the duty of these questmen, in course of time, devolved on the churchwardens (f), and it would seem from the canons of 1603 (g), that at the date of those canons the offices of churchwarden and questman were one and the same-such churchwardens or questmen still, however, being assisted by two or three or more discreet persons in every parish, chosen for sidesmen or assistants (h). This office of sidesman, as an assistant to the churchwarden in matters relating to the moral character and public decency of the parish, is still recognized in our ecclesiastical constitution (i), though rarely, it is believed, now met with in practice, and only in some of the larger parishes (k). (f) Par. Ant. 649. (g) Can. 85, 89, 90; but however this may be, there can be no doubt that originally these offices were distinct. In Stutter v. Preston, 1 Str. 52, the court said, "Churchwardens were a corporation at common law, and they are different from questmen, who were the crea- (i) 5 & 6 Will. 4, c. 62, s. 9. (k) But sometimes a sidesman is found in a parochial chapelry, where there is but one churchwarden, as in the paro |