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1142 or Other Matter or Thing to the contrary notwithstanding: Provided always, that nothing herein contained shall prevent the said Court of Directors from making such Representation, with respect to any Alterations in or Additions to such Rules and Regulations which may be made by the said Board of Commissioners, as the said Court or Directors shall at any Time think fit.

XLV. And be it further enacted, That from and after the passing of this Act, it shall and may lawful for the Lord Bishop of London for the Time being, to have and exercise, and he is hereby authorized and empowered to have and exercise such Visitatorial Power and Jurisdiction over all such Persons, Matters, and Things, belonging or relating to the said College, and in such Manner, as shall be appointed and established by the said Rules and Regulations of the said College in that Behalf; any Matter or Thing whatsoever to the contrary notwithstanding.

XLVI. And be it further enacted, That it shall not be lawful for the said Court of Directors to nominate, appoint, or send to the Presidencies of Fort William, Fort St. George, or Bombay, any Person in the Capacity of a Writer, unless such Person shall have been duly entered at such Col­lege, and have resided there Four Terms, according to the Rules and Regulations thereof; and shall also produce to the said Court of Directors, a Certificate under the Hand of the Principal of the said College, testifying that he has, for the Space of Four Terms, been a Member of and duly conformed himself to the Rules and Regulations of the said College.

XLVII. And be it further enacted, That no Order for the Establishment of any Office, or the Appointment of any Person to fill the Situation of Principal at the said College, or Head Master of the Military Seminary, shall be valid or effectual, until the same shall have been approved by the said Board of Commissioners for the Affairs of India.

XLVIII. And whereas for the due Performance of the public Duties of Religion at the said College, as well as for the Maintenance of sound Learning and Religious Education, it is expedient that the Principal and some of the Professors of the said College should be Clergymen of the Established Church: And whereas it may be expected, that among Clergymen best qualified for such Situations, from their Character and Attainments, some may be possessed of Benefices in the Church; be it enacted, That every Spiritual Person holding the Situation of Principal or Professor in the said College, and actually performing' the Duties of the same, shall be and he is hereby exempted from Residence on any Benefice of which be may be possessed, in the same Manner as the Spiritual Persons specified in an Act passed in the Forty-third Year of His present Majesty's Reign, intituled, "An Act to amend the Laws relating to Spiritual Persons holding of Farms, and for enforcing the Residence of Spiritual Persons on their Benefices in England," are by the said Act exempted from Residence on their respective Benefices; any Act, Matter, or Thing, to the contrary notwithstanding.

XLIX. And whereas no sufficient Provision hath hitherto been made for the Maintenance and Support of a Church Establishment in the British Territories in the East Indies and other Parts within the Limits of the said Company's Charter, be it therefore enacted. That in case it shall please His Majesty, by His Royal Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the said United Kingdom, to erect, found, and constitute, One Bishoprick for the Whole of the said British Territories in the East Indies, and Parts aforesaid; One Archdeaconry for the Presidency of Fort William in Bengal; One Archdeaconry for the Presidency of Fort Saint George on the Coast of Coromandel; and One Archdeaconry for the Presidency and Island of Bombay, on the Coast of Malabar; and from Time to Time to nominate and appoint a Bishop and Archdeacons to such Bishoprick and Archdeaconries respectivsly; the Court of Directors of the said Company, during such Time as the said Territorial Acquisitions shall remain in the Possession of the said Company, shall, and they are hereby required to direct and cause to be paid, certain established Salaries to such Bishop and Archdeacons respect­ively; that is to say, from and out of the Revenues of the said Presidency of Fort William in Bengal to the said Bishop, Five thousand Pounds by the Year, at an Exchange of Two Shillings fof the Bengal Current Rupee; and to the said Archdeacon of the said Presidency of Fort William, Two thousand Pounds by the Year, at the like Exchange; and from and out of the Revenues of the Presidency of Fort Saint George, on the Coast of Coromandel, to the Archdeacon of the said Presi­dency of Fort Saint George, Two thousand Pounds by the Year, at an Exchange of Eight Shillings for the Pagoda at Madras; and from arid out of the Revenues of the Presidency and Island of Bombay, on the Coast of Malabar, to the Archdeacon of the said Presidency and Island of Bombay, Two thousand Pounds by the Year, at an Exchange of Two Shillings and Three-pence for the Bombay Rupee. L. And