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164 CHAPTER II.

Those set over Churches shall receive the Rite of Consecration within Three Months; in which Place the Consecration is to be performed.

Those who, under what name or title soever, even though they be cardinals of the holy Roman Church, have been set over cathedral, or superior churches, if they shall not have received the rite of consecration within three months, shall be bound to the restoration of the fruits received; if they shall have neglected to do this within three other months afterwards, they shall be by the very fact deprived of their churches. And their consecration, if performed out of the Court of Rome, shall be celebrated in the church to which they have been promoted, or in the province, if it can conveniently be done.

CHAPTER III.

Bishops, except in Cases of Illness, shall confer Orders in person.

Bishops shall confer orders in person; but, should they be hindered by illness, they shall not send their subjects to another bishop for ordination, unless they have been already approved and examined.

CHAPTER IV.

Who are to he initiated hy the first Tonsure.

None shall be initiated by the first tonsure, who have not received the sacrament of Confirmation, and who have not been taught the rudiments of the faith; and who do not know how to read and write; and concerning whom there is not a probable conjecture, that they have chosen this manner of life, not that they may fraudulently withdraw themselves from secular jurisdiction, but that they may render unto God a faithful service.

CHAPTER V.

Touching the Matters which which those who are to he ordained ought to he furnished.

Those who are to be promoted to minor orders shall have a good testimonial from their parish priest, and from the