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 The Objects of the Collections to be prescribed, but the choice of the Channels, through which they are aided, to be left to the Clergy.

Such General Objects might be,  Foreign and Colonial Missions. Home Missions. Church Building. Education. 

Parochial Associations, or Committees, in aid of various Objects or Societies.

Quarterly Meetings in Parishes.

Periodical Meetings in large Towns, in aid of Objects prescribed by Episcopal letters; these to be attended by Deputations.

The Circulation of accurate Statistics, shewing clearly the wants for which provision is to be made.

The Appropriation to each Diocese of its own Surplus Episcopal and Capitular Revenues.

A more economical Management of the business of the Ecclesiastical Commission, effecting a great saving in respect of Law and Agency.

The Subdivision of Endowments as well as of Parishes.

The Restoration to Parishes requiring further Pastoral Assistance, of the wliole impropriate Tithes, where they are held by the Ecclesiastical Commission.

An Actual Assessment of the Tenths yearly, after the next avoidance, in Parishes where the Endowment is above a certain value.