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9226 above proposed and to every matter and thing therein contained.

"Witness our hands this twenty-eighth day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and nine.

And whereas the said scheme hath been transmitted by the said Bishop to the said Archbishop for his consideration; And whereas the said Archbishop, being satisfied with the said scheme, hath certified the same and the consents aforesaid to His Majesty in Council by his report dated the sixteenth day of August, one thousand nine hundred and nine, which said report is in the words and figures following:—

"We, the undersigned Randall Thomas, Archbishop of the province of Canterbury, do hereby report to Your Majesty in Council that the Right Reverend Edward, Lord Bishop of Lincoln, has represented unto us (amongst other things):

"That there is in the county and diocese of Lincoln the vicarage of Grimsby Saint Mary and Saint James with a population of fifteen thousand six hundred and forty-eight or thereabouts.

"That there is also in the said county and diocese the vicarage of All Saints, Grimsby, with a population of fourteen thousand or thereabouts.

"That a certain portion of the parish of All Saints, Grimsby, containing a population of three thousand or thereabouts (which portion is more particularly described in the schedule to the scheme hereto annexed and shown upon the plan also hereto annexed and thereon verged red), is severed from the remaining portion of the said parish by a line of railway.

"That it appears to the said Lord Bishop that the said severed portion of All Saints, Grimsby, may under the provisions of the Pluralities Act, 1838, be advantageously separated from the said parish of All Saints, Grimsby, and annexed to the said parish of Grimsby Saint Mary and Saint James to which it is contiguous.

"That pursuant to the directions contained in the twenty-sixth section of the said Act the said Lord Bishop has drawn up a scheme in writing describing the mode in which it appears to him that the proposed alterations may best be effected and how the changes consequent on such alterations in respect to ecclesiastical jurisdiction, glebe lands, tithes, rent charges, and other ecclesiastical dues, rates and payments and in respect to patronage and rights to pews may be made with justice to all parties interested, which scheme together with the consents thereto in writing of the said Right Reverend Edward, Bishop of Lincoln, the Patron or person in right of his Bishoprick entitled to present or nominate to the said vicarage of Grimsby Saint Mary and Saint James and also to the said vicarage of All Saints, Grimsby, in case either or both of them were now vacant, the Reverend Algernon Augustus Markham, the Incumbent of the said vicarage of Grimsby Saint Mary arid Saint James, and the Reverend Arthur Watts Kallachey, the Incumbent,of the said vicarage of All Saints, Grimsby, has been transmitted to us by the said Lord Bishop for our consideration.

"The representation and scheme of the said Lord Bishop and the consents above referred to are hereunto annexed.

"And we the said Archbishop being on full consideration and enquiry satisfied with the said scheme do hereby pursuant to the said Pluralities Act, 1838, certify the same and such consents asaforesaid to Your Majesty in Council to the intent that Your Majesty in Council may in case Your Majesty in Council shall think fit so to do make and issue an Order for carrying the said schemeinto effect. "Randall Cantuar."

Now, therefore. His Majesty in Council, by and with the advice of His said Council, is pleased to order, as it is hereby ordered, that the said scheme be carried into effect. Almeric FitzRoy.

HEREAS by section twenty-six of the Pluralities Act, 1838, after reciting that

"Whereas in some instances tithings, hamlets, chapelries, and other places or districts may be separated from the parishes or mother churches to which they belong, with great advantage, and places altogether extra-parochial may in some instances with advantage be annexed to parishes or districts to which they are contiguous, or be constituted separate parishes for ecclesiastical purposes, it is, amongst other things, enacted "That when with respect to his  own diocese it shall appear to the Archbishop of the Province, or when the Bishop of any diocese shall represent to the said Archbishop that any such tithing, hamlet, chapelry, place or district within the diocese of such Archbishop, or the diocese of such Bishop, as the case may be, may be advantageously separated from any parish or mother church, and either be constituted a separate benefice by itself or be united to any other parish, to which it may be more conveniently annexed, or to any other adjoining tithing, hamlet, chapelry, place, or district, parochial or extra-parochial, so as to form a separate parish or benefice, or that any extra parochial place may with advantage be annexed to any parish to which it is contiguous, or be constituted a separate parish for ecclesiastical purposes; and the said Archbishop or Bishop shall draw up a scheme in writing (the scheme of such Bishop to be transmitted to the said Archbishop for his consideration) describing the mode in which it appears to him that the alteration may best be effected, and how the changes consequent on such alteration in respect to ecclesiastical jurisdiction, glebe lands, tithes, rent charges, and other ecclesiastical dues, rates" and payments, and in respect to patronage and rights to pews, may be made with justice to all parties interested; and if the patron or patrons of the benefice or benefices to be affected by such alteration shall consent in writing under his or their hands to such scheme, or to such modification thereof as the said Archbishop may approve, and the said Archbishop shall, on full consideration and inquiry, be satisfied with any such scheme, or modification thereof, and shall certify the same and such consent as aforesaid, by his report to His Majesty in Council, it shall be lawful for