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Rh to the respective commissions for revision in accordance with the report of the speeches and the written amendments of the bishops.

The second schema on faith, relating to the Church, had been before distributed. It contained fifteen chapters and twenty-one canons. The first ten chapters related to the body of the Church; the eleventh and twelfth related to the primacy of the head of the Church; the last three treated of the relations of the Church to the civil powers. Ten days were given to study and to send in written observations on the schema. One hundred and twenty amendments in writing were sent in. Of these many were signed, not by the writer alone, but by a large number of names. For instance, one had twenty-nine signatures; a second, thirteen; a third, eleven; a fourth, eight; a fifth, seventeen; a sixth, ten; a seventh, twenty-four. Therefore these documents represented not less than two hundred members of the Council—that is, nearly a third of the whole number.

7. We have now come to a moment in the history of the Council to which we must devote a closer attention.

When it was found that the Schema de Ecclesiâ contained only two chapters on the head of the Church—that is, on the primacy and on the temporal power—a very large number of the bishops desired that the Rh