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264 A.D. 1847]

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A.D. 1847]

Whereas an Act was passed in the Seventh Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King William the Fourth, intituled, "An Act for carrying into effect the Reports of the Commissioners appointed to consider the State of the Established Church in England and, with reference to Ecclesiastical Duties and Revenues, so far as they relate to Episcopal Dioceses, Revenues, and Patronage"; and another Act was passed in the Fourth Year of the Reign of Her Majesty, intituled, "An Act to carry into effect, with certain Modifications, the Fourth Report of the Commissioners of Ecclesiastical Duties and Revenues"; and another Act was passed in the Fifth Year of the Reign of Her Majesty, intituled "An Act to explain and amend Two several Acts relating to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England"; and another Act was passed in the Seventh Year of the Reign of Her Majesty, intituled "An Act for regulating the Cathedral Churches of ": And whereas Her Majesty was pleased, on the Tenth Day of February in this Year One thousand eight hundred and forty-seven, to issue a Commission to certain Persons therein named, directing them to consider the State of the several Bishopricks in England and with special reference to the Intention, therein graciously declared by Her Majesty, that a Measure should be submitted to Parliament for continuing the Bishopricks of Saint Asaph and Bangor as separate Bishopricks, and for establishing forthwith a Bishoprick of Manchester and the said Commissioners have made their First Report to Her Majesty, bearing Date the Twentieth Day of April in this present Year, and have in their said Report recommended,