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270 A.D. 1882]

(Not printed herein.)

A.D. 1885]

2. This Act shall be construed as one with the Act passed in the first and second years of the reign of Her present Majesty, chapter one hundred and six (herein-after referred to as "the first-mentioned Act") and the Act passed in the thirteenth and fourteenth years of the reign of Her present Majesty, chapter ninety-eight, as respectively amended by this Act.

The term "ecclesiastical duties" in the first-mentioned Act and this Act shall include not only the regular and due performance of divine service on Sundays and holidays, but also all such duties as any clergyman holding a benefice is bound by law to perform, or the performance of which is solemnly promised by every clergyman of the Church of England at the time of his ordination, and the performance of which shall have been required of him in writing by the bishop; and in case of benefices within the dioceses of St. Asaph, Bangor, Llandaff, and St. Davids, and the county of Monmouth, shall also include such ministrations in the language as the bishop of the diocese shall direct to be performed by the clergyman holding such benefices respectively, but so that such bishop shall not in any such case require more than one service in the  language on every Sunday in such Church or chapel of ease situated in any such benefice: Provided always, that due provision be made for the English-speaking portion of the population.

A.D. 1887]

"31. Save as otherwise expressly provided by this or any other Act the law relating to sheriffs, inclusive of this Act and of the law